The Arts House: Recent Episodes
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The Cork Proms are at Cork Opera House this month.
There’s No Place Like Home (19th&20th) will celebrate the very best of Musical Theatre and will star Molly Lynch
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Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2024 is on from June 28th - July 7th. The programme includes a concert celebrating the work of Micheal O Suilleabhain.
Mel Mercier was a pupil of Micheal O’Suilleabhain in UCC in the 1980s where he studied music.
To bring us on his own journey since then, Mel joins us on the show
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Helen Dawson from West Cork Music on the Arts House ahead of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival
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Cruinniú na nÓg - Ireland’s National Day of Creativity is Saturday June 15th.
There’s events in the City and County.
Grace Mitchell is Creative Communities Engagement Officer at Cork County Council
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Cruinniú na nÓg - Ireland’s National Day of Creativity is Saturday June 15th.
There’s events in the City and County.
Louise Tangney is Creative Communities Engagement Officer at Cork City Council
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The Music Capital Scheme is open for applications! Since it was established in 2008, the scheme has made 544 awards to individual musicians and organisations providing access to instruments for over 51,000 people across the country.
The scheme is managed by Music Network.
Music Network CEO Sharon Rollston tells us more
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Bualadh Bass is a music and art festival in Glanmire on June 21st & 22nd.
Dan Jo and Miko tell us all about it
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Nano Nagle Place is marking World Ocean Day with a series of ocean-themed events.
As part of the Cork Harbour Festival, Nano Nagle Place will host a variety of activities that highlight the natural beauty and rich maritime heritage of the River Lee and Celtic Sea.
John Smith, CEO of Nano Nagle Place joined us on the show
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The Everyman’s Summer Show ‘The Summer I Robbed a Bank’ is the stage adaptation of the children’s book by Irish comedian and author, David O’Doherty.
The production will run from June 8th - 16th as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.
Emily Terndrup is Movement Director
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2014 was the last time Jim Murray, Mike McGolderick, and Dezi Donnolly performed in Clonakilty as part of the 2014 Clonakilty International Guitar Festival.
10 years later, DeBarras are welcoming them back to the Folk Club.
A trio of master traditional musicians in one concert, Thursday 13th June, 9pm
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Cork Midsummer Festival runs from June 12th - 25th.
Acting Director Rose-Anne Kidney looks ahead
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Macroom Music Festival is taking place over the weekend of June 21/22/23. The Stunning, Hermitage Green and The White Horse Guitar Club are headline acts for 2024.
Tickets available at www.macroommusicfest.ie
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Macroom Music Festival is taking place over the weekend of June 21/22/23. The Stunning, Hermitage Green and The White Horse Guitar Club are headline acts for 2024.
The Music Trail will take place in Macroom town on Friday night.
A Family Day on the Sunday will feature activities, games and face painting run by The Macroom Lions Club.
Tickets available at www.macroommusicfest.ie
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Macroom Music Festival is taking place over the weekend of June 21/22/23. The Stunning, Hermitage Green and The White Horse Guitar Club are headline acts for 2024.
White Horse Guitar Club are having a surprise home gig at the White Horse on June 7th (Fri). Tickets sold out in under two hours. They have announced a second date - Sunday June 9th at 6.30pm
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Over 80 events across the city and county are in the programme for this year’s Cork Harbour Festival.
One of the many events is a Cork Ghost Tour - Damian Punch from Cork Ghost Tours tells us more
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Cork Opera House continues its Proms series again this year with 3 fantastic themes. There's 2 nights of Musical Theatre on June 19th&20th. A sublime night of Classical on June 16th. And it all kicks off with 2 Rock nights on June 12th and 13th, so Jack O'Rourke sat in the kitchen with Elmarie during the week for a coffee and a chat about the concerts.
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What a wild journey to captivate the whole family in store at The Everyman! David O'Doherty's "The Summer I Robbed a Bank" is being directed by Sophie Motley and Elmarie met her and some of the cast at rehearsals ahead of the show's opening on June 8th!
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Angela Newman joined Elmarie Mawe in studio to chat about this fantastic Cork show which will amaze audiences whether their from Cork or abroad!
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Actors Jim O'Mahony and Karen Ray came in to studio to chat to Elmarie Mawe about their production of Willy Russell's "Educating Rita" which runs at the Cork Arts Theatre from June 4th to June 8th.
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Belinda Walsh and Alice Barry joined Elmarie Mawe in studio to celebrate a fantastic upcoming festival with film, music, spoken word, theatre, talks walks and workshops! It's all happening at My Place!
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What a joy to have Greenshine (Noel Shine, Mary Greene and Ellie Shine) live in studio to sing and chat, about their new single "Cork" and lots of other thoughts along the way. Download it from Bandcamp. Release Date May 22nd.
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Author and actress Alice Barry spoke to Elmarie Mawe about thetrue story of the most fascinating Irish woman, Violet Gibson, who actually shot Mussolini in 1926. It's a wonder there hasn't been a movie about her already. It's such an incredible story and Alice is bringing it to Midelton Arts Festival this week.
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Continuing their series of selecting brand new plays from authors, and involving a host of directors and actors, go see 10 new plays EVERY NIGHT at the Cork Arts Theatre! The only instruction the authors were given? The theme is "Views from a Lamppost". Now go be AMAZED!!!
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This is it folks! Your chance to choose works from the Crawford Gallery Collection for a very special exhibition this summer. Conor Tallon spoke to Michael Waldron and got all the details for you!
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This is it folks! Your chance to choose works from the Crawford Gallery Collection for a very special exhibition this summer. Conor Tallon spoke to Michael Waldron and got all the details for you!
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Creedon's in Inchigeela on Friday May 17th and L'Attitude 51 on Wednesday May 22nd are dates for the diary depending on what part of Cork you're in, as Ger Wolfe, one of the most genuine musicians in the business, continues a new series of gigs celebrating the album "Morning Star." He joined Elmarie and Conor in studio on Sunday.
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Cork City was burned down on the night of December 11th 1920. It's hard to fathom that now. It's only by seeing the scale of the disaster in photos of its aftermath that we can imagine what the terror on the streets was like. Well it was the closing night of The Gondoliers in Cork Opera House, and that's the starting point for Ger Fitzgibbon's novel "Songs for a Burning City", as he told Elmarie in studio.
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The Choir of St Mary's and The Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra combine in yet another spectacular concert in St Mary's on Pope's Quay in the city, for Fauré's Requiem. Elmarie chatted to Keith Pascoe, Director of the CFSO.
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Wouldn't it be so romantic to stay in a Lighthouse?! Well, wouldn't it??!!! Listen to Irene Kelleher tell Conor Tallon what it inspired in her for this new version of her play "A Safe Passage" opening in the Cork Arts Theatre in May.
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What a festival is ahead for STAMP 2024 in Triskel this year! Aoibhie McCarthy chatted to Elmarie Mawe all about it!
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Love poems, war poems, poems about grief, joy, rage, loss, despair................ Poems about nature, historical figures, missing home, loneliness, - YOU NAME IT! It's all covered in yet another superb poetry festival in Cork this week.
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Camilla Griehsel’s Mamasongue is at Cork Opera House on May 12th
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The Fastnet Film Festival is on from May 22nd - 26th in Schull.
Hilary McCarthy looks after Marketing and Programming
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Visual Art teacher, Niamh Porter and students at Regina Mundi College chatting to Mairead ahead of Conversations in Creativity: An Exhibition of Student Work at St Peter’s, North Main Street from May 8th - 11th
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Declan Wolfe was live in studio chatting to Mairead ahead of Drama Jubilee: A 25-Year Celebration of Drama at Studio Wolfe at the Everyman on May 12th
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Madeleine D'Arcy, co-editor of this collection of Cork short stories, published by Doire Press, joined Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon in studio, to celebrate its launch in Cork.
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The Cork Proms are at Cork Opera House on June 12th and 13th.
Heyday - A mixtape of Irish Rock and Pop - features Jack O’Rourke who joined us on the show this morning
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Kilmeen Drama Group will bring their production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West to the Everyman on Wednesday.
Nora Scannell is here to tell us more
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Irish National Opera presents Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade at the Everyman this Tuesday night.
Fergus Shiel is director of the Irish National Opera
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As part of their centenary celebrations, The Cork Shakespearean Company is presenting the famous and tragic love story "Romeo and Juliet".
It opens at Cork Arts Theatre on Tuesday April 30th and runs until Saturday May 4th.
Kieran O’Leary, chairperson and Cian Morey, director joined us on the show
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The 20th Cork World Book Fest gets underway on April 23rd.
The programme is packed with something for everyone!
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Paradise Cabaret, “Cabin Fever” is coming to Connollys of Leap next Saturday night, April 27th.
It’s presented by Lords of Strut and Ping Pong Disco.
Eddie Kay had a chat with Mairead
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The grand finale of Music of… is happening Sunday April 28th at the Everyman.
Music of… Faith and Doubt features Karen Underwood who spoke to Mairead
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Crawford Art Gallery collection
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Lisa O'Connor is an actor / writer originally from Clare.
Lisa is a graduate of the Cork School of Music.
Lisa has written and starred in a short film which has been accepted to a number of film festivals this year
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Loop Love is a voice and art experience for people with mild to moderate learning disability
It's at Cork Opera House on the morning of Saturday April 20th
Artistic Director Yvon Bonenfant joined us on the show
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The Italian Film Festival runs from April 26th - 28th.
This is the third year of the festival in Cork and it is also taking place in Galway and Dublin.
Marco Gioacchini tells us more
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Following its successful run on the Abbey Theatre stage in 2021, Elsewhere, an opera by Michael Gallen, is on tour and is to visit Cork Opera House on April 17th
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The first Baltic Film Festival in Ireland takes place next weekend at the Triskel.
There will be screenings of three specially selected films from Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia
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The West Cork Literary Festival takes place around the town of Bantry from July 12th-19th.
Festival Director Eimear O'Herlihy tells us more
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Mairead popped out to a Rebel City Drama Club rehearsal.
’A Doll’s House’ is at Nano Nagle Theatre, Lower Friars Walk on April 19th, 20th & 21st.
The conversation opens with Director Paschal O’Leary
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The 19th Cork Lifelong Learning Festival takes place from April 10th - 17th.
Over 400 events will take place throughout the city.
Festival chair Willie McAuliffe joined Mairead for a chat
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Vicky Langan is Music Network RESONATE Artist in Residence 2023 at the Triskel Arts Centre.
Mairead met Vicky Langan in Triskel Christchurch to chat about the residency
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The 69th Cork International Choral Festival runs from May 1st-5th.
Artistic Director Peter Stobart spoke to Mairead at the recent launch
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UCC Musical Theatre Society are busy preparing for their upcoming production of Grease.
It runs from April 11th - 13th at Dance Cork Firkin Crane.
Director Daniel Cremin along with cast members Cian, Ross and Rose joined Mairead in studio
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The Echo Boys is at Cork Arts Theatre from April 17th.
Director / Playwright Marion Wyatt and Con Hurley, an original Echo Boy, joined Mairead in studio.
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A match made in love and music, Ian Date and Ilse DeZiah return to Cork to play a number of gigs celebrating their debut album together! Conor Tallon chatted to Ian Date all about the music.
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Cork Opera House and Emmet Place will host CurrentLee, the one-day festival curated and run in partnership with UCC's Masters Course in Arts Management and Creative Producing, so Elmarie Mawe chatted to Daniel Cremin to find out more!
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Loco & Reckless Productions presents The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey, Written and directed by Mikel Murfi, on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th April, with a Post-show talk on the Thursday night as well. This is one not to be missed and Conor Tallon spoke to Mikel Murfi.
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With Rebecca Storm headlining in Cork's City Hall with the CYO this April, it's no wonder tickets are like hen's teeth, such is the demand to hear this Icon of Musical Theatre, and the stunning full orchestral arrangements of CYO under Tomás McCarthy's direction! They sat down for a chat with Elmarie Mawe.
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A FEAST for music lovers as Freddie White joins Aine Whelan and the White Horse Gospel Choir and White Horse Guitar Club, to raise funds for Pieta and take everyone on a journey which began by recording a very special arrangement of Bridge Over Troubled Water.
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What a phenomenal musical output Bur Bacharach had! Over 1,000 songs, countless number 1s and top Billboard hits for artists from Tom Jones to Cilla Black, Dionne Warwick to The Carpenters, in every decade since the 1950s, with contemporary musicians like Doja Cat sampling his work. His incredible body of work and the story of his life will be celebrated by the Everyman Sunday Songbook team on April 7th in a night full of Magic Moments!
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Something for everyone! A night in Carrigaline celebrating so much home-grown talent, and raising funds for a great cause. Barry Cogan chatted to Conor Tallon.
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Right now is a great time to steal a march on the summer tourists and book some tickets for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. With almost 3 months to go, a quarter of the tickets are already sold! From morning coffee concerts to late night intimate recitals and the major galas in between, there's something for everyone! Elmarie Mawe spoke to Festival Director Francis Humphrys.
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Cork Opera House March 28th is a big night for fans of The Beatles and George Harrison, as Daniel Taylor and his band bring a big celebration of the work of George Harrison to the stage, telling his life story as they do so. Elmarie Mawe spoke to Daniel, in a week which also saw George Harrison's personal life laid bare through the Christie's auction of the Pattie Boyd Collection.
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Renowned singer songwriter Kieran Goss plays Tracton Arts Centre with Annie Kinsella on Saturday March 30th, and he spole with Conor Tallon for The Arts House
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Elmarie was delighted to catch up with Cork's JD Kelleher in London, and play his latest single which is such a vibe of joy and happiness! Dance On Your Own Two Feet will have you dancing and smiling too!
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What an incredibly talented artist is Hanley! Elmarie was delighted to bring him on to introduce his brand new single Pinnochio which will hopefully get radio play all over Ireland!
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Cork's Muirgen O'Mahony is currently on tour in the USA with Celtic Woman, who also celebrate the release of their 20th Anniversary album on vinyl this week. The global phenomenon is such a huge operation and it's exciting to catch up with Muirgen as they travel between the various states. She introduced one of the tracks from the anniversary album when she chatted to Elmarie.
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Conor Tallon once again met Michael Waldron as they explore the National Collection held in the Crawford Art Gallery and the final week of the hugely successful exhinition "All Eyes on Us"
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Elmarie chatted to Maureen O'Brien from The Glen Theatre Group in Banteer about their run of a play of John B Keane's which hasn't been seen in Cork in decades!
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Celebrating some great new music from Cork artists at home and around the world!
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The West Cork Drama Festival has opened in Rossmore.
Christy O’Sullivan of Kilmeen Drama Group is director of this year’s festival production ‘The Lonesome West’ by Martin McDonagh
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Carol and five year old Eoghan have written a book called ‘My Irish Adventure’
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Cork-born West End musical sensation Molly Lynch is back Leeside for a show at the Everyman tonight.
It’s part of John O’Brien’s ‘Music Of’ series.
Tonight’s performance is the second in the series - Music of… Love and Heartache. - the final one on April 28th is Music of… Faith and Doubt
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Cork Youth Ballet Company, Artistic Director Sinead Murphy presents Notre Dame de Paris at Dance Cork Firkin Crane on March 22nd and 23rd.
Tickets are available on firkincrane.ie
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Crossy from FM104 joined Mairead to chat all things Oscars! The red carpet style, the goody bags and of course Cork’s own Cillian Murphy
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Mairead called to Presentation Brothers College in Cork city during the week where she met with Art teacher Nora Walsh and Principal David Barry. ‘Arts Week’ was underway and of course with the Oscars tonight we had to chat about past-pupil Cillian Murphy
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Ricky Tomlinson is returning to the stage in a brand new version of Irish Annie’s, a musical play celebrating the best of Irish culture and it’s touring the UK and Ireland this year including a visit to Cork.
Ricky Tomlinson, best known for his roles as Bobby Grant in Brookside, DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker and Jim Royle in The Royle Family, will perform as himself as a celebrity guest in the pub.
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The Cork French Film Festival is underway.
Festival co-directors Valerie David McGonnell and Josselin le Gall are here to tell us more..
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The First Cut Film Festival, now in its 15th year, runs until Saturday. Assistant director Jessica Bonenfant is here to tell us about this year’s festival
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The Arts Council is running a campaign called Show Up to encourage young people to ‘Show Up’ for the art that connects them to the community. Maureen Kennelly is Director of the Arts Council
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Finding a Voice runs from March 7th-10th. It’s Europe’s leading women in music festival and is back in Clonmel for a seventh year with what is promised to be a feast of unforgettable music by remarkable women. It’s also coming to Cork this year. The festival takes in both International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day. Artistic Director Roisin Maher joined Mairead for a chat..
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Aileen Loughrey, Irish Officer with Cork County Council and Chris Dorgan, Irish Language Development Officer for Cork City Council, tell us about plans for Seachtain na Gaeilge
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Tony McAulliffe, Chair of the Cork Scor Committee, joins Mairead to chat about how Scor is going this year..
Scor is a GAA competition that was established in 1969.
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Percussionist Alex Petcu joined us on the show ahead of the Ortus Chamber Music Festival which runs from March 1st - 3rd and Finding a Voice which runs from March 7th -10th.
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The North Cork Drama Festival is on from March 1st - 9th at the Community Hall, Chapel Street, Charleville.
Dermot J. Cregg, Festival Director and Mary Gough, Chairperson joined Mairead for a chat ahead of this year's festival
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Mairead visitied Bandon Grammar School to see how preparations for their production of 'Grease' were going!
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Cork Opera House CEO, Eibhlín Gleeson joined Mairead in studio to chat about Summer Revels 2024.
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Elmarie's guests in studio on Sunday were Fiona Kennedy who was describing her show "Natural Woman" which has had an extra date added to its run in the Cork Arts Theatre. Therese O'Sullivan promoted the MTU Musical Theatre Degree performance of "Our House" in the Everyman Theatre with passion! And Gillian Hennessy caught us up with what's happening in the fabulous multicultural arts centre that is Cork's Triskel.
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Conor Tallon and Michael Waldron take a themed-look at some of the treasures in The Crawford Art Gallery!
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Conor caught up with Cork author Eleanor O'Kelly Lynch to chat about her latest book "The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes"
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The Kates are Liz Clark, Mide Houlihan, Eve Clague, MaryBeth O Mahony and Paula K O Brien.
They all joined Mairead live in studio!
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‘The Art of the Unspoken: Rhetorical Devices, Linguistic Parallels and the Influence of the Singing Voice in Classical and Romantic Piano Literature’, by Gabriela Mayer has been released.
It was recently launched at MTU Cork School of Music.
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Cork-based David Murphy is a multi-instrumentalist and is well-known for his work with the pedal steel guitar.
David's album, ‘Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar’, is due for release in April.
The first single “Citi na gCumann”, is already out.
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Sandy Kelly has released her first solo album in thirty years, in tandem with her self-penned life story, ‘In My Own Words’.
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Feis Maitiu Director Timothy McCarthy is on the Arts House to chat all about the year's event.
Mairead enjoyed a visit to Father Matthew Hall to soak up the atmosphere
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The Irish Association of Youth Orchestras returns to the National Concert Hall next Saturday, February 10th, for their Annual Festival of Youth Orchestras. The MTU Cork School of Music Orchestra, under the baton of Karen Ní Bhroin, will bring the festival to a close with Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Tom Doyle, CSM Conservatoire coordinator called into studio for a chat
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The 9th Ortús Chamber Music Festival will run from February 25th to March 3rd 2024 in venues around Cork City and County, featuring 10 top chamber musicians.
The festival was founded in 2016 by Irish musicians Mairéad Hickey and Sinéad O’Halloran.
Mairead joined us on the show this week
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Naomi Daly, interim programmer at the Everyman, had a chat with Mairead about the exciting programme for spring and beyond.
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Macra's National Capers Final took place over the weekend!
Banteer were crowned champions!
Kelvin O'Connor had a chat with Mairead about their big win
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Conor Tallon talked to author Kevin Forde about his latest novel, entitled "Mickey Collins" in which the son of a drug-dealer, relates his amazing tale from childhood to adulthood.
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Tom Spalding talks to Conor about the Cork DFAS first talk of the new Spring Season on February 10th, which also marks the 10th year of the Society!
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The girls from St Vincent's Convent Primary School stage "Matilda the Musical" this February, so Elmarie went to visit them ahead of opening night!
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This week Elmarie heads in for her second round of chemotherapy, so Declan Wolfe called in to studio with a batch of streaming picks to binge on when you can't do anything else! To be fair, Declan has kept Elmarie going through previous courses of treatment as well with some crazy suggestions she'd never have gone for, and his own inimitable good humour!
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Composer, Conductor, Arranger, Director - John O'Brien wears so many hats! And so when he joined Elmarie in studio there was a lot to cover, but they focused on upcoming concerts this month in both the Everyman and Cork Opera House theatres. The first in the series is "Music of Sadness and Comfort" in The Everyman on February 4th.
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The country's newest Bank Holiday weekend was created to honour St Brigid, and the team behind Creative Bandon is marking it with a 4-day festival celebrating Spring, Imbolc, Brigid and creative energy. Conor Tallon spoke to Margaret McQuaid about it all!
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Anyone who's ever been in a school show will know that those memories are some of your strongest from your school days! Well memories are being made with a big musical in Scoil Namoh Eltin in Kinsale, and Elmarie went along to get a feel for the atmosphere ahead of the run!
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Cork Mezzo Niamh O'Sullivan chats to Elmarie about returning to Cork to sing the role of Carmen, on Valentine's Night in Cork Opera House!
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Rhona Coughlan and the team at Inclusive Dance Cork, based in Dance Cork Firkin Crane, are leading the way in inclusive dance in Ireland. She joined Elmarie on air to publicise the start of a new Semester for 2024, now taking enrolments.
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Geoff Gould chatted to Conor Tallon about this year's Blackwater Fit-Up Theatre festival, and the super plays on tour all over North Cork!
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Looking for something new to do? Well Senior Executive Librarian with Cork City Libraries, Patricia Looney, joined Elmarie in studio to chat about the incredible numbers of clubs and societies which meet in libraries all over Cork!
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Cork Cine Club opens its 2024 season with "Driving Madeleine" from France, and Jame Monagan joined Elmarie in studio to chat about not just the opening film, but what it's like being part of a film club! Films are screened at 8pm, Thursday nights in Cork FET Douglas Street Campus (formerly known as st John's College)
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Elmarie spoke to cast members Bobby Reardon,Isabelle Cotter, and Lucy O Sullivan along with Director Catherine Mahon Buckley...all from CADA..about their once off live performance of Barbie and the Beast..CADA's take on The Everyman Panto this year!
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Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon bring you a Christmas edition of The Arts House from Cork, with local choirs, chats from the children, and lots of #joy and #grá
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With Improv Panto the cast have no script and make it all up as they go................ With the Adult Panto it's tightly scripted and anything goes................. And with the Lord Mayor's Tea Dance, the whole point is that EVERYONE can go! Declan Wolfe, John McCarthy, Gerry Kelly and Angela Newman joined Elmarie and Conor in studio for the chats.
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What an impressive lineup for one of the first big concerts of 2024! The Clonakilty Brass Band is proud to welcome Gary Curtin and Richard Marshall to Cork and showcase a superb programme of music on January 7th. Conductor Ger Condon spoke to Elmarie.
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To see the Work of the Week as Conor Tallon chats to Curator Michael Waldron, go to the Crawford Gallery website. Another unusual work this week - and an exciting acquisition for the Gallery too!
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Super troopers Sam Lupton and Colm Quinn, despite being on stage for Opening Night on Saturday, braved an early Sunday morning rise to chat to Elmarie in studio about Jack and The Beanstalk: this year's panto at Cork Opera House!
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Mick Hannigan and Una Feehily joined Elmarie Mawe in studio to chat about IndieCork Film Festival which not only begins on December 15th, but is the Opening Event for the Arc Cinema at the Gate, which is refurbished and renewed and ready to open its doors again!
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Each week Conor Tallon goes to The Crawford Art Gallery to learn about this week's "Work of the Week" from the Crawford Collection, and discusses them with Curator Michael Waldron. This week - there were many threads to follow!
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A magical experience awaits everyone who goes to see Peter Pan with The Cork School of Dance at The Firkin Crane. Conor Tallon spoke to Director, Sinéad Murphy.
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Sunday December 3rd at 4pm is when The Songstress Marguerite O'Connor and a host of musicians get together for The Christmas Jingle. This year it's in the Pav, tickets are on eventbrite and Marguerite popped in to studio to chat with Elmarie about raising money for charities in Cork.
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A gorgeous celebration of choirs and community! John O Leary had all the details for Elmarie.
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To think that this week's Work of the Week is 157 years old wouldn't normally be a fact we'd labour. Many artworks in the Crawford Gallery Collection are that and older. But when you hear it's a PHOTOGRAPH, well you just have to look! And hear Michael Waldron tell Conor Tallon all about it!
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Judie Chalmers captivated us all with her description of A Christmas Carol which opens in Nano Nagle Place, and then Irene Warren got us all giddily anticipating Panto with Beauty and the Beast at the Everyman Theatre! 2 more fantastic shows in Cork this week!
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The first Saturday of December
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We love the series Conor Tallon and Michael Waldron have been following for the last few years, looking at the individual pieces in the Crawford Art Gallery Collection, through the "Work of the Week". But right now, there's actually SO MUCH happening in the gallery, that Conor and Michael tried to to a whistlestop tour of the entire building covering multiple exhibitions in under 10 minutes!
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A multilingual poetry festival held in Cork City each November since 2013, Ó Bhéal is proud to present its annual Winter Warmer weekend.
One of the highlights of Cork’s literary calendar, this unique event hosts over 30 renowned poets and performers from Ireland and 7-8 other countries. Paul Casey is the Director of OBhéal, and Elmarie chatted to him about this year's gathering.
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Red ‘n Blue Theatre Company was founded by husband and wife Dylan Kennedy and Jenny Fennessy and they've had such a successful career together! This time round, they're staging a dark comedy: TABOO! "There was a boy and a girl and somehow, they met. Lily doesn’t get out much. Tom finds it hard to meet new people. And now they’re having their first date. Lily cooks a three-course meal. Tom brings flowers and wine. On the surface, everything seems fine. But in the modern world, dating is a surprisingly complex thing with a lot of unwritten rules. There are certain things you shouldn’t do on a first date. And then there are certain things you shouldn’t do at all." It sounds gas, so Conor Tallon rang the two of them for a chat!
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From an idea 20 years ago, to a team which tours the country, the Everyman Sunday Songbook crew bring joy and energy to all their shows! Some cast members have changed over the years, but originals Linda Kenny and Damien Smith are still as full of love and enthusiasm for the series as ever. Because they all live in different parts of the country, they have to travel to the midlands to meet and rehearse! So Elmarie phoned them when they were on the road after a meet-up to prepare for THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW!
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WOOHOO! It's time for Panto season to get started! And Cormac Costello and Padraig di Fusco joined Elmarie in studio to chat about getting the ball rolling with Beauty and The Beast at The Everyman Theatre this Christmas. This show has it all, and the audience will hold their breath for the superb transformation scene! What a musical! What a story! What a pack of messers! It's Cork's traditional panto with every ounce of fun imaginable!
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Once again Elmarie was delighted to celebrate the return of CYO to City Hall for the annual Christmas celebration of The Snowman concerts. Each season, the orchestra pulls out all the stops with a Gala Christmas concert and this year welcomes West End Star Cillian Donnelly, which is already sold out. But Cork families can look forward to sharing the magic of watching The Snowman screened with a live orchestra and magical animation, as conductor Tomás McCarthy and co-leaders Eimear Ní Chéilleachar and Ellen Crowley shared with Elmarie in studio on Sunday morning for The Arts House on Cork's 96FM.
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True Tides called into the studio ahead of their tour that is kicking off in Cork on Saturday November 11th
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James Horgan is the Cork One Act Theatre Festival Director
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The Glucksman Craft + Design Fair showcases high quality Irish craft and design in the beautiful setting of the gallery’s airy and spacious exhibition spaces.
Mathilde Corbineau, Retail and Communication Manager at the Glucksman is here to tell us more
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One of the great storytellers, Ralph McTell, is celebrating more than 50 years on the road.
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Ahead of We’ve Only Just Begun - The Carpenters - A celebration with Toni Lee at Cork Opera House, Toni had a chat with Mairead about her career in music and that on-stage proposal!
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The Cork Shakespearean Company returns to Dance Cork Firkin Crane with their production of Hamlet this November.
Kieran O’Leary, Chairperson of Cork Shakespearean Company is here to tell us more
Run: 09/11/2023 - 11/11/2023
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Fiona Clark, Cork International Film Festival Director and CEO is here to tell us all about this year's festival.
It runs from November 9th - 26th.
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Continuing this series on works in the National Collection and the Crawford Art Gallery, Michael Waldron and Conor Tallon look at "On the Run, War of Independence 1922"
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Celebrating 30 years of Cork City Ballet Company, Alan Foley is pulling out all the stops with Swan Lake, as he told Elmarie ahead of the performances in Cork Opera House on November 2nd to 4th!
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PHENOMENAL!!!!!!! Don't miss the Dragon of Shandon 2023, as the entire team of Cork Community Art Link bring a host of performers together to create pure magic on the streets for Halloween! Casey Walsh, project manager with the Dragon of Shandon for CCAL, chatted to Elmarie on Sunday.
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Reggie from the Blackrock Road is the richest man in Cork by a huge margin in fairness to him.
He lives in a 6.4 million euro mansion and has established a massive following on social media with his attacks on Liz Truss, northsiders, Kerry people and Kanturk.
After years of tyranny under Michael D. Higgins (who is from Limerick) Reggie has decided to run for Uachtarán na hÉireann, which means President of Ireland in case you only did pass Irish for the Inter Cert. In the run up to the election in 2025, Reggie will travel around Forgotten Ireland, those small villages which have been by-passed by progress and advances in personal hygiene. As part of this tour he will be in the Glen Theatre on Saturday 4th November, reaching out to the ordinary people of north Cork without touching them, unless they are gorgeous. You don’t want to miss it, and he joined Elmarie in studio on Sunday for a chat!
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Shy, sincere and conscientious, Eve Harrington’s dream is realised when she is taken on as a personal secretary by her actress idol, Margo Crane. However, Eve’s seemingly innocent and devoted demeanour masks her true intentions– to usurp Margo’s position in the theatre world and become the new reigning star. Many people know or have heard of the film version of this story, starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter. But this is a rare chance to see the stage version with an amazingly strong Cork cast of leading ladies!! And they joined Elmarie in studio on Sunday. One of the few male cast members, Jim O Mahony, also treated everyone to a bit of smooth Sinatra for the Jazz weekend!
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Well everyone knows Halloween is October 31st, and it's sparked a whole series of amazing Halloween themed events. Like the Banshee Walk in Bandon on Friday nigh October 27th, which starts on South Main Street in the town at 7pm. There's music from the Fresh Air Collective, and a Fireshow from Rogu then at 7.30 up at the Shambles!
Leap Scarecrow Festival also gets underway in earnest with everything from Witches Wheelbarrow Races to Scary Movies, Broomstick making workshops, and judging for all the scarecrows you can see as you go through the village. The Ballydehob Jazz Festival 2023 Samhain Parade is on 6pm SUNDAY 29th October 2023 in Ballydehob Village. The parade theme is ‘Away With The Birds’…all masks, costumes, creatures have been made in the village.. All welcome to come along, dress up and take flight and then there’s an After The Parade Party in Levis..
And this year Kinsale is bringing lots of events together in its inaugural Samhain Festival, so Elmarie rang Yvonne Coughlan of RSVP productions to find out all about it.
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Yet another superb literary journal coming out of Cork, HOWL has its next launch in Waterstones this week, so Conor had a quick word with John Breen for the details.
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No script. No memo. No clue. Well, EVENTUALLY they have a clue, but as it's all made up on the spot, the cast of the Improv Murder Mystery in the Cork Arts Theatre are as clueless as the rest of us as to how it's going to go when the curtain goes up! Laura O Mahony & Laura Harte joined Elmarie Mawe live in studio to have a long over-due catchup!
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2 of Ireland's incredible Jazz voices, Laoise Leahy and Karen Underwood, joined Elmarie Mawe live in studio to chat about the upcoming Jazz Festival in Cork for the October Bank Holiday Weekend.
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There's a lot of anticipation around a production entitled "Lost Lear" at The Everyman Theatre this week. Dan Colley spoke to Conor Tallon about this most intriguing and thought-provoking show.
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What a great season of One-Act Drama Festivals is on at the moment! Banteer's festival is hosted by the Glen Theatre Group and Pat o Brien had all the details for Conor Tallon.
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We can take the Canova Casts in Cork for granted sometimes. But as Conor discovered when talking to Michael Waldron of the Crawford Gallery, they continue to reveal surprises and stories!
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Jimmy Healy chatted to Conor Tallon ahead of this year's Ballincollig One-Act Drama Festival, hosted by the Pyke Theatre Company.
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Award winning folk singer Aoife Scott is a songwriter based in Dublin. Born into the legendary Black Family, she is steadily rising to the top of the traditional and folk music scene and has long enjoyed success as an established artist in her own right. Ahead of a gig in Sea Church in Ballycotton on Thursday 19th October, she spoke to Conor Tallon for Sunday's show.
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Chris Walley shot to national fame with The Young Offenders, but his film, TV and theatre career is going from strength to strength. With a new film "Lies We Tell" just released in cinemas, and a role in Portia Coughlan on stage in London, he's busier than ever, and chatted to Elmarie Mawe on Sunday.
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Set in Cork City in the 1960's, where every character is searching for love, but only two are Twin Flames and only one needs to transform to save his life. Writer Kevin Fitzsimons and star Rebecca Flavin joined Elmarie Mawe in studio on Sunday.
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Neil Thomson returns to Cork to conduct the Cork Concert Orchestra for Mahler 1, the Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and be joined by Elizabeth Cooney who plays Mozart's 5th Violin Concerto. It's going to be an epic concert on October 14th! Neil was joined in studio by Adrian O Mahony of the Cork Concert Orchestra and they chatted to Elmarie.
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These two stunning musicians and utterly fantastic women joined Elmarie live in studio to share their new single, sing live and chat about working and creating music and joy together.
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Yet again the Singalong Songbook Team create a winner of a show, and ahead of its performance in the Everyman Theatre, Elmarie spoke to Alf McCarthy and Alan Carney!
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Formative memories and lifelong impact are the result of these schools concerts run by the Cork Pops Orchestra under the baton of Evelyn Grant. Gerry Kelly was live in studio to chat to Elmarie about the autumn concert series, booking now.
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Hormones. They rule our lives! And Cork actress Pauline O'Driscoll is back to the Cork Arts Theatre with a brand new show charting the entire female journey in her epic play "JUMP!?!" Live in studio with Elmarie, and Gerry Kelly who was chatting about Cork Pops.
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Yet another fascinating chat between Conor Tallon and Paddy O Shea as they delve into Paddy's series for TG4. Scéalta Grá na h'Éireann continues to shine a light on some gorgeous love stories from Irish history.
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Scéalta Grá na h'Éireann continues to tell us the love stories behind some of the fascinating figures in Irish history. Did you ever think of Wolfe Tone as a Trinity College student, spotting girls on Grafton Street? Well Martha Witherington was the object of his affections and Paddy O Shea told Conor Tallon all about their story.
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Bravo on a superb run in the Everyman Theatre! Here's another Cork star on the rise!
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A stunning gig is in store on Friday night in Coughlan's on Douglas Street!!!!!!!!!
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It is indeed true that Cork has no shortage of talent, and that increasingly it's being recognised in the UK that Cork is able to train performers to a world-class level. Samuel Palliser Kehoe at age 14 is one of those current performers who is now no stranger to London stages or flying back and forth for filming roles, so Elmarie invited in with his mum Orla for a chat and a song!
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Here's a few of the snippets from Sunday's show, covering the 44th Cork Folk Festival, as Conor talked to William Hammond and Elmarie chatted to Karen Casey. 5 days of amazing music all kick off on Wednesday, September 27th!
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What a team! What friends! What laughs! And what a story! Driected by Trevor Ryan, Ciaran Bermingham and Fionula Linehan bring the tale of Sexy Laundry to the stage of the Cork Arts Theatre, and tell the story of a couple together for 25 years, who maybe need a bit of pep in their relationship.....
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Phil Coulter is simply incredible. What a work ethic and what an output! Celebrating his 80th with receiving the Freedom of Derry, his home city, wasn't any nod to retirement for this man. He's back in Cork Opera House on October 5th!
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Elmarie chatted to Tadhg Hickey ahead of his stand-up performance as part of his national - international tour. Tadhg plays Cork Opera House on Thursday,September 28th.
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Right throughout the show Elmarie dipped in and out of the offerings for Culture Night all over the City and County. Besides also chatting about Culture Night with guests, here's a smattering of the other specific bits covered on the show. And it's still not everything! Both the city and county each have their own separate websites for Culture Night. Get out there and have fun!!!
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Rebecca Storm is simply incredible. Her stage career has already spanned 50 years and she is renowned for the heart, soul and voice she brings to every single role. Now she returns to Cork Opera House to celebrate the first 50 years! And she chatted once again to Elmarie Mawe.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat is the next Montfort performance in The Everyman Theatre and it's going to be superb! Cormac O Caoimh and Martin Leahy played live in studio ahead of their upcoming gig in Coughlan's for the Cork Folk Festival this month. And Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat is the next Montfort performance in The Everyman Theatre and it's going to be superb! But we began with more Culture Night news!
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There's MAGIC in the air as we're gearing up for Culture Night and so much more! Norma Sheehan chatted to us about Shirley Valentine. Daniel Cremin has a superb magic-psychology-and -theatre performance coming to the Firkin Crane, and Culture Night sees a rave in City Hall with artist Riona Denys doing live painting as the DJs rock the house. It was an interesting mix!
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This year’s Culture Night, on Friday, September 22nd, will see venues all over the country open their doors late into the night.
Cork City’s Culture Night Programme contains an array of events.
Marcela Whelan Kelly joined us on the show to tell us more
The Women, We Will Rise is a theatrical song cycle asking questions about the women of Ireland, past, present and future. Presented by folk-singer Karan Casey with The Everyman and Cork Folk Festival.
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Alexi Murdoch is part of this year’s Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival happening in Cork 7th – 10th September.
He has sailed from Scotland to Ireland to make his way to Cork for the artist residency.
Over 200 free events will take place across Cork County for Culture Night.
Emma Dwyer is Assistant Arts Officer with Cork County Council.
Leona Forde, a children’s author from Cork, has joined internationally celebrated authors and illustrators to launch Discover Irish Children’s Books, a new initiative to champion children’s books written by those living and working in Ireland.
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Scéalta Grá na hÉireann is back for a second season - six new couples, with six new captivating and heartbreaking stories
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Opera Collective Ireland presents Flight - Jonathan Dove’s breakthrough opera - landing in Ireland from 5-12 September 2023
The operatic comedy will be performed in DúnLaoghaire, Galway, and Cork.
The creative team includes acclaimed director Stephen Medcalf who joined us on the show
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cork Comedian David Savage is here to tell us about his comedy career and the comedy scene in Cork
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Award-winning, double platinum selling artist Mick Flannery has announced his eighth studio album ‘Goodtime Charlie’.
Mick Flannery has also signed to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records as their first international signing.
The album is due September 15th, 2023 and is available to pre-order and pre-save now.
The Everyman’s 2023 autumn season has been launched.
There’s a mix of drama, music, comedy, dance, opera and fun for all the family!
Artistic Director Sophie Motley is here to tell us more
Macy Grey and Corinne Bailey Rae are just some of the acts playing at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival this year.
We hear from Festival Director Mark Murphy, Chairperson Fiona Collins and Gillian Hennessy of Triskel Arts Centre
CEO Eibhlin Gleeson joins us on the show as the latest quartet of Cara O’Sullivan Associate Artists have been announced.
Mezzo-soprano Niamh O’Sullivan, soprano Kelli-Ann Masterson, tenor Dean Power, and bass-baritone Rory Dunne will form the next quartet of Cara O’Sullivan Associate Artists from September 2023-September 2025.
These performers will make their debut as Associate Artists at a special, free-to-attend Opera Gala, held in association with Irish National Opera on Tuesday, September 12.
This Cork Opera House and Irish National Opera Gala will be free of charge to the public – a gift to the city, in Cara O’Sullivan’s name - and will feature the Cork Opera House Concert Orchestra.
As Cara O’Sullivan Associated Artists, each performer will perform solo recitals at Cork Opera House throughout 2023-2025. Details of the times of the concerts will be available shortly at corkoperahouse.ie. Dean Power will perform the first of these solo recitals on Culture Night, September 22.
These performances will be free to attend, but spaces will be limited and will be available to book through the Cork Opera House website and Box Office.
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August is Craft Month.
Mary Palmer from Cork Craft and Design joined us on the show to tell us how it has been going and what more is to come
A new production of The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams’ most autobiographical work - is at Cork’s Everyman Theatre until August 26th.
Cork native Chloe O’Reilly plays the role of Laura
Lavit Gallery is preparing for a landmark exhibition to mark Cork Arts Society’s 60 year anniversary.
To tell us more about it - Curators Brian Mac Domhnaill and Sarah Kelleher joined us on the show
Masters of Tradition returns this month celebrating 21 years.
It takes place from August 23rd to 27th in Bantry.
Artistic Director Martin Hayes joined us on the show
Cork Nursing Homes are taking part in a special national music performance to mark Nursing Homes Week 2023.
The Music Speaks broadcast, taking place tomorrow, includes performances from over 100 nursing home residents from more than 30 nursing homes. The performance will be broadcast to over 400 nursing homes with 25,000 residents across the country. It will also be available for the broader public to watch via NHI.ie.
Michael McGlynn, NHI Communications and Research Executive, joined us on the show
Dance Cork Firkin Crane has a wide-ranging programme of performances, residencies, classes and workshops as part of its Summer / Autumn 2023 season.
The programme presents artists from all over Ireland as well as from France and the US.
Dance Cork Firkin Crane is located in a heritage building in Shandon.
Executive Artistic Director Laurie Uprichard joined us on the show
Inclusive Dance Cork at Dance Cork Firkin Crane is entering its second year next month.
To tell us all about the project Rhona Coughlan and Kaylie Streit joined us on the show
Cork Arts Theatre in association with The Everyman are running a programme called CATALYST and participants will stage work at Cork Arts Theatre next month.
Theatre Manager of Cork Arts Theatre, Fin Flynn joined us on the show.
Sisters Shannon and Megan Haly with a staged reading of their work in progress ‘Cortisol’ are among the selected participants.
Sea Church Ballycotton will mark the end of summer with a night of live music on August 29th.
Venue supervisor Aislinn Walsh joined us on the show to chat about an eventful few weeks and what is to come over the next while
Boom Nouveau is the second of five sculptures that will make up Island City - Cork’s Urban Sculpture Trail.
Four of the sculptures were commissioned after a competitive process, supported by the National Sculpture Factory, with a fifth being chosen through an open call process.
In June, the first sculpture was unveiled on Carey’s Lane - Sentinels [flew through the ages in the shape of birds], by Niamh McCann.
Over the coming months the remaining three sculptures will be installed on the Exchange Building on Princes Street, The Coal Quay and Triskel Christchurch.
The temporary artworks will remain in situ for a period of five years.
Valerie Byrne, Director of the National Sculpture Factory, based in Cork’s docklands, at Albert Road joined us on the show
Tom Campbell is preparing to host an Art Exhibition later this month.
It's at Outlaw studios at the Marina Commercial Park from August 25th to September 3rd
Sounds From A Safe Harbour Festival 2023 takes place from September 7th to the 10th in venues across Cork City.
Festival Director Mary Hickson joined us on the show.
Work is ongoing in Kinsale to renovate a premises to make it a home for Kinsale Youth Theatre.
The next gathering is Saturday August 19th when there will be more painting, some cleaning and helping the professional crew to make and build.
Yvonne Coughlan joined us on the show
Geoff Gould and Seamus O’Rourke are in rehearsals for The Empty Nest.
Geoff is director and Seamus along with Joan Sheehy play the two characters.
The play is running at Cork Arts Theatre this week from August 16th to August 19th.
Cork Podcast Festival runs from August 22nd - 27th
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Talented Cork makers are showcasing unique and interesting crafts across the month of August for Cork Craft Month.
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Bandon Walled Town Festival takes place from August 12-20th 2023
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Peter Byrne is bringing Neil Diamond to audiences together with a 30 piece symphony Orchestra.
Peter reenacts every song from Neil Diamond’s “Hot August Night” and the tour returns to Dublin, Killarney and Castlebar in the coming weeks.
Over 35 buildings will open their doors for Cork Heritage Open Day next Saturday with 60 events to look forward to. All events are free and some must be booked in advance. Cork City Council Heritage Officer Niamh Twomey joined us on the show today to chat about Cork Heritage Open Day
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There was a real buzz when Sheena Crowley announced she was reopening the family's music shop in a new location. So we went along to congratulate her, and find out about a great concert in Triskel on August 4th!
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Cork Craft Month is a stunning celebration of Cork Craft for the entire month of August, and the Marina Market hosts a fair to celebrate the launch! Mary Palmer has all the details.
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For one day only during the August Bank Holiday, Robert's Cove Vintage Festival brings crowds from all over to have an absolute ball. Jim Griffin of Griffin's Potatoes had all the details when he chatted with Conor Tallon!
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The Everyman Theatre's summer show for 2023 is Tennessee William's "The Glass Menagerie" and actress Chloe O'Reilly chatted to Elmarie all about it.
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ADT - Alan Daniel Tobin - came in to studio to chat about his fascinating musical tour of the Lighthouses of Ireland, heading out on a boat to sing to an audience as they circle the Fastnet, releasing a new single which he sang live in studio, and the gig to round off the Little Lighthouse Tour - SeaChurch Ballycotton on August 5th with details on Eventbrite.
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Writer and Director Marion Wyatt and actress Marie O Donovan joined Elmarie in studio to talk about the phenomenal Katty Barry, who led a vibrant, colourful and rich life on Dalton's Avenue in Cork City, before the later years of her life saw it all slipping away.
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Who doesn't love a vase of flowers? And how many Still Life paintings have tried to capture their beauty? Michael Waldron explored this week's arrangement with Conor Tallon.
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Tadhg Curtis joined Elmarie and Conor in studio to chat about this year's Mallow Arts Festival - another super line-up with 40 events over 5 days!!!!
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Declan McCarthy joined Elmarie live on air to chat about the superb lineup once again for a glorious festival all over Skibbereen!
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John Adams is one of the most passionate artists you'll meet, and his current exhibition in Cobh library is designed to provoke a conversation about what we're doing to the planet and the animals - including ourselves - which are in danger of extinction. Elmarie met John in his house in Cobh.
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The renowned Kilmeen Drama Group presents "Thy Will Be Done" as their summer comedy for 2023 in Rossmore Theatre, West Cork. Conor Tallon chatted to Lar McCarthy for all the details!
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Director of the West Cork Fit-Up Festival, Geoff Gould, chats to Conor Tallon on Cork's 96FM & C103 about the shows people can catch in Week 2 of this year's festival!
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One of the theatre shows Irish audiences have just taken to their hearts in the last decade is the story of Fred and Alice, and Ciaran Bermingham and Cora Fenton joined writer John Sheehy in studio to chat to Elmarie all about the 10th Anniversary tour!
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Hilary Rose - aka "Mairéad" from The Young Offenders - joins Elmarie Mawe to chat about her live podcast with the cast of The Young Offenders in Cork Opera House on Saturday July 22nd!
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One weekend each year, many residents around Innishannon open their gardens to raise money and support local causes. And with a large population of artists in the hinterland, they combine it with exhibitions, teas, music, and a huge welcome! Alice Taylor chatted with Elmarie Mawe to tell her what's in store.
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In this continuing series, Conor Tallon and Crawford Art Gallery curator Dr Michael Waldron discuss this week's "Work of the Week". We encourage our listeners to go and visit the Gallery to see the full work in person!
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A scene which definitely evokes summer and sunnier climes, Conor Tallon chats to Michael Waldron.
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This week Geoff Gould told Elmarie about the first play to tour around West Cork and its islands in this year's West Cork Fit-Up Festival.
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Elmarie chatted to Pat Cotter of UCC about the return of open-air music events to UCC, with "Night on the Plaza" on July 21st!
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William Wall is the writer of 7 novels, 5 collections of poetry and 3 collections of short stories. Elmarie was excited to talk to him about his new novel "Empty Bed Blues", which will be celebrated at this year's West Cork Literary Festival. William appears in Bantry Library on Wednesday July 12th at 1pm.
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Molly Twomey's debut collection is called "Raised Among Vultures", and ahead of her appearance at this year's West Cork Literary Festival Elmarie spoke to her about it. Molly appears with Hannah Sullivan in the Maritime Hotel on Thursday July 13th at 8.30pm
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When one of our Sunday voices took up a new challenge, well, we had to chase her down and find out what was going on! Elmarie and Conor followed Jess Leen to Killarney, where her new role draws on so many of her strengths now she's no longer reading the News!
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What a decade the 1950s were! The first satellite in space, Tensing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Everest, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Kermit were all born - and so was Rock and Roll!
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Once again the team at Kinsale Arts Weekend have programmed a really inviting weekend with lots of variety, as Anna Mulcahy described to Elmarie.
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Conor Tallon and Dr Michael Waldron explore the works of the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork.
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Ahead of singing in three very special Coffee Concerts, Elmarie spoke to soprano Anna Devin about the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry.
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Yes singing is fantastic for us. But not everyone can make the commitment to a choir with the lives we have today. Betty Fitzgerald founded the Digital Dawnbirds for women all over the world who would like to sing together a few times during the year - online!
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Ahead of a long-deferred tour of Italy, the Cork Youth Orchestra is playing a MASSIVE farewell concert in City Hall Cork. And they are donating the proceeds of the concert to Cork Penny Dinners. Elmarie was joined in studio by Conductor Tomás McCarthy, and joint leaders Cillian O Cathasaigh, Ellen O'Connell and Aisling Martin to chat about the concert they have been ready to give with almost 5 years! And they were also joined by Caitríona Twomey of Cork Penny Dinners, the charity beneficiary of the concert.
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Join Elmarie and Angela Newman as they chat about Cork's Hysterical Histories. A night out for all the family, with unexpected gems of Cork history thrown in for good measure!
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One of the impressive things about Cork Midsummer Festival's planning is its emphasis on platforming and growing the arts in Cork. FutureProofing, in a way. As Lorraine Maye discussed with Elmarie Mawe.
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During the Cork Midsummer Festival, the team have come up with many events for families to enjoy - either as spectators or as participants! Elmarie was chatting with Festival Director Lorraine Maye.
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We all get excited around Cork Midsummer Festival Time, and no wonder. There are simply so many events that Elmarie and Lorraine Maye had a ball looking at the programme!
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Elmarie went to Dance Cork Firkin Crane to meet Rhona Coughlan, Artistic Director of Inclusive Dance Cork, to find out about the programme, and Kaylie Streit, Project Manager with IDC also had details of how listeners can help them access community funding from the AIB Community Fund programme.
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What a gorgeous collaboration of two artists in Cork at the moment. Poetry and Art in parallel. Conor Tallon spoke to Gerry Murphy and John McHarg, and were joined by Patricia Looney of Cork City Library.
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What an interesting painting this week for Work of the Week at the Crawford Art Gallery! Dr Michael Waldron chatted to Conor Tallon.
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Did you know of James Joyce's strong Cork connections? And why it makes the celebration of Bloomsday in Cork all the more personal? Well Conor Tallon chatted to Flicka Small and Robert Ffrench to find out what's happening to mark it this year!
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More music, Cork chats, and good humour from #Cork with Elmarie and Conor
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Get involved! Join Cork Community Art Link as a volunteer and be part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2023! Conor chatted to Casey Walsh to get the details.
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Elmarie chatted to Megan Haly about having her play, which she co-wrote with her sister Shannon, selected for a platform showcase in New York this week!
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Majella Cullagh and Elmarie had a chat about how Mozart portrayed 2 unfaithful women in Cosi Fan Tutte which runs at Cork Opera House this week with Irish National Opera.
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As the exhibition celebrating visual artists who are also musicians comes to a close in O Mahony's of Watergrasshill, it's only right they close ti with a bang and have a music festival! John Adams spoke to Elmarie.
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The sun is shining in Cork, summer's in the air, and the first hour of Sunday's Arts House had lots to celebrate!
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Iontach a chloisint go mbeidh Clare Sands ag seinm i Glastonbury i mbliana!!
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Twinning arrangements between towns in Ireland and many in France bring opportunities to share culture and learn about each other. Well this week Carrigaline's twinning with Guidel in France brought an invitation for some local artists to exhibit over there, so Conor chatted to Marie McInerney to find out about it!
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Elmarie and Conor were at Fastnet Film Festival again this year, and after a brilliant panel discussion on independent filmmaking in the Regions, and an afternoon of stories and anecdotes from the Hubbards of Hubbard Casting, Elmarie bumped into a few of the Cork actors who were there soaking it all up.
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Conor Tallon chatted to Callum Maxwell about his play "Oh Brother" running at the Cork Arts Theatre this week.
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Maeve Lynch, Gallery Outreach Manager, was on the show to tell us about Cork Printmakers Exhibition at Lavit Gallery
It runs until June 10th
Cork Book Fair takes place at the Marina Market on May 27th and 28th.
Stuart, who is also behind bookworld.ie, was on the show to chat about the book fair next weekend
Clonakilty Macra were crowned All Ireland Capers Champions earlier this year. Cast and crew members Anne, John and Carmel joined Mairead for a chat about their Capers journey. For anyone who may not know what Capers is, fear not, it's all explained in this chat!!
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Julie Kelleher is directing a new play called Found by Aideen Wylde which is being produced by The Everyman in association with Clonmel Junction Arts Festival and Cork Midsummer Festival. It will premiere at the Cork Midsummer Festival
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Geoff Gould is Artistic Director of the West Cork Fit-Up Theatre Festival.
Do you want to know what fit-up theatre is? Have a listen to find out
Bruiser Theatre Company bring their live theatre tour of their critically acclaimed production of Mojo Mickybo by Belfast playwright, Owen McCafferty to Cork Arts Theatre from Tuesday May 23rd - Saturday May 27th. Conor Quin (Mickybo) and John Travers (Mojo) were guests on the show
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Whitechurch Macra were crowned Macra National Drama Champions earlier this year! Denise Keohane, club and cast member, was a guest on the show to share the club's journey in the competition
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Eimear O'Herlihy is Director of the West Cork Literary Festival - taking place from July 7th-14th
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The Everyman Summer Season has been launched so Mairead went to the McCurtain Street theatre to meet with Artistic Director Sophie Motley
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Hilary McCarthy from Fastnet Film Festival joined Mairead on the show as final preparations continue
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Elmarie Mawe spoke to Geraldine Plunkett about The Abbey Theatre Company's touring production of Tartuffe, which runs at Cork Opera House.
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The second hour of arts news and music from Cork with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon.
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The first hour of The Arts House with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon on May 7th 2023.
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Conor Tallon chatted to Tom Spalding about Cork's Italian architecture, ahead of the final talk for the season from the Cork DFAS.
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As we gear up for Eurovision week, Elmarie chatted to Dave McGrath about his Eurovision Gramaphone Circle in Hollyhill Library
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Ahead of singing with Placido Domingo in London, Cork's Niamh O Sullivan is starring in Irish National Opera's production of "Werther", directed by Sophie Motley, and which comes to the Everyman on May 6th!
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It's a Moliere feast in Cork this month, as the drama students of Kinsale College bring a production of The Miser to the stage!
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What a brilliant celebration in store for Youghal Musical Society's 30th Birthday, as Valerie Hunt explained to Conor Tallon!
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Greenshine are beloved wherever they tour, and a new album is something to celebrate! So Elmarie chatted to Mary Greene all about New Moon on Friday.
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The 68th Cork International Choral Festival gets underway on Wednesday April 28th, and Festival Director Peter Stobart joined Elmarie in studio.
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A fascinating insight to this week's Work of the Week at the Crawford Gallery with Michael Waldron and Conor Tallon.
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Marking 100 years since the publication of Joyce's Ulysses, Liz Roche told Conor Tallon about the upcoming show in Cork Opera House.
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With a spin and a twist on Robin Hood, the junior students of the Suzanne Jones Drama Studio bring a show full of laughs and joy to the Cork Arts Theatre!
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The hugely popular Kilmeen Drama Group return to the Everyman Theatre with Noel Coward's "Blythe Spirit" so Elmarie chatted to Nora Scannell.
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The Crawford Gallery's own life is one which tells a fascinating story, and it's celebrated in art as Dr Michael Waldron shared with Conor Tallon this week.
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From the Italian Film Festival to the MTU Documentary Festival, to the Ocana Festival - it's a real celebration of films as Tracey o Brien chatted to Conor.
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What a phenomenal musician is Camilla Griehsel! Ahead of the launch of her album "Mamasongue Source", she spoke to Elmarie.
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Linda Kenny looks back at the team who made 20 years of The Everyman Sunday Songbook such a success.
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More fabulous author events in the next few weeks, and John Breen had the details for Conor when they met on the street!
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Black Market dealing in Art? YES PLEASE! Elmarie spoke to the Wyatt siblings about making art and their first joint exhibition in Cork's Black Market.
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Kieran O Leary spoke to Conor about the return of the Cork Shakespearean Company, now in its 99th year, and the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Oh to be so multi-talented! Sheena Crowley spoke to Elmarie about a fantastic art exhibition of paintings by musicians.
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What a week for the Montfort College at the Cork Arts Theatre with musical theatre extravaganza Broadway Kidz and drama production "The Boy Preference". Doireann Ryder O Reilly and Hannah McCarthy joined Montforts Director Trevor Ryan in Studio to celebrate.
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Lesley Cox spoke to Conor Tallon about West Cork Creates in Union Hall, with a new venue for the exhibition which runs until April 15th.
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Elmarie welcomed Patricia Looney of Cork City Library in to studio to celebrate the publication of Cork Words 3/
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3 nights of fabulous music and moments from iconic Hollywood Cinema, presented at the Aula Max of UCC
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We spoke to Sinéad Murphy about the return of the Cork Youth Ballet Company, with a performance in Dance Cork Firkin Crane on March 31st.
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Tom Spalding had the latest news from the Cork Decorative and Fine Arts Society.
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We celebrate another great musical from Scoil Barra in Ballincollig!
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A brand new musical telling the fascinating story of Cork's Annie Moore, the First Immigrant to be processed at Ellis Island in New York.
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Sarah Morey tells us about Crawford Supported Studios and more!
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With the release of his latest single "My Little Buddah", it was a pure pleasure to welcome Cormac O Caoimh in to studio.
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In yet another intriguing author event at Waterstones in Cork, author Anya Bergman will read from and discuss her bestselling book "The Witches of Vardo", so Conor called her to chat about it.
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Pauline Bewick was a guest on The Arts House a number of times. Her passion, intuition, intelligence and sensuality made her a constantly fascinating guest, and her art is celebrated all over the world. Her painting "Fourteen Steps to Nowhere" is this week's Work of the Week, and Conor Tallon spoke to the Crawford's Michael Waldron.
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Cork's City Hall is a superb concert venue, and its acoustics will be given their full voice as the East Cork Choral Society is joined by the East Cork Orchestra and the Seafield Singers to perform Mendelssohn's "Elijah" on Saturday March 25th. Elmarie chatted to Angela and Colin Nichols about the upcoming performance.
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April in Cork Opera House sees five fantastic concerts as part of The Cork Proms. In this feature, Conor Tallon continues chatting to the performers who will be taking to the stage with the Cork Opera House Concert Orchestra, and this week he focused on the Broadway concerts.
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Yvonne Tiernan of The Raines chatted to Elmarie ahead of the group's gig in Sea Church Ballycotton, where they will officially launch their debut album, "Reverie".
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This hour's music was chosen by more of our guests from the world of the arts and film in Cork, from film critic, presenter and Director Declan Wolfe to Host of Cork Today, Patricia Messinger. And from filmmaker Yvonne Coughlan to Art Curator Michael Waldron we had another great hour of stories from the movies and the soundtracks which moved us.
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To mark Oscars weekend, this hour's music was chosen by guests from the arts and film in Cork, including actress and filmmaker Sinéad O Riordan, The Opinion Line Host PJ Coogan, Filmmaker and Director Paddy O Shea, Director of Cork City Ballet Alan Foley and Actress and Songstress Linda Kenny.
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The brand new album from Fiona Kennedy is called "Find Me" and it was so great to have her in Studio to chat about it with Elmarie before its official launch in Coughlan's, and before Fiona heads off on tour!
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The Cork french Film Festival, Fiona Kennedy live in studio chatting about her new album "Find Me" and lots more arts news from Cork!
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A flavour of French music, this week's Work of the Week, The 60th West Cork Drama Festival, rogha TG4 ar an teilifís, and more news of events and festivals in Cork!
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Any Diamond celebration is worth marking, and the West Cork Drama Festival this year celebrates its 60th Anniversary! So Elmarie spoke to festival PRO Aine De Róiste to find out what's in store in Rossmore this year.
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As all our festivals resume again, it's great to see the Cork French Film Festival reclaim its calendar place at the start of March. Spring wasn't the same without it! Organised by the team at Alliance Francaise de Cork, headed by Valerie David McGonnell and Josselin le Gall, the main screenings take place at The Gate Cinema. Tracey O Brien of the Gate Cinema had the run-down on this year's Gala films for the 2023 festival.
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Another packed hour with music from The Raines, Anth Kayley, The Little Mermaid orchestral tracks - and more news about various concerts and events around Cork. And this hour's guests celebrated The First Cut Film Festival with Mary McGrath, Eleanor O'Kelly Lynch and her new book "The Girl with Special Knees", Alex Petcu chatting about the Finding a Voice Festival, and our first look at the Cork Opera House Proms with John O'Brien and the Beethoven bonanza!
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With music from The Brother Brothers, Barry John, Eddie Reader and The Henry Girls, this hour featured not only the Work of the Week but also Tom Doyle chatting about the Open Day in the Cork School of Music, and lots of news about events coming up this week!
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Well can you believe with the first 100 done, we're now at episode 101 for Work of the Week. And it's quite a different piece to consider, as Conor Tallon and Michael Waldron continue their exploration of the works of the Crawford Gallery.
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Well anticipation is building ahead of the Ortús Chamber Music Festival, founded by Mairead Hickey and Sinead O Halloran. And this year once again sees musicians returning to Cork from various parts of the world to meet - some as old friends and some for the first time - and play some stunning Chamber Music. Elmarie caught up with Cork violinist Eoin Ducrot to chat about what he's been doing since he left Cork and what's in store at the festival.
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Who doesn't immediately start grinning when you think of Pat Shortt? And now he's joined on stage bny his daughter Faye in their show "WELL" coming to Cork Opera House, you can grin, laugh and share the craic on March 4th. Elmarie caught up with the 2 of them at their Press Day ahead of the show Leeside.
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Catherine Mahon Buckley and Fionuala Linehan joined Elmarie and Conor live in studio to chat about the upcoming production of "Sisters". This play by Declan Hassett was first brought to the stage by Tony-Award-Winning Anna Manahan, who also toured the show to the States. This time, Cork audiences get to see two incredible actresses take on the roles of Martha and Mary, the sisters both bound and separated by the same shared experiences. It opens in the Cork Arts Theatre on March 1st.
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And we still ran out of time to include everyone! But here's what we managed to get through on Sunday morning!
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After a year of dazzling audiences with No Control, Party Scene and WAKE, Love Songs sees Connaughton return again to his own dance company bringing his unique vision to this, his most ambitious work to date. It runs in Cork Opera House for one night only, February 22nd, and he spoke to Conor Tallon on The Arts House.
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What a journey of discovery it's been, exploring the works of the Crawford Gallery Collection each week with Dr Michael Waldron. This week marks the 100th episode, and rather than it being a major work of scale or history, it's one of those gentler, unassuming pieces you might in fact walk past without otherwise stopping. Still, Conor Tallon and Michael Waldron tease out what makes this smaller work of note.
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The Lords of Strut are bringing a wild and amazing new show to the Everyman on the 18th and 19th of February, and Elmarie was delighted to chat to one of the cast members, none other than Múinteoir Ray!
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Jack O'Rourke this week released his latest single. Entitled "Oscar", it's based on the work of Brendan Behan, and his poem about Oscar Wilde. So it was a pleasure to welcome Jack O'Rourke back into Studio One for a chat with Elmarie and Conor.
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The 99th Episode of Work of the Week, focused on Fr Prout, famed for the writing of "The Bells of Shandon"
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Tales of Two Cities is the name of an exciting and collaborative professional development programme, which aims to give new creators working in theatre a guiding structure within the first 3 years of their professional practice. To find out more about the programme and what it can offer new graduates, Elmarie spoke to its Inaugural Artists.
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This month's DFAS lecture at Nano Nagle Place takes place at 11.30am February 11th, and Tom Spalding had all the details for Conor Tallon during the week.
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Conor Tallon chats to writer and actor Gina Moxley about her play Danti Dan which makes its return to the Everyman Stage.
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What a fantastic week this is for the Junior Cork Youth Orchestra as they head to Dublin to take part in the IAYO Festival of Youth Orchestras in the National Concert Hall! This is simply a stunning orchestra of young musicians - as you'll hear, and Elmarie Mawe spoke to their Conductor, Terry McCarthy.
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How fantastic to see the Winter Music Festival back at The White Horse in Ballincollig! Joe Carey chatted to Conor Tallon to celebrate its return.
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Hannah Maunder chatted to Elmarie about this brand new play, which - while set in a radio station - is an allegory for the Civil War in Ireland.
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Beth McNinch speaks to Elmarie Mawe about "A Mother's Voice" which can be seen in Triskel Arts Centre on Friday January 27th for one night only.
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Finish the month of January with this joyful concert from The Fleischmann Choir in Cork, as they celebrate a concert which had to be rescheduled before Christmas! Tom Doyle had all the details for Elmarie.
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A special edition of The Arts House, featuring choirs from around Cork singing for Christmas!
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How joyful to be able to welcome Gerry Kelly from The Cork Pops Orchestra back into studio to promote the Lord Mayor's Tea Dance for 2023. Taking place the last Sunday of January each year, its absence has been keenly felt the last few years. So here's to making it bigger and better than ever!! Gerry had all the details.
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With so many fantastic concerts coming up to Christmas, Elmarie couldn't resist the chance to bring some of the busiest artists into studio for a chat about this week's events, so Karen Underwood, Marguerite O Connor and Jim O Mahony braved the freezing elements and came in to Broadcasting House. We even persuaded Jim to sing us a few tracks live, which was no mean feat considering they're all out late gigging this weekend too! Some really great concerts this week between them as they chatted to Elmarie and Conor.
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Once again Conor Tallon is joined by Dr Michael Waldron for an insight into The Crawford Art Gallery's Work of the Week!
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The Carrigaline Singers have grown a large reputation and following over recent years, and are finishing out 2022 with another huge concert. This time their special guest is International soprano Celine Byrne, and so Elmarie Mawe had a chat with Musical Director Alan Carney about the preparations for this exciting and joyful evening ahead.
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Joan Lucey of the famed Cork bookstore, Vibes and Scribes, joined Conor Tallon to go through her pick of some wonderful books for Christmas gifting!
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Sometimes with art, what you see isn't always what you get! As Conor Tallon discovered with Dr Michael Waldron when they explored this week's Work of The Week in the Crawford Art Gallery.
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Everyone loves books at Christmas. It's time to light the fire, settle back with a cuppa, and get lost in a good story. So during the week Conor Tallon called in to Waterstones in Cork and asked John Breen for his top selections this year!
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There are 2 sensational pantos in Cork, designed for adults once all the children have gone home. The Improvised Comedy Panto takes over the stage of Cork Opera House late at night when Sleeping Beauty has retired. Audiences are treated to a different panto every single night as it's made up on the spot, from dialogue, impossible situational comedy, original songs and dance routines - and not a script or rehearsal in sight! Declan Wolfe, has joined the cast this year and came in to chat with Elmarie and Conor. While across the River Lee, Angela Newman and the team of the Adult Panto squeeze every ounce of naughtiness out of every double entendre you can come up with as they bring Robin Hood to the upstairs stage of The Spailpín Fánach on South Main Street. Tickets for that booked through pantotickets.org
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Probably the quintessential Christmas Panto, the story of Cinderella has captured audiences for generations, and it's this year's Traditional Panto at The Everyman Theatre in Cork. Meet Cinderella, Buttons, The Ugly Sisters and the cruel Stepmother, the Fairy Godmother and a host of characters as they bring the story to magical life! Director Catherine Mahon Buckley chatted in studio with Elmarie
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The magic of Christmas has really descended on The Firkin Crane, which is the setting for a stunning adaptation in dance of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. It's called Adventures in Narnia, and Elmarie Mawe spoke to Director of the Cork School of Dance, Sinéad Murphy.
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The Goldie Chapel is the stunning setting for a very special performance of Dicken's A Christmas Carol. Conor chatted to Director Judie Chalmers about the show.
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Jim Horgan of the Cork Arts Theatre chatted to Elmarie about the return of the hugely popular 10x10 series at the Cork Arts Theatre this year!
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Every single year the Cork Youth Orchestra knock it out of the park at Christmas, as they play to the thousands who queue up to see The Snowman screened in City Hall with the score played live by the Orchestra and the effects all created in front of the audience's eyes. Then at night, the Orchestra plays a Christmas spectacular with guests coming from all over the world to play with them. This year it's Cian Ducrot, and preparations are well underway for the concerts on the weekend of December 10th and 11th. Director Tomas McCarthy and the 3 co-Leaders joined Elmarie Mawe in studio on Sunday.
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I can't believe we're at the 93rd Work of the Week from the Crawford Gallery! Here's this week's chat with Conor Tallon and Dr Michael Waldron!
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One of the glittering and feel-good nights of the year in Cork's City Hall, the Cork Concert Orchestra will be joined by a host of guests to herald in the Christmas season! Tenor Ryan Morgan joined Elmarie to chat about this year's special event.
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Whew! Conor barely made it into the Crawford for this week's Work of the Week! It almost became a Night at the Museum situation in the end! But the journey through colour and form was worth it with Michael Waldron.
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The 10th Annual Óbhal Winter Warmer Event takes place in Cork this week, and features among its events the All Ireland Poetry Slam Final. Paul Casey from O Bhéal joined Elmarie on the show again to chat about the events in store!
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Launching a debut novel is an enormous achievement, and when it's done by a colleague in the Arts who has done so much for others down through the years, we leapt at the chance to speak to Sara O Donovan. Through her work with West Cork Music she has overseen festivals from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, to arrangements for the West Cork Literary Festival, and the Masters of Tradition. So how she found time to put pen to paper herself is amazing, and Conor Tallon chatted to her about her new direction.
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The acclaimed artist John Adams joined Elmarie to chat about his current Restrospective Exhibition, in O'Mahony's of Watergrasshill. The exhibition is due to close on November 30th, and has attracted huge attention for John, his work, and his passion.
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Cork Opera House has been delighting audiences for the last number of years with their hugely successful Opera Concert Series, and the forthcoming December production of La Boheme promises a few more layers of excitement and surprise, as Elmarie discussed with COH Artistic Director Eibhlín Gleeson and soprano Emma Nash!
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Cork singer songwriter Aine O Gorman has just released a brand new single called These Empty Rooms, and she joined Elmarie Mawe on The Arts Show to introduce it.
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Artist Marilyn Lennon joined Elmarie Mawe on The Arts House to talk about a special KinShip Winter Weekend, which is taking place in Tramore Valley Park in Cork (Nov 18 to 20). The weekend consists of three days of over 20 activities involving artists, architects, visual artists, craftmakers, poets, beekeepers, herbalists and sculptures. All events are free and the public will be able to create amongst other activities a living sculpture by weaving willow in the park and have amazing views of the Cork skyline from a Campera Obscura which is being installed in the Park for the weekend. Full programme is on www.corkcity.ie/kinshipevents.
Elmarie Mawe was joined on the show by Mathilde Corbineau of the Glucksman Gallery to celebrate the final day of their stunning Craft Fair!
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Celebrating a decade changing lives in Cork, Music Generation Cork City is gearing up for a spectacular birthday concert in the Everyman Theatre on November 21st. To mark the occasion and pay tribute to the Music Generation family, Elmarie Mawe was joined in studio by Aoibeann Carey-Philpott and Claire Layton O'Brien.
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What a jewel Nano Nagle Place has become in Cork's City Centre! Such an interesting building to explore and discover, and a hive of support for the Arts and creativity of all kinds. Conor Tallon chatted to Sorcha O' Brien about some of the plans to cast a Christmas atmosphere over the centre in the coming weeks.
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An intriguing introduction guides us into this week's chat between Conor Tallon and Dr. Michael Waldron, about the latest Work of the Week from the Crawford Art Gallery!
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Conor Tallon called in to rehearsals for Present Laughter, to chat with the enormous cast about their roles in Noel Coward's hilarious comedy. Since it opened in the Cork Arts Theatre, it's been getting a fantastic reception from audiences, and no wonder, with the stellar cast gathered to create this show.
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Cork simply adores the Jazz weekend, and Elmarie had a chat with Paul Dunlea ahead of some very special gigs in Cork. Paul, like so many of our Cork musicians and jazz stars, is playing all over Cork for the weekend, but also had some exciting news about a very special Christmas Special in Cork Opera House - so stay tuned!!
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I love this series on Work of the Week! Conor Tallon and Michael Waldron take us inside the Crawford Art Gallery to discover and discuss a new work each week in the Gallery's Collection. The exhibitions are always changing, and on this week's visit, the two passed by the hugely successful "Meat and Potatoes" exhibition with closes on November 6th, before heading to this week's featured artwork.
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Mike McCormack’s multi-award-winning novel Solar Bones is brought to life by Stanley Townsend in a performance directed by Lynne Parker in an adaption by Michael West. Marcus Conway has come home to his kitchen in Louisburgh Co. Mayo. Everything seems normal, yet he is haunted by the feeling that nothing is quite right. Poring obsessively over the details of his relationships, his world and his work as an engineer brings him closer to an understanding of how the things and people he loves have come together, and how they have and must inevitably come apart.This production has been showered in awards and praise, and Conor Tallon chatted to Stanley Townsend for The Arts House.
Phil Coulter is simply a legend in Irish Music. With chart hits in every decade since the 60s, and just awarded the Freedom of his beloved City of Derry in October 2022, he celebrates his 80th birthday with a National Tour: Phil Coulter at 80: A Lifetime of Songs & Stories, Memories & Melodies. He's been a guest with Elmarie Mawe on The Arts House many times down through the years, so she just had to have a chat ahead of 3 Cork dates: Mitchelstown's Firgrove Hotel, November 5th. Ballymaloe's Grainstore December 14th, and Charleville's Park Hotel December 30th.
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An exciting exhibition is currently running in Nano Nagle Place. Cork Printmakers re delighted to present an exhibition of fine art prints by The Young Print Collective featuring artists: Amal Hope, Elton Sibanda, Fionnuala O’Connell, Reem, Viktoria Kondratieva, Yeaneah O’Connell
Working in screen-print, etching and relief processes the artists’ use themes of identity, culture, perception and belonging. The artists developed their work for the exhibition with the support of Cork Printmakers staff and tutors through ongoing training and independent practice.
The exhibition gives voice to the artists and their unique perspectives, expressing feelings of duality and otherness, and their experience of connectedness through their artwork, and Conor Tallon spoke to Maeve Lynch about it for The Arts House
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WHAT a cast! WHAT a director! And WHAT a show this is going to be! Ian McGuirk presents Noel Coward's "Present Laughter" at the Cork Arts Theatre this week, and Conor Tallon went along to rehearsals to chat to Director Mary Curtin, and get a glimpse behind the production.
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Tune in for a second hour of uplifting and positive arts news from Cork, with music this hour from Fiona Kennedy, and a special feature with guest Clare Sands on her new album "Clare Sands". Elmarie also chatted to Tracey O Brien from the Gate Cinema about some fantastic Event Cinema screenings coming up. And Conor called to rehearsals for the highly anticipated production of Noel Coward's "Present Laughter" which opens in the Cork Arts Theatre this week. He had a chat with Director Mary Curtin, and the cast provided some sneak previews of the story!
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A joyful hour from Cork in the company of Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon - with music from movies like Coco, A Beautiful Mind and Ladies in Lavender, Cork singers the White Horse Guitar Club and How I Became A Wave, and some funky jazz ahead of the Cork Jazz Festival next weekend, We'd this week's Work of the Week in the Crawford Gallery with Michael Waldron, and Maeve Lynch (Outreach Manager with Cork Printmakers) also spoke to Conor Tallon about an exciting exhibition in Nano Nagle Place. Conor and Elmarie had lots of listings for events this week too.
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The second hour of Sunday October 16th's show had another batch of great tracks from Cork musicians like Greenshine with their new single "New Moon on Friday" , there was jazz from Martin Taylor with his version of Robert Palmer's Johnny and Mary, the Andalucia from Riverdance and An Capaillín Dubh ina Thaibhreabh from Zoe Conway and John Mc Intyre. Conor Tallon chatted to Bill Whelan about the release of his memoir "The Road to Riverdance" and his appearance with Zoe Conway and John McIntyre at the Grainstore in Ballymaloe this week. Elmarie caught up with musician Lynda Cullen on the release of her new single SeeSaw and they also chatted about the website "The Island of Music", and Conor spoke to writer, director and actress Mary Lou McCarthy about her play "The Dead Letter Office" which runs this week. There was also news of two murder mystery productions in Cork this week - so Halloween is definitely on the horizon!
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The first hour of Sunday 16th October's show saw gorgeous music from the movies with selections from Harry Potter, The Thomas Crown Affair and Kung Fu Panda, stunning violins from Stephan Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin, gentle piano from David Syme, some foot stompin from Cat Fish Keith and trad from Donal Lunny with Sharon Shannon. Chat-sie this hour featured a look at events for Irish Book Week with John Breen of Waterstones and a look at this week's Work of the Week in the Crawford Gallery with Michael Waldron, who both spoke to Conor Tallon. Elmarie had this week's Gaeilge corner with 2 super suggestions for interesting shows on TG4.
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Join Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon as they start your Sunday morning with a look at what's happening in the Arts in Cork City and County. On October 9th the show also featured an interview by Pearse McCarthy with Malcolm Urquart of The Lost Gecko about the band's new album. Conor met Dr Michael Waldron, Assistant Curator at the Crawford Gallery, to discuss this week's Work of the Week. And they managed to fit a bit more in too! Elmarie has this week's Giota Gaeilge and they take a look at the events this week for both the East Cork Early Music Festival and the Cork Short Story Festival - and more!
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Stroll and catch up with the second hour of The Arts House with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon. This hour featured the new single "Moment" from One Morning in August, introduced by band member and writer John Phelan. John Breen from Waterstones had news of an author event in the store for children. Jimmy Healy had all the details of the Ballincollig One Act Drama Festival. And Elmarie and Conor had lots of info for gigs and festivals to catch up on this week.
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Once again it's time to find out the next monthly event for the Cork Decorative and Fine Arts Society, so Conor Tallon had a chat with Tom Spalding!
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Head for a walk and listen to this week's Work of the Week, get the highlights from the Sunday Papers, this week's Giota Gaeilge, and hear from Mary McSweeney about an exciting new development in the Ionad Chultúrtha in Baile Mhúirne!
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The absolutely wonderful and charming Mary McSweeney has had such an impact on Opera in Cork since she returned from a career in Germany. And now in an exciting new post, she has been made Artist in Residence in the Ionad Chultúrtha in Baile Mhúirne. They are celebrating with a concert on Friday October 7th, and she spoke to Elmarie Mawe all about it!
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Head for a walk and hear the chats with international conductor Neil Thomson,director of the Indie Cork Film Festival Mick Hannigan, and hear all about the next events with the Cork Decorative and Fine Arts Society with Tom Spalding!
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Every concert from the Cork Concert Orchestra just gets better and better, and this October audiences will be treated not just to a programme which includes The Karelia Suite from Sibelius and Dvorak's stunning 7th Symphony, but the delightful return of Maestro Neil Thomson to conduct.
Elmarie Mawe gave him a bell in Brazil before he flew to Cork for this exciting Autumn concert event!
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Now in its 10th year, Indie Cork has become a much anticipated part of the cultural calendar in Cork, and with its BAFTA affiliation, its importance in selecting the very best of Independent Cinema is internationally recognised now too. Director and Co-Founder of the festival, Mick Hannigan, chatted to Conor Tallon about this year's edition.
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Once again Conor Tallon and Dr Michael Waldron explore the details and story behind this week's Work of the Week in Cork's Crawford Art Gallery.
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We absolutely love the Cork Folk Festival and as a top-up before it kicks off this year, Conor Tallon met up with William Hammond to remind everyone of the breadth of gigs and concerts which begin on Thursday September 29th!
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Conor Tallon spoke to playwright Eimear Reilly on working with Corcadorca and bringing her play "The Spin" to the stage at Triskel Arts Centre.
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43 minutes for your walk, with Pat Kinevane, Michael Waldron and Eimear Reilly joining Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon in the first hour of Sunday's The Arts House!
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How wonderful is the Cork actor Pat Kinevane?!?!?! And how fabulous is it that his 4 solo plays "Silent", "Forgotten", "Before" and "Underneath" are being programmed in a mini festival in the Everyman this week?!?!?! From Monday to Thursday see a different play each night with one of Ireland's most respected actors being celebrated in his home city of Cork. He chatted to Elmarie Mawe on the phone during the week.
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45 minutes of variety including guests chatting about the Everyman Sunday Songbook, the Cork Folk Festival, A Gala Night at Fota House with Majella Cullagh and Mary Hegarty, and more!
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Assistant Curator at the Crawford Art Gallery, Michael Waldron leads Conor Tallon on another exploration of this week's Work of the Week. It being Culture Night when they met, though, there were a few more voices involved! Over 3,000 visitors went to the gallery for Culture Night 2022, and Conor bumped into some of them outside the door!
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Once again, under the directorship of Cathal McCabe, the Everyman Sunday Songbook team have come up with a cracker of a show. This time the spotlight is being shone on the life and career of Neil Sedaka. With over 70million album sales and writing credits on over 500 hit songs, this is truly going to be a night full of hit after hit, and one where the audience will be invited to sing along with as many as possible! Linda Kenny and Alf McCarthy are two of the show's stars, and they called into the kitchen at home to chat to Elmarie.
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Who doesn't love Culture Night?! One of the most incredible nights of the year with a total smorgasbord of delights across every known genre and a few invented ones too! Cork presents a particular challenge, as with the largest county and the second largest city, there are simply multiples of what's happening anywhere else in the country - and it's all happening in the one evening. So to chew the feast in small bites and lead the Listeners to taste the rest of the menu online, Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon were joined in Studio by Declan Wolfe and Gerry Kelly.
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When I first saw this Work of the Week on the Crawford Art Gallery Website, I couldn't determine quite what I was looking at, despite the fact that it's a photograph. In person in the Gallery is of course the best place to view it, but this work does have a sense of mystery. So to delve deeper and unveil a little of what the artist was doing, Conor Tallon spoke to Dr Michael Waldron.
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Every Sunday throughout August we focus on an aspect of Cork Craft Month, spearheaded by Cork Craft and Design. Elmarie welcomed in the special celebration of Cork Crafts to round off the month of July.
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Continuing the hugely popular series of lunchtime and Supper Theatre at the Cork Arts Theatre, check out the competitive world of Irish Dancing!!! This hilarious and award winning show stars writer Margaret McAuliffe and is directed by Stephanie Preisner.
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A welcome return to Dr Michael Waldron of the Crawford Art Gallery, as he and Conor Tallon spoke about the famous "Men of the South" painting, and the exhibition around it currently at the gallery.
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Sophie Motley, Artistic Director of the Everyman Theatre, and director of this John B Keane Classic story, spoke to Elmarie Mawe on The Arts House about its summer run.
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Elmarie Mawe was given the grand tour of Greywood Arts Centre in Killeagh Co Cork by Director Jessica Bonenfant, and was simply blown away by this gem of a building and all it's potential.
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Put the date in the diary, and put the deck chairs in the car. Head for Doneraile Estate, and enjoy a glorious evening of Proms in the Park with the Cork Light Orchestra, in aid of Down Syndrome Cork. Ray O Callaghan had all the details for Elmarie Mawe on air.
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Summer is indeed the time for festivals, and now we're hitting August, the Harvest and Vintage Festivals come into their own. Jim Griffin chatted to Conor Tallon about the great day of fun and activities in Roberts Cove this year.
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The Centre Culturel d'Irelande in Paris hosts a number of artists every year on a month-long residency each. Cork singer and songwriter Jack O Rourke spent the month of July in Paris, exploring and working on new material, and spoke to Elmarie about it.
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This July, Cork Opera House sees the exciting premier of a brand new opera, from the creative team of composer John O Brien and Librettist Eadaoin O Donoghue. To delve into this fascinating story, Eadaoin joined Elmarie Mawe live in Studio.
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Summer Festival Season continues right around the county of Cork! So Elmarie spoke to Tadhg Curtis about this summer's celebrations in Mallow.
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Summer Festival Season continues right around the county of Cork! So Conor Tallon spoke to cellist Ilse de Ziah about this year's celebrations in Midelton.
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Alice Taylor is more than an Internationally Renowned Author. She's also a member ot the team which spearheads Gardens and Galleries in Innishannon each year. 11 locals passionate about gardening and garden design open their gardens and businesses all over the village host art exhibitions. And there's a minibus to take you everywhere! Alice and Elmarie caught up for a chat.
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How fantastic to celebrate the return of Lunchtime and Supper Theatre at the Cork Arts Theatre for the summer season! This week's play is a cracker, with Fionuala Linehan starring in Ger Fitzgibbon's play "The Hairdresser's Calendar", directed by Jack Healy. That's a powerhouse Cork Theatre Team right there, and the play is full of fabulous stories and moments to make you laugh - and reflect. A sold-out run before Covid, this is a one woman show sure to please. Ger told Conor Tallon all about it.
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As the Event Organiser for occasions such as Swing By The Lee, Marguerite O Connor knows a thing or two about creating a great, fun night out for everyone. And lovers of the music of Abba are in for a treat as she hosts a full night with a six piece band celebrating the music of Abba on July 22nd. She told Elmarie Mawe all about it!
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Cork City Council Arts Officer, Michelle Carew, spoke to Elmarie Mawe ahead of the launch of the new Arts and Culture Strategy for the City of Cork.
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Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon put so much effort into giving Cork talent a platform, and one of those talents works in our very own Newsroom! Jess Leen joined Elmarie and Conor in the studio to chat about her latest film "Not My Sister"
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Lunchtime and Supper Theatre returns to the Cork Arts Theatre this summer, and Conor Tallon has the info on the first show of the season. Elmarie also has details of the next Seen Unseen Gallery Visit with Artist Clare McLaughlin clare@seenunseen.ie
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Another packed weekend of arts and entertainment awaits at Kinsale Arts Weekend 2022. Anna Mulcahy has a full run-down to share with Elmarie
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Yet again anohter great gig awaits you at SeaChurch Ballycotton, this time with Greenshine and The Remedy Club, and Mary Greene joined Elmarie Mawe to tell her all about it!
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Do we ever really know the half of it??!!! What's under our very feet??!!! Well if you're from Cork, or have an interest in Cork, the team from Hysterical Histories will knock your socks off with a slew of unheard of TRUE tales about the city, in their summer show at the Spailpín Fánach.
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Summer's here! And with it comes Tracton Arts Festival. Ceramicist and artist Sara Roberts is the Festival Organiser, and with over 30 events being packed into this year's festival, she had a lot to celebrate when she spoke to Conor Tallon on The Arts House on Cork's 96FM and C103!
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Jim O Mahony is one of the most unassuming guests you could meet. Quietly spoken, a huge supporter of the arts in Cork, he works as a biologist in MTU, but he's also a gifted pianist. He's a talented actor, having just played the professor in Educating Rita to great acclaim in UCC's Aula Max. And by a quirk of fate, he sounds like Frank Sinatra. So it was no surprise that he devised and created a superb show to tell the story of Ol Blue-Eyes, and pepper the show with his singing of some incredible songs. Elmarie and Conor saw the show already and are planning to go again!
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Anna Mulcahy joined Elmarie Mawe on 96FM and C103 to chat about the joyful return of Kinsale Arts Weekend for 2022, and take a look at some events worth advance booking!
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Conor Slattery is well known to film goers and TV audiences but when he came in to studio to chat to Elmarie, it was about the latest film he's directed. Once Upon a Time in Ireland tells the tale of a group of Anti-Treaty fighters, who are trapped in a cave by the tide. It's been screened in many festivals at home and abroad already, but Conor had some exciting news about its release to share with listeners. Not only that, but he was joined in studio by his two young sons who are also filmmakers, and all three have a film being screened in the Beara Film Festival in West Cork!
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Catherine Kirwan's latest crime novel, Cruel Deeds, and Tadhg Coakley's latest book on sport, "The Game", both made the Irish Times Best Seller Lists this year, and for good reason. Two authors at the top of their fields, with a large and growing loyal readership, they each have engaging personalities which connect with live audiences as much as those who settle with their books at home. Which is why they are just 2 more of the guests at the West Cork Literary Festival in July. They joined Elmarie in studio to chat about the upcoming festival.
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Conor Tallon and Elmarie Mawe were delighted to welcome Cork author, Madeleine D'Arcy, into studio to chat about her book of Short Stories, Liberty Terrace, the monthly Fiction at the Friary events, and the upcoming West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry.
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What a stunning place is West Cork! And its islands' communities know the very special and unique qualities of living there year-round, while the rest of us may just stay a while during the summer holidays. What binds a community together? What Hold does place have on us? Well Conor Tallon spoke to Mary Sullivan about a fascinating project on Bere Island.
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Would you be mortified singing in front of anyone? Well listen to this chat Louise White had with Elmarie about a very unique event in this year's Cork Midsummer Festival. It takes place in Fitzgerald's Park - and it may just change your mind about failure!
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Elmarie went along to an Allora Quartet rehearsal to chat to the players ahead of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2022
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There's a visual feast for the senses in store for lovers of art, as Festival Committee member, Mary St Leger described, when she spoke to Conor Tallon about this year's Doneraile Art Festival, which begins at the end of June.
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The passionate opera Maria Stuarda comes to Cork Opera House on June 15th and 16th, telling the tumultous tale of Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth the First. Director of this Irish National Opera Production, Tom Creed, spoke to Elmarie
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Elmarie Mawe was joined in Studio One at Cork's 96FM by Micheál de Roiste and Adrian Scanlan of Snatch Comedy Improv to chat about the team and their upcoming monthly gig at The Roundy in Cork City!
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As usual - we ran out of time to talk about all the fantastic things happening so Conor and Elmarie have a special Arts House Extra for you today!
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In another busy hour of The Arts House we'd great music from Cork artists like John Blek, and new music from Cork's Cormac O Caoimh, as well as Fiona Kennedy introducing her brand new single to finish the show. Lorraine Maye from Cork Midsummer Festival joined us to talk about the excitement building ahead of this year's return to the streets and theatres of Cork. And Gina Moxley indeed spoke about a literal return to the streets, as Corcadorca Theatre Company bring audiences on a promenade production of Guests of the Nation for Cork Midsummer Festival!
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Yvonne Tiernan is one of those artists who is non-stop busy with multiple projects! Not just as a manager and producer for her husband, Tommy Tiernan, but in her own right as singer with the stunning vocal harmony group that is The Raines. They play a gig in Sea Church in Ballycotton on June 10th, and Elmarie spoke to Yvonne for Sunday's Arts House.
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All the joy again from Cork with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon and guests. Francis Humphries chatting about the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, and the joy of having it back live in Bantry this year! Tracey O Brien was sharing the joy of the Italian Film Festival making the screen of the Gate Cinema in Cork. Ryan Morgan and Nyle Wolfe were full of fun and joy chatting about their upcoming concert in the Mall Arts Centre in Youghal. Dr Michael Waldron was back with this week's Work of the Week in the Crawford Art Gallery. And music to simply make you happy!
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What another joyful celebration of music and the arts from Cork! Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon were joined by Tom Spalding to talk about the Cork Decorative and Fine Arts Society's next meeting in Nano Nagle Place. Karen Ray had all the details for the UCC Player's next production, which is a performance of Educating Rita in the stunning Aula Max of UCC. Alan Kiely is one of the co-writers of a brand new musical called "Shame the Devil" which tells the story of an ambush, abduction and execution in Dripsey 100 years ago. Tomás McCarthy, conductor of the Cork Youth Orchestra, came into studio with the orchestra's 2 Leaders Anna Jansenn and Cillian Ó Cathasaigh, ahead of a HUGE gala concert in City Hall with the band True Tides. And Paul Casey joined us on the line to talk about the next Obheal gathering in the Long Valley in Cork and online, in a club celebrating 15 years of poetry, open mics and over 1,000 guest poets since they began! All that and some great music and news. #Cork #PureCork #SupportTheArts
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Another happy show of arts news, interviews and music from Cork for the May Bank Holiday Weekend!
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The Stack Theatre, housed in the MTU Cork School of Music, is the centre of performances for the Degree in Drama and Theatre Studies. This week Elmarie spoke to Writer and Director Rebecca McCarthy and actress Tess Maguire about upcoming performances of Rebecca's play "Ever Adapting."
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Decadent Theatre Company continue their powerful run of productions with David Harrower's "Blackbird" which goes on National Tour this week. Directed by Andrew Flynn and starring Declan Conlon and Maeve Fitzgerald, it is a heart-stopping confrontation between two people forever bound by a shared experience that torments them both.
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What joy to herald in the summer with the arrival of the Cork International Choral Festival -back LIVE AND IN PERSON! So Peter Stobart, Director of the Festival, was Live in Studio to chat with Elmarie. More theatre guests, a ticket competition, and gorgeous music to bring another packed show of the arts in Cork to listeners everywhere!
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Trevor Ryan, Director of The Montforts, was joined in Cork's 96FM's Studio One by Shane Limansag (Aladdin) and Sophie O’ Grady (Jasmin) to chat to Elmarie Mawe ahead of their Easter production of Aladdin in Cork's Firkin Crane Theatre.
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On what happens to be the 100th birth-date of Charles Mingus, Guy Barker conducts a glorious celebration of his music, and that of Miles Davis, played by the RTE Concert Orchestra and Big Band. April 22nd in Cork Opera House will be a night to remember, and Elmarie had a chat with Guy Barker about the upcoming show.
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Elmarie Mawe is joined by Linda Kenny and Alft McCarthy of the Everyman Sunday Songbook to celebrate the screen icon Doris Day on what would have been her 100th birthday. Also joining the conversation was Maria Mangan from Cork, one of the members of the Doris Day Fanclub!
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Happy Sunday listening from Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon, featuring a special focus on Doris Day for her 100th, ahead of the Everyman Sunday Songbook on April 24th
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Dr Michael Waldron chatted with Conor Tallon about this week's Work of the Week which can be seen online, and about Virtual Tours while the Gallery is closed for a month.
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Joining a world-wide hit show like Celtic Woman is a career-high and joy for any singer, and Ballincollig native Muirgen O Mahony is thoroughly enjoying being part of the amazing team! She chatted to Elmarie about joining the show, recording for PBS and finally getting out on the road.
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With the Crawford Gallery closed for the next month, Conor Tallon spoke to Dr. Michael Waldron about this week's Work of the Week which can be seen online. And about their Virtual Tours of the Gallery which people can engage with while the doors are shut. And indeed - why they are shut in the first place!
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Irene Kelleher, actress, writer and director, chats to Elmarie about her play "Wake" opening at the Cork Arts Theatre.
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The first segment of The Arts House on Sunday March 27th, featuring the ever-engaging Keith Pascoe of the Vanbrugh Quartet, as he discussed their music for four concerts to open the month of April.
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Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon bring you another show full of arts news and happiness from Cork! In this episode, singer Muirgen O'Mahony from Ballincollig has joined the world-touring show phenomenon that is Celtic Woman. They're currently on tour in the States, and she chatted to Elmarie about the life-changing experience! Violinist Keith Pascoe of the Vanbrugh Quartet brought his infections enthusiasm for Dvorak and Brahms to the conversation about a weekend of gorgeous concerts to start the month of April with the Vanburgh. HOW IS IT APRIL ALREADY?! Conor Tallon chatted to Dr Michael Waldron not just about this week's very French Work of the Week, but why the Crawford Gallery is now in fact closed for a month. And playwright and actress Irene Kelleher chatted to Elmarie about bringing her play "Wake" to the Cork Arts Theatre. With movie muisc in honour of Oscars Weekend, it's another enjoyable show from pure Cork, Cor's 96FM & C103!
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Elmarie and Conor both came down with Covid, so here's the show as broadcast from their Isolation Studio at home! Guests this week included actress Úna Crawford O'Brien, who chatted about bringing the play "Halcyon Days" to the Everyman Theatre and had a very interesting chat with Elmarie about how we view life in our older years. Uilleann Piper David Power chatted about coming to Triskel with a blend of Trad , Baroque, and Flamenco Fusion - which sounds so exciting!! And Conor spoke to Eoin Nash who had an open call for Cork businesses and organisations to sign up to the Arts for All Charter as a vision for making Cork a European Centre of Excellence for Inclusion in the Arts.Great music and a round up of some of this week's events completed the show!
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Fiona Kennedy Live in Studio with John McGrath!
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Another week of great music and news from the Arts in Cork with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon. Riverdance lead dancer Breandán de Gallaí returns to the stage of the Everyman Theatre with a show called Walls Talk. First Cut Film Festival is back with in-person screenings in Youghal this year, celebrating young filmmakers who are creating everything from shorts and music videos to wild TikTok creations. Tess Healy Maguire returned to college and is now in the 3rd YEar of the BA in Drama and Theatre Studies and was on to chat about a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest this week in the Stack Theatre. And Michael Waldron led us through another gorgeous and uplifting Work of the Week in the Crawford Gallery. Lots of news and notices, and great music complete 2 hours of Sunday morning's Arts House!
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In this episode we enjoyed brand new music releases from a number of Cork artists, and some great guests again. Dr Michael Waldron chatted to Conor Tallon about the latest Work of the Week in the Crawford Art Gallery. Star of Musical Theatre Rebecca Storm prepares to return to the Cork Opear House stage. The Crucible is this week's play on the stage of The Everyman Theatre. There are new appointments to the board of the Cork Arts Theatre, and Fin Flynn chatted to Elmarie Mawe as well. And artist Clare McLaughlin had the latest details of the Seen Unseen Live and Virtual Gallery visits for the visually impaired. AND MORE!!!!
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This week Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon return with a special full of divine songs on the theme of Love, guests Michael Waldron of the Crawford Gallery and Allin Gray of the Irish Association of Youth Orchestras, and a host of suggestions and ideas for nights out at the theatre and concerts in Cork.
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On this week's show we continue the January pledge to not just play Irish artists, but ONLY artists from Cork, while gigs are pulled. We haven't repeated an artist yet since we started! What talent there is in Cork! And IT'S FANTASTIC that since the announcement of the end of time and capacity restrictions that theatre events and concerts can now renew their planning. So here's to the gigs and real income returning. Also on the show this week poet Tom McCarthy spoke to Conor Tallon about his new book of memoir and journals, "Poetry, Memory, and The Party. Journals 1974 - 2014" ......covering over 40 years. It's such a special publication and Tom was a fabulous and unassuming guest for someone who has made such an impact on Irish Literature and the careers of so many others. Conor also chatted to Assistant Curator in the Crawford Gallery, Dr Michael Waldron, about this week's Work of the Week. Elmarie chatted to cellist and composer Ilse de Ziah about her solo cello work and her recordings with The Diviners, including the most fascinating story of the Battle of the Starlings in Cork over 400 years ago! And we were joined live on the phone by violinists Teresa Foley and Aine O Halloran to tell us abiout pleying together as the duo "Violini". Enjoy!
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Continuing the pledge to only play music from Cork musicians and singers every show for the month of January, Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon have another super lineup for you here and a few great guests too! Padraig Leahy from Engineers Ireland Cork had news of a competition for engineers and architects who have a vision for Cork in the next 80 years! Now that's forward thinking! Tom Spalding of the Cork Decorative and Fine Arts Society had an invitation for listeners to join them on a virtual, LIVE tour of the Mauritishuis Museum in The Hague, in a specially arranged and exclusive event! And Aonghus Og McAnally was chatting to Elmarie ahead of his one-night-only return to The Everyman Theatre with Fight Night. Broadcast January 16th 2022.
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To mark our support for the musicians and performers of Cork while gigs and shows are either pulled or deferred, we decided to devote the playlist on The Arts House to nothing but Cork talent. What started as a compilation for Sunday January 9th became so packed, it's now become an entire month. So head for your walk, or sit back and relax, and enjoy the best of what Cork has to offer!
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Celebrate the Christmas season with Elmarie and Conor and guests from all over the world of the arts in Cork.
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The first hour of a gorgeous show to celebrate Christmas memories with guests from the Arts in Cork.
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An excerpt from the very special pre-Christmas Arts House, with lots of fun and chat from the Junior and Senior Infants of Gurrane National School in Cork!
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Conor Tallon chats to Joe Philpott of Ruby Horse about their upcoming gig Live at St Lukes. Michelle Carew, Arts Officer with Cork City Council spoke to Elmarie Mawe about the call for everyone to get involved in the public survey to help plan the Arts and Culture Strategy for the next 5 years. Jimmy Crowley chats about his new album and a sweet lullaby for all the Cork babas. And Laura O Callaghan had news of the Improv Panto Crew's move to Live at St Lukes this Christmas!
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Music Promoter Pat Egan chats about his memoir Backstage Pass, telling the story of his life behind the scenes in Showbiz. Dr Michael Waldron of the Crawford Art Gallery chats to Conor Tallon about this week's Work of the Week from Edith Somerville. We've a look at the Sunday papers, agus Nuacht do Lucht Ealaíne I gCorcaigh.
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Conor Tallon spoke to writer JP Quinn and illustrator Charlie Ruxton from UCC about a gorgeous children's book produced in the University this year. "A Bee at UCC" is such a sweet book, with a really important message at its heart x
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It's not too early to talk about Christmas when you're casting a TV Show, and Paddy O Shea of Cork's BoMedia is searching for 2 Cork families to take part in filming during the October Midterm Break. It's a family-challenge style TV show, and they're looking for families who will be up for the fun and festivities. Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon of Cork'sFM & C103 chatted to Paddy on Sunday's arts show! Email your application to apply@bomedia.tv to get your names in!
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Conor Tallon spoke to Michael Waldron of the Crawford Gallery about this WORK OF THE WEEK , which has just turned ten years old…
Into the Mire (2011) by Nigel Rolfe records one of the artist’s performance pieces as a response to the global financial crisis of a decade ago and serves as a metaphor for Ireland’s own economic collapse.
Filmed in the Bog of Allen, located west of Dublin between the Shannon and Liffey rivers, it “is a slow-motion capture of the artist falling into deep, dirty bog water.” Incongruously dressed in a clean white shirt, dark trousers, and formal shoes, the artist’s intentional fall registers as a visceral shock, his recovery requiring effort. Commissioned by Crawford Art Gallery, this significant performance articulates Rolfe’s research interest in place, landscape, and sociopolitics, which can be considered as emblems for human differences.
Nigel Rolfe (b.1950) is a performance artist and member of Aosdána. Born on the Isle of Wight, he moved to Ireland in 1974 where his performances attaining legendary status. The performance is a solitary event. His work also incorporates photography, video, and sound, and is held in the collections of Crawford Art Gallery and Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). In addition, he has taught in Philadelphia, at the University of Pennsylvania, and in London, at the Chelsea School of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art (RCA).
Into the Mire (2011) by Nigel Rolfe is showing in our Screening Room (Floor 2) as part of Laura Fitzgerald: I have made a place until 19 September. Open daily | Free entry.
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Ever since Karen Underwood made Cork her home, she has been so intrinsically part of the cultural life of the city, and has forged the strongest of connections with people everywhere she goes. In the summer of 2021 she was one of the stars to the fore of the reopening of Cork's open-air performances. And ahead of a major concert in Cork Opera House for Culture Night, she was a guest on he Arts House with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon.
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Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon chat about Culture Night with guest Michelle Carew, Arts Officer with Cork City Council.
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Streaming on www.theheartangel.ie on Saturday September 18th will be a very special concert and Elmarie spoke to Brian Murphy to get all the details.
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Cork is so lucky at the moment to have a really strong music scene across almost all genres. It really is like a Golden Age in Cork right now. And one of the people making that difference and creating opportunities for so many musicians across genres is pianist, composer and arranger, John O'Brien. In the summer of 2021, he composed a piece specially for the Cork Midsummer Festival. It was called "Lullaby for a City". With the world gradually coming out of a cocooned slumber filled with Corona-Virus nightmares, it was a love song to Cork, gently recognising the nightmare we'd been through, and calling us to wake up. Elmarie Mawe invited John over to the back garden to sit outside in the late summer sunshine and share how it had been to work and create in the time of Covid.
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It’s a funny thing with many of my interviews this term, according as I reconnect with people about events in the real world, we always begin with talking about the online experience, and there’s a certain amount of letting go that has to happen. I mean I know some events will be blended for a while yet, but yesterday when I was talking to Christopher Marwood of the Vanbrugh Quartet we were talking about moving concerts indoors and how marvelous that finally is. The Vanbrugh of course established the National String Quartet Foundation which has huge ambitions for chamber music in Ireland and the fostering of new and emerging talent. So Christopher has been programming and selecting concerts for Triskel Arts Centre’s Autumn String Series. The first concert is next Saturday September 11th, and well, we began by reflecting on the virtual year that’s been.
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Sean O Deadaigh has had the most interesting writer's developments of late. Besides winning awards for his last film, he's been to LA, took part in mentorships with the Sundance Festival, has a producer in New York lined up to take on his next film, and has now adapted a version of it for the stage. It will premier in Banteer this coming weekend, and he told Elmarie Mawe all about it on Cork's 96FM and C103
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What a joy it is to visit galleries and see new works! We highly recommend you go to the Lavit Gallery to see the current members' exhibition.
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A new song from Fiona Kennedy is always special, and "Where Else Would You Get It?" is a cracker. Full of emotion, nostalgia and love and produced by Declan Sinnott, Fiona came on to introduce it and tell Elmarie where the song came from.
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Having received 5 Star Reviews at the Fringe Festival in Brighton, Pauline O Driscoll was all set to take Ireland by storm, when Covid hit. Finally it's time to take Mam on the road in a hilarious production called The Seven Ages of Mam. Cork's first sit-down with Mammy begins on September 14th in the Cork Arts Theatre. Book fast!!
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Diarmuid Gavin was the special guest as on a balmy late-August evening, we gathered in the stunning gardens of The Montenotte Hotel to see this year's Sculpture Garden Exhibition, in association with the Kildare Gallery.
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What a year it's been for Live Performance! Cormac Mohally spoke to Conor Tallon about this year's Pitch'd Circus Festival, and bring entertainment to the streets no matter what!!!
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The Cork Arts Theatre continues its hugely successful series of Cork plays as it reintroduces audiences to Live Indoor Theatre. With limited audiences and strict Covid Hygiene Protocols, tickets sell out really quickly. Jess Leen continues her phenomenal journey as an artist, this time bringing a one-woman show "Waiting for Wifi" to the stage. Having read the News at 9am, we let her catch her breath before she popped in to Studio One for a chat with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon.
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The stunning surroundings of Fota House and Gardens is the setting for a weekend of glorious music, comedy and more! The Stage is set for September 11th and 12th and Marguerite O Connor had all the details for Elmarie. Check out Starlight Entertainment on Facebook.
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This week Conor Tallon spoke with Dr. Michael Waldron, Assistant Curator at the Crawford Gallery in Cork, about Paradise! Existing somewhere between representation and abstraction, between the real and spirit worlds, Eden (2019) by Tom Climent is exemplary of the artist’s practice in its distinctive style and modulation of colour.
Adopting a landscape form befitting its evocative title – the Earthly paradise described in the Book of Genesis – it is geometric in nature and beautifully coloured. On closer inspection, we discover that it is a work not only in oil paint, but with plaster and sand also applied to the canvas. This gives Eden its particular texture and embodies Climent’s process, which “embraces both logic and reason and also chance and accident.”
Referencing landscape, various types of structures and natural phenomena, the artist states that “Eden is very much part of the series of paintings I have been working on over the last ten years or so. I feel it is an important piece within this group of paintings.”
Tom Climent (b.1970) is a painter based in Cork City. His work over the past twenty-five years or so has varied from paintings of figurative, urban, and landscape subjects. In his own words, he considers that his “work generally tends to be suggestive. I feel it absorbs places I’ve been to, experiences I’ve had and ideas and images I come across.”
Eden (2019) by Tom Climent is featured in NEW THREADS: Acquisitions 2021 in our Gibson Galleries (Floor 1) until 5 September. Free entry | Open daily.
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Vive La France! Elmarie Mawe chatted to Valerie David-McGonnell and Josselin Le Gall , Co-Directors of the Cork French Film Festival, about what audiences can look forward to this week. The festival takes an Autumn slot having been postponed during Lockdown. What a great week of film ahead!
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Life doesn't always run smoothly. What do you do then? Dr. Michael Waldron, Assistant Curator at the Crawford Gallery, chats about this week's Work of The Week with Conor Tallon
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This week's Work of the Week from the Crawford Gallery, Music from Ruby Horse, Johnny Fang and Chris Ahern as well as New music from Clare Sands as Gaeilge, and a chat with the costume designer of Changing Habits at Nano Nagle Place.................... all featured at the start of this week's arts show with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon.
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Plug in and head off for a walk with the 2nd hour of this week's arts show and find out what's happening in Cork!
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In this continuing series which has been running every week on The Arts House, Elmarie Mawe chats to Carol Walsh of Cork Craft and Design to see what's coming up for the next week of Cork Craft MonthYet again another packed programme is in store, with ideas for live and online
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Original writing from Dolores Mannion is brought to life in this funny, touching play about a mother and a daughter, who find themselves once again living together in later life. Actors Fionula Linehan and Antoinette Hilliard joined Elmarie Mawe on Sunday morning. The play runs at the Cork Arts Theatre from August 24th- 28th.
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Festival Director Amy McKeogh joined Elmarie to share details of this year's exciting DesignPop which braings a feast of Food and Design together in the heart of the city.
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Changing Habits: 250 Years of Convent Life ... a 4 part series.
Conor Tallon met up with two of the sisters Sr Patricia and Sr Rosarie as well as dressmaker Sam Wynn and programme manager Danielle O Donovan.
Broadcast over 4 episodes this compilation tells the story in full.
The story of Nano Nagle Place's latest temporary exhibition which celebrates the continued use of the site on Douglas Street in Cork as a convent for 250 years. Changing Habits: 250 Years of Convent Life charts the construction of the oldest building, built in 1771, by Nano Nagle as home for the Ursuline Sisters she had invited to Cork from Paris. The exhibition then charts the foundation of the Presentation Sisters and the changing ways of life on the site up to the present day.
Using the rich archival records of the Ursuline and Presentation sisters, the exhibition also includes artefacts from the collection of objects held by the Presentation Sisters. The Exhibition features recreations of a complete set of nuns’ habits through the years. The oldest kind of habit, worn by the Presentation Sisters from 1805, changed very little for 140 years. Several changes then came in quick succession. The habit was made shorter, the huge sleeves were made detachable, and the bandeau and the guimpe, once made of starched linen, changed to celluloid. Dressmaker Sam Wynn, and the resident sisters here, have created what the ‘changing habits’ look like over time.
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Conor Tallon meets up with The Crawford's assistant curator Michael Waldron
to continue the Arts House's popular weekly series after a short absence!
But with friends meeting up again it's always like there was no absence!.
Coinciding with the opening of the gallery's NEW THREADS exhibition and Cork LGBT Pride Festival, they're taking a closer look at one of the latest additions to the collection.
Created in the aftermath of a residency in Shanghai, Meditating Tongqui (2020) by Stephen Doyle addresses pertinent issues facing the LGBTQ+ community globally. In making this work, the artist sought to highlight “the millions of ‘Tongqui/Tongfu’ currently living in China. The term refers to homosexuals married to opposite sex partners because of an obligation to continue the family name or simply to avoid suspicion of being homosexual or for any number of personal or political reasons.”
It presents a figure deep in thought, staring obliquely, and seated; balancing on a sphere, shoes kicked off below. Perhaps he is reflecting upon what might have been under different circumstances.
Actor and writer Stephen Fry has described Doyle’s work as being “part of a tragically necessary resistance movement,” particularly at a time when anti-LGBTQ+ laws continue to be enacted: “Gays are becoming bellwethers, early warning beacons, alerting us to humanity’s direction of travel.”
Stephen Doyle (b.1994) is a visual artist whose works addresses queer identity and queer culture. The artist’s Dylan Is Ainm Dom… (2018), which was shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize 2018, is thought to be the first artwork in the national collection to openly address transgender identity. A graduate of Crawford College of Art & Design, he is based at Backwater Studios, Cork and is presently exhibiting work in Queer As You Are until 19 September at Luan Gallery, Athlone. He is currently Cork Pride Festival Artist-in-Residence.
Meditating Tongqui (2020) by Stephen Doyle is featured in NEW THREADS: Acquisitions 2021 in the Gibson Galleries (Floor 1) until 5 September. It is also among the nine works on their new LGBTQ+ Gallery Trail, a self-directed activity to follow on your visit!
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Another hour of the Arts House, bursting with news, chat and music. From the Frank and Walters to Jack O Rourke, Brian Murray and Lorraine Nash, there’s plenty to keep you bopping and singing. Gillian Hennessy has the latest on Triskel’s Courtyard concert series. Brian Murray describes working on a Disney movie and getting ready to perform in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. Olivia Phillips gives her review and Danielle O Donovan describes the Cork Playful Cultural Trail. What’s happening in the West Cork Literary Festival online this week? And where can you catch live gigs and music?
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What is it like when your life is like a Disney movie? Then what's it like when you're IN a Disney Movie??!! Elmarie chatted to Brian Murray about filming for Disney and preparing for the upcoming production of West Side Story in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre this August.
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A snippet from Sunday's Arts House featuring Gillian Hennessy chatting about the new outdoor concert series from Triskel in the courtyard space behind the theatre . Triskel Courtyard is a welcome and exciting addition to the live music scene in Cork for Summer 2021!
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A clip from the Arts House on Sunday, celebrating everything Cork and the new initiative called Cork's Playful Culture Trail. Danielle O Donovan of Nano Nagle Place had all the details, and 6-year old Olivia Phillips had a first-hand review of the experience!
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Another happy start to your Sunday Morning with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon as they bring you music and news of the Arts in Cork. Here's the first hour of Sunday July 25th with a special feature with the cast of As Some Tall Cliff in the Cork Arts Theatre, as well as the Sunday Papers, Focail agus Fógraí, and some great music releases from Cork and Irish singer-songwriters.
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Here's the second installment of Elmarie Mawe's chat with Anna Mulcahy about Kinsale Arts Weekend 2021. Online events, an Art Trail around the town, and live theatre, cinema and music at the Drive-In at Sáile Community Complex overlooking the River Bandon as it flows into the town.
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Besides helping to run Bobstock Cape Clear, a super music-festival online to raise funds for oesophageal cancer, John Phelan is one member of the band One Morning In August. Despite having to do almost everything online since they formed, from song-writing collaboration to recording and releasing, they have garnered lots of national attention with their sound.
Their new single is called Lovers by Surprise, and John introduced it for Elmarie, and told her about this year's Bobstock.
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The West Cork Literary Festival hosts Irish and World authors every year in the stunning surroundings of Bantry House. What better occasion to celebrate a local author and screenwriter like Kate O Riordan. The writer of numerous novels and screenplays, her most recent series, "Smother," had the whole of Ireland in suspense when it aired on TV in the spring. Elmarie chatted to them after they'd filmed an "In Conversation With" for the Festival, which will be available on July 10th.
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So many people in Cork haven't heard of Anne Bonny, Ireland's real-life Pirate of the Caribbean. This year, a public mural about her has regenerated interest in her gripping story. Barry Moloney has been taking people on a Historic Stroll around Kinsale for over 15 years and, in Lockdown, was inspired to share some of his most repeated stories, tales and fascinating facts about his beloved town by writing a book. One of the central characters is of course Anne Bonny, but she is just one of a host revealed and explored as Barry shares his years of experience. This is a must-read for anyone who visits Kinsale, and an accessible way to delve into its fascinating history. Elmarie Mawe met Barry to talk about the book, and they stood in the grounds of St Multose Cathedral.
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Elmarie picked a gorgeous morning to drive to Kinsale and meet Anna Mulcahy, Chairperson of Kinsale Arts Weekend, which not only has events online, but the whole town becomes a walking gallery. And once again this year, they have Drive-In Theatre, Live Music Gigs and Film! Check out www.kinsaleartsweekend.com and book tickets on Eventbrite!
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Intro for Kevin Walsh:
What have Limerick singer Emma Langford and West End Star Molly Lynch from Cork got in common with Kevin Walsh who recently graduated from the Cork School of Music?
They’ve agreed to come on board as part of a "Supergroup" to record a brand new single called Embrace The World.
The reason they came on board is not just because Kevin’s song is great, it’s because his own story is from the heart and relatable to so many young people..
Elmarie rang Kevin to chat about song, and find out about the Instagram Challenge and FundIt Campaign that’s running right now, and we want listeners to give this guy a shot cos he deserves it.
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With the last number of weeks, Francis Humphrys, Director of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, has been joining Elmarie to chat about this year's Festival. Without being able to bring musicians from all over the word to Bantry House, instead those musicians are fulfilling their concerts by recording in wonderful theatres all over Europe and streaming them via West Cork Music. Francis has programmed some gorgeous themed weekends ahead of the "Festival Proper" in a few weeks' time. So today he chatted to Elmarie about 3 concerts featuring Solo Musicians. These concerts will be broadcast from London, Paris and Budapest Francis had all the details.
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Pádraig Ó Duinnín would be one of Ireland's best-known Boat Builders. HIs daughter Siobhán is a superb dancer and choreographer, and having grown up with boats all around her, has created an utterly unique piece for this year's Cork Midsummer Festival. The joy in this creation is palpable here in her chat with Conor Tallon for The Arts House on Cork's 96FM and C103.
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Seeing the Degree Shows of the Graduates of the Crawford College of Art and Design each year is always thrilling and exciting. It's a chance to wander around the college - and it's open to the public the year again!! And it's a chance to see the work from contemporary artists just being launched on the scene. Conor Tallon spoke to Trish Brennan, Head of Fine Art at the CCAD, about this year's Show.
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Yet another busy arts show with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon as they cover the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, the Cruinniú na nÓg Festival and Cork Harbour Festival to kick off the summer! And at long last there are events to attend in person! Author Jamie O Connell also joined us to chat ahead of the launch of his debut novel "Diving for Pearls and Jess Lean popped in from the newsroom between bulletins to chat about the Fastnet Short Film Festival. It was yet again another 2 hours featuring Irish singers and songwriters with Imelda May, Clare Sands, John Spillane, Jack O Rourke, Emma Langford and Cormac O Caoimh and Susan O Neill SON amongst the music selections in this week's show. SUPPRT THE ARTS! "
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In this hour Elmarie spoke to June Lacour about Africa Day Cork which actually runs all this week! Then we'd perfect summer music from Cork's Ger Wolfe. Niall Cleary from Graffiti Theatre Company was back to remind everyone that this is the last week for their children's theater piece for Play it By Ear at The Everyman . Conor caught up with Marion Wyatt to chat about the latest collection of poetry on the Cork Arts Theatre Website and we included a recording of the Iconic Eileen Nolan, founder of The Montforts. Ansin bhí amhrán againn ó Fiona Kelleher ag céiliúradh an Cork Folk Festival anuraidh. And we finished the hour with a classic hit from Fiona Kennedy, as we dream of The Beach.
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Cork World Book Fest has another fantastic lineup this year and acclaimed author Vanessa Fox O Loughlin - aka Sam Blake - joined Elmarie for a chat about some of the workshops and events she is hosting on Saturday April 24th.
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Well the clocks went forward which usually means Elmarie and Conor are in a panic in case they're late for the Arts House at 8am- 7am- 9am WHICH IS IT????!!!!So they set ALL the alarms and made it in to studio, and here's the first hour for those who didn't set their early alarms today! A fantastic concert in Carrigaline on Easter Sunday night, a beautiful Easter Mozart Festival at Triskel, a glance at the Sunday Papers, music from Daniel Murphy and Clare Sands and more!
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The Stonemasons. A language all their own. A craft learned through years of apprenticeship. A community with stories to tell. All revealed in this gorgeous slice of history as Conor Tallon goes back through the archives with Emma and Eddie of Frameworks Films.
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Here's a great way to pass the time on a walk! Music from the Stargazers, Emma Langford, Máirtín de Cógáin and more with stories from the Ford Factory, a look at the first live gig from The Corner House in a year, and a New York love story.
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Bláithín MacGabhann has grown up listening to the best of music all her life, as her family owns, runs and lives at The Corner House on Coburg Street in the heart of Cork City. Renowned for the quality of music every night of the week, it's a pub with a special atmosphere and place in the lives of musicians and everyone who visits. In a special partnership with The Everyman and Islander, a Live Video Stream from the Corner House will be broadcast on Friday April 2nd. Bláithín told Elmarie all about it.
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Máirtín de Cógáin is back with a new single and it's a New York Love Story. The tale of how his wife's grandparents met. This song was written as a reward for a fundit campaign so it goes to show it can be worth it! This sweet song is timeless and so romantic, and Elmarie enjoyed getting the back story to it when she Zoomed with Máirtín who now lives in San Diego.
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I m gripped by this series with the last few weeks as Conor Tallon delves back into the archives of Frameworks Films, the Cork documentary company celebrating 21 years of filming Cork's history. This week it's the story of the Ford factory and the people who worked there. The closure of Ford's was a major blow to Cork, but the memories in this documentary are golden.
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This week's Work of the Week marks the end nearing of the exhibition "Citizen Nowhere, Citizen Somewhere" at the Crawford Gallery Online, and is quite a fitting work for the theme, as Dr Michael Waldron explored with Conor Tallon
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How joyful to have a delicious series of Mozart concerts to look forward to this Easter! Recorded in the stunning setting of Triskel Christchuch, Dr Fionnuala Moynihan spoke to Elmarie about what they've chosen for the weekend. Tickets from Triskel Arts Centre will be valid from Friday April 2nd to Monday April 5th. A sublime way to relax!
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The 2021 is kinda important, because since Covid struck last year, there's been a steady stream of concerts and music from Carrigaline. You can still see all the old past concerts on YouTube, but this Easter Sunday there's a new Concert for Hope raising money for Cork ARC, and Elmarie is passionate about it this year as this is also the week she starts Radiotherapy herself. She chatted to Concert Director and violinist Brian Murphy to raise awareness.
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I adore the work of Miro, and was so delighted to see Conor Tallon was chatting to Dr Michael Waldron of the Crawford Gallery about a work by Miro this week.
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Cork Community Art Link never fail to surprise and delight us, and even though we can't line the streets to see their creations, the creations ARE READY! Until we are allowed gather in crowds again, the creation for St Patrick's Day will be available online. William Frode de la Foret told Elmarie what to expect, and taught her something new!
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With another new single, Fiona Kennedy is on a writing roll, and topped the iTunes Charts on Thursday when she released her new single. A Gospel / Country vibe wasn't initially how she'd described it, but who cares about labels when people simply enjoy her music!! She had a chat with Elmarie about the single and recording for St Patrick's Day in LA.
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Charting the history and stories of Cork, Emma Bowell and Eddie Noonan of Frameworks Films have the most incredible archive of material going back over 21 years. Conor Tallon sat down for a chat about the Sunbeam Factory in Cork, and the memories they captured in this documentary.
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Lots again to keep you going for the week ahead - especially with news of what's happening in Cork for St Patrick's and the build-up. We also had a chat with William Frode de la Foret from Cork Community ArtLink. Fiona Kennedy introduced her new single. And Conor Tallon continues the series looking at the archives of Frameworks Films with directors Eddie Noonan and Emma Bowell.A little tribute for Mother's Day and more great music!
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A special project commissioned for St Patrick's Day was the impetus for Elmarie to chat to Dr Jessie Cawley about Creative Tradition in Cork and their work with Music Generation Cork City.
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Féachann Elmarie ar a rogha is fear léi ar TG4, le h'aghaidh Lá Fhéile Pádraig.
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Hour 1 of the The Arts House on March 14th, celebrating the build-up to St Patrick's Day, and festival components in Cork. This hour featured new music from Laura Mulcahy, written for a movie about the death of Lucy Sands. We also had a chat with Dr Jessie Cawley of Creative Tradition. Conor Tallon had a look a the the papers and a chat with Dr Michael Waldron of the Crawford Gallery. We had snippets of info on what you can see in the West Cork Arts Centre and the Glucksman Gallery. A snatched memory from this weekend 12 moths ago when the courtyards of Italy rang out with neighbours singing, and Elmarie Mawe takes a look at the best picks for the week ahead on TG4 in this week's Focail agus Fógraí.
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The Ballad of Lucy Sands is a new release from Laura Mulcahy. Telling the tale of the murder of a girl of 16 years of age, 140 years ago, Laura was commissioned to write music for the film which tells Lucy's story. How much have things changed for women since then?
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Margaret Clarke, The Foundling, c.1925,
The Foundling (c.1925) by Margaret Clarke is an intriguing painting that perhaps prompts more questions than it does answers, not least in terms of representation. Depicting a white woman cradling a black baby, it is likely a study for the artist’s Bath Time at the Crèche.
The larger subject painting (127 x 101 cm), which is in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, offers us further clues to this unusual subject matter – at least, unusual for 1920s Ireland – and includes eleven other children being readied for their bath by two women. The model for both women can be identified as the Clarke family’s maid, Julia O’Brien, who appears in numerous other works by the artist.
But what is the relationship between central woman and child as proposed by these two paintings, and what does it tell (or ask) the viewer about gender and ethnicity in post-Independence Ireland?
The child is both compositionally and symbolically central, as art historian Fionna Barber suggests, with both paintings raising important questions about whiteness and blackness in art and national identity formation. “In its radical positioning of both race and femininity,” Barber notes, the larger painting “opens up troubling questions about our understanding of this period of Irish history that have yet to be fully addressed, but whose significance can still be felt today.”
Painted at a time when Margaret Clarke (1888-1961) had young children of her own, The Foundling was later bequeathed to us by the artist’s friend, playwright Lennox Robinson (1886-1958). It is featured in lucid abnormalities (Gibson Galleries) until 28 March.
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One of the things we miss most about live performance is sharing it with people who have similar interests to our own. Ordinarily, lots of people make friends through the arts. But now with concerts streamed at home, there's no chance to widen your circle or meet like-minded people to share these experiences with. Cork Cultural Companions aims to change that, by bringing people with a love of the Arts together. And seeing as it has to be virtual for the moment, they're going to start by creating online events. Barbara Quinn had all the details for Elmarie Mawe.
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Eddie Noonan and Emma Bowell established Frameworks Films 21 years ago. Recording and amassing the most incredible archive of Cork's history and social stories over that time, they joined Conor Tallon for the first look back at the superb collection of material they feel privileged to curate. This week they looked back at the first project they worked on, with the people of Blackpool years ago.
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The entire entertainment and arts industry ground to a halt on March 12th 2020. A year on, Coughlan's Live are keeping the flame alight with a highlight's concert streamed online from gigs recorded in a tiny window between Lockdowns.
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Despite Lockdown, Kanturk Arts Festival is still supporting artists. Here's a clip from the current exhibition by artist Jessica Barron.
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A live concert, streamed privately to your home, and the only other audience members are those you invite! The ultimate gift of creating an experience where your friends and family from anywhere in the world are the Virtual Audience for a concert just for you. Stunning music from Celtic Tenors Matthew Gilsenan and acclaimed violinist Vladimir Jablocov and guests. Matthew had the details for Elmarie Mawe.
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The internationally renowned pianist David Syme made national headlines last year, when he was in danger of having to sell his beloved Steinway Grand Piano to raise money when all concert tours were cancelled. The piano was saved and David is now streaming concerts from his house near Castletownbere. The next concert is streaming live from his home for St Patrick's Weekend. Elmarie caught up with him in beautiful West Cork.
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Tá Seachtain na Gaeilge buailte linn agus gach bliain, bíonn gach éinne ag caint faoi Pheig. Cad a cheapann tusa fúithi?
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The sensational Clare Sands spoke to Elmarie Mawe this week about her new Year-Long project of macaronic songs, thie first of which is a superb sea-shanty with Susan O Neill
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Conor Tallon and Michael Waldron astnt Curator at the Crawford Art Gallery are...Talking heads this week!
It’s artist James Barry’s 215th anniversary, so we’ve dedicated this WORK OF THE WEEK to him!
The remarkable career of ‘great historical painter’ James Barry (1741-1806) took him from his native Cork to Dublin, Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, and finally London. His life in the British capital saw him become not only a member of the Royal Academy of Arts but also its professor of painting. In 1799, however, his outspoken views gained him the distinction of being the only academician to ever be expelled… until 2004, that is!
James Barry died in London on this day in 1806 and, on 4 March, he was interred next to his great rival, Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), in the crypt at St Paul’s Cathedral. A memorial was later erected there, featuring one of four busts of Barry modelled by Joseph Panzetta (fl.1789-1830) but based on a portrait by William Evans. Another of these busts has been in The Crawford collection since 2005.
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Jim O Mahony lectures in science in Munster Technological University. He's also a superb pianist, in demand for piano bar appearances in Cork's top hotels where he creates the ambience you never want to leave. In Lockdown he began broadcasting live gigs from home, and Elmarie spoke to him to see what's on the cards for 2021, as well as delve into his love of Frank Sinatra.
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Artist Deirdre Frost graduated with acclaim from the Crawford College of Art and Design and in her first solo show at the Lavit, explored Biophilia. She spoke to Elmarie Mawe about the exhibition and the philosophy inspiring her art.
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Finding a Voice is a festival in its 4th year, celebrating the work of female composers. Elmarie Mawe spoke to Róisín Maher, festival founder, about this year's programme.
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Brendan Garde chatted to Elmarie Mawe about the second concert in the Cork Orchestral Society Concert Series for 2021, which features Brendan himself on violin and Gary Beecher on piano.
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This year has taught us a lot about kindness. And we discovered our own resilience. our Creators all over the world kept creating and inspiring us. Mary Greene chatted to Elmarie about the new single from Greenshine "Sweet as Honey Heart".
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Newly appointed Artistic Director of the Everyman Theatre, Sophie Motley, chatted to Elmarie Mawe about making this wonderful collection of 9 Cork plays available for the month of March online.
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Conor Tallon talks with curator Michael Waldron about East Coast Light 1 (1973) by Sean Scully.
It is an example of hard-edge painting, which is characterised by sharp transitions between colours achieved using tape and spray paint. Consisting of a grid of layered bands, this work blends aspects of the artist’s background in graphic design and construction with the influence of Moroccan textiles and the impact of a fellowship to Harvard University in 1972.
First exhibited at the Dixième Biennale Internationale d'Art, Menton (1974), this abstract painting may be seen to anticipate Scully’s subsequent use of a characteristic stripe motif. For the artist, the stripe “is always concerned with thinking, and it is concerned with acting free of context … it is always reaching outwards,” as he observed to Allie Biswas in 2016. “The stripe can do anything in any direction, and since it is so common, it corresponds to everything around us.”
In 1980, this work was featured in Rosc Chorcaí ’80: Irish Art 1943–1973. Its curator, Cyril Barrett, wrote that the “exhibition covers a period which some people might describe as the great awakening of modern Irish Art and others as the great betrayal.” Presented at Crawford Art Gallery, the exhibition later travelled to the Ulster Museum, Belfast.
Born in Dublin in 1945, Sean Scully is a contemporary artist with a major international reputation. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Aosdána, and visitors may remember the major retrospective exhibition here, Sean Scully: Figure / Abstract (2015).
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You don’t need anyone to tell you that singing is good for the soul.
There are hundreds of choirs all over the county who are trying to do things online right now. And so many of them began with no clue at all this time last year how to work a camera or synchronise the recordings sent in from home.
And then there are the workplace choirs. Having a workplace choir does so much for bonding and teamwork in a company. And at the moment, when so many workers are isolated at home, then perhaps this could be as good a time as any to start a workplace choir and try it virtually!!
This week the Cork International Choral Festival announced that Ibec, Ireland’s largest business representative group, has come on board as the title sponsor of the festival’s new Workplace Choir of the Year competition.
This will be the culminating event of the festival’s ‘Choirworks’ programme, which has been devised specially for this year.
The programme offers workplace colleagues around the country the chance to learn to sing……. and form a virtual company choir,
or improve their singing and existing workplace choir.
It’ll all be done through online interactive music lessons, choir workshops and team building activities.
The aim of the initiative is to help companies connect with their staff and teams during Covid through the uplifting medium of music.
So to find out more about it, Elmarie Mawe spoke to Peter Stobart, Artistic Director of the Cork International Choral Festival.
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Can’t have an audience? No problem. Can’t be on stage together? No problem. Can’t even perhaps be in the room together? Well, we’ll figure it out. But with 22 Degree students about to embark on their professional lives, the first thing to sort was what material they could work with, that would still be fresh, relevant and challenging. So Regina Crowley told Elmarie Mawe all about getting ready for this performance which will be available for Cork audiences to stream online.
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This was the final part of a five week conversation between Conor Tallon and series writer director Paddy Shea about the Great Loves of Ireland....Scealta Gra na hEireann...the sixth and final instalment following the extraordinary life and adventures of Grace O Malley...or Grainne Ni Mhaille and Richard 'the iron' Bourke...a tale of piracy, profiteering and politics that led to a mutual meeting of minds face to face with Queen Elizabeth the First...despite all the odds!
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This week marks a historical landmark....as Conor Tallon found out from Crawford art gallery curator Michael Waldron
The Widow (Mrs. Terence MacSwiney, Lady Mayoress of Cork 1920) by John Lavery is a remarkably stark portrait. Only the face and neck of its subject emerge from the background and dark clothing. Her parted red lips, brimming eyes, and flesh described in light and shadow convey dual emotions – mourning and hope.
By the time this portrait was painted a century ago, in 1921, Muriel Murphy MacSwiney (1892-1982) had been catapulted onto the world stage in the aftermath of her husband’s death by hunger strike. In that same year, she attended the Abbey Theatre’s production of Terence MacSwiney’s most prophetic play, The Revolutionist. Such was the sympathy for her loss and Ireland’s independence that, in 1922, she became the first woman to be granted the freedom of New York City.
Muriel had first met Terence in 1915 at the home of Aloys and Tilly Fleischmann. They married against her family’s wishes on 9 June 1917, the day after she came into her inheritance, and their daughter Máire was born a year later. In her widowhood, Muriel continued her interest in left-wing politics and, in 1926, had a second daughter, Alix, with the French Marxist academic Pierre Kaan (1903-1945).
In 1928, this portrait was donated by the artist along with his Sketch for the Funeral of Terence MacSwiney (1920).
The Widow (Mrs. Terence MacSwiney, Lady Mayoress of Cork 1920) by John Lavery is featured in CITIZEN NOWHERE | CITIZEN SOMEWHERE: The Imagined Nation until 5 April.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Michael Waldron about Spring being in the air!
To mark Imbolc or St Brigid’s Day, we’re embracing a sense of joy and renewal with this WORK OF THE WEEK!
The first day of February is the traditional beginning of spring in Ireland and finds us halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox. Festival Scene (c.1960) by Sylvia Cooke-Collis may not specifically be about this new season, but we think its palette of soft bright colours and upbeat mood suits this time of year.
Inspired by the style of Fauvism, Sylvia Cooke-Collis (1900-1973) composes a scene filled with people – and goats! Many of the figures wear wreaths of foliage on their heads, while in the background some form of ritual appears to play out under the trees. A figure in the foreground offers red flowers to a goat. A tasty treat perhaps?
In 2018, Festival Scene underwent its own renewal and benefitted from much needed conservation. As part of a shared NGI-CAG-IMMA conservation internship, it was transported to the National Gallery of Ireland for treatment by Giulia Campagnari.
The painting had become distorted over time and its paint layer was beginning to flake. Giulia conducted a full consolidation treatment with specialist solutions and equipment. Festival Scene was then re-stretched, cleaned, filled, and retouched where losses had occurred. Its original frame even got some love before the painting returned to Cork to be cherished once again. Certainly cause to celebrate!
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From Classical piano with David Syme to an old score from Julie et Julia, and from an original score from Jimmy Brockie, to a snippet of punk from Big Boy Foolish, music was once again full of variety in this hour on The Arts House with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon. And yet again there was a second packed hour of guests. From the Queen of the Coal Quay, Karry Barry, being brought to life with Marion Wyatt's new play streamed from the Cork Arts Theatre, to the queens of today as MTU premiers a screening of Dragging Up the Past. Sarah Morey Arts Officer with MTU told us about this brand new documentary film about Cork's Drag Queens. David Syme joined us to talk about streaming a special Valentine's Concert from his home and to tell us the joyful news that his piano has been saved! And Conor chatted with writer and director Paddy O Shea about the love story of WBYeats and Maud Gonne, which Cork's Bó Media is bringing to life on TG4 on Wednesday night.
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Music from David Syme, Rubyhorse, The Last of the Mohicans and some Japanese Zen interspersed an hour with news of the latest audio plays from the Everyman Theatre with Naoimi Daly, What's Happening in Nano Nagle Place for Frederick Douglass Week with Cork rapper Junior, a look at this week's Work of the Week in the Crawford Gallery online with Michael Waldron, and a catch-up with some good news from Cork's filmmakers
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A brand new university deserves a big fanfare, and what better way to do it than with a full orchestra! The RTE Concert Orchestra, no less. Daniel Murphy composed a stunning work to mark the new era in MTU.
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In these times of national stress ,this week Conor Tallon spoke of a work that was hard to take in at first...but gently helping him along and explaining it's context and healing power was Michael Waldron the curator of the exhibition it was part of.
Small in scale, Woman with Koebnersing Psoriasis (2003) by Cecily Brennan is a deceptively simple, yet intimate work. The artist employs egg tempera to describe a truncated torso form as dozens of dark irregular blotches, identified by the title, appear across its pink flesh.
Koebnersing psoriasis is a condition that occurs at sites of cutaneous (or skin) injury, with new skin lesions appearing on otherwise healthy skin. This painting forms part of a body of work that Brennan made in 2002-03 and exhibited as part of Heat (2005).
Exploring how the human body registers stress, these works are characterised by close-up images of eczema, psoriasis, and self-harm. In presenting such conditions in this way, the artist forces us to confront something from which we might otherwise shy away. Informed by pain and painted with care, they prompt feelings of empathy.
A native of Athenry, Cecily Brennan (b.1955) has exhibited her work widely, both nationally and internationally. ‘Damage and fortitude are her abiding concerns,’ offers Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, ‘and the perennial search for those strategies of survival that allow ordinary human beings to endure and overcome the various afflictions by which they are beset.’
In addition to her career as an artist, Brennan has been Director of Project Arts Centre (1983-86), Chair of the Visual Arts Committee (1993-97), and co-founder of the Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment (2015-18). She lives and works in Dublin.
Woman with Koebnersing Psoriasis (2003) by Cecily Brennan is featured in lucid abnormalities, in The Crawford Art Gallery and online at www.crawfordartgallery.ie/workoftheweek
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We're following the wonderful documentary series of Great Irish Love Stories being screened each Wednesday night on TG4, created by Cork's Bó Media.
Conor Tallon spoke to Director Paddy O Shea about the love story between Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill and Airt Uí Laoghaire, which is remembered in the stunning Caoineadh, or Lament which Eibhlín composed over her dead husband's body, and which is studied by all students for the Leaving Certificate in Ireland to this day. The part of Eibhlín is played on air by singer Claudia Rose Long, who also spoke to Elmarie Mawe.
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Whether you were a colleague, a friend or a fan, Cara O Sullivan left an indelible mark on all our lives and our hearts. Her death this week was such a deep sadness for many around the world, but nowhere more than her beloved Cork. Tributes have been paid to her all week and we couldn't let today pass without marking her wonderful connections. Cara was a guest on the show countless times over the years and listening back to her interviews is bittersweet. We will remember them another time. Our deepest sympathies to her daughter Christine and all her family.
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Here's the 2nd hour of this week's Arts House from January 24th which will pass the time nicely on your walk! Sea Shanties, music from mighty Irish Female Songwriters Emma Langford and Aoibheann Carey-Phillpot, Writing news and workshops from Sarah Webb. Love Stories from Paddy O Shea and Scéalta Grá na h'Éireann on TG4 and more. All with Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon guiding you along.
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This is such a fascinating series on TG4 to start 2021, and it's been a treat having Paddy O' Shea on each week to chat about the great Irish love stories which were affected by and had an impact on Irish History. This week's episode on Wednesday is the story of Oscar Wilde and Alfred Douglas, or Bosie.
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Writing for children? Illustrating books for children? How do you get started and where do you break into the business? West Cork Literary Festival have teamed up with Sarah Webb and a host of experts in the industry to give this Webinar on Saturday January 30th via West Cork Music. Sarah had all the details when chatting to Elmarie.
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This week's work is an intriguing piece of sculpture which Elmarie was sure had been dug up in some archaeological find. It looks like a puzzle of a piece from an estate of years gone by, that would have you guessing as to what on earth it was used for! But as Conor discovered when talking to Michael Waldron........things aren't always what they seem. The 1980s continues to surprise us!!
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How exciting to see fresh impetus being given to Graffiti Theatre's early years programme, Beag, for babies and toddlers! George Hanover chatted to Elmarie to get an overview of what the programme involve.
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What away to start a job in the middle of a Global Pandemic! Sophie Motley takes over the reins as Artistic Director in Cork's Everyman Theatre. She had her first chat with Elmarie this Sunday.
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A new year, a new single and a new video! Being in Lockdown in London isn't going to stop the versatile and talented actor, singer and performer that is Cork's JD Kelleher and he chatted to Elmarie on Sunday morning.
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What a start to 2021! The Cork Orchestral Society has a series of 6 new concerts all available free, and each available for one month, as Chairman Tom Crowley explained when he spoke to Elmarie
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Starcamp went centre stage when tens of thousands of households around the country clicked onto Starcamp dot ie… and discovered magical and amazing courses and resources for children and parents available free every day…to find out more Conor Tallon spoke with Starcamp’s founder Aideen O Grady…
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Take a walk and let Elmarie and Conor pass the journey with you as they look at arts activity in Cork this week. JD Kelleher is now in London and has just released a new single. Paddy O Shea chats about a fascinating new series on TG4 about famous Irish love stories, and Aiden O Grady could definitely be Ireland's new Minister for Fun as she is behind free stage camps for children in Lockdown.
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Filmmaker Paddy O Shea writer and director of Scealta Gra na hEireann tells us of the tales of love and romance that changed not just the lives of six couples but the story of Ireland…which plays out over a six part series on TG4..Conor Tallon followed Paddy on his journey through hundreds of years of Irish romantic history...
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Take a stroll with the first hour of The Arts House and hear Tom Crowley chat about the new season from The Cork Orchestral Society, Michael Waldron chat to Conor about the latest Work of the Week in the Crawford, a look back at the main headlines of Sunday's papers, and a smattering of the music we featured in the first hour.
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This week Conor Tallon instantly recognised the Image of Samuel Beckett (1994) by Louis le Brocquy....or was it one that looked like it?...It was one night a few years back when Conor spent the night in a studio...as a guest...when he saw it last....the mystery
had to be untangled with the help of Michael Waldron: the Crawford's Assistant Curator...
As Conor slept he was certainly haunted by this stark canvas... where a ghostly head emerges. Sparse hints of blue, red, brown, and green emerge from a deeply lined face and represent the only colours in this field of white. Suggestions of swept back short hair, thin lips, and blank eyes form the main features of the subject’s long, narrow face, which seems to dissolve at the edges.
This is one of the artist’s celebrated Portrait Heads and depicts his friend, the Irish writer and Nobel Laureate, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Rather than presenting the viewer with a photo-realistic likeness, le Brocquy instead attempts to reveal the inner spirit of his subject. This, by his own admission, is not an act of creation, but one of discovery as he evokes Beckett’s essence.
Speaking with George Morgan in 1992, Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012) noted that ‘Clearly, it is not possible to paint the spirit. You cannot paint consciousness. You start with the knowledge we all have that the most significant human reality lies beneath material appearance. So, in order to recognise this, to touch this as a painter, I try to paint the head image from the inside out.’
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Sheena Crowley chatted to Elmarie about The Island of Music, a new website that brings together music makers and creators from across all genres of music. From helping musicians to showcase their music, to selling and renting instruments and connecting pupils and teachers, Sheena has a fantastic vision to give them all a platform.
Later in the hour Tadgh Crowley, Senior Curator in The Glucksman Gallery had a chat about "100 Years of Change" - a wonderful exhibition which has had to move online, and which does so using film interviews with a series of fascinating artists, historians and contributors. The Glucksman is a also presenting free art classes for children every day at 11am during Lockdown! Music from Rowan also featured this hour, as well as some classical and film-score favourites.
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It’s the first WORK OF THE WEEK for 2021!...so Conor Tallon and The Crawford Gallery's assistant curator Michael Waldron ring in the New Year with this suitably seasonal work of art!
A painting that exists somewhere between the abstract and figurative, Blue Constrictor (2006) by Elizabeth Magill offers the viewer an image of unending contemplation.
The dark silhouettes of both deciduous and evergreen trees rise across this large canvas. Streaks and glimmers of yellow, red, and blue dart among their wintry forms against a softer wash of twilight. The artist’s use of primary colours, however, implies that we are being presented with something constructed, while the uncertain viewpoint and atmosphere suggest the sense of being ‘in between’. Forms on the left even appear as spectres or echoes and tiny mixed media elements figure in the upper branches.
Does the title, Blue Constrictor, allude to a contracting muscle or a large species of snake? Does the perspective have a dizzying effect or make us uneasy? Is it a landscape?
Elizabeth Magill (b.1959) explores the relationship between the Picturesque and Romantic traditions in art. Born in Ontario, Canada, she grew up in County Antrim and now lives and works in London. She studied firstly at the Belfast School of Art and later at the Slade School of Art. Magill has exhibited widely, including at Arnolfini, Limerick City Gallery of Art, IMMA, Hugh Lane Gallery, Tate, and in 0044: Contemporary Irish Art in Britain (1999) at PS1, New York.
Blue Constrictor (2006) by Elizabeth Magill is featured in lucid abnormalities (until March 2021) in our Gibson Galleries (Floor 1).
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For the final WORK OF THE WEEK of 2020, we’re sharing an image of celebration!And Conor Tallon and Assistant Curator Michael Waldron virtually clinked glasses to the year's end in honour of
The Drunken Faun (1826) by John Hogan.It depicts a mythological figure in the midst of a Bacchanal, an ancient festival to the wine god. Falling backwards in intoxication, the faun is surrounded by attributes including pan pipes, cymbals, and wine jug, while a goat skin covers his modesty and serves as a reminder of his species.
Intriguingly, this plaster Neoclassical sculpture was the product of a challenge set by Welsh sculptor John Gibson (1790-1866). Ever one to rise to the occasion, Hogan countered painter Vincenzo Camuccini’s claim that all original poses in sculpture had been exhausted with this dynamic triangular composition. The faun’s left arm supports the weight of his entire upper body, as his right leg is outstretched, and vine leaf-entwined head falls back.
Although he may have been inspired by the ancient Barberini Faun or Johan Tobias Segrel’s faun of 1771, Hogan succeeded in his task and firmly proved both Gibson and Camuccini wrong. The finished work even prompted Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) to declare it ‘a miracle of Art.’
The Drunken Faun was exhibited at the Royal Irish Institution in 1829, and subsequently in The Great Exhibition (1851) at the Crystal Palace in London’s Hyde Park. It has been in the Crawford Art Gallery collection for over 130 years.
The Drunken Faun by John Hogan (1800-1858) is featured in RECASTING CANOVA in The Crawford's Sculpture Galleries.
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Conor Tallon speaks to Michael Waldron about this weeks featured Work of The Week from the Crawford Art Gallery...
Strike up the band! This WORK OF THE WEEK is a real winter warmer.
Soon, up Aloft, the Silver, Snarling Trumpets 'gan to Chide (c.1923) by Harry Clarke gives us the best seat in the house, as we are placed front and centre before the artist’s strange septet or musical ensemble.
This watercolour study is dominated by the dramatic figure of the conductor of this not-quite orchestra. Rather than remaining faithful to his poetic source – “The Eve of St Agnes” (1819) by John Keats, in which angelic decorations are described ‘with hair blown back’ – Clarke has instead incorporated the image into the conductor’s appearance.
Occupying a gallery space, the musical ensemble contributes to the Eve of St Agnes festivities, which are detailed in an associated watercolour study. Each figure has its own personality sketched out and evoked by the artist.
Nicola Gordon-Bowe (1948-2018), the late great Clarke scholar, has suggested a source for the theorbo (long-necked lute) or sitar-playing figure to the right of the conductor: his balding head and pointed ears resemble the vampiric Count Orlok from F.W. Murnau’s contemporaneous silent film Nosferatu (1922)!
Harry Clarke (1889-1931), one or Ireland’s most renowned illustrators and stained-glass artists, loved literature and music. At the time of making this watercolour study in 1923, he attended a Franz Liszt recital given by Tilly Fleischmann at the Abbey Theatre.
Find out this and more in our new online exhibition HARRY CLARKE MARGINALIA, which runs until 14 February 2021.
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Conor Tallon and the Crawford Gallery's Assistant Curator Michael Waldron celebrate this week's
WORK OF THE WEEK… cos it’s a kind of homecoming, like!
Sun sets over a maritime city, as river waters ripple in the wake of a seagoing vessel. Like the tide itself, Paddle Steamer Entering the Port of Cork (1842) is all about comings and goings.
Approaching Cork by water was once much more commonplace than today and it was a sight that artist George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson (1806-1884) knew well. A native of Cobh, he grew up in Cork Harbour and spent his early career at sea as a ship’s carpenter. Upon his return, he became Government Surveyor of Shipping and Emigrants, as well as a self-taught painter.
In this warm and welcoming painting, the artist depicts a paddle steamer making its way upriver to the Port of Cork. The historic Bonded Warehouses may be picked out at the centre of the scene, while dozens of masts break the skyline on both channels of the river, emphasising the importance of the harbour to the city’s commerce, prosperity, and identity.
Flanking the river on either side, the church steeples of St Anne’s, Shandon and St Patrick’s (right) and old St Fin Barre’s Cathedral and city hall (left) can be readily identified. The fine offices of the St George Steam Packet Company (Penrose House) can also be glimpsed between moored vessels at Penrose Quay (centre right).
Wherever you may be this festive season, we wish you all safe harbour, fair winds and following seas.
Paddle Steamer Entering the Port of Cork (1842) is featured in STATIO BENE: Art and Ireland’s Maritime Haven until April 2021.
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Even more great books for Christmas. Elmarie and Conor were joined by John Creedon and Alice Taylor talking about their new books, completed despite Lockdowns and restrictions. And Joan Lucy from Cork's Vibes and Scribes had fantastic suggestions for holiday reading and gifts. Charlie Ruxton also created a colouring book for children to guide them all around UCC which makes a cute stocking filler for Cork kids, and for alumni of UCC who might like to send it to their children or grandchildren!
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An Arts House special for Christmas with festive music and lots of chat from the children of Gurrane National School in Innishannon. Catherine Mahon Buckley had news of gorgeous stories from The Everyman Theatre to keep families going over Christmas with filmed storytelling online of your favourite panto stories, and lots of panto characters making an appearance! And we’d music from the children in Ballyheada National School, and ,more fantastic music from the Voiceworks Indie Choir for Christmas. And a gorgeous group brought together by Dr Eva McMullan with the Collegial Choir of UCC, The Crosshaven Community Choir, the choristers of Music4Children and members of Down Syndrome Cork. We finished with a stunning arrangement of O Holy Night from the Band 1 Brigade, arranged by Paul Dunlea and all filmed and recorded remotely. Incredible. Happy Christmas everyone from Elmarie and Conor xxxxxx
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An Arts House special for Christmas with festive music and lots of chat from the children of Gurrane National School in Innishannon. Music from The Bravehearts Choir, Rahan National School, The Ryan Sisters from Bandon, Caroline Fraher from Cobh, and the Cork Light Orchestra from East Cork added to the warm Christmas glow.
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This week Conor Tallon and Curator Michael Waldron are looking at Grace Henry's Claddagh Market, Galway...
Around this time of the year on the 8th of December we see the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping calendar in Ireland. Known as the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, in years past the day saw rural shoppers visiting large towns and cities.
Although not essentially a Christmas scene, Claddagh Market, Galway (1916-18) by Grace Henry captures the hustle and bustle of open-air shopping in the West of Ireland. The rounded forms of women in patterned shawls contrast with the geometric shapes of the market stalls, as thatched cottages of The Claddagh can be seen in the background.
The Claddagh, a fishing village across the river from Spanish Arch and Galway city, is perhaps best known today for the ring – with hands, heart, and crown – that takes its name.
Scottish artist Grace Henry (1868-1953) painted Claddagh Market, Galway during the decade she spent living on Achill Island with then husband, and fellow artist, Paul Henry (1876-1958). Post-Impressionist in style, this relatively small painting modulates strong brushwork with earth tones and sparing use of bold colour.
Emily Grace Mitchell (Henry) hailed from a coastal town north of Aberdeen, but was to study at the Académie Delécluse in Paris. In 1920, she was a founding member of the Society of Dublin Painters with Letitia Marion Hamilton, Paul Henry, Mary Swanzy, and Jack B. Yeats.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Charlie Ruxton about a simple Christmas gift that brings UCC to colourful life!
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In the Christmas Build-Up we always try to give as much time as we can to books and we began in this hour with two new books from Corkonians . Amanda Neri write a book of Lockdown Limericks, and Bibi Baskin has a new book of hopefulness, meditation and joy just in time for Christmas. Conor Tallon also talked to Michael Waldron of the Crawford for this week's Work of the Week, and producer Pat Talbot had the details of an audio production from the Everyman Theatre about Cork's Two Lord Mayors, Tomás McCurtin and Terence McSweeney.
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Francis Bindon, Portrait of Jonathan Swift, c.1735,
‘I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.’
This week's Work had the brief of....being brief...due to time pressure on the show...Imagine Conor Tallon's surprise when Curator Michael Waldron told him it would be Swift indeed!
For this WORK OF THE WEEK we’re marking the anniversary of one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, Jonathan Swift, who was born in Dublin on this day in 1667!
In a diary entry from June 1735, and then in his late sixties, Swift mockingly wrote that ‘I have been fool enough to sit for my Picture at full length by Mr. Bindon.’ In fact, the artist was a friend of Swift and made several portraits of the satirist and author of Drapier’s Letters (1724), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729).
Dating to c.1735, Portrait of Jonathan Swift by Francis Bindon shows its subject less formally than in other portraits. Depicted without his customary wig, for instance, Swift (1667-1745) seems to display the melancholy he felt during this time. He kept this likeness close to him in the deanery of St Patrick’s Cathedral and later bequeathed it to his housekeeper, Mrs Ridgeway. He would also go on to endow what is now St Patrick’s Mental Health Services.
A native of County Clare, artist and architect Francis Bindon (c.1690-1765) was independently wealthy and travelled to Italy with his cousin, Samuel Burton, in 1716. He subsequently trained under court painter Sir Godfrey Kneller and was described by Swift as ‘the greatest painter and architect of his time in these kingdoms.’ In later life, he became MP for Ennis and a Freeman of the City of Limerick.
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In this hour we spoke to Linda Kenny about the Everyman Sunday Songbook Andy Williams Christmas Special. Brian Murphy had news of a festive celebration being broadcast in aid of charity from Carrigaline. Conal Creedon chatted to Conor about The Second City Trilogy broadcasts of his plays. We’d music from the Carrigaline Gospel choir, Cork songwriter Colm Fitzpatrick and more. A catch-up of some of the events people can enjoy this week online, and more chances to win super vouchers with The Lavit Gallery.
In this hour we spoke to Danielle O Donovan of Nano Nagle Place about their Winter Events. The Songstress Marguerite O Connor chatted about celebrating The Christmas Jingle in Cork for 2020 and making sure it goes ahead raising lots of money for charity. Jess Leen has a new charity single out for Alone, called “Christmas of 79”. Michael Waldron and Conor looked at this week’s Work of the Week in the Crawford. We’d more music from the Cork Chamber Choir, and some festive musical clues to win vouchers for The Lavit Gallery which has a host of Irish art and crafts which make perfect gifts for Christmas!
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Conor Tallon had a chat with Conal Creedon about the trilogy that took him on an unexpected journey around the globe...from New York to China. The second part 'When I Was God runs this week in The Everyman Theatre where all 3 parts are live streaming weekly on Thursday nights as part of their Play It By Ear series.
Anyway...It’s FAI Cup Final day and referee Dino Keegan is retiring from the game. At half-time the spotlight of self-doubt shines directly down on Dino as the ghosts of his past visit him in his dressing room. On the field of dreams the referee is God, but what happens when God is made man? Find out this Thursday live by clicking on everymancork.com
The West Cork Literary Festival couldn’t happen this year and has really been fantastic for the way it has supported writers right the way through the year instead. In a very deliberate way they’ve run so many events online and created imaginative events to bring writers and readers together.
The run-up to Christmas is no different, and Eimear O Herlihy who is the director of the festival told Elmarie how they’re setting the scene...
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Conor Tallon and curator Michael Waldron explore Kinsale Revisited (2000) - a drypoint print by David Lilburn in which features of the County Cork town, including The Spaniard and Charles Fort’s star-shaped form.
In this aerial map-like view, much of Kinsale addresses the coastal inlet that has long defined it as a strategic harbour. Reflecting on his work, Lilburn considers that “the porous membrane of the southern edge of the island of Ireland is continually traversed with arrivals and departures – military, commercial, criminal, or cultural.”
Having studied history at Trinity College Dublin, the artist describes our coastline as “a vital threshold of contact with continental Europe and beyond.” This rich association may be read in Kinsale Revisited, with its layers of built heritage, active waterfront, and text annotations suggesting not just topography but a complex history. It is one of several works on the theme of the Irish coast the artist made arising from his largescale commission, Coastline, for the Irish Pavilion at EXPO 2000 in Hanover
David Lilburn (b.1950) is an artist and printmaker who often explores concepts of memory and identity in his work through a form of mapping and the rich narrative detail that maps may embody. He trained at both the Scuole Istituto Statale d’Arte, Urbino and Limerick School of Art & Design. A member of Limerick Printmakers, he co-runs Occasional Press and is a Trustee of the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland.
Kinsale Revisited (2000) by David Lilburn is featured in Statio Bene: Art and Ireland’s Maritime Haven (Floor 1) until April 2021.
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Corcadorca this week celebrate SHOW2020 online. It runs from Wednesday to Friday and one of the playwrights featured this year is Irene Kelleher, who is showcasing a new play called "Safe Passage".
In the same week her very first play "Mary and Me" is being broadcast as a radio play on RTE, and another play "The Misfit Anthology" is being broadcast as part of the Everyman Theatre's Play it by Ear series. What a week!!!! Just phenomenal.
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Cork Opera House celebrates a superb line-up of the best in Irish contemporary bands and artists with "The Opera House Sessions featuring Coughlans Live". The first event in this series features artists like Niamh Regan, Lorraine Nash, Paddy Dennehy, and Malojian and is hosted by 96FM's Michael Carr. He spoke to Conor Tallon.
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Imagine a live concert played exclusively for you and your invited friends and family - wherever they are in the world! That's the way to bring people together virtually at Christmas, with Vladimir Jablocov, as he plays a stunning concert right to your living room. He chatted to Elmarie Mawe on Cork's 96FM about taking his famed Viennese Christmas concerts online.
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An early work by Dorothy Cross, Simeon’s Hut (1986) anticipates the artist’s later tendency to incorporate found objects, such as boats, animal or shark skins, in her oeuvre. Comprising a mix of materials, the work can be read from the gravity of lead at its base, with gilded steps leading upwards towards a narrow, vertically placed shaft of timber surmounted by a modest hut.
If we are to seek a narrative context for the work, its form coupled with its title can be taken to refer to Simeon Stylites (c.390-459). This fifth-century ascetic saint lived for 37 years on a platform atop a column near modern-day Aleppo, Syria. Does Simeon’s Hut therefore propose a site of solitary meditation away from busy communal life?
Dorothy Cross (b.1956) is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists and her work has been described as “moving from opera to object in a territory between idea and nature.”
Educated at the, then, Crawford Municipal School of Art, Leicester Polytechnic, and San Francisco Art Institute, Cross represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1993. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by University College Cork in 2009. Her work is also in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Ireland, The Hugh Lane, Ulster Museum, and TATE.
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Ger Wolfe has a brand new album out on November 26th called "Morning Star" and to mark the release of the first single from it he joined Elmarie Mawe on The Arts House. Available directly from Ger's website or through sites like Bandcamp!
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Singer, writer, Newsreader,and now maker of music videos for people like Emma Langford - check out the video for Birdsong - Jess Lean is on a roll. 2020 despite Lockdown saw her write, star and direct her first Short Film which has been screened as part of a number of film festivals already. Just after she'd read the 9am News Bulletin on Cork's 96FM & C103, she headed down the corridor of Broadcasting House to Studio One for a chat with Elmarie Mawe on The Arts House.
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Wrap up and get your hour walking done while catching up with the arts in Cork. Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon will help you get your 10k steps done while you hear what it's like to direct a play for birds, as Katrina Foley directs Lex Talionis for The Everyman. Aidan O Hare told Elmarie what it's like to work on a film set during these strange times and about Dead Still on RTE. Molly Lynch is getting ready to broadcast to Cork Opera House live from London, and we'd lots of new music too.
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Wrap up and let Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon introduce you to some guests working in the Arts in Cork this week while you get your 10k steps done. You won't notice the time passing! This walk includes news of children's theatre, live music from Triskel, new music releases, the Work of the Week in the Crawford and a review of Sunday's papers.
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Now THIS is a fantastic show for families and schools. The Everyman Theatre is proud to present "The Snow Queen" featuring the voices of Broken Crow Theatre Company and directed by Deirdre Dwyer. Family packs or School Packs will be posted to you when you buy your ticket. So snuggle up, make the cocoa, and be swept away on this tale with a twist!
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Broadcasting Live from London, Cork musical theatre star Molly Lynch will sing an evening of her favourite hits from The West End and Broadway. This is an incredible feat for Cork Opera House who have programmed a super series of concerts online for the Winter Season. To have one of our Cork stars streaming live from London is a really exciting event!
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The Vanbrugh is perhaps Cork's favourite quartet for many years. And this year, to mark Beethoven's 250th, Triskel have invited The Vanbrugh to launch a series of concerts to celebrate the anniversary. The first is Friday November 20th at 8pm and violinist Keith Pascoe spoke to Elmarie Mawe
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Cork actor Aidan O Hare has gone from treading the boards onstage in Cork to national and international recognition on screen. Currently one of the stars of Dead Still on RTE Television, he chatted to Elmarie Mawe about the show, and various film projects which still managed to be created between Lockdowns!
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Cork writer Liam Heylin has an ear for dialogue and a nose for a good story. Both are born out in his writing as a journalist and in his works for the stage. Lex Talionis explores relationships, animosities, competitive spirits and a sense of self - through the characters of 4 principal birds. Katrina Foley is the director of this work which garnered praise in Cork and Dublin at various festivals before it became part of the Everyman Theatre's "Play it By Ear" online series of radio dramas.
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Let Conor Tallon and Assistant Curator Michael Waldron of the Crawford Gallery lead you through an intimate guide to each week's Work of the Week from The Crawford Gallery in Cork.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Michael Waldron about the dark and deeply personal, Entering (1993) by Katherine Boucher Beug which draws on the artist’s memory and mark-making from childhood.
In the painting, as she reflects, Boucher Beug “used the basic idea of creating a dark background […] and drawing on it with pastel, which could be erased.” Treating the painting’s surface as a ‘black board’ allowed for erasure or retention based on the strength of the drawing. “Then,” the artist continues, “if I liked what I had made, I went over those lines with dry paint or mediums to seal the pastel lines. And then, sparsely, I added some areas of colour to make the drawings richer.”
Boucher Beug’s technique allowed for “a larger, more public format for what was essentially a secret language developed in years and years of both realistic drawing and the keeping of private sketchbooks.” Indeed, the distinctive white and red forms in Entering are obliquely illustrative of lived events and stem from the artist’s interest in feminism, psychology, and therapy.
Fun fact: Entering featured in the artist’s major solo exhibition in our Sculpture Galleries back in 1994.
Originally from Princeton, New Jersey, Katherine Boucher Beug (b.1947) has lived in West Cork since 1971. Her work plays with opposites, such as the juxtaposition of skilled, precise drawing with physical mark-making, of theory-based use of colour with found materials, and of exactly calculated compositions with spontaneous brush strokes.
Entering (1993) by Katherine Boucher Beug is featured in lucid abnormalities (Floor 1) until March 2021.
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What a shame we can't visit our galleries in Lockdown. But we can still se and buy art online, and in the run-up to Christmas what better way to do it than visit our Cork galleries via their websites! Elmarie spoke to Aoife O Connell of The Lavit Gallery on Wandesford Quay
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Greenshine have risen up the National Consciousness in recent years with their brilliant original music, and are thriving on radio play all over Ireland. But you can never take it for granted, and releasing new music when you can't tour and connect with your audience presents a few difficulties. Mary Greene joined Elmarie on air again to chat about releasing their latest single and to talk about Bandcamp Fridays - the next of which is this week.
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WE MISSED YOU!!! But now Cork Opera House is presenting a fantastic series of concerts online for the rest of 2020 to lift all our spirits, and its Director, Eibhlín Gleeson told Elmarie all about it.
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The Everyman Sunday Songbook is an institution in Cork, and its audience haven't had a chance to enjoy the tradition in many months, thanks to restrictions. This time round the team are telling the story of Frank Sinatra, with all the highs and lows of his life, and the unforgettable music legacy he left behind. Singers Damien Smith, Alan Carney and Linda Kenny are guided through the lifetime of Hollywood glamour and song by Narrator Alf McCarthy who joined Elmarie Mawe for a chat.
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Dragana Jurišić, Paula Meehan, 2018, photographic print
Conor Tallon and Curator Michael Waldron take a closer look at one of The Crawford's most recent acquisitions for this WORK OF THE WEEK!
A spectre, an echo, a memory… this photographic portrait by Dragana Jurišić is as multi-layered as its subject. Captured in mid-speech with multiple frames overlaid, the poet Paula Meehan is dynamically presented to the viewer, perhaps recalling or conjuring a deep past, her gestures like an incantation.
As the artist herself says, the portrait “is from our book Museum (2019), which is an ode to the history of, and the lives lived in, 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin’s museum of social history.” Both invited to the project by Dublin City Council, this unique collaboration draws together Jurišić’s haunting imagery with a new poetry sequence by Meehan.
Born in Dublin, Paula Meehan is a renowned Irish poet, playwright, author of “The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks” (1991) and contributor to The Great Book of Ireland / Leabhar Mór na hÉireann. In 2013, she became the sixth Ireland Professor of Poetry.
Dragana Jurišić was born in Slavonski Brod, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), but lives and works in Dublin. She makes deeply personal work that explores the power photography has over memory. “Working primarily with image, text and video installation,” she reflects, “my work interrogates issues of gender, stereotyping, identity, and the effects of exile and displacement on memory.” The artist’s empowering 100 Muses (2015) was previously exhibited in NAKED TRUTH: The Nude in Irish Art (2018).
Paula Meehan (2018) by Dragana Jurišić was shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize 2019 and now hangs as part of the collection on our Gibson Landing (Floor 1).
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The Angel of the Annunciation (1953) by Patrick Hennessy is at once simple and complex. The composition of two seemingly religious sculptures on the shore, against a backdrop of a glistening sea and clouded sky, may appear straightforward. However, when we question why these figures are placed here, who they represent, and what their relationship is to one another, then things become less clear.
A clue may be found in the title of the work, which suggests the winged figure to be the Archangel Gabriel, the messenger who reputedly announced the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. To follow this thought, we would expect the figure in the distance to be the Virgin Mary, but instead we find an androgynous sculptural form in French Gothic style.
One interpretation suggests that the subject may be taken from the Book of Revelation, in which Christ meets Gabriel, and thus the painting may relate to the beginning and the end (apocalypse). More likely is that, as relics of a previous order these out-of-place statues have lost their power, and as Seán Kissane suggests, are “irrelevant in a modern world.”
This startling, yet cryptic painting may also be rooted in the artist’s Catholic upbringing. Cork-born artist Patrick Hennessy (1915-1980) grew up in Scotland, but later returned to Ireland where he lived with his partner, and fellow artist, Henry Robertson Craig. Navigating a markedly conservative society as a gay man, Hennessy often encoded, consciously or otherwise, homosexual identity in his work and the tensions that arise between the public and authentic self.
As such, we would like to celebrate Cork Pride Festival (19-25 October) with this online contribution to the history of Irish LGBT+ culture.
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Elmare mawe spoke to writer and director Marion Wyatt about plans to reschedule her production of Katty Barry Queen of the Coal Quay at the Cork Arts Theatre..The first, new, professional production to grace a Cork stage since March 2020
Katty Barry, Queen of The Coal Quay is a new play, with music, from the creator of
Dockers, Shawlies, When We Were Young and The Sunbeam Girls. The play is a work offiction based on anecdotes, memories and folklore.
This new play, with music, composed by Jimmy Brockie, celebrates the life and times of Katty Barry. The play was written with the support of Miss Barry’s family.
Katty Barry, who was a legend in her own time, ran an eating house in Dalton’s Avenue,
just off Cornmarket Street. Katty Barry's was frequented by peers and paupers alike, and all were treated the same,with nightly songs and stories. Katty Barry served alcohol, often late at night, despite having no licence, and being repeatedly fined.
The Cork Examiner described Katty Barry as the personification
"of a people and a culture peculiar to a particularly colourful and indigenously Cork milieu",
presiding over bohemian Cork life until the closure of her establishment by the late sixties.
The Irish Times stated that Katty Barry remained
"elegant, observant, highly intelligent, with a devilish twinkle in her eye
and the ability to cut people down to size."
Cast
Rachel O’Connell, Angela Newman, Pearse O’Donoghue, Judy Donovan and Jimmy Brockie.
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I don't know about you but I was stopped from scribbling on the wall when I was small. Make it large-scale enough, though, and people get excited about it!! There's a brand new Street Art Festival in Cork called Ardú and Shane O Driscoll is the first artist to be given a whole street to paint. I caught him for a chat during a break in painting.
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The book chosen by Cork City Library for One City One Book 2020 is a humdinger of a crime thriller from Tadgh Coakley. It's called "Whatever It Takes" and he chatted to Elmarie about it...............without spoiling the plot!!!!!
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One of Cork's nicest musicians, and well known singer-songwriters, Fiona Kennedy joined Elmarie Mawe to talk about her new single.
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Throw in the headphones and head off with news of new books, music and art being created right here in Cork. Covid aint gonna stop us
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The most interesting tale and fascinating woman at the heart of this week's Work of the Week at the Crawford Art Gallery, which people can see online. Conor Tallon chats to Michael Waldron in a very special week for the gallery.
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Here's a sample of some of the live shows we cover every week on The Arts House. And we've been doing this right throughout the entire Pandemic since March. What a fantastic community of creators and artists we have around us. So go on! Give them your support online.
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Willem Van de Velde the Elder, Dutch Vessels, c.1650, grisaille on board, 91.5 x 117 cm. Purchased (Gibson Bequest Fund).
Did you know that, historically, the fleet of the Dutch West India Company frequented Cork Harbour to provision and trade? In fact, there are numerous Dutch connections in the city, from the storied Mardyke (meerdijk) to two of the architects associated with our own building, Claud Leuventhen (1724) and Erick van Egeraat (2000).
Dutch Vessels (c.1650) is attributed to Willem Van de Velde the Elder (1610/11-1693), a marine painter and draughtsman from Leiden who held an official role as artist of the Dutch fleet. In 1666, he is known to have observed two notable sea battles between the Dutch Republic and England. After 1672, he received a marine commission from King Charles II and resided at Greenwich and, later, London.
The ships depicted in this grisaille (grey monochrome) painting are, however, an imagined collection of Dutch vessels. On the left of the scene is a passenger boat, or kaag, with its distinctive leeboards designed for navigating shallow waters. On the right is the statenjacht which would have carried important dignitaries, while in the centre is a pinnace, or proto-frigate, used alternately as an escort, pirate hunter, and for attacking enemy trade ships.
On close inspection, the boards on which this work is painted are visible in bands across the surface. There is also evidence of significant overpainting which, at present, makes it somewhat difficult to accurately assess. It nevertheless offers a fascinating window into the maritime past.
Dutch Vessels (c.1650) is featured in STATIO BENE: Art and Ireland’s Maritime Haven (Long Room, Floor 1) until April 2021.
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Writer and director Marion Wyatt spoke to Conor Tallon about the story of Katty Barry and the journey taken to get this production up and running in the Cork Arts Theatre...The first, new, professional production to grace a Cork stage since March 2020
Katty Barry, Queen of The Coal Quay is a new play, with music, from the creator of
Dockers, Shawlies, When We Were Young and The Sunbeam Girls. The play is a work offiction based on anecdotes, memories and folklore.
This new play, with music, composed by Jimmy Brockie, celebrates the life and times of Katty Barry. The play was written with the support of Miss Barry’s family.
Katty Barry, who was a legend in her own time, ran an eating house in Dalton’s Avenue,
just off Cornmarket Street. Katty Barry's was frequented by peers and paupers alike, and all were treated the same,with nightly songs and stories. Katty Barry served alcohol, often late at night, despite having no licence, and being repeatedly fined.
Cast
Rachel O’Connell, Angela Newman, Pearse O’Donoghue, Judy Donovan and Jimmy Brockie.
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Aoibheann Carey Philpott has one hell of a voice, and it's one everyone in Cork should get to know!! She's spent so long training and supporting other people and it's finally time to shine herself. This is the first song from a forthcoming EP and if this is only the beginning, then great things are in store ahead. She chatted to Elmarie about the new single "Overcome"
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Elmarie met teacher Joe Hanafin and 6th Class pupils Jack Harte and Madison McGee to hear about the school which has fundriased for Cork charities for the last 10 years by releasing an annuakl cd. Unable to sell this year's release, they are asking the people of Cork to watch their video with Mick Flannery and donate instead. So many charities are losing out on their annual fundraisers, so let's get behind these brilliant children and their school!!!
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Conor Tallon spoke to the Crawford Art Gallery's Michael Waldron about this week's Work of the Week by Alice Maherentitled Familiar III from 1994 featuring acrylic on canvas and a flax sculpture .... and their intriguing relationship!
Familiar III (1994) by Alice Maher is composed of two distinct, yet related parts: an acrylic painting and a sculpture made of flax. The painted element shows a miniscule naked female by a campfire atop a white mountain, centred on a large dark minimal canvas.
In this work, the artist places different languages and materials in overlapping and interwoven relationships to each other. In the sculptural element, for instance, flax exists between states: it is neither plant, nor the thread required to make the canvas support for the painting.
Discussing the complex connection between image and object, in an interview with Cécile Bourne, Maher ponders whether the figure on the mountain “might have come out of that great black hole in the flax, might have lived there for years, a tiny mite waiting to escape onto a great big expanse”, or conversely perhaps the "sculpture could be the product of the woman's imagination…"
More recently, Alice Maher exhibited Vox Materia (2018) in our Modern Galleries. At the time of the exhibition she reflected it was in these “beautiful attic ‘drawing’ rooms of Crawford, I first attended formal classes in 1980, and began the journey to a personal visual language.”
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Emma Langford is making waves...and spoke to Elmarie Mawe about her album Sowing Acorns.
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Cork Cine Club: Bringing the Best of Independent World Cinema to Cork Audiences for Ten Years
2010 – 2020
WWW.CORKCINECLUB.COM
Breaking news is that we’ve added a second screening of THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD. Now at 6:30pm and 6:45pm.
The show will go on! Due to Covid 19 restrictions at our regular venue, we will present four films this autumn in the Gate Cinema on North Main Street.
We are delighted that the Gate has welcomed us so warmly and in conjunction with their team, we'll follow government regulations to minimise risk and provide a safe and enjoyable experience.
For this, our 23rd season, we have a new venue, new day, new time, new prices, and new booking system.
Location: The Gate Cinema, North Main Street, Cork City
Day: Wednesdays
Time: 6:30pm
Frequency: Monthly
Price: €10/€9 concession [booking fee may apply]
Booking: Online at www.gatecinemas.com
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Elmarie was personally delighted to be able to meet up with Naomi Daly in the auditorium of the Everyman as it gets ready to reopen after it's longest shutdown it the theatre's history...and just being in the theatre was in itself a source of excitement!
The Everyman Announces Programme of Live Events
The Everyman, MacCurtain Street, Cork
www.everymancork.com
The Everyman is delighted to announce a programme of live performance with a mix of rehearsed readings, comedy, and music. The re-opening heralds a new digital direction for the theatre with Play It By Ear, a programme of shows at The Everyman, which are also available live through audio broadcast to be experienced from wherever audiences are.
Naomi Daly, Acting Programming Manager at the theatre says, “we are celebrating the voice as we focus on bringing Cork’s wealth of local talent back to the stage along with some of our established favourites. It feels great to be turning the lights back on and throwing open the doors after our longest period of closure in over 30 years. We’re really excited about this programme and I hope our audiences will agree that we’ve ‘knocked it out of the Pairc!’”
Play it by Ear could be a synonym for ‘to improvise’, ‘rise to the occasion’ or ‘to think on one’s feet’. The Everyman has adapted to the new experience of performance by creating an exciting and innovative programme that highlights the exceptional theatrical talent in Cork.
As part of Play It By Ear, The Everyman presents a series of rehearsed readings, opening on October 15th withMarion, by Katie Holly who was this year’s ambassador for Cork County Culture Night. Katie says “I am so pleased and proud to be involved in the reopening of The Everyman's programme; a gorgeous, atmospheric venue that encourages and inspires the people within its walls to make great, entertaining, thought-provoking theatre. I'm also delighted to be working with Laura O'Mahony, Tadhg Hickey and Eadaoin O'Donoghue on a reworking of my first professional play 'Marion', which was first produced in 2016 for Cork Midsummer Festival.”
The Everyman continues to fly the flag for local theatre makers presenting The Whiteheaded Boy – a comedy in three acts, by Lennox Robinson and directed by Ger Fitzgibbon. Full of twists and turns, ups and downs, and families fighting each other, the play is as relevant today as when it was first performed in 1916. Not only does it reveal the dynamics of a family, but it is also a pointed analysis of Irish culture.
Later in the month, Ger FitzGibbon returns with his play The Four Faced Liar, whenthe voices of the four faces of Shandon Steeple come alive with a commentary on the city’s inhabitants below.The final rehearsed reading is the darkly chilling play The Seafarer, by Conor McPherson, directed by John McCarthy.
For music lovers there are two spectacular live music shows to look forward to as part of Play It By Ear. Majella Cullagh, one of Ireland’s foremost sopranos, returns to The Everyman with songs from the golden age of musical theatre from the genius collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein, accompanied on piano by John O’Brien. Feeling Good with Karen Underwood and John O’Brien brings us a night of heart-warming, and roof-raising jazz, soul, and blues with interpretations of the songs of Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Whitney...
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Conor Tallon met up with William Hammond in a socially distant 'Backyard' interview..to discuss how this year's festival has been reimagined... Behind closed doors ..well..mostly! There are some live gigs going!
The 41st Cork Folk Festival runs from 30 September - 4 October with key anchor events taking place behind closed doors. As part of a re-imagined festival, over 20 concerts, launches, walks and workshops are planned, including free live streaming of two concerts from the Cork Opera House featuring top folk musicians. One of Ireland's most exciting traditional music groups, The Bonny Men and Cork’s own distinguished songwriter, John Spillane performing with Dingle songstress Pauline Scanlon, are among the artists invited to take part in the one-off virtual concerts — held without audiences — on 2 and 3 October. Produced by Aniar TV, these concerts will be streamed live on TG4’s social platforms and broadcast on TG4 television at a later date. Further details are available at corkfolkfestival.com.
Festival Organiser, William Hammond said: “In our four decades of running the festival, there has never been a year quite like this. Similar to so many cultural events across the country, we needed a solution — that kept both audiences and musicians safe but still celebrated the beauty of folk music. The programme for our 41st edition of the Festival, which we are calling Festival Behind Closed Doors, is about bringing people together — virtually and in small numbers — to celebrate the extraordinary work of musicians who have provided solace and joy in recent months.”
Along with the live streaming from the Cork Opera House stage — which will also include performances from The Lee Valley String Band; Karen Casey with Niamh Dunne and Sean Óg Graham; Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Nia Byrne and Manus Lunny; and Strung with Maria Ryan, Lucia Mac Partlin, Maria O’Connor and Aonghus McCarthy — across the two nights, smaller concerts will also take place. The line-up includes a mix of up-and-coming talent and more seasoned stalwarts.
The Cork Folk Festival, funded by Cork City Council, will see singer/songwriter Leah Sohotra and multi-instrumentalist Martin Leahy perform at the Kino on 1 October. There will two concerts — 6.30pm and 8.30pm — on 2 October — from family trio Greenshine with Martin Leahy at the Triskel Arts Centre. Singer songwriter Anna Mieke will also perform at the Kino that day.
A fundraiser — Performing A Night for Ron — takes place on 4 October for Fermoy musician Ron Kavana, who is currently receiving dialysis. Singer Katie Theasby joins Dave Saunders and Alan Wallace at the Kino, with limited tickets available.
This event is one of four intimate concerts taking place in the Kino on 4 October, with a fiddle concert featuring Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Nia Byrne, Seamus Sands and Garry...
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Elmarie Mawe had the opportunity to have a heart to heart with the legend that is Phil Coulter who will be LIVE STREAMING a new show called ‘UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH PHIL COULTER’, featuring special guests George Hutton and Geraldine Branagan.
This concert is going to be really special, one for the history books.
Where and When: VENUE THEATRE, RATOATH on Thursday, 1ST, Friday, 2ND AND Saturday, 3RD OCTOBER 2020 AND the LIVE STREAM Concert will take place on the third night, Saturday, 3rd October 2020.
Phil Coulter has been a towering presence on the world music stage for over 50 years and remains an iconic figure in Irish Music.
What an amazing feeling it was to see IRELAND LADIES HOCKEY Team line out to Rugby National Anthem ‘Ireland’s Call’ written by none other than the legend that is PHIL COULTER. And then of course they qualified for The Olympics.
Phil Coulter, one of Ireland’s best-loved and most iconic musicians last year released his heartfelt biography ‘Bruised, Never Broken’.
Phil Coulter’s biography is the story of the author’s remarkable rise from modest beginnings on the streets of post-war Derry to the summit of the global charts as a composer to a host of the era’s biggest stars such as Luke Kelly, Cliff Richard, Sandie Shaw and Elvis Presley….
Phil Coulter’s place among the great song-writers of the modern age was cemented in history the day Elvis Presley recorded “My Boy”, a top 20 hit in the US and across the world. He is the only Irish artist to have a song recorded by Elvis Presley. His song ‘Puppet On a String’ won the Eurovision and his song ‘Congratulations’ placed 2nd in the Eurovision. His song ‘The Town I loved So Well’ is one of the most played tracks on Irish radio and his ‘Ireland’s call’ our rugby anthem, is played at all our international rugby games.
Very few in the music business can boast of having chart entries in every decade since the sixties. Even fewer can match the range of Phil’s output – from Eurovision winners to folk classics, from tender ballads to sporting anthems.
He has achieved world-wide recognition as a hit songwriter, notching up chart entries with a diverse list of artists from ELVIS PRESLEY to Cliff Richard, LUKE KELLY, Cilla Black to Waylon Jennings, from Bobby Vinton to The Bay City Rollers. His production credits include Van Morrison, Sinead O’Connor, Elvis Costello, Lisa Stansfield, Marianne Faithful and Richard Harris while in Ireland his successes have ranged from the Dubliners to Planxty, from Paddy Reilly to the Furey Brothers.
He has performed with everyone from James Galway and the London Symphony Orchestra to Nanci Griffith and The Blue Moon Orchestra, not to mention Henry Mancini, Elmer Bernstein and Quincy Jones!
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A TORSO HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE CRAWFORD ART GALLERY...!
This is a case for Art Detective Sam Spud...aided and abetted by his trusty side kicks Arts House presenter Conor Tallon and curator Michael Waldron!
We’re going right back to the beginning with this WORK OF THE WEEK!
“This trunk is supposed to be part of a statue that represented Hercules become immortal,” announces the first exhibition catalogue for our Canova Casts in 1819. It goes on to state that “No antique sculpture existing, is executed in higher style.”
The ‘trunk’ in question is The Belvedere Torso, a sculptural fragment of a muscular male nude seated on an animal hide. As our 1819 catalogue notes, it is thought to depict the Greek mythological hero Hercules (Heracles) or possibly the warrior Ajax.
Our plaster cast is believed to have been made c.1816 under the direction of Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822). Inscribed by the artist, ‘Apollonius, son of Nestor, Athenian’, the ancient marble sculpture from which this object is cast is itself believed to be a Roman copy of an earlier Greek statue from the 2nd century BCE.
In the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (1475-1564) reputedly declined Pope Julius II’s request to restore the torso on the grounds of its imperfect beauty. The Torso evidently captured the famed Renaissance artist’s imagination as its form can be traced to a number of figures in his Sistine Chapel frescoes.
Fun fact: The Belvedere Torso – as with the Apollo Belvedere – takes its name from the Vatican complex in which it was installed during the sixteenth century: Cortile del Belvedere (or Belvedere Courtyard).
The Belvedere Torso (c.1816) is featured in RECASTING CANOVA in our ground floor Sculpture Galleries. Free entry and open daily.
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Featuring interviews with Phil Coulter on his latest innovative enterprise, Naomi Daly from the Everyman Theatre as it Plays it by Ear, William Hammond from the Cork Folk Festival which has been completely Re-Imagined, also covering the next Cork Cineclub Season, The Work of the Week which introduces a new Art Detective... all in one neat package...summing up this weeks two hour long programme!
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This week Conor Tallon is all at sea...caught in the eye of a storm...with The Crawford's Assistant Curator Michael Waldron offering advice on how to find a safe harbour!
Hughie O’Donoghue, Medusa, 2005-06, oil and mixed media on canvas, 250 x 184 cm. Presented, 2011. © the artist.
This eye-catching WORK OF THE WEEK draws on (art) history to tell a serious tale…
Medusa (2005-06) is a large canvas by contemporary artist Hughie O’Donoghue. Its luminous abstract qualities and deep orange-to-yellow ochre tones are characteristic of his work, which seeks to achieve “an equivalent for something felt; something that embodies rather than illustrates meanings.”
The title of this work refers to a monumental painting, The Raft of the Medusa (1818-19) by Théodore Géricault, which is in the collection of Musée du Louvre. This earlier work was a response to a specific event: the infamous wrecking of the French naval frigate Méduse off the coast of Mauritania in July 1816. In Medusa, however, O’Donoghue uses it as a universal symbol for maritime disasters and the tragedy of ordinary people caught up in historical events. In this way, it also holds poignant resonance with works by Daniel Castro Garcia currently featured in IN TRANSIT.
To this end, in Medusa can be perceived the dark, ghostly silhouette of a wrecked vessel, the MV Plassy, which ran aground at Inis Oírr on 8 March 1960. It is probably from this that the rusty tones of the painting are derived. Emerging out of this rich colour at the centre of the painting is a Géricault-style face – perhaps an echo of a life?
“The image of the sea appears as a metaphor,” the artist notes about the relationship between his work and the ongoing crisis of global sustainability, “ever moving and changing its form, relentless and illusive but also timeless and constant.”
Hughie O’Donoghue (b.1953) is currently exhibiting Night Cargo(5-25 September) as part of Galway International Arts Festival 2020. Medusa (2005-06) is featured in lucid abnormalities (until March 2021) in our Gibson Galleries on Floor 1. Free entry and open daily.
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Social Distance.The term is almost a contradiction. When we're social, we break DOWN distance! But this is our "New Normal." Back in Lockdown, when it was all an alien experience, photographer Lorna MacDonald Dunlop visited her neighbours, and staying 2m apart, got them to tell their stories for the camera in a collaboration which will be shared for the first time on Culture Night. She told Elmarie all about it.
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Conal Creedon is Culture Night Ambassador for Cork 2020, and is a man with the deepest of grá for Cork and all it has to offer. Elmarie met him on the Terrace of The Montenotte Hotel, and even on a breezy morning, the city shone beneath as they chatted about how Culture Night 2020 is still a celebration with a difference.
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What could be more sublime than to sit back in your own home on Culture Night and have the internationally renowned pianist David Syme play for you on his famous grand piano?! The same piano and musician that used to hold Maureen O Hara in thrall. David has chosen a beautiful selecrtion for the evening, in one of the last opportunities to hear him play on this particular Steinway, from his own home near Glengarriff.
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This WORK OF THE WEEK might be a little offside!
Sometimes even the most memorable images can take the shortest time to make. A case in point is Portrait of Roy Keane (2002) by Murdo MacLeod, which was shot in a Manchester hotel foyer soon after its subject had infamously departed the Irish soccer team in Saipan.
“Having only a few minutes to take the photographs,” MacLeod remembers, “I produced my rotting head of a dead raven from my pocket and held it to my eye, saying ‘Could you do this?’” Taking the raven’s head, Keane asked, ‘do you mean like this?’ and a few shots later the artist had his portrait for a cover feature in Observer Sport Monthly.
Raised on the northern coast of the Isle of Lewis, Murdo MacLeod (b.1963) studied at Napier College (now Edinburgh Napier University) and has been a professional press photographer since 1985. In his work, he often makes use of dramatic lighting, unusual poses, and unexpected props. This lends his photographs a sometimes bizarre or even surreal quality, as with his Portrait of Roy Keane (2002), that even verges “on the ridiculous.” MacLeod – who has also photographed the likes of Bobby Charlton, Bill Clinton, Ricky Gervais, Jeremy Paxman, J.K. Rowling, Michael Schumacher, and Tilda Swinton – is a previous recipient of UK Press Photographer of the Year.
You can find Portrait of Roy Keane (2002) by Murdo MacLeod just off our main landing on Floor 1. Free entry and open daily.
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In terms of the Arts, the National Campaign for the Arts in Ireland was never more relevant or more critical. Consistently underfunded as a sector -and markedly so when compared to our European neighbours - Ireland has however always enjoyed the benefits of being able to use the creative output of our incredible artists for marketing purposes and to enhance our international standing. During the height of the pandemic, we all know how we depended on our artists to get us through. Right now, we need to dig a bit deeper financially and support the sector which will truly be the last to open up, post-Covid. Angela Dorgan from Cork is the current Chairperson of the NCFA and spoke to Elmarie Mawe
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Let's face it, going to the cinema is a real treat these days and you can rely on Triskel Arts Centre to screen an ecclectic mix of classics,recent releases, arthouse and shorts. September 2020 doesn't disappoint, and Chris O Neill has the lowdown.
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An investment piece, or a focal point for the garden, a stunning sculpture for your home or a one-off gift........there are many reasons why you'd be tempted by the works in The Sculpture Garden of the Montenotte Hotel, in an exhibition in association with The Kildare Gallery. Ray Kelleher of the Montenotte Hotel sat on The Terrace with Elmarie to explain.
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In the fascinating continuing series, Conor Tallon explores the latest Work of the Week at the Crawford Gallery in Cork. Art lovers can view the pieces online, or of course visit the gallery in person. This week's work is an abstract, which gets to the heart - or indeed the nucleus -of the matter........a painting on two canvases!
The startling Diptych by Patrick Scott likely dates to the mid-1960s, only a few years after the Kilbrittain-born artist had dedicated himself to being a full-time artist.
Arresting the eye with its dazzling composition, Diptych not only reveals Scott’s instinct for colour but can also be read as an expression of outrage. The bleached colouration, dripping solar halo, and unprimed canvas register the artist’s protest to the testing of hydrogen bombs and other nuclear devices. In this context, the painting can be viewed in an eery and unsettling new Cold War light.
Best known for his later ‘gold paintings’, Patrick Scott (1921-2014) is noted for his dedication to pure abstraction. Having initially trained as an architect, the artist exhibited with the White Stag Group in 1944. He would go on to represent Ireland at the 30th Venice Biennale (1960) and was elected a member of Aosdána in 1981. Scott was conferred with the title of Saoi (‘wise one’), the highest honour for a living Irish artist, in 2007 by then President Mary McAleese
Diptych by Patrick Scott is featured in lucid abnormalities (until March 2021) in our Gibson Galleries (Floor 1). Free entry and open daily.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Curator Michael Waldron about a very unusual and hard to describe
work this week!
It’s a tale of heraldry, family, and decorative arts with this curious carved object that depicts the family crest of a noted family once prominent in Cork and Waterford. The Penrose family crest consists of an escutcheon or shield emblazoned with three bends (diagonal bars) that signify protection. Each of these contain three roses, which may denote grace or faith. The shield is set on an oval cartouche decorated with scroll and tassels, which in turn is surmounted by a trout or salmon naiant (in a horizontal position).
The inclusion of the fish on this family crest relates to a legend regarding the origins of the Penroses at their traditional seat of Loe Pool in Cornwall. (The family was first documented here in 1281!) There is a long history of connection between Cornwall and the south coast of Ireland, particularly when it comes to fisheries. Today, ‘The Loe’ – or An Logh in Cornish – is the largest freshwater lake in Cornwall and is administered by The National Trust.
Born in 1736, the businessman Cooper Penrose was from the third generation of the Irish branch of the family. Having moved to Cork in 1763, he married Elizabeth Dennis, a fellow Quaker who was the daughter of his business partner. Together they lived at Woodhill on Lover’s Walk and amassed a renowned art collection.
Fun Fact: among other interests, the Penroses founded glass companies in Cork and Waterford, one of which eventually became the celebrated Waterford Crystal.
Presented to the collection twelve years ago, this historic objectis displayed in our eighteenth-century Penrose Rooms (Floor 1) along with paintings, silverware, porcelain, furniture, and books from the period. Free entry and open daily.
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Conor Tallon and Micheal Waldron headed out to Cork’s historic harbour with this WORK OF THE WEEK!
View of Haulbowline and Spike Island from Cove (1819) by Sarah Grace Carr transports us back more than two centuries to a time when tall ships and fortifications defined Cork Harbour. Close inspection of this pencil drawing reveals the artist’s keen eye for detail and economy of line, as she observes the bustle of the lower harbour.
Carr preserves a visual account of Cork Harbour at an interesting time in its history. Part of a network of defences built during the Napoleonic Wars, the relatively new Martello Towers at Ringaskiddy and Haulbowline can be seen in the background (left and right) of her sketch. An outcrop of newly-built naval buildings at Haulbowline form the backdrop to sail vessels of different sizes, as a detail of figures embarking or disembarking in the middle foreground lends interest. Rocky Island appears to the left of the scene, while land reclamation of the eastern side of Haulbowline is yet to begin. Cork Harbour was then a principle victualling port (for stores and provisions) on westward shipping routes.
Between August and October 1819, and sketching as she went, Grace Carr (1794-1837) was to visit Cork, Kilworth, and Ballyannan during her travels through Ireland and Wales. From 1821, the artist was known by her married name, Sarah Grace Lushington – her father-in-law, Sir Stephen Lushington, was Chairman of the East India Company – while she was also to become a close friend of Annabella, Lady Byron (1792-1860). Examples of her work are held at Crawford Art Gallery, National Library of Wales, and Yale Center for British Art.
View of Haulbowline and Spike Island from Cove (1819) by Sarah Grace Carr is featured with two other drawings by the artist in STATIO BENE: Art and Ireland’s Maritime Haven, our current exhibition in the historic Long Room (Floor 1). Free entry and open daily.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Michael Waldron from the Crawford Art Gallery outside in their garden café about this weeks offering....
It’s time for a ‘Guinness’ with this WORK OF THE WEEK! May Guinness, that is.
Not only does Portrait Study (c.1930) reveal May Guinness’ artistic influences but it also suggests her later collecting habits. Slightly downcast in a brown felt hat, the subject of this study is pensive and appears to be a thoroughly modern woman, much like the artist was herself.
Descended from brewer Arthur Guinness, May Guinness (1863-1955) was also a nurse and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1917 for her brave service in the French army during the Battle of Verdun (1916).
Although less experimental than some of her other works, this painting combines a Fauvist handling of colour and free brushwork with some of the spatial and formal aspects of Cubism. Both modernist art movements would have a pronounced effect on Guinness, who had begun to pursue her artistry in the 1890s as a watercolourist.
Extensively travelled throughout her life, Guinness spent time in Paris in the early twentieth century, where she encountered the work of Henri Matisse. Having studied with Norman Garstin at Newlyn, alongside Mildred Anne Butler, she would later work with Andre Lhote, as did fellow Irish artists Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett, and Norah McGuinness. She also collected paintings by Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
Portrait Study (c.1930) by May Guinness is featured in lucid abnormalities, our current exhibition in the historic Gibson Galleries (Floor 1).
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As soon as Triskel Arts Centre announced the return of live gigs - and who was playing - they sold out within a few hours. Jack O Rourke plays for a live audience on August 14th and joined Elmarie in the garden to chat about that, and about music he's been enjoying over the last few months.
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Supporting the Arts is what we do, and celebrating our extraordinary craftspeople all over Cork is always a joy each August. Maeve Murphy from Cork Craft and Design joined Elmarie to look at some highlights of Week Two.
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Every year people have the opportunity to explore the buildings around us and discover their history on Cork Heritage Open Day. Niamh Twomey is Heritage Officer with Cork City Council and spoke to Elmarie Mawe for the arts show about the 2020 event and its virtual form. This section began with one of Elmarie's favourite Irish airs, Sí Beag Sí Mór, featuring Bandon's Máire Ní Chathasaigh on harp.
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Percussionist Alex Petcu was a guest on the show with Elmarie Mawe, ahead of the upcoming Sold Out gig in Triskel Arts Centre with his sister, the violinist Ioana Petcu Colan. We also featured music from his album "In Time" and had a very tiny guest appearance from a special contributer!
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This week Conor Tallon spoke to Curator Michael Warren about the biggest Work of the Week to date!
We’re going vertical with this WORK OF THE WEEK!
‘Almost all my sculpture, large or small, appears to have a distinctive down-to-earthness, a particular grounding…’ -- Michael Warren
Measuring five metres in height, Obelisk of Bronze (1987-88) by Michael Warren is easily the tallest work in the collection. In its characteristic dignity and balance, the sculpture embodies key ideas in the artist’s practice and suggests the influence of French philosopher Simone Weil’s Gravity and Grace.
Although cast in bronze, the sculpture’s surface preserves a memory of its wooden predecessor which was carved by Warren in 1987. The materiality of wood and marks of a chainsaw can be read in the work, while its strong verticality is only interrupted at its base by a slanting cut that serves to ground it. Almost defying gravity, it at once appears to hover yet simultaneously be weighty.
Michael Warren (b.1950) lives and works in Gorey, County Wexford. Having been taught by sculptor Frank Morris at St Columba’s College, Dublin he furthered his studies at the Bath Academy of Art and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan. Among his most noted public sculptures in Ireland are Wood Quay (1994), Dublin and Tulach a’ tSolais (1999) at Oulart Hill.
Obelisk of Bronze (1987-88) by Michael Warren is displayed in our sculpture garden. See it from Emmet Place or over a tasty treat at Crawford Garden Café!
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August is a special month in Cork as every year we celebrate Cork Craft Month on the arts show. We're still enjoying the summer heat and the dandelions growing wild, so we kicked off the show with Mary Greene introducing one of our favourites, and after Maeve Murphy has her top tips for the first week of Cork Craft Month, singer BIlly Kennedy introduces his new single recorded in lockdown. We also had music from Corks Vanbrugh Quartet.
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In this clip from Sunday's arts show on Cork's 96FM & C103 Elmarie chatted to Roy Buckley about his new single "The Old Man of Patrick Street" which has been nominated for Grammy selection. Conor has updates on activities in the Glucksman Gallery in UCC, and the Uilinn West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen, and there's music from Muskerry with Iarla O Lionard ad Ger Wolfe. i
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We can't record guests in studio at the moment, so Elmarie and Conor have been inviting guests to their back garden! This week John Spillane sat for a chat about the upcoming Live gig, streamed from deBarra's in Clonakilty, in a fully ticketed Pay to View concert. Over 30 years in the business, John's chatted in studio numerous times before, so this was a gentle meander through whatever topics and tunes sprung up in conversation!
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It's been a while since Clare Sands had a chance to play in Studio One of Cork's 96FM, but she's as busy as ever, so joined Elmarie Mawe to chat about what she's up to now, and introduce a classic recorded in the Sin é in Cork.
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Continuing a celebration of just some of our Cork singers, this section features a hugely successful single from Aine Whelan's first solo album, and a dreamy late night sharing from Facebook Live of Jack O Rourke and Julie Kelleher in a gorgeous blend of harmony,
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Conor Tallon spoke to Assistant Curator of the Crawford Art Gallery Michael Waldron about this weeks featured Work of the Week....River To The Sea.
Lyrical and luminous, River to the Sea (1959) is a boldly coloured landscape by Derry-born artist Norah McGuinness. A traditional thatched cottage, turf ricks, and rugged coastline set us firmly on the edge of the Atlantic, but the composition appears unusually fragmented.
Almost like shards of a stained-glass window, the artist distils her subject into blocks of blues, greens, yellows, and purples, which are interspersed with finer details of foliage and flowers. A lone fisherman on the right animates the scene, while a strong arc sweeps through the canvas that at once suggests the course of the river, from foreground to background, and the changeable weather of the western seaboard. Is it a beating hot summer’s day, or is change in the air?
In 1929, and at Mainie Jellett’s suggestion, Norah McGuinness (1901-1980) had studied with the Cubist painter André Lhote in Paris. Thirty years later, River to the Sea not only demonstrates the influence of the École de Paris (School of Paris) on her work, but the development of her own recognisable style, comprising of strong compositional choices and confident handling of colour.
Before this painting entered the collection, it resided in the Great Southern Hotel at Parknasilla, County Kerry. It was donated as part of the Great Southern Collection in 2006 when Crawford Art Gallery was designated a National Cultural Institution.
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In this week's Work of the Week with the Crawford Art Gallery, Conor Tallon and curator Michael Waldron met face to face for the first time since Lockdown to discuss the painting in the gallery itself, rather than purely online. A little extra engineering was involved to ensure arrangements were Socially Distant and safe. This work is hanging over the grand staircase of the gallery, and it's one many people might pass by. Now his story is being told, more people will take note of and remember John Philpot Curran.
The subject of this portrait, lawyer and politician John Philpot Curran, was born at Newmarket, County Cork on 24 July 1750. Noted for his oratory, he had overcome a speech impediment by reciting the works of Shakespeare and Bolingbroke before a mirror! Having fought five duels in his lifetime, he subsequently rose to the senior judicial position of Master of the Rolls in Ireland.
Curran had been called to the Irish Bar in 1775 following an education at Midleton College, Trinity College Dublin, King’s Inns and Middle Temple. By then, however, he had already co-defended James Somerset – a slave who had declared his own freedom – to the Court of the King’s bench (Somerset v. Stewart, 1772). He would rousingly proclaim that Somerset’s “body swells beyond the measure of his chains which burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of universal emancipation.”
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During Lockdown, Cork singer Fiona Kennedy raised money online for Frontline workers and so many other causes, as she freely played and streamed gigs weekly. Her new single is another example of this empathetic singer, who was moved by the death of George Floyd. Elmarie caught up with Fiona on the phone for a chat.
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Nothing beats the magic of a live gig. And for a Cork artist, a live gig in Cork Opera House is particularly sweet. "Alive" is the new album from Mick Flannery, recorded live in Cork Opera House in 2019 and released on July 24th. Mick called to the back garden for a Socially Distant interview with Elmarie Mawe on a balmy, summer evening...........
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Conor Tallon went into The Crawford Arts Gallery tghis week to have a look at Charlotte Kennedy's, Cork Custom House 1724,
and followed up with a call to Assistant Curator Michael Waldron...to find out he'd made a big mistake!!!
This Watercolour conjures up an image of what once was, Charlotte Kennedy’s Cork Custom House 1724 (1997) offers an elevation view of the oldest wing of Crawford Art Gallery. This eastern perspective is still familiar to visitors today, although with added turret and more modern neighbours!
Built 'at the King's expense' in 1724 as the Custom House of Cork, it became one of the principle civic buildings of the city. It is present in John Carty's map of Cork in 1726 and was described by Waterford apothecary Charles Smith (1715-1762) as 'a large elegant building' complete with ‘several offices for the management [...] of the excise and customs of this port.' Possibly designed by Claud Leuventhen – architect of The Red House in Youghal – its style is distinctively Anglo-Dutch in character with classical elements.
Symbolising hospitality and Cork's international trade with the Americas and West Indies, two carved limestone pineapples may still be seen flanking the clock just above the central window on the exterior of the building.
As the artist gently indicates with barrels and elegantly dressed individuals, this was a working building on an open quay. Now the site of Emmet Place, the quayside was once 'furnished with cranes and other conveniences for the discharging of goods.' Smith also notes 'that several vessels may lie there at a time.' The building itself was flanked on either side by 'store-houses, which form two handsome piazzas.'
Cork Custom House 1724 (1997) by Charlotte Kennedy is featured in STATIO BENE: Art and Ireland’s Maritime Haven in The Gallery's historic Long Room (Floor 1) until April 2021.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Assistant Curator Michael Waldron of the Crawford Art Gallery about The River Boundary (Lough Hyne) by William Crozier.This week's work of the Week offers an escape into the natural world. The title provides a clue to the location – Lough Hyne, near Skibbereen, which has for centuries been acknowledged as a special place. Connected to the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow channel – The Rapids – it is Ireland and Europe's first Marine Nature Reserve.
The painting itself seems to inhabit a boundary between water and dry land, with tree forms mimicking kelp and the horizon line occupying a spot high on the picture plane. It all seems to glow like the Lough’s bioluminescent waters. Dating to 1988, it is an expression of the artist’s search for a new language in figurative painting, his sumptuous use of colour and form drawing in and enveloping the viewer. We have entered the landscape.
Irish-Scots artist William Crozier (1930-2011) was educated at the Glasgow School of Art and would himself later teach at Bath, London, New York, and Winchester. A member of Aosdána, he divided his time between Hampshire and his beloved West Cork. In 1991, and in collaboration with the Royal Hibernian Academy, we mounted a retrospective exhibition of his work. More recently, the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented William Crozier: The Edge of the Landscape (2017-18) in association with West Cork Arts Centre.
The River Boundary (Lough Hyne) by William Crozier features in lucid abnormalities (until April 2021) in our Gibson Galleries on Floor 1. Open daily and free entry.
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Caimin Gilmore on Double Bass weaves a spell over the listener as he plays the enchanting and evocative "SeannCheann" composed by Linda Buckley. Conjuring the Wild Atlantic as it crashes around her home place at The Old Head of Kinsale, Linda introduces the piece as she chats to Elmarie Mawe for The Arts House. This interview marked the release of the track on EP this week.
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Yvonne Coughlan tells Elmarie Mawe all about the RSVP night of theatre for Live at the Drive-In at Kinsale Arts Weekend.
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Here's a selection from Sunday's The Arts House with lots of info about various happenenings in Cork at the moment. From Cork Craft and Design with their YouTube channel ahead of Cork Craft Month to the reopening of the Lavit Gallery, and the continued brilliant work of the ArtsForAll team to an opportunity for families to get involved in this year's Summer Sing. This slice of the show also features the fascinating background to the making of one of the most famous TV ads in Lockdown.
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Elmarie Mawe on Cork's 96FM & C103 chatted to Anna Mulcahy about the 2020 celebration of Kinsale Arts Weekend. And celebration truly is the word when, for the first time in months, audiences can book tickets for live shows! From theatre to gigs, events for children, an arts trail and live music on the streets, this year's festival embraces all that brings us together -while still complying with Social Distancing! Anna divulged all the ingenius plans to Elmarie for Sunday's arts show.
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Unknown artist, View of Cork Harbour from Rostellan, Inisbeg Island, 1809, oil on canvas, 22.5 x 50.5 cm. Purchased, 2007.
Although the artist of this view is unknown, it is thought to be taken from a vantage point on the eastern side of Cork Harbour, near Rostellan, in 1809. The topography, however, appears to be exaggerated for both picturesque and dramatic effect!
Renowned for its scale, Cork Harbour covers an area of approximately 70 square kilometres. Unsurprisingly, it is one of several claimants to the title of second largest natural harbour – by navigable area – in the world, after Port Jackson in Sydney, Australia that is.
Cork Harbour’s long history includes thousands of years of settlement. Previously known as Cuan an Neimheadh (Harbour of Nemed), it was named for the leader of a group of ancient settlers who arrived in Ireland three thousand years ago.
During its long history of human occupation, the harbour was also once a key western defensive and provisioning port of the British Empire, and was retained by the United Kingdom from 1921 until 1938 as one of the ‘Treaty Ports’.
View of Cork Harbour from Rostellan, Inisbeg Island (1809) is featured in our new exhibition, STATIO BENE: Art and Ireland’s Maritime Haven. Open daily and free entry.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Assistant Curator Michael Waldron of the Crawford Art Gallery about Mainie Jellett's Abstract Composition,
As we get ready to open our doors again on Monday 29 June, it’s exciting to think about seeing and experiencing art ‘in the flesh’ once again. During the long lockdown, many of us turned to the work of artists, writers, actors, musicians, and so many others in our arts sector to sustain us and help us through.
It has been said of the artist behind this painting, Mainie Jellett (1897-1944), that for her “all the arts converged.” Particularly musical, she also designed stage sets for theatre, as she did for the 1941 ballet Puck Fair at The Gaiety Theatre. Her lifelong friend, the writer Elizabeth Bowen continues by saying that she “made felt in her painting, her consciousness of her own, and our own, time, with its death throes and birth pangs, its agonising transitions.”
Abstract Composition (c.1935) is a very fine example of Dublin-born Jellett’s disciplined form of Cubism, which she had perfected with Evie Hone and Albert Gleizes in Paris. While it may appear purely abstract, many rightly perceive a synthesis of subject matter. Using the traditional mode of oil on canvas, the artist distils her subject into modulations of colour and form, evoking something spiritual in the process. Does the painting refer to Christian imagery of the Holy Trinity or Madonna and Child?
The poet, and former Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, Thomas McGreevy once tellingly wrote that Jellett “is the least compromising as she is the best trained of what might be described as the experimental school of contemporary Irish artists.” He felt that her work was “the kind of art which shakes us out of our complacency.”
Abstract Composition (c.1935) by Mainie Jellett is on display in our Harry Clarke Room (Floor 2). Looking forward to welcoming you back!
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Conor Tallon spoke to Assistant Curator Michael Waldron of the Crawford Art Gallery about Drug Jar (Albarello),an eighteenth century, earthenware pottery jar gifted through the Gibson Bequest, 1919.
For this WORK OF THE WEEK we turn our attention to a curious object that entered our collection a century ago!
This earthenware Medicinal or Drug Jar dates back to at least the eighteenth century. More commonly known as an albarello, it would once have been used to hold ointments or other dry medicines in a pharmacy or apothecary’s shop. It is of a type of pottery called maiolica and the distinctive white and blue colouration stems from its tin-glaze and hand-painted design in cobalt oxide. This glazing is not only decorative but practical too, as it makes the jar impervious to liquids.
With their origins in the Middle East, albarelli became common in Italy and Spain in the fifteenth century. Measuring 24 centimetres (9.4 inches) in height, our example has a concave waist and would originally have had a leather or parchment seal tied at the neck. It is decorated with a bird and foliage motif that is typical to the province of Teruel in Aragon. Similar examples can be found in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas in Madrid.
This particular object was bequeathed to us in 1919, at the end of the 'Spanish Flu' pandemic, by Joseph Stafford Gibson (1837-1919), a native of Cork who had lived in Madrid for the latter forty years of his life. It is mentioned in his will among “a collection of 15 plates, four round jars about nine inches high one with handles round it and a cover, the foot is missing.” These are now displayed in our Gibson Cabinet on Floor 1.
An amateur artist, Gibson traveled and painted extensively in Spain, with many of his watercolour studies being of Albarracín, a medieval town in Teruel. It is likely that he began his earthenware collection here. Fascinatingly, Ricardo Baroja (1871-1953) recounts meeting Gibson at Albarracín in his memoir, Gente del '98 (1952).
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We are always so pleased to highlight and showcase Cork singers, songwriters and performers, whether they’re working here or abroad. And whether they’re new to the scene or working for years in the arts. JD Kelleher is one of those artists who has done and is doing it all. Somewhat of an all-rounder and chameleon. he can act, he can sing, he can present, he can write, he can change his image, he can change his voice…..you get the idea. And yet, because he is living in London now where he acts and sings and runs an actors agency with something like 200 performers on his books, we can sometimes lose sight of Cork talent abroad. During lockdown he’s been producing and releasing new music from London and it was a chance to chat and listen to music. And we went right back to the beginning, when he first left Millstreet to do arts in UCC.
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Elmarie Mawe met up with Lorraine Maye to look over the events planned for the first week of this years festival...and how they overcame all the challenges put in their way when so many other festivals have been cancelled.
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Elmarie Mawe spoke to Corcadorca crew member turned performer Sadbh Barrett Coakley about her first hand experience of performing in 'Contact'...Corcadorca's 'surprise' show for the Cork Midsummer Festival... where they arrive unannounced at various parts of Cork as the sun goes down.... already the response has been beyond their expectations.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Assistant Curator Michael Waldron of the Crawford Art Gallery about Corpus Christi Procession (c.1908) by Aloysius O’Kelly
We’re marking the Feast of Corpus Christi (11 June) with this WORK OF THE WEEK!
As we patiently await the return of large public gatherings, Corpus Christi Procession (c.1908) by Aloysius O’Kelly captures a beautiful impression of one that is long since passed.
The painting presents three young figures in profile as they participate in a religious procession. Having trained under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Dublin-born artist here adopts an Impressionist style. Describing the particular effects of light and colour, summer warmth is communicated through earthy tones, which are set in contrast by the cool whites and blue shadows of the figures’ vestments.
The setting for the painting is likely north-western France, thus making this a depiction of a Breton celebration of La Fête-Dieu (Corpus Christi). Having visited Brittany in 1876, and subsequently moving to the fishing port of Concarneau, Aloysius O’Kelly (1853-1936) became one of the first Irish artists to live and work in the region. Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940) and William John Leech (1881-1968) would follow.
Although he emigrated to New York in 1895, O’Kelly would return to France on numerous occasions, completing this work and the similarly themed Ave Maria - procession religieuse en Bretagne (1909) around the same time.
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Now more than ever the Arts in Ireland needs your support ... from the ground up and also from the top down... Regular guest on the Arts House Gerry Kelly explains the vital importance of the National Arts Recovery Plan proposed by the National Campaign for the Arts :
"If we allow the arts to be left behind as we move to rebuild Ireland, attempts to re-stimulate the arts and culture sector down the line will be unachievable, there will be far too little left for any meaningful revival of the ecosystem that salves, sustains and sells our country."
Mary Greene is an accomplished Singer Songwriter, solo artist, part of a duo with Noel Shine, and part of a trio with their daughter Ellie when they perform as Greenshine. She's also in much demand as a co-writer various albums. It's been a few years since she released anything on her own, and the reaction to a simple song on Facebook one night was the catalyst to release "All the Ones who Came Before Us" out now.
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deBarra's in Clonakilty has had superb online gigs from musicians all over the world during the Covid Lockdown, with their Sittingroom Sessions. Monday June 8th sees Carrigaline's Máirtín de Cógáin braodcasting live from his home in San Diego at 9.30pm Irish time. Máirtín was a guest on the show back in March at the outset of the Pandemic, with advice for Irish performers on doing gigs online when that wouldn't have been so common over here. So it was great to have him back for his own sake this time, rather than just having him on to pick his brains!!
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Cruinniú na n'óg is Ireland's national festival celebrating children and creativity. Now in its third year, despite venues all over the country being closed, it's still going ahead online. Siobhan Clancy is Community Arts CoOrdinator with Cork City Council and has had the job of liaiasing with all Cork's participants.
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Cliona Ní Ríordáin is Professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, and has written about an exceptional wave of poets writing in the English language, in UCC between 1970 and 1980. With so much attention on the Northern Poets, and those writing as Gaeilge, this group of writers were described as "gardening in the rain" and this book sets out to look at the factors which set the scene for this group's work to come to fruition.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Corcadorca Director Pat Kiernan about CONTACT
A travelling theatre performance
Presented by Corcadorca and Cork Midsummer Festival
with support from The Arts Council, Cork City Council and the Creative Ireland Programme
Date: 11-14 June, 18-21 June 2020
Various locations around Cork City
Contact, a highly visual performance starring Eadaoin O’Donoghue and Cormac Mohally, directed by Pat Kiernan, will be brought to multiple locations, where the local residents can experience a live performance that artistically reflects our new reality and the universally shared current challenges around human contact.
Through physical theatre techniques and exaggerated props, this short non-verbal performance will convey an exchange that reflects the struggles with the current curtailment of our social interactions. The piece will be lit dramatically and the assembly and dismantling of the set will also be choreographed to form part of the overall performance.
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Conor Tallon spoke to Curator Michael Waldron about this week's Work of the Week from the Crawford Art Gallery: Beatrice E. Gubbins, Bastia,
An early twentieth-century view of Corsica, Bastia offers us a sultry image of the Biguglia Lagoon (L'Etang de Biguglia) on the Bevinco river.
Closer inspection reveals a solitary figure in a small rowing boat close to the centre of this beautiful composition of languorous trees in greens, blues, and browns. Previously titled Lakeside Scene, A Summer’s Day it is one of seven watercolours in the collection by Irish artist Beatrice E. Gubbins.
Beatrice Edith Gubbins (1878-1944) lived, for some years, with her four sisters at Dunkettle House, overlooking the River Lee and Lough Mahon. As with her sisters, Gubbins was deaf but received treatment in London, which restored some hearing when she was in her mid-thirties. Having subsequently trained as a nurse, she tended to wounded soldiers in Cork and Exeter during the First World War.
Gubbins, who may have been educated in our building at the then Crawford School of Art, exhibited her work at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Belfast Arts Society, and the Watercolour Society of Ireland. She also travelled extensively in England, France, Italy, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the West Indies. We held a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work in 1986, as did Lismore Art Centre in 1998.
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Joe Philpott and Majella Cullagh spoke to Elmarie Mawe about Music in Community, (www.musicincommunity.ie) and sharing music with organisations like Westgate in Ballincollig and Marymount Hospice. This is extraordinary work which has a deep impact on residents, patients and families, and they are continuing this work within the Lockdown Restrictions.
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This is a great fundraising idea for a school which needs all our help. Record your family doing a song for karaoke. Upload it to Facebook. Tag St Gabriel's Special School. And click on their page to make a 5euro donation to Paypal. They're raising money for sensory equipment for the children, many of whom have autism and are non-verbal. Come on Cork! We've all got a fiver and this is fun for families everywhere! xxx
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For the June Bank Holiday we spoke to Siobhan Bridgeman, parent in St Gabriel's Special School about a Krazy Karaoke Fundraiser online. And Conor spoke to Michael Waldron about this week's Work of the Week in the Crawford Gallery. With music from John Spillane, Greenshine, The Molgoggers, Jimmy McCarthy, The Stargazers, Cormac O Caoimh, Sam Cooke, Cole Porter, Marvin Gaye and Abba!! The second hour featured Brian O Muirí who's started a new YouTube Channel to showcase the talent that got him to the West End. Conor Tallon spoke to Clodagh Whelan about an initiative from West Cork Music for young people interested in interview techniques, and Joe Philpott and Majella Cullagh spoke about Music in Community, and sharing music with organisations like Westgate in Ballincollig and Marymount Hospice, and keeping it up despite lockdown restrictions.
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For the June Bank Holiday we spoke to Siobhan Bridgeman, parent in St Gabriel's Special School about a Krazy Karaoke Fundraiser online. And Conor spoke to Michael Waldron about this week's Work of the Week in the Crawford Gallery. With music from John Spillane, Greenshine, The Molgoggers, Jimmy McCarthy, The Stargazers, Cormac O Caoimh, Sam Cooke, Cole Porter, Marvin Gaye and Abba!! The second hour featured Brian O Muirí who's started a new YouTube Channel to showcase the talent that got him to the West End. Conor Tallon spoke to Clodagh Whelan about an initiative from West Cork Music for young people interested in interview techniques, and Joe Philpott and Majella Cullagh spoke about Music in Community, and sharing music with organisations like Westgate in Ballincollig and Marymount Hospice, and keeping it up despite lockdown restrictions.
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Vivienne Roche, Viapori Bell, 1991:
This WORK OF THE WEEK is the first artwork that visitors encounter – sometimes even ring! – on visiting the gallery.
The distinctive form and sound of Viapori Bell (1991) by Vivienne Roche transports us in time and place.
The title refers to the eighteenth-century sea fortress of Viapori (Suomenlinna or Sveaborg), which is located southeast of the Finnish capital of Helsinki. While the smooth, narrow form of the bell's housing echoes this defensive architecture, the bell itself appears more organic and rougher hewn.
Viapori Bell (1991) is a product of Roche's travels in Scandinavia and consciously rekindles earlier, medieval contact between Ireland and the Nordic countries. Although it is itself an earlier work in the artist's career, it holds a strong resonance with her more recent series of Climate Bells inspired by President Michael D. Higgins' address at the Summit of Conscience for Climate in 2015.
Conor Tallon spoke to Dr Michael Waldron from the Crawford Gallery about the week's work of the week:
George Atkinson's Shannon Scheme No. 2: The Culvert, 1929, etching on paper, 45.5 x 50.4 cm. Presented, 2015.
We’re all about forward motion with this WORK OF THE WEEK!
Shannon Scheme No. 2: The Culvert (1929) is one of a series of etchings by George Atkinson in the collection that document Ireland’s major civil engineering project of the 1920s.
Begun in 1925, construction of the Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme at Ardnacrusha, County Clare was completed within seven years of the formation of the Irish Free State. A potent symbol of independence and modernity, it also generated huge employment and interest from the public and artists alike, including George Atkinson and Seán Keating.
Derived from drawings the artist made on site c.1927, Atkinson’s series – which also includes Shannon Scheme No. 1: Keeper Mountain and Shannon Scheme No. 3: The Excavations – had been commissioned by the Irish government. Collectively they demonstrate the sheer scale and ambition of the project, which would see the formation of the ESB and culminate in the harnessing of Ireland’s longest river.
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Elmarie Mawe was chatting to Michael Maurin, June Lacour and Marion Schormanzer about Africa Day Cork 2020 celebrations online. Christiana Underwood from Voiceworks had the details of an online concert in aid of Cork Simon this week. Conor spoke to Dr Michael Waldron from the Crawford Gallery about this week's Work of the Week. Conor was also chatting to Colm CT Wilkinson about his new single Harcourt Street. Adrian Wistreich from Kinsale Pottery and Ceramics has a Pottery Lockdown Challenge people can do at home. Rebecca Storm recorded a song across the miles with her daughter who is in Lockdown in the UK, and we'd music from Áine Whelan, Ger Wolfe, Eddie Reader, Caesaria Evora, Voiceworks Virtual Choir, and a classic from the CYO 60th Anniversary concert recorded live in City Hall - The Dambusters!
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Elmarie Mawe was chatting to Michael Maurin, June Lacour and Marion Schormanzer about Africa Day Cork 2020 celebrations online. Christiana Underwood from Voiceworks had the details of an online concert in aid of Cork Simon this week. Conor spoke to Dr Michael Waldron from the Crawford Gallery about this week's Work of the Week. Conor was also chatting to Colm CT Wilkinson about his new single Harcourt Street. Adrian Wistreich from Kinsale Pottery and Ceramics has a Pottery Lockdown Challenge people can do at home. Rebecca Storm recorded a song across the miles with her daughter who is in Lockdown in the UK, and we'd music from Áine Whelan, Ger Wolfe, Eddie Reader, Caesaria Evora, Voiceworks Virtual Choir, and a classic from the CYO 60th Anniversary concert recorded live in City Hall - The Dambusters!
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On this week’s show Elmarie Mawe spoke to George Hanover about a new children’s writing project from Triskel for Cruinniú na nOg.
We’ve new music from Fiona O Brien and Castlyons Gospel Choir…. but they don’t sing a note
A sensational song co-written by Sally O Leary from Cork and recorded by Claire O Leary and her colleagues in the West End
And a new play commissioned by Corcadorca, which incredibly foretold the experience of lockdown we’re all going through. Elmarie was chatting to its author Eadaoin O Donoghue.
This week Conor Tallon got to catch up with Mick Hannigan from Indie Cork…Cork’s Festival of Independent Film…where they have put out an interesting and fun challenge for Cork Film makers of all types!
And Conor went back in time thousands of years to the age of the Greek Gods …also saying thank you to frontline staff everywhere in the company of Michael Waldron from The Crawford.
And we’ve news on free professional training from the Opera House and ideas on things to do from the Glucksman…we’ve never seen a busier time in the arts to be honest!
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On this week’s show Elmarie Mawe spoke to George Hanover about a new children’s writing project from Triskel for Cruinniú na nOg.
We’ve new music from Fiona O Brien and Castlyons Gospel Choir…. but they don’t sing a note
A sensational song co-written by Sally O Leary from Cork and recorded by Claire O Leary and her colleagues in the West End
And a new play commissioned by Corcadorca, which incredibly foretold the experience of lockdown we’re all going through. Elmarie was chatting to its author Eadaoin O Donoghue.
This week Conor Tallon got to catch up with Mick Hannigan from Indie Cork…Cork’s Festival of Independent Film…where they have put out an interesting and fun challenge for Cork Film makers of all types!
And Conor went back in time thousands of years to the age of the Greek Gods …also saying thank you to frontline staff everywhere in the company of Michael Waldron from The Crawford.
And we’ve news on free professional training from the Opera House and ideas on things to do from the Glucksman…we’ve never seen a busier time in the arts to be honest!
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Conor Tallon spoke with assistant Curator Michael Waldron from the Crawford Art Gallery about this week's Art Work of the Week...
Bust of Asclepius
Today’s theme is Heroes so we’re dedicating this WORK OF THE WEEK to all of you frontline healthcare staff out there. Thank you from all of us!
Did you know that the Greek god of healing was named Asclepius? While he may not be a household name today, he was a prominent hero and deity in ancient times. One of his attributes – a snake-entwined staff – still symbolizes healthcare and features prominently on the logo of the World Health Organization (WHO). Son of the god Apollo and the mortal Coronis, his story is quite literally the stuff of legend…
Conor Tallon spoke with assistant Curator from the Crawford Art Gallery about this week's Art Work of the Week...
An Strachaire Fir (c.1923) by Joseph Higgins is a remarkable bronze sculpture in the collection. Translated as ‘the strapping man’, Cast in Italy in bronze, the original clay model was made c.1916 when the artist was 30 or 31.
A native of Ballincollig, Joseph Higgins (1885-1925) took night classes in our building (then the Crawford School of Art) while working nearby, on French Church Street, at the grocers and tea dealers Newsom & Sons. In 1924,
In 1914, Higgins had married fellow artist, Katherine Turnbull, whom he met at art school. While they were to have four surviving children, he would succumb to tuberculosis in 1925, aged just 39. Their daughter, the artist, designer, and teacher Maighréad (1919-2014), would later marry sculptor Séamus Murphy, whom she had met during her own studies in our building.
Modelled on his nephew, a bronze cast of Joseph Higgins’ Boy with Boat (1910) is a beloved mainstay of Fitzgerald Park in Cork.
Conor Tallon spoke with assistant Curator from the Crawford Art Gallery about this week's Art Work of the Week...
marking the 104th anniversary of the Easter Rising
The Breadline, 1916 (c.1950) by Muriel Brandt looks back on a tumultuous time in our history and reflects the associated hardship experienced by Irish civilians. The painting has been described as ‘an interpretation of the aftermath of the Rising, showing the effect it had on the ordinary people of Dublin.’
In the foreground of this busy composition, various children are gathered waiting for the women who queue for bread provided by the Daughters of Charity. Ironically, the Rising had left the nearby Dublin Bread Company building in ruins. Popular memory tells of bread being brought in from unaffected bakeries in County Kildare and elsewhere to relieve the city’s hunger. Identifiable by their traditional habit and large starched cornettes, the Daughters of Charity had a premises on Henrietta Street.
Artist Philip Gray will be painting LIVE on Facebook, from his studio in Kinsale,every day this week, and chatting about his incredible adventures as he's travelled around the world to paint in the most amazing locations. He had all the details for Elmarie. Conor spoke to Mary McGrath from First Cut Film Festival about the superb selection of films from young directors, now available to view online. And this week sees International Day of Dance on Wednesday and we want to get Cork DANCING!! Yvonne Coughlan from the Firkin Crane has a mission for families everywhere. Conor has the latest update from deBarra's sitting room sessions. We'd music from Aine Whelan, The Lost Brothers and more.
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Who could have predicted the arts scene in Cork to still be so strong and inspiring at such a difficult time? This hour we featured actress Christine Terry with meditations for children, Michael Waldron had a chat with Conor about the Crawford Gallery's Work of the Week, and we looked at the online recital series run by Triskel Arts Centre with Gillian Hennessey. Music from Michelle Fitzgerald and more!
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Every week on The Arts House Assistant Curator Dr Michael Waldron from the Crawford Art Gallery takes a journey through a currently exhibiting work in the company of Arts House presenter Conor Tallon.
French artist Francis Tailleux (1913-1981) relocates us to the Dieppe seafront on the Côte d’Albâtre – Normandy’s beautiful Alabaster Coast – in A Street Scene (1936). Flags flutter on the sea breeze, as walkers make their way along the Boulevard de Verdun.
Look closely and you’ll spot a girl playing ‘hoop and stick’, while a smartly dressed staff member emerges from a nearby hotel. Following the strong diagonal of the boulevard, the Hôtel Royal stands further in the background, a building which still exists today.
Fun fact: this leisurely scene was completed in the same year as the Accords de Matignon, the French labour agreement that established the 40-hour workweek and two weeks paid vacation.
Every week on The Arts House Assistant Curator Dr Michael Waldron from the Crawford Art Gallery takes a journey through a currently exhibiting work in the company of Arts House presenter Conor Tallon.
Donkeys in County Clare (c.1955) by Sylvia Cooke-Collis is painted in the artist’s characteristic style, not unlike that of Henri Matisse.
Perhaps owing to her own childhood at Annes Grove, County Cork, Cooke-Collis returned again and again to depicting horses and rural or coastal landscapes in her work
Three of them have obediently posed for artist Sylvia Cooke-Collis (1900-1973) along the rocky West Clare coastline, while four more can be seen in the background, keeping a safe distance with the Atlantic Ocean spreading out beyond..
Elmarie Mawe chatted with Mary McCague about how her music mixes with Acapella are reaching an International audience. And about how her little 3yr old daughter is stealing the hearts of all the viewers on YouTube!
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Taylor Neaves from Crosshaven is the main driver behind "The QuarantineSessions" on Facebook Live each Saturday. They've raised lots of money for Penny Dinners in Cork so far, as well as providing a platform for singer songwriters to connect with a wider audience.
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Micahel Ryan chatted to Elmarie about Hubcap Theatre now they have a link on the www.artsforall.ie website and their own YouTube channel as well. And we'd a few clips from their work to give everyone a giggle this morning.
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The Ceili Experience is a series of dance lessons put together mby master teacher Fionan Cogan, who is probably one of Cork's best kept secrets when it comes to Irish Dancing and Ceili craic. He chatted to Elmarie about putting lessons online, free, during the Lockdown.
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The Montfort College Online
– The Montfort College of Performing Arts have moved their classes online during these uncertain times. In an effort to offer kids something creative and constructive to do during the week while parents struggle with a full house or in deed, working from home as well as home schooling, the Montfort’s have come to the rescue with a whole heap of classes to choose from 7 days a week; including Hip Hop, Mini Ballet, Acro, Musical Theatre, Singing, and many more, look no further for ways to while away the hours.
With 40 classes available online with 20 of their finest staff, the Montfort’s are ensuring that the young people of Cork will remain together while staying a part.
The Crawford Art Gallery At Home
Dyane Hanrahan marketing and communications manager at the Crawford explains the various exhibitions and online activities that will keep the gallery open to the public on their website at least! The gallery aims to distract audiences through their social media channels and their website www.crawfordartgallery.ie with content created specifically to bring the Gallery experience into peoples homes.
In this hour Conor chatted to Ray Blackwell from deBarra's Folk Club in Clonakilty about their "Sittingroom to Sittingroom Sessions" streaming nightly on their Facebook page. Eoin Nash had all the details for the www.artsforall.ie website which is giving a platform to various arts groups in collaboration in the City and County, and is filled with daily activities for everyone. Julie Kelleher, director of the Everyman Theatre talked about the work of dismantling entire seasons of work in theatre, but also about the positive move to use the Everyman website as another portal for so many arts activities and groups. We had updates on what's happening in the Crawford, an excerpt from storyteller Eddie Lenihan's podcast called "Tell me a story with Eddie Lenihan", new music from Mark Daly to highlight Autism Awareness Week, and much more.
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Brendan Collins Baritone chatted to Elmarie about the Facebook page Songs for Social Distancing which gives a platform to singers from all genres. Catherine Mahon Buckley chatted with Conor about www.cadaperformingarts.ie and moving drama teaching online. And we looked back at a story from Pat Speight, to mark the anniversary this week of O Henry's story "The Gift of the Magi."
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Who doesn't love a boogie! And dancing at home is one way to keep fit during the LockDown. Marguerite O Connonr is known for sensational productions, sing-alongs, and big occasions like the Christmas Jingle. She's organising a fantastic dance challenge to keep everyone busy!
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Angela Newman is known for the exciting and inventive productions with ChattyBoo. But now that theatres are dark, she's turning her attention to her other love: Arts and Crafts for young people! In a brilliant lifesaver for parents, Angela will post you materials for a craft session each week, and in a Live Instagram tutorial, lead your children through a creation each week! She had all the details when she chatted to Conor Tallon.
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There isn't anything Lucy Wolfe doesn't know about sleep. Sleep problems, sleep patterns and sleep disruption. And she is an expert on Sleep Matters with her books on Sleep Solutions! Her second book "All About the Baby Sleep Solution" is out now, and answers the questions of thousands of parents worldwide. Now sleep is disturbed for ALL of use lately, she has tips for everyone.
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We're in thrall to the amazing acapella artists out there, and the COVID19 lockdown has brought a whole raft of new videos. Cork's Lorna Moore is one person who has been using, performing and teaching with acapella software for ages and she chatted to Elmarie about it.
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Cormac O Caoimh's latest album "Swim Crawl, Walk, Run" is just gorgeous. And following the release of his latest single from it "When my Kids Get Too Old To Hold Hands", he chatted to Elmarie about the album, and the experience of co-writing with Mary Greene and Martin Leahy.
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Conor Tallon made his first conference call over Skype to catch Chris Aherne and Hugh McCarthy together talking about Cork's newest Record Label CSM Sounds! You can listen to the tracks online by simply searching for the label...CSM Sounds. there's a lot to enjoy!
But the journey to the Cork School of Music label...began 31 years ago!
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Conor Tallon talked to Donie Walsh about The Clonakilty Choo Choo a play by Ian Wild- directed by Belinda Wild.
The main character Kevin is passionate about the long closed West Cork Railway and has adapted his house to accommodate an extensive model of the railway line. Spending his days communing with his model train set he unexpectedly discovers romance.
Inspired by the rich local heritage of West Cork, The Clonakilty Choo Choo is a new one man show, a comedy and part historical documentary about the West Cork line.
Including archive film footage of the Railway, together with model trains and figurines from the 1950’s and performed by local actor and director, Donie Walsh,
The 31st Cork French Film Festival gets underway on Wednesday, March 4th, with the opening film "Proxima"starring Eva Green as a female astronaut who must leave her young daughter behind as she sets out on a year's mission. There follows 4 more days and nights of superb cinema screenings, galas, documentaries, family specials and outstanding drama. Josselin Le Gall (French Consul in Cork) and Valerie David-McGonnell, both directors of the Alliance FRrancaise in Cork and members of the CFFFBoard, came in to studio to spread the word.
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The Everyman Sunday Songbook, and the Great Singalong Songbook around the country, have become such huge hits, selling out theatres from the NCH to the Theatre Royal. This episode features songstress Linda Kenny as she chats with Elmarie about the intriguing lives and unforgettable music of Connie Francis and Bobby Darin.
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Stunning Live music from Luci Azconaga and Consuelo Breschi, aka VARO in Studio. Elmarie Mawe was also joined by Joe Kelly and Ed O Leary (The Good Room) to talk about upcoming events "It Takes a Village (Trabolgan, May) and the West Cork Podcast, Live at St Lukes. Julie Kelleher, Director of the Everyman Theatre was in studio to talk about the success and international acclaim for Louise O Neill's "Asking for It", as well as upcoming productions over the next few months. And Deirdre Frost came in to tell us about a new Jazz Club in Coughlan's of Douglas Street every month.
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Valentine's night is special, but this year it's pure magic with Eddi Reader casting her spell over Cork in The Everyman Theatre. Eddi has been a guest on the show many times, chatting about her life and musical career. This time, Elmarie Mawe took her through some of her most loved songs requested by listeners on Sunday mornings.
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What a feast of a festival is in store for Cork across 4 days, as Quarter Block Party kicks off its 6th year on Thursday Feb 6th. Ruairi O Donovan came in to studio to chat with Elmarie about some of the theatre and installation events taking place this week. For the full lineup of bands and performances find QBP on your social platforms.
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Deirdre of the Sorrows is one of the most epic legends in Irish folklore. Her stunning beauty inspired love, lust, jealousy, rage, revenge, war, loss and death. How amazing is it to have the story brought to life on stage through Opera, with John O Brien composing a blockbuster score fore Eadaoin O Donoghue's libretto? Deirdre and the Sons of Usna is the latest opera to be produced at the Everyman Theatre. Liosa O Sullivan also came to studio to talk about the Friends of Everyman Opera and supporting artists into the future.
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Conor Tallon interviewed Dr Michael Waldron curator of the Zurich Portrait Prize exhibitions at the Gibson Galleries in the Crawford...as the walls were being repainted and the barest they've been in quite a while...the exhibition runs until April 13 and contains some wonderfully original and thought provoking works of art...the pick of artists working on this island today ,,, some as young as 3 years old!
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West Cork Literary Festival has for over 20 years showcased the best of Irish and International authors. Ahead of the full 2020 programme reveal, the workshops are already on sale, and hugely popular each year. From Crime Writing to Poetry, Festival Director Eimear O Herlihy had all the details for Elmarie.
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From teaching Montserrat Caballe a song 30mins before they performed together, to singing with Jerry Lee Lewis, and from 30 years touring the world to singing with his family, Finbar Wright has so much to share. As full of the joy and love of singing as ever, his Songs You Love tour still sees new collaborations and new material. He called in to the kitchen to chat to Elmarie ahead of a new date in the INEC.
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Banish the January Blues with The Ballincollig Winter Music Festival... Joe Carey explains the success of one of Cork's first festivals of the year!
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Elmarie Mawe chats to Joe Meagher, John McCarthy and Gary Murphy about Ronan Fitzgibbon's play which takes you on a boat journey down the River Blackwater, and the fragmented memories of a life lived in search of the perfect pub singsong.
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The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online - they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope. Brian O'Connell opens a door into the lives of ordinary people with extraordinary stories.Elmarie Mawe found out more as they shared his journey... parked in her car in Blarney!
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A Live ArtsHouse Podcast: Elmarie Mawe discusses the vibrant Arts scene in Cork with Gillian Hennessy from the Triskel Arts Centre and Gerry Kelly from The Cork Pops Orchestra ahead of the Annual Tea Dance in Cork City Hall
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Elmarie Mawe met up with Improvised Panto cast members Laura O Mahony and Bernard Casey and they had a hoot talking about the show currently running at The Opera House in Cork.
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Don't know what books to buy this year? Then ask someone who reads a lot of books...like the Festival Director of West Cork Literary Festival Eimear O Herlihy. Conor Tallon met her for a whistle stop tour of the definitive 2020 Book List.
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Conor Tallon and Wayne Hilton headed off to the Atlantic Flight Training Academy in Little Island to fly a 737!
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Conor Tallon visited Nano Nagle Place for The Arts House to see their new bookshop, print gallery and map room. And sample the menu in the Good Day Deli! Broadcast on Cork's 96FM & C103
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The first Artshouse Podcast features the full conversation that Elmarie had with Phil Coulter following his life, his music and his memories of Gay Byrne....The early morning Arts programme goes out on Sundays all over Cork on 96FM and C103.
Phil Coulter’s biography is the story of the author’s remarkable rise from modest beginnings on the streets of post-war Derry to the summit of the global charts as a composer to a host of the era’s biggest stars such as Luke Kelly, Cliff Richard, Sandie Shaw and Elvis Presley….
In fact he is the only Irish artist to have a song recorded by Elvis Presley. His song ‘Puppet On a String’ won the Eurovision and his song ‘Congratulations’ placed 2nd in the Eurovision. His song ‘The Town I loved So Well’ is one of the most played tracks on Irish radio and his ‘Ireland’s call’ our rugby anthem, is played at all our international rugby games.