Arts

Christmas In Cork

Posted by on October 25, 2011 at 12:50 pm

For the past number of years, Cork City Council has fulfilled a key role in generating visitors, footfall, spend and interest in the City Centre for the lead up to Christmas, in order to make the city a vibrant and attractive place to visit, dine and shop. This year, the initiatives taken in previous years [...]

Christmas Celebration on Grand Parade.

Posted by on November 29, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Experience the festive season at A Cork Christmas Celebration on the Grand Parade, the most loved free festival organised by Cork City Council in association with Bord Gáis Energy, returns to Cork for its third year. A Cork Christmas Celebration on the Grand Parade was recently named Festival of the Year by Chamber Ireland’s Local [...]

Cork Opera House

Posted by on September 28, 2010 at 4:57 pm

At our Council meeting on Monday night, City Council approved an extra €250,000 loan for the Cork Opera House as the company continues to restructure. In May and June of this year the following facilities were approved by

Cork Culture Night 2010

Posted by on September 15, 2010 at 1:14 pm

As night falls on Friday, 24th September next, over 60 art and culture venues across Cork will fling open their doors to over 20,000 people for a night of high drama, behind-the-scenes tours and rare performances not to be missed, all part of Cork Culture Night 2010. Cork City Council launched the official

Cork Operatic Society – Sweeney Todd

Posted by on August 3, 2010 at 11:51 pm

Last week, I had the honour of being asked to launch of the Cork Operatic Society’s production of Sweeney Todd. A Cork based amateur society that stages one operatic show each year. The reputation of the Cork Operatic Society precedes them. This is a society that was born out of adversity and the only remaining [...]