On St Patrick’s day this year, the Lord Mayor launched The Cork Civic and Mayoral Museum. The museum, is housed in the original City Hall building and contains, among other important items, portraits of 75 Lords Mayor who have held office since the establishment of the title.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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
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 [...]
Cork Culture Night 2010 will take place on Friday 24th September 2010. Culture Night is a series of free events from early evening through to late night in venues throughout the city. Cork City Council Arts Office is coordinating this programme which is presented in partnership with
This year sees an action-packed festival with 16 days and nights of the very best in theatre, dance, music and arts participation from Cork, Ireland and the entire world. We have new productions and Irish premieres taking place in every
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