Serious talent across all the Creative Arts @ Seo Youth Festival in the Marina Market. @cllrkmac@CorkETB@ETBIreland@corkcitycouncil@Corkcoco thanks to Youthwork Services team for pulling it all together with Sinead @WeAreEventi …our creative & climate future is in safe hands
Fantastic to see the collaborative script of Voices from the Inside performed in Cork ETB's Education Unit,Cork Prison,last week.Well done to the students & their teachers Shirley,Ciarán & Hannah.We look forward to seeing this wonderful collaboration continue to grow and flourish
Celebrate DouglassWeek at the City Library!
Frederick Douglass & Ireland Exhibition explores Douglass’ connection to Ireland focusing on his time in Cork. The exhibition will be on display from 8 - 20 April.
Find out more about DouglassWeek here 👇
https://t.co/CQszrBriA2
There are a myriad of fabulous literary festivals running in Ireland every year, plus our incredible library network who regularly organise events for their readers.
We have put together a list at: https://t.co/1MbUmjBYi8
If you know of one we’ve missed, do please get in touch!
Soul Soup is a mixture of soul,RnB, jazz, funk, neo-soul, hip-hop... In this episode we explore the many 70s groups beginning with “The”, (e.g, The Supremes, The Temptations). With some amazing songs from bands like Sly and The Family Stone. https://t.co/jBg1sC38oq
Honoured to win Cookbook of the Year at the Irish Foodwriting awards last night. To celebrate, the book’s on sale at a reduced price for the weekend over on the https://t.co/M4grj0e7pb site
Israeli goods taken off the shelves in Lidl in Tallaght. These should not be for sale.
Will be continuing to target and protest @lidl_ireland until they stop stocking Israeli products.
#BoycottIsrael#BoycottIsraelProducts
ISRAEL TARGETED A JOURNALISTS FAMILY AND KILLED THEM. how on earth have we normalised this? It's barbaric. Think back to any time a white journalist (let alone their family) has been targeted and killed....now compare the outrage.
An entire culture, history and people are disappearing under the rubble – buried by the moral cowardice of our political leaders.
Artists whose work we will never know.
Teachers whose lessons we will never learn.
Children whose laughter we will never hear.
We must keep raising our voice for an immediate ceasefire. For the universal application of international law. For our shared humanity.
For the only path to a just & lasting peace: an end to the occupation of Palestine.
The indigenous Mollo women of West Timor who use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings. During protests, hundreds of women reportedly occupied mining sites for months on end #WomensArt
Kindred Spirits is a large stainless steel sculpture in County Cork by Alex Pentek
It commemorates a life giving
In 1847 the Native American Choctaw were incredibly generous to the people of Ireland in the Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship having recently endured displacement
The sculpture consists of nine 20-foot (6.1 m) stainless steel eagle feathers arranged in a circle, no two feathers being identical, forming a bowl shape to represent a gift of a bowl of food,
The sculpture honours the actual help the Native American Choctaw gave to the people of Ireland
📸Gavin Sheridan
Proudly holding up my novel, about the young Famine Girls who sailed off to Australia, beside the monument to them outside Ballina Library. Just a flying visit but I hope to return very soon. Thank you @MayoLibrary for a wonderful two days! @OBrienPress