The Little Island Business Association is delighted to welcome Alicja Sweeney to our community. Based in Midleton, Co. Cork, Alicja brings a unique passion and expertise to the art of personal branding photography, capturing images that are true reflections of her clients’ personalities and professional identities. We interviewed Alicja to learn more about her approach…
The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has once again been a phenomenal success, with businesses reporting a 12% increase in sales compared to last year. The headline performances may be over for another year but the festival continues today with the Guinness Music Trail in 72 pubs across the city, Douglas and Kinsale. The festival, which…
Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery has acquired two more paintings by one of Ireland’s best-known painters, Seán Keating. The Keating paintings are amongst four artworks recently acquired at auction by Crawford Art Gallery for the National Collection. Sean Keating’s Elijah with the Ravens, Version II (1930) and his self-portrait, c.1961, along with Winter Evening, Calary (1964) by abstract and landscape artist Camille Souter…
The beloved Ballymaloe Craft Fair, showcasing the best of Irish-made craft and design, is returning to Ballymaloe Grainstore this November, just in time for the 2024 festive shopping season. Each weekend, from November 15th-17th and 22nd-24th, more than 200 of Ireland’s finest artists, designers and food producers will display their products as Ballymaloe Grainstore transforms…
The Gleann a’ Phúca Creative Climate Action project will culminate in Cork’s Glen River Park on Saturday September 28th with a full day of events showcasing the outcomes from a 12-month programme of artists’ public engagement projects responding to the ecological, cultural, industrial and historical heritage of the northside city park. The day includes…
The eagerly awaited Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has just announced exciting new acts for its 2024 line-up. Revealed at this evening’s programme launch, fans can now look forward to performances from more artists including iconic pioneers of alternative hip-hop from New York, De La Soul & Special Guest, dynamic Chicago-based brass band Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, and The X Collective and…
Fast becoming a festival that champions established and emerging Indie bands, Upstart have managed to secure Cork band Cardinals to headline this years Upstart festival. Now in its 4th year and with a stellar lineup that includes I Dreamed I Dream, The Men From Manhole, Single Men in their twenties, Telebox(UCC battle of the bands winner…