Who we are

Cork Cultural Companions is an Age & Opportunity Arts initiative, delivered by Muintir Cork and supported by the HSE and Cork City and County Councils. Cork Cultural Companions has local networks of members who attend events together regularly in Cork City, Mallow, Bantry and East Cork.

Monday, 8 July 2024

July at the Triskel

 

Hi Cork Cultural Companions


Welcome to the Triskel Newsletter for July. After an exciting month filled with late-night events, it’s a little quieter on the musical front at Triskel for July. It’s also quieter because Nightlight is inspired by lullabies, sleep, dreams, peace, rest, succour and is especially for babies 0-12 months and their carers. It’s something that clearly appeals because all four performances on Thursday 4 July are now sold out!

 

Triskel Sample Project Space has been taken over by an exhibition by four artists, Caroline Boyfield, Laure Colomer, Rebecca Bradley and Ida Mitrani. Caroline and Laure travelled to Cork in May 2024 to undertake residency activity in Sirius Arts Centre and Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, while Rebecca and Ida engaged in a residency in Brittany, France, in April 2024. On Friday 5 July, you have the opportunity to Meet the Artists between 11am and 2pm. Come along to say hello and learn more about their work and their residencies.

 

Triskel Cinema is still powering on with our usual eclectic mix of classics, Irish and international films, including Pat Collins’ That They May Face the Rising Sun, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness, and Rue de la Lune, which is part of our Phantoscope series.

 

Looking ahead to next month in Triskel Cinema, you can look forward to our Paul Verhoeven Season. This season of five films screened on Saturday evenings in August are dedicated to one of the most divisive, controversial and successful directors who worked in American cinema during the late 20th century. Tickets are on sale now.


See you soon
Gillian and the team at Triskel

Coming in August


Sunday, 7 July 2024

West Cork History Festival 9-11th August

The West Cork History Festival will take place over the weekend of 9 - 11 August 2024 at the beautiful Inish Beg estate, which was such a great location for our 2023 Festival.

Our programme this year will have two broad themes: Aftermaths and Diaspora.

Scroll down for more information on our Festival Field trips.

Friday 9 August 

17:30-21:00

Octagon
17:30 - 19:30Opening remarks followed by Professors Margaret MacMillan & Roy Foster
20:00 - 22:00Screening of Rebel Wife, directed by Williams Rossa Cole, and telling the story of Mary Jane O’Donovan Rossa
The bar will be open and food available

Saturday 10 August 

10:00-21:00

OctagonBoathouse
10:00-11:00Andy Bielenberg and John Dorney, in conversation with Helene O’Keeffe - Mapping the Civil WarChristopher de Bellaigue - Suleiman the Magnificent
11:15-12:15Donal Byrne - Afterlives of Big House FamiliesRosa Gilbert - Oral Histories of the Irish in Britain
12:30 -13:30Conor Gearty – How Counter-Terrorism Law Has Changed What We Allow Under Liberal Democracy
Breandan Mac Suibhne – The Miller Collection of Letters
13:30-14:30 Lunch – food and drink will be available
14:30- 15:30Russell Napier – The Aftermath of DebtCatherine Wynne – The Irish Soldier in the British Army in the Nineteenth Century
15:45-16:45Martin Doyle – The writing of Dirty LinenIda Milne – The Elmes Letters: a Wexford Protestant family network on surviving the 1798 rebellion
17:00-18:00Anna Reid – A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian RevolutionRuti Lachs –  Cork’s Jewish Culture Past & Present
Food and drink will be available
Saturday evening only tickets are available for music & film screening, under 16s are free
18:00-21:00Live music: Fresh Air CollectiveScreening of Rebel Wife, directed by Williams Rossa Cole, and telling the story of Mary Jane O’Donovan Rossa

Sunday 11 August

10:00-18:30

Octagon
10:00-11:00Tom Keneally in conversation with Myles Dungan
11.15-12.15Catherine Bateson – 'Words and Music by an Irishman’ – The Irish American Civil War
Experience Expressed in Song
12.30-13.30Myles Dungan on his book Land & All That Matters
12:45-13:30 Food & Drink will be available
14:30-15:30Caroline Campbell – The National Gallery in Irish Life
15:45-16.45Henry Hemming – Four Shots in the Night: The Hunt for Stakeknife
16:45 – 18:15Panel Discussion with Festival speakers: Are Aftermaths when the action happens?
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