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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PLACES TO SEE
A1 The Mizen (see also Fastnet Trails)
West Cork Winter Walk (slideshow)
Remembering Leita, and Gortnagrough Folk Museum
Keith Payne – Schull Exhibition!
12 Arches of Ballydehob – Pics for Christmas Day
The Twelve Arches of Ballydehob
An Artists’s Encounter with West Cork
Mizen Megaliths 1: The ‘Unclassified’ Gubbeen Tomb and Fionn’s Ridge
Mizen Megaliths 2: Arderrawinny Portal Tomb
Mizen Megaliths 3: Wedges in Hedges
Mizen Megaliths 4: Ballyvogebeg Wedge Tomb
Mizen Megaliths 5: Ratooragh Wedge Tomb
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Gabriel – an exhibition by Brian Lalor
West Cork Villages and Towns – Schull
Mizen Mountains 6 – Derrylahard East
Robáird an Tuairisceoir Fain (Robert the Roving Reporter)
West Cork Rocks (Geology and History)
Castle Island – Facts and Fictions
Legends of Mount Gabriel: The Bottomless Lake
Legends of Mount Gabriel: Fionn, Furrows and Fastnet
Legends of Mount Gabriel: Wrought by Giants
Walking West Cork – Half the Colla Loop!
Mizen Mountains 5 – Knockaphuca
Mizen Mountains 3 – Letterlicky Cairn
The Day the Sun Came Out – in Ballydehob!
Walking West Cork – Another of the Fastnet Trails
Mizen Mountains 2 – Lisheennacreagh
Mizen Mountains 1 – the Hill of the Foxes
Barley Cove: A Special Area of Conservation
Industrial Archaeology in Crookhaven
Another Grand Day Out on the Fastnet Trails
Mizen Magic 5: Top 14 Pics of 2015
Mizen Magic 6: Schull to Castlepoint
Mizen Magic 7: Dunbeacon – History, Prehistory and Questions of Access
Mizen Magic 9: Rossbrin to Schull
Mizen Magic 13: Dunmanus Promontory
Two Mines Are Better Than One (Mizen Magic 16) (Dhurode Mine)
Mizen Magic 17: Delights of Dunmanus
Mizen Magic 18: The Prehistoric Landscape of Arduslough
Mizen Magic 19: Church of the Angels
Mizen Magic 20: Ballyvonane Headland
Mizen Magic 22: Crookhaven Harbour
Mizen Magic 24: Lissagriffin Loop (Fastnet Trails)
Mizen Magic 25: Gortduv Loop (Fastnet Trails)
Mizen Mud: Recipe for a February Exploration Day
A2 Sheeps Head (see also Sheeps Head Walks)
Sheep’s Head Stone Circle Revived!
A Dander on The Sheep’s Head Way
Black and White on the Sheep’s Head
Sheep’s Head Oasis – the Heron Gallery
Remembering (Air India Memorial)
Amid Unbearable Tragedy – a Model for the World
Goats, Bees and Spies on the Sheep’s Head
A3 Beara
Dzogchen Beara – A Buddhist Centre in Ireland
Cashelkeelty – More Than Meets The Eye
A4 West Cork Towns, Villages, Islands and Special Places
Prehistoric West Cork (slideshow)
Kilcoe Medieval Church – Revealed!
The Elusive Lighter (Sweet Ilen – Part 8)
12 Arches of Ballydehob – Pics for Christmas Day
The Twelve Arches of Ballydehob
“Easter” Island! – Exploring Long Island
Our Favourite Photos You never Saw – Robert
West Cork Villages and Towns – Skibbereen
Dzogchen Beara – A Buddhist Centre in Ireland
West Cork Villages and Towns – Schull
The Luxuriant Gardens of Bantry House
Inchydoney – and Virgin Mary’s Bank
Round Ring (South of Clonakilty)
Castle Island – Facts and Fictions
Following the Cascades (Sweet Ilen – Part 7)
O’Donovan Country (Sweet Ilen – Part 6)
Ilen’s End (Sweet Ilen – Part 5)
Sweet Ilen – Part 4
Sweet Ilen – Part 3
Sweet Ilen – Part 2
Sweet Ilen – Part 1
Beautiful West Cork in Picture and Song
To Gougane Barra with Bartlett and Coyne in the 1830s
Merchant, Miller, Smuggler: James O’Sullivan and Roaring Water
April Flowers in The Magic Forest
Mixed Magic Messages (The Magic Forest)
Living in Lockdown! (Covid19 times)
Swantonstown Sessions! (Traditional Music)
Mosaics and Maharajas Revisited – Part 1
Mosaics and Maharajas Revisited – Part 2
Aughadown – Church on the Ilen
The Day the Sun Came Out – in Ballydehob!
Local Heroes: Ballycommane Gardens – and Bronze Age Site!
New Court Bridge – a Hidden Wonder: Update
New Court Bridge – a Hidden Wonder
How Well Do You Know West Cork?
Autumnal Day Out – Myross Pyramid
A Day on Cape Clear: Guest post by Hugo Caron, 11
Heir Island – a Modern Paradise
Own a Piece of Ireland (Best Christmas Present EVER!) (Cape Clear Trust)
Shay Hunston and The People of the Wild Atlantic Way
Lost Landmark (The Mine Chimney, Cappaghglass)
The Village That Never Was (Courtmacsherry)
An Charraig Aonair: The Fastnet Rock
A Change to The Fastnet Lighthouse
Stories and Stained Glass (Castletownshend)
Hare Heaven (Sherkin Island)
A5 West Cork, General
Keith Payne – Schull Exhibition!
Early Irish Photographer: Trailer
Early Irish Photographer: Sir John Joscelyn Coghill
Microgeneration – Rural Electrification 2023
The Elusive Lighter (Sweet Ilen – Part 8)
Cork Fella Comes to County Wicklow
12 Arches of Ballydehob – Pics for Christmas Day
The Twelve Arches of Ballydehob
An Artist’s Encounter with West Cork
The Down Survey – Closer to Home
BAM Open! A New + Unique Exhibition
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Gabriel – an exhibition by Brian Lalor
Notes from the Past (A 1950 Cross and Rock-scribings at Lick Hill)
The Wran, The Wran – a Ballydehob Tradition
Robert’s Favourite Posts of 2021
Finola’s Favourite Posts of 2021
Seaweed and Sealing Wax (Ellen Hutchins Festival 2021)
The Luxuriant Gardens of Bantry House
Lost in West Cork (exploring the boreens)
Robáird an Tuairisceoir Fain (Robert the Roving Reporter)
West Cork Rocks (Geology and History)
Walking West Cork – Half the Colla Loop!
Following the Cascades (Sweet Ilen – Part 7)
O’Donovan Country (Sweet Ilen – Part 6)
Ilen’s End (Sweet Ilen – Part 5)
Sweet Ilen – Part 4
Sweet Ilen – Part 3
Sweet Ilen – Part 2
Sweet Ilen – Part 1
Walking West Cork – Top of the Rock
Going With The Wind (Constable Lake and Ballybane Wind Farm)
The Signal Tower at Seven Heads (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 11)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 10)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 8)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 7)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 6)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 5)
Aiming High! (High places in the Irish Landscape)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 4)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 3)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 2)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 1)
To Puncture the Mysterious – Finbarr and the Serpent
Schull Sculpture – Anchor, Mermaid and Lunachán (West Cork Sculpture Trail)
Behold, Their Bright Shining Future (West Cork Sculpture Trail)
Recalling 2019 – The Roaringwater Journal Review!
Cooleenlemane – A Walk into History
Back to the Bealick (Returning to Cooleenlemane)
Lady Carbery’s High Cross (Castlefreke)
Cousins Find Each Other – Through Roaringwater Journal!
‘Flying Foam’ (half a story about a sunken boat)
Fish Palaces – and How They Worked
West Cork Obscura – Robert’s Choices
Dr Macaura – A Story of Sweet Melody, Picture Palaces and Quackery – in Skibbereen
Kay Davenport – Creativity in West Cork
Bohemians in Ballydehob! (A new Arts Museum)
The Soul Expands with Beauty (Skibbereen Arts Festival 2018
Coming Home (Exhibition at Uillinn, Skibbereen)
Skibbereen Celebrates: Arts and Artists (Skibbereen Arts Festival)
Uillinn – Surviving and Thriving
The Elemental World of Cormac Boydell (A West Cork artist)
Robert Gibbings (A writer and artist from County Cork)
Buzzing and Humming (Art Exhibition)
It’s Been Five Years! Finola’s Favourite Posts
The Best of Five (Top posts of all time)
Top Ten West Cork Photographs of 2017
Top Fifteen West Cork Photographs of 2018
Our Top West Cork Photos of 2019
Favourite West Cork Photographs: 2020 Edition
Our Favourite Photos you Never Saw – Finola (2021 Roundup)
Our Favourite Photos you Never Saw – Robert (2021 Roundup)
Hikelines – a Blog for the Soul
Terry Searle – A West Cork Artist
The Edge of the Landscape – William Crozier
West Cork in Photographs – Your Favourites, Part 2
West Cork in Photographs – Your Favourites, Part 1
‘Auf der Walz’ – The Journeymen
Some That Got Away (Yet more Irish Signs)
Beyond the Mizen: Top 14 Pics of 2015
Out and About with Visitors in West Cork
THINGS TO DO
B1 Trips and Adventures
*Suitable for children **Suitable for teens and older
Primaeval Forest (Kell Bay House and Gardens)
Boulders, Books, Boats and Bogs
“Easter” Island! – Exploring Long Island
Notes from the Past (A 1950 Cross and Rock-scribings at Lick Hill)
GlidingThrough Velvet, Fireworks All Around* **
Inchydoney – and Virgin Mary’s Bank
Round Ring (South of Clonakilty)
Two Green Shoots * **
Sheep’s Head Oasis – the Heron Gallery *
Whale Watching in West Cork* **
Inis Beg Estate: Ancient Woods and New Discoveries * **
Landscaping – with Trish Punch**
Seeing the Light (photography course)**
Sky Garden (At Lissard Estate)*
Starlight Bliss (moonlight kayaking on Lough Hyne)**
Sail Away, Sail Away (sailing with Carbery Sailing)**
Pigs and Ponds in Ahakista (Heron Gallery Gardens)*
Durrus Delight: Carraig Abhainn Gardens*
Staff of Life (Heir Island Bread-Making School)**
B2 Walks
West Cork Walks
Lost in West Cork (exploring the boreens)
Walking West Cork – Top of the Rock
Sheeps Head Way
Sheep’s Head Stone Circle Revived!
Sheep’s Head: Searching for Cornish Miners
Walking the Sheep’s Head Way (book review)
Of Kings and Poets (Bardic School Walk)
Fastnet Trails
Walking West Cork – Half the Colla Loop!
Mizen Mountains 5 – Knockaphuca
Walking West Cork – Ilen River Loop
Another Grand Day Out on the Fastnet Trails
Closer Encounters – Fastnet Trails
Fastnet Trails: Rossbrin Loop, Part 1
Fastnet Trails: Rossbrin Loop, Part 2
B3 West Cork Festivals, Events and Pastimes
Keith Payne – Schull Exhibition!
Gearing up for August in West Cork
Last Rounds: St John’s Eve in Stouke
Art and Music in a West Cork June
The Wran, The Wran – a Ballydehob Tradition
Art/Nature – Incredible Residency Opportunity
Seaweed and Sealing Wax (Ellen Hutchins Festival 2021)
Ellen Hutchins Festival – Inspirational, Educational and Fun!
Getting Into the Art! (Art Exhibition at Uillinn)
Heir Island Bread School – Revisited
No Wrens Were Harmed in the Making of this Post!
No Wrens Were Harmed in the Making of this Post – An Update
Lichens and Little Things in the Woods (Ellen Hutchins Festival 2019)
Art, Noodles and World Championship Turnip Racing: Ballydehob in the Summer
West Cork in High Summer- Festival Central!
Inspired by Stone (West Cork Stone Symposium)
Reviving St Patrick’s Cross (Ballydehob, 17th March)
Out in the Field (West Cork History Festival Field Trips)
Countdown to West Cork History Festival 2018!
Bohemians in Ballydehob! (A new Arts Museum)
Seeking Calm Now (a week of launches and openings in West Cork)
Skibbereen Celebrates: Arts and Artists (Skibbereen Arts Festival)
Buzzing and Humming (Art Exhibition)
The Red Line – Bere Island (A Taste of West Cork Food Festival)
Anam Cheoil – The Music’s Soul
Cruinniú na mBád – the Boat Gathering
Where Art and History Meet (West Cork History Fest and Reen Farm Sculpture Garden)
Terry Searle – A West Cork Artist
The Edge of the Landscape – William Crozier (Art Exhibition)
Postscript – In the Tracks of the Yellow Dog (Art Exhibition)
Forbes – An Irish Artist in Cornwall (Art Exhibition)
Up and Running! (Art Exhibition)
Artists of the Western Coasts (Art Exhibition)
West meets West (Art Exhibition)
West Cork Finally Gets a History Festival!
All That Jazz (Ballydehob Jazz Festival)
Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone – a Review (Contemporary Art at Uillinn)
Tech is Cool and Content is King
Into the Woods (Ellen Hutchins Festival 2016)
Skibbereen – Ireland’s First Gigabit Town!
Possibly Over-Stimulated (Skibbereen Arts Festival and Bantry Lit Festival, 2016)
The Chief (Chief O’Neill Traditional Music Festival)
Sensory Upload (Skibbereen Arts Festival 2014)
Fit-up (Summer Theatre)
The Fastnet Short Film Festival
Ballydehob Rocks Art and Culture
Ancient Tones – New Directions (Master of Tradition Festival, Bantry)
Bridge (Extraordinary Dance Event)
Dancing Cappaghglass (Tara Brandel Dance Performance)
Unseen (Dance)
Road Trotting (Horse Racing)
Ból an bhóthair (Road Bowling)
ABOUT WEST CORK
C1 Archaeology, General
Walking with Stones – Your Christmas Present Solved!
Exploring Ancient Drowned Landscapes
Sheep’s Head Stone Circle Revived!
12 Arches of Ballydehob – Pics for Christmas Day
The Twelve Arches of Ballydehob
Rock Art – A Diversion to Wicklow
Notes from the Past (A 1950 Cross and Rock-scribings at Lick Hill)
Dunworley Promontory Fort – A Bit Of A Stunner
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 8
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 7)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 6)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 5)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 4)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 3)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 2)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 1)
The Stone Circles of West Cork: An Introduction
The Stone Circles of West Cork: Multiple Stone Circles
The Stone Circles of West Cork: Five-Stone Circles
The Stone Circles of West Cork: Discussion
An Excursion to Dunboy (The Seige of Dunboy and O’Sullivan Beare)
Industrial Archaeology in Crookhaven
Fish Palaces – and How They Worked
Autumnal Day Out – Myross Pyramid
Standing Stone Pairs: A Visit to Foherlagh
Tralong Bay, Co Cork – A Prehistoric Drowned Landscape
Ballyrisode – Pirate Connections
Ballyrisode Fulacht Fia: Discovering a New Bronze Age Site on The Mizen
Ballyrisode Fulacht Fia Update
A Flying Priest, and Rolls of Butter (Archaeology and Folklore)
Lee Snodgrass and Mizen Archaeology
Boyle Somerville: Ireland’s First Archaeoastronomer
Ways West! (Travelling between Cornwall and West Cork)
Cape Clear: The Stone That Moved
Boulder Burials: a Misnamed Monument?
Umha Aois (Bronze Age Technology)
Family-Friendly Archaeology Day in West Cork (Updated)
Scratched Stone – Scratched Heads
Field Trip – with Jack Roberts
Wedge Tombs: Last of the Megaliths
Monoliths, Mysteries and Marriages (Standing Stones and Stone Rows)
Cures and Curses (Bullaun Stones)
A Little Adventure (West Cork archaeology)
C2 Archaeology, Rock Art
Exploring Ancient Drowned Landscapes
Rock Art – A Diversion to Wicklow
New Rock Art Find in West Cork
Imbolc – How Our Ancestors Welcomed Spring
Experimental Archaeology – Oliver’s Cupmark
Witches’ Marks and Lovelorn Shepherds: Inscribed Rock Art in a Remote Valley
Boyle’s Bealtaine: Rock Art, Ancient Festivals, and Archaeoastronomy
Rock Art: Returning to Derrynablaha
Revealing Rock Art: 150 Years of Images
Presenting Rock Art (Exhibition at the Schull Blue House Gallery)
Launched! (Opening of the Exhibition at the Cork Public Museum)
Rock Art Exhibition – at the Cork Public Museum!
Rock Art Ramblings… away from home!
C3 Medieval History, Archaeology and Architecture
Exploring Ancient Drowned Landscapes
Cashels in Kerry 1: Leacanabuaile
The Down Survey 3 – Close-up of Kerry
The Down Survey – Closer to Home
Séamus Murphy: At Home in Cork
A map of the County of Cork, Part 1
A Map of the County of Cork, Part 2
A Map of the County of Cork, Part 3
Planning a Plantation: Jobson’s 1589 Map of Munster Part 2
Planning a Plantation: Jobson’s 1589 Map of Munster Part 1
The Castles of Ivaha: ‘Fragmentary Remains’
Dunmanus Castle 1: The Cliff-Edge Fort
Dunlough, or Three Castle Head
Elizabethan Map of a Turbulent West Cork
Elizabethan Map of a Turbulent West Cork 2: The Story
Antiquities of the Mealagh Valley
O’Donovan Country (Sweet Ilen – Part 6)
Robáird an Tuairisceoir Fain (Robert the Roving Reporter)
Fortified Manor Houses in West Cork – a Tudor Status Symbol
Sun’s Out (Ardgroom Outward Stone Circle)
Thaddeus McCarthy: The Bishop Who Never Was
Stab All! (A Battle in Ballydehob)
Brian’s Sketchbook: The Signal Towers
Kilcoe Castle – A Magnificent Reconstruction
Rincolisky Castle – A Loving Restoration
Trading Up in Tudor Times: Fortified Houses in West Cork
C4 History and Eminent Figures
Cork Fella Comes to County Wicklow
‘This is Our History’: The Abbey Graveyard Project in Bantry
Castlehaven Placenames Project
Drying Gelignite By The Fire: Extraordinary, Ordinary Women of West Cork
More Extraordinary Ordinary Women
Even Cromwell Spared the Graveyards
Séamus Murphy: At Home in Cork
The Luxuriant Gardens of Bantry House
Mapping West Cork, Part 1, Updated
Mapping West Cork, Part 2: John Speed
Fish Palaces – and How They Worked
Dr Macaura – A Story of Sweet Melody, Picture Palaces and Quackery – in Skibbereen!
Fisher’s Folklore (Saints and Soupers Part 8)
Saints and Soupers: the Story of Teampall na mBocht (Part 7, the New Catholicism)
Saints and Soupers: the Story of Teampall na mBocht (Part 6, Counter-Accusation)
Saints and Soupers: the Story of Teampall na mBocht (Part 5, Famine in Kilmoe)
Saints and Soupers: The Story of Teampall na mBocht (Part 2, The Catholics)
Saints and Soupers: the Story of Teampall na mBocht (Part 1, Introduction)
Welcome to the Stranger: Asenath Nicholson in West Cork
Tracking the Trains: Railway Reminiscence (S & S Railway)
Tracking the Trains (Ballydehob and Schull Railway)
A Saint’s Day – Ciarán and Piran
‘Will the Hare’ – and the Mizen Olympics!
Priests and Poets, Part 1 (Stouke Graveyard)
Priests and Poets, Part 2 (Stouke Graveyard)
Ellen Hutchins: The Short and Remarkable Life of Ireland’s First Female Botanist
March Back in Time (O’Donovan Rossa)
O’Donovan Rossa – the First Terrorist?
Cork’s Rebel Daughter (Mother Jones)
Storm Agnes: Agnes Clerke of Skibbereen and Nineteenth Century Astronomy
From Skibbereen to the Moon: Agnes Mary Clerke
From Skibbereen to the Moon Part 2: Ellen and Aubrey Clerke
In Search of Ghosts (Marconi)
The Flying Snail (West Cork Railway)
Unknown Souls (Cillíní, Children’s Graveyards)
The Laughing Boy (Michael Collins)
C5 Architecture, Art and Craft
Prince of Peace: A Modern Irish Church
Keith Payne – Schull Exhibition!
Flower Power – New Ballydehob Exhibition
An Artist’s Encounter with West Cork
BAM Open! A New + Unique Exhibition
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Gabriel – an exhibition by Brian Lalor
Séamus Murphy: At Home in Cork
Irish Artists and Stations of the Cross
The Táin, by Hutton and Campbell
Dzogchen Beara – A Buddhist Centre in Ireland
A Gate Post (Vernacular Gates of West Cork)
Another Gate Post (Vernacular Gates of West Cork 2)
West Cork Creates – Now’s Your Chance
Schull Sculpture – Anchor, Mermaid and Lunachán (West Cork Sculpture Trail)
Behold, Their Bright Shining Future (West Cork Sculpture Trail)
Getting Into the Art! (Art Exhibition at Uillinn)
Treasure in a Country Church – Samuel Forde
Bohemians in Ballydehob! (A new Arts Museum)
Coming Home (Exhibition at Uillinn, Skibbereen)
Skibbereen Celebrates: Arts and Artists (Skibbereen Arts Festival)
Uillinn – Surviving and Thriving
The Elemental World of Cormac Boydell (A West Cork artist)
Robert Gibbings (A writer and artist from County Cork}
Buzzing and Humming (Art Exhibition)
Kilcoe Studios – Dedication and Passion
The Edge of the Landscape – William Crozier (Art Exhibition)
Postscript In the Tracks of the Yellow Dog (Art Exhibition: West meets West)
Forbes – An Irish Artist in Cornwall (links between Cornwall and West Cork)
Up and Running! (Art Exhibition: West meets West)
Artists of the Western Coasts (Art Exhibition: West meets West)
Ways West (links between Cornwall and West Cork)
A Watery Tale (links between Cornwall and West Cork)
Connecting with St Ives (links between Cornwall and West Cork)
West meets West (links between Cornwall and West Cork)
Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone (Contemporary Art at Uillinn)
The Golden Hour at Bantry House
The Fertile Crescent – A Review
Capturing the View: Belvederes in West Cork
Mosaics and Maharajas, Part 2 (Timoleague Church of the Ascension)
Mosaics and Maharajas, Part 1 (Timoleague Church of the Ascension)
Celebrating Irish Design in West Cork
William Burges and Saint Fin Barre’s
Stained Glass and Harry Clarke
Burne-Jones in Lismore Cathedral
The House Style: William Dowling and the Harry Clarke Studios
St Brigid: Dove Among Birds, Vine Among Trees, Sun Among Stars
Mayer Stained Glass in Ireland: Craft or Commerce?
Harry Clarke’s Terenure Masterpiece
Quiz: Do You Recognise a Harry Clarke?
Harry Clarke Quiz – The Answers
Transcending Violence: Harry Clarke’s Sublime Lea-Wilson Window
Painting With Light (Stained Glass Musical Slideshow)
That He Might Better Rest (WWI Memorial Windows in Catholic Churches)
Watsons of Youghal – Revivalist Master Part 2
Watsons of Youghal – Revivalist Masters Part 1
Symbols and Stories: Looking at Stained Glass
The Finola Window (by George Walsh)
Brendan, Judas, Harry Clarke – and Matthew Arnold
Harry Clarke, Egerton Coghill and the St Luke Window in Castletownshend
Nicola Gordon Bowe 1948 – 2018
Ireland’s Newest Stained Glass Window
Rejecting those Earthly Dignities: Irish Women Saints by Harry Clarke
The First Viral Sensation: How a Pre-Raphaelite Painting Inspired a Generation
The Christmas Story, One Window at a Time
Harry Clarke’s Supporting Cast
The Nativity – by Harry Clarke
Time Warp (Drimoleague Church Stained Glass)
A Misplaced Saint (Eyeries stained glass)
Vernacular Architecture (Shops and Houses)
A Gate Post (Vernacular Gates of West Cork)
Another Gate Post (Vernacular Gates of West Cork 2)
Sun’s Out (Eyeries)
Orange to Green – For the Week That’s In It
Purple and Pink – and Everything in Between
Mary Mary (Grottoes)
C6 Nature, Flora, Fauna, Environment and Weather
Microgeneration – Rural Electrification 2023
Ireland’s Changing Flora: A Vital Report
Weeds: A Matter of Perspective
“Easter” Island! – Exploring Long Island
Seaweed and Sealing Wax (Ellen Hutchins Festival 2021)
Lying In The Grass (Wildflowers in a West Cork Garden)
Winter Light in West Cork: Lockdown Edition
West Cork Rocks (Geology and History)
World Wetlands Day: A West Cork Bog Soak
Going With The Wind (Constable Lake and Ballybane Wind Farm)
The Day the Sun Came Out – in Ballydehob!
Barley Cove: A Special Area of Conservation
Ethel Mannin, W B Yeats – and Wild Flights (Writers and Illustrators)
Wildflowers of a West Cork June – a Musical Treat
Long Island Wildflowers – a Reconnaissance
“The Wildest and Richest Gardens” – West Cork Bog Soaks
A Wildflower Trail for West Cork
We Welcome the Hope That They Bring
Wild Atlantic Light – the West Cork Winter Edition
‘Twas Early Early All in the Spring (March Wildflowers)
Late Bloomers: Invasive, Naturalised and Native
Foxglove Fever (June Wildflowers)
All Around the Bloomin’ Heather
Close Reading (Flora)
Whisperers (Horses)
Shenanigans (Foxes)
The Barnacle Goose – and Other Wonders
C7 Food and Markets
Fabulous Five-Minute Blackberry Jam
Savoury Soda Bread – Easiest Ever
Maura Laverty and Kind Cooking
Your Favourite Place for Breakfast in West Cork?
Say Cheese! (Making goats cheese)
Monica Sheridan’s Christmas Cake
Monica Sheridan’s My Irish Cook Book
ABOUT IRELAND
D1 Speech and Language
What’s in a Word? (More signs, ships and shopfronts)
Signs of Spring (Another selection of Irish Signs)
Some That Got Away (Yet more Irish Signs)
Freshly Dug Queens (More Irish Signs)
West Cork Speak: Lessons 5 to 7. And PRIZES!
West Cork Speak: Lessons 3 and 4
West Cork Speak: Lessons 1 and 2
D2 Music and Storytelling
The Oldest Adventure (An Ancient Irish Story)
The Oldest Folktale in the World!
Swantonstown Sessions! (Traditional Music)
Surfing the Archives (Music and Dance from RTE)
Piper to the End – A Tribute to Liam O’Flynn
Vinegar Hill (Boolavogue and the 1798 Rebellion)
Two Séans (Seán Ó Sé and Seán Ó Riada)
Slides or Jigs? Polkas or Reels?
Man of Music (Canon Goodman)
The Other Crowd (Story)
A Child’s Christmas in Dublin (story)
A Midwinter’s Tale (story)
D3 History, Archaeology and Architecture (non-West Cork)
Exploring Ancient Drowned Landscapes
Prince of Peace: A Modern Irish Church
Microgeneration – Rural Electrification 2023
The Electrification of Ireland – A Medieval Diversion
The Fassaroe-Type Crosses of South County Dublin
The Fassaroe-Type Crosses – How Old Are They
The Down Survey 3 – Close-up of Kerry
Cork Fella Comes to County Wicklow
The Down Survey – Closer to Home
In Search of Wells and Railway Lines
Rock Art – A Diversion to Wicklow
Grange – Ireland’s Largest Stone Circle
Evolving Cork – The Great Exhibitions
681 Days! (The Covid Pandemic in Ireland)
Chasing Steeples! Buttevant and Doneraile
Glencree (County Wicklow)
Killruddery: Nature and Nurture
Ireland 50 Years Ago: February 1971
Ireland 50 Years Ago: April 1971, JM Synge Issue
Ireland 50 Years Ago: Jack B Yeats Special Edition 1
Under Sorrow’s Sign (Ireland 51 Years ago)
The Gaelic Story-Teller (Ireland 51 Years Ago)
Ireland in Literature 51 Years Ago
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 8)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 7)
Off the M8 – Knockroe Passage Tomb or ‘Giant’s Grave’
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 6)
Off the M8 – A High Cross and a Complex Saint
Parnell, Home Rule and Tom Merry
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 5)
Aiming High! (High places in the Irish Landscape)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 4)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 3)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 2)
A Signal Success in Irish Engineering (Napoleonic Signal Stations – Part 1)
Antiquarians Loved Glendalough
Scenery and Antiquities – W H Bartlett in Nineteenth Century Ireland
The Boa Island Figures – Mysterious Carvings From Our Pagan Past
A Lost Cross-Inscibed Stone – Found Again!
Larchill – A Pastoral Paradise
Off the M8: Ormond Castle – Fit for a Queen!
Archaeology, Art and Architecture at the Blasket Centre
Off the M8 – Kilree Monastic Site
Oldest Lighthouse in the World! (Hook Head Lighthouse)
Off the M8: Fethard Walled Town
Saint Manchan, his Miraculous Cow, and his Shrine
off the M8 – The Great Dolmen of Kernanstown
A Genius for Observation – More from de La Tocnaye
Nano Nagle – Lady of the Lantern
A Frenchman’s Walk Through Ireland
Eleventh Hour (Ireland 1914 – 1918)
The Rock of Dunamase and Ireland’s Most Iconic Painting
‘Ye Citie of the Seven Crosses’ (Irish High Crosses)
Off the M8 – Searching out Péacáin
Off the M8 – A Secret in The Glen of Aherlow
James and Eleanor (Treasures of Gowran, Co Kilkenny)
Ballyfin – Part 2: Decline and Revival
Ireland’s Finest Prospect – The Story of Ballyfin Demesne, Part 1
Rock Art: Returning to Derrynablaha
Gothic Revival – With Bells (Cobh Cathedral)
Kilkieran High Crosses – Medieval Gems
Vinegar Hill (Boolavogue and the 1798 Rebellion)
Viking Traces (Rathdown Grave Slabs)
Fading Treasures (Irish High Crosses and Early Grave Slabs)
The Best of Five (Top posts of all time)
Off the M8 – Exploring the Delights of Durrow (Irish High Crosses)
The Wonders of Monasterboice (Irish High Crosses)
Edifying and Eccentric – The Earl Bishop
The Significant Rock Art of Clonfinlough
Irish Romanesque – an Introduction
Irish Romanesque 3 – Monaincha, the Isle of the Living
Irish Romanesque 4: The Nuns’ Church at Clonmacnoise
Cormac’s Chapel: The Jewel in the Crown (Part 1)
Cormac’s Chapel: The Jewel in the Crown (Part 2)
The Treasures of Castledermot (Irish High Crosses)
Ancient Irish Art – Moone High Cross (Irish High Crosses)
Ireland-Canada: Famine, Fenians, Friends!
Dividing the Day (Following Saint Brendan)
Off the M8 and into Medieval Ireland
End of Navigation (Travel by Water series)
Sliding into Kerry (Macaura’s Grave and the Battle of Callan)
Cloondara Mill (Travel by Water series)
Grand Canal Hotels (Travel by Water series)
The Christmas Story, One Window at a Time
Clonfert, St Brendan – and the Ghost of British Fascism (Travel by Water series)
Jazz Age Architecture (Christ the King Church, Cork)
The Town of Luan’s Ford (Travel by Water series)
Open-Air Galleries: Eighteenth-Century Folk Art at Bahana Whaley
Memento Mori (old graveyards and headstones)
The Fiddle-Maker’s Ghost (Travel by Water series)
Travel by Water 2 – A Tale from Trollope
Betjeman in Ireland – Poet and Spy?
Hail the Mail (Post boxes in Ireland)
The City of Shrone – and a talking cow!
Liscarrol: Cork’s Keepless Castle
Fourknocks – the Little Giant!
1916 and 485 (Glasnevin Cemetery and 1916 commemorations)
The Hallowed Fortress (Kells Priory, Co Kilkenny)
A Medieval Feast (Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny and Kells, Co Meath)
Forgotten Hero – Michael Davitt
Irish Farming – 6,000 Years Ago (The Céide Fields)
High Drama! (Round Towers)
Battling It Out (Brian Boru)
Irish History – an Englishman’s Perspective
D4 Religion, Saints, Traditions and Folklore
Prince of Peace: A Modern Irish Church
The Holy Wells of Cork: The Book!
The Electrification of Ireland – A Medieval Diversion
Health, Happiness and Harry Potter Lego
Looking Again at Simon Coleman
In Search of Wells and Railway Lines
Drawing from Life – Simon Coleman RHA
St Brigid: Dove Among Birds, Vine Among Trees, Sun Among Stars
The Wran, The Wran – a Ballydehob Tradition
Glencree (County Wicklow)
Sanctifying the Landscape: Holy Year Crosses in Ireland
The Oldest Adventure (And Ancient Irish Story)
The Oldest Folktale in the World!
A Hobby Horse in Ireland (May Day Customs)
Bloodshed and Fenny Poppers – the Legacy of Martinmas
Saint Manchan, his Miraculous Cow, and his Shrine
Introducing the Holy Wells – of Kerry!
Piper to the End – A Tribute to Liam O’Flynn (The Brendan Voyage)
Pagan and Pure (Imbolc/St Brigid’s Day)
A Saint’s Day – Ciarán and Piran
Licking the Lizard – or The World Turned Upside Down (Shrove Tuesday Folklore)
All Silver and No Brass (Mumming)
‘Auf der Walz’ – The Journeymen
A Murmuration (St Gobnait)
A Misplaced Saint (St Kentigern)
Baby Jumping (Corpus Christi)
Good Friday – Foraging and Feasting
Giolla Brighde (St Brigid)
The Green Saint (St Patrick)
Getting in the Christmas Spirit
D5 Driving and Touring
Microgeneration – Rural Electrification 2023
Primaeval Forest (Kell Bay House and Gardens)
Finn McCool’s Causeway (Giant’s Causeway, Co Antrim)
Into the Heartland (the Irish Midlands)
Into the Kingdom (Kerry)
Rules of the Irish Road (Revisited)
D6 Irish Art, Craft, Stained Glass
Prince of Peace: A Modern Irish Church
An Artist’s Encounter with West Cork
Looking Again at Simon Coleman
Frank, Jack and Eibhlín Dubh: The Lament for Art O’Leary
Cork, Part 2: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
A Medieval High Cross – Out of Place (Paul Henry)
Ireland in the 1950s – Through the Lens of Robert Cresswell (Documentary Photographs)
1950s Ireland (Documentary Photographs)
Seán Keating – Escaping the Storm
Copper Craft (The Work of Paddy McCormack)
Ethel Mannin, W B Yeats – and Wild Flights (Writers and Illustrators)
Writing on the Walls (Irish Street Art)
The Finola Window (George Walsh stained glass)
Evie Hone and the Modernisation of Irish Stained Glass
Loughrea Cathedral and the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement
Sorrow and Joy: Hubert McGoldrick in Gowran Church
The Elemental World of Cormac Boydell (A West Cork artist)
Robert Gibbings (An artist from County Cork)
Ireland’s Newest Stained Glass Window
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