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George Richard Pain (19th century renovation) Christ Church, also known as Triskel Christchurch, [3] is an early 18th century neo-classical Georgian church on South Main Street in Cork, Ireland. Now used as an arts and cultural venue, the church and its graveyard are included in the Record of Protected Structures maintained by Cork City Council.
Plugd Records. Plugd Records is an independent record shop and concert venue in Cork City, Ireland. Founded by Jim Horgan, and co-run until 2018 by Albert Twomey (co-founder of Out On A Limb Records ), Plugd not only sells records, CDs, cassettes and printed matter like zines, but also acts as an intimate venue and an important hub for Cork's ...
Ranging in capacity from 50 to 1,000, the main music venues in the city are the Cork Opera House (capacity c.1000), The Everyman, Cork Arts Theatre, Cyprus Avenue, Dali, Triskel Christchurch, The Roundy, and Coughlan's. [46] The city's literary community centres on the Munster Literature Centre and the Triskel Arts Centre. [47]
The Corcadorca Theatre Company was an independent theatre company based in Cork, Ireland. It was founded in 1991, [1] and closed in 2022. [2] The company specialises in site-specific theatre and produced its first show of this kind, A Christmas Carol, in Cork City Gaol in 1994. [3] One of the best-known new works produced by Corcadorca was ...
Poet. Alma mater. University College Cork. Period. 1960s–present. Theo Dorgan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer, translator, librettist and documentary screenwriter. He lives in Dublin .
Fleischmann was born in Munich to Ireland-based German parents. Both were musicians, both graduates of the Royal Academy of Music in Munich. His father, Aloys Fleischmann senior of Dachau, organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St Anne, Cork and his mother, Tilly Fleischmann née Swertz (1882–1967), born in Cork to German parents, pianist and piano teacher.
Gerry Murphy was born in Cork City in 1952. [ 1] His work is witty, openly intellectual and often satirical and is "highly, self-consciously literary". [ 2] ". Much of the most recent work displays intense absorption of the Roman classics either through direct reference or employment of the pithy epigram." [ 2]
Ioana Petcu-Colan has a great interest in promoting contemporary music. Composer Ronan Guilfoyle wrote a special work for her, "Ferdinand the Bull" for violin and narrator, first performed at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork. She then performed with Izumi Kumura the world premiere of Guilfoyle's Violin and piano sonata No. 2. She recently ...