Home Archive by category Culture (Page 19)
Business Council Partners Culture News
Joe O’Brien TD Minster of State with responsibility for Community Development and Charities, launched a new National Pilot Community Volunteers Programme in partnership with Volunteer Ireland and Volunteer Centres, supported by Local Authorities. This exciting new volunteering initiative is a government led, nationally formulated programme for the whole of Ireland which
Business Culture News Tourism
Enterprise Ireland and Tourism Ireland are collaborating with QVC, a world leader in multiplatform video commerce, on three live ‘Made in Ireland’ shows that will reach millions of US customers across QVC’s TV broadcasts, streaming service, mobile apps, social pages, and website in the US. The shows will deliver an important platform and selling opportunity […]
Council Partners Culture Environment News
The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr. Colm Kelleher will officially launch 8 newly installed city parklets this week, on August 31st and September 2nd. Following a call-out for “parklet partners” in September 2020, a number of local businesses and community associations were selected to take part in the National Transport Authority-funded scheme.  The parklets, designed by […]
Culture News
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D., has announced a new initiative under the Creative Imagination Strand of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023– ‘Poetry as Commemoration’. The project is led by the UCD Library’s Irish Poetry Reading Archive and supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts,
Culture Environment News Transport
Part floating arts studio, part science lab, the recently-launched Eco Showboat project boasts action and ambition by the bucket-load. With the aim of connecting communities along Ireland’s waterways to ignite urgent climate action and build a shared, zero-carbon future; the Eco Showboat project website and an exhibition of the vessel’s design drawings were launched in
Culture Education News
Dublin Book Festival is excited to bring three new and exciting events to screens this Autumn. They’ll be hosting events to celebrate the launch of three spectacular books.  Bestselling author Cecelia Ahern will join them on 4th September to talk to Sam Blake about her new novel ‘Freckles’, life as an Irish writer, and her continued […]
Culture History News
The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Colm Kelleher will officially dedicate the community room in Ballyphehane’s Tory Top Library, to Joe Murphy, an Irish volunteer who died on hunger strike in 1920. The event was held as part of Heritage Week, and Cork City Libraries, in association with the Togher/Ballyphehane Centenary Committee, will officially name its community room in Tory