Pet O'Connell
@petoconnell.bsky.social
Iriseoir leis an Irish Examiner. Worcester woman.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Cancer and a stroke are just two of the blows Cork music legend Jimmy Crowley has suffered recently, but he's now back home in Cobh and as busy as ever.
'I fully intend to sing again': Jimmy Crowley updates on his health and future plans
Cancer and a stroke are just two of the blows the Cork music legend has had in recent times, but he's now back home in Cobh and keeping himself busy as ever
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Niall Vallely: UCC tutor to receive TG4 Gradam for composer of the year @tg4.bsky.social @tradtg4.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Niall Vallely: UCC tutor to receive TG4 Gradam award for composer of the year
Vallely's award has been overshadowed by the recent death of his mother, a major influence on his life and music
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www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Crossing continents has become the TG4 Young Musician of the Year’s way of life, playing in Clare one week and New York’s Catskill Mountains the next. @tradtg4.bsky.social #SSWC
Diarmuid Ó Meachair: 'People follow you from any place in America or Europe — it’s all about accessibility'
Pet O'Connell hears from Cork accordion and melodeon player Diarmuid Ó Meachair about his musical journey
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www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Russian ballet school, pterosaur poo, and young lives changed utterly by war - all in the mix in new releases by Irish children's authors. @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @jenwallacecreates.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Children's book reviews: From teen’s musical dreams to ‘fin facts’ about stinky sharks @meabhagscriobh.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @futafata.bsky.social @tadhgmacdh.bsky.social @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @thelifeofsharks.com
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Secret sisterhoods, high-seas adventure, and great scary fun: New children's book releases from Irish authors @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social, @pforde123.bsky.social and Ciara O'Connor. @theobrienpress.bsky.social @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social
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Louis Marcus: Oscar nominee recalls artistic life in Cork in the 1950s
In his new memoir, Louis Marcus delves into his time in UCC, and the efforts of a group of Cork people who met at the New Look pub to discuss ways of breaking free of the conservatism of the era
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www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Get carried away on a wave of imagination with the latest Irish children's books @theobrienpress.bsky.social @laurakeohane.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... #Cork #spéirghorm #ireland Hammy Hamilton: "Singing is such a personal thing. When I sing I think not just of the emotion of the song but where I learned it and the occasions I sang it before, so these are all songs that really mean something to me very deeply."
Hammy Hamilton: 'Sectarianism in the North was completely ignored by traditional musicians'
Co Cork-based Belfast native Hammy Hamilton has released a new CD
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Cork native Seosamh Céitinn’s Irish-language snapshots; cairdeas agus cogadh from Áine Ní Ghlinn, hair-raising adventures, and suspicious fish. #SeachtainnaGaeilge #SnaG www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @cloiarchonnacht.bsky.social @futafata.bsky.social
Photographs by the unassuming Macroom native, who died last January, aged 59, graced the covers of albums by artists including Lúnasa, John Spillane, Jim Murray and the late Séamus Begley. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... #Macroom #Cork
Photography exhibition pays tribute to late Macroom photographer Con Kelleher
Before he died recently, Con Kelleher's photographs graced the covers of albums, and were even turned into stamps by An Post
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www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Tales of climate change and Ramadan fasting, mountain climbing, and the wonders of Irish seaweed @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie
Children's book reviews: News travels fast as readers are left between a rock and a hard place
Pet O’Connell rounds up a selection of the latest children’s books, with tales of climate change and Ramadan fasting, mountain climbing, and the wonders of Irish seaweed
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irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41760881.html New twist on Irish mythology is a story of grief and learning to let go of ghosts of the past. @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @alnolan.bsky.social
irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41760578.html Christmas murder-mystery has suspense, snow, festive glow and wholesome advocacy of cheese on toast. @nosycrow.bsky.social @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social @alexcotter.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @erikamcgann.bsky.social
This weekend’s Féile na Laoch sees a reprise of Ceoltóirí Chualann, featuring Seán Ó Sé. @catherinegalway.bsky.social addresses a celebration of Fuinneamh na mBan, or female energy, where Cór Ban Chúil Aodha perform Peadar Ó Riada's Laoi na Laoithe. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Voice of women to be heard as Féile na Laoch festival looks to future
Artificial intelligence, climate change, and employment are among discussion topics at the gathering in Cúil Aodha, writes Pet O'Connell
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Irish Examiner children's book reviews: Magical urchins, a fearful fur ball, and a pubescent trainee banshee: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @sineadohart.bsky.social @unawoods.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social
Tacking up and mucking out, hoof picking and horsey snobbery in new children's books: irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @alnolan.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... As the Kanturk native celebrates his 80th birthday, ranked among his achievements is the title of the Man who put the Planxty into the Sliabh Luachra tradition.
'There’s great satisfaction in hearing your own tunes played': Jackie Daly turns 80
Cork trad legend Jackie Daly talks Sliabh Luachra, innovative tuning, and doing a Beatles cover that Paul McCartney loved
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irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @emmalarkinbooks.bsky.social threads family intrigue through the sporting action in 'Féile', capturing the essence of grassroots GAA and parochial rivalries. @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @megcathwrites.bsky.social
irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Futuristic fantasy holds a mirror to today’s world, where it is perhaps not AI we should fear, but those who would use it for nefarious ends. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social
Drawing on biographical detail from CS Lewis’ life, including the death of his Cork-born mother when he was aged 9, Judith McQuoid creates an imaginary friendship between Lewis and her own grandfather. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social
Cork fiddle player, academic, and authority on Sliabh Luachra music Matt Cranitch will this weekend be presented with a TG4 Gradam Ceoil for lifetime achievement. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @tg4.bsky.social
Matt Cranitch takes a bow for lifetime of musical achievement
Cork fiddle player, academic, and authority on Sliabh Luachra music Matt Cranitch will this weekend be presented with a TG4 Gradam Ceoil award for lifetime achievement
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The Case of the Secret Signal is historically informative but first and foremost just what a children’s book should be: a damn good adventure@theobrienpress.bsky.social @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @futafata.bsky.social @pforde123.bsky.social @unawoods.bsky.social irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, first held by a nascent Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in Mullingar in 1951, was “the most extraordinary thing which happened to traditional music in the 1950s and 1960s on this island”. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
How the Fleadh Cheoil helped revive traditional music in Ireland
A new book shows how the Fleadh played a crucial role in helping to revive traditional music
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A shape-shifting beast with jagged antlers and red eyes arrives from another time and place but nearly as petrifying is the spine-chilling spectre of peer rejection @Doomsday Club @kmoranwrites.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @pforde123.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
'The Last Boy' is at once a story of darkness and hope as Brewster wishes on each star that he will be the last climbing boy. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @everywithwords.bsky.social @evemcdonnell.bsky.social @susancahill.bsky.social @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social
Children’s book reviews: Dickensian child poverty meets Victorian scientific advancement
Pet O’Connell rounds up a selection of the latest children’s books, featuring history, rhymes, and the surreal
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UCC’s first female music lecturer and the first woman in Ireland or Britain to be awarded a non-honorary doctorate in music, Annie Patterson was instrumental in the foundation of Oireachtas na Gaeilge and Feis Ceoil. @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @ucc.bsky.social
Remembering Annie Patterson, the trailblazer who was UCC's first female music lecturer
As the anniversary of Dr Annie Patterson's death approaches, Pet O'Connell recalls the life of the incredible woman who also was instrumental in the creation of the Feis Ceoil and Oireachtas na Gaeilg...
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