Festival celebrates legendary Irish piper

Legendary uilleann piper Jim Dowling, whose legacy is being celebrated with a music festival in Glengarriff this weekend.

West Cork has produced some remarkable people over the long years, men and women who have left their mark on the history and culture of this unique area.

One such luminary was the much-loved Canon James Goodman who died in 1896. Canon Goodman was born in County Kerry in 1828, the third child in a large and happy family of nine children who were bilingual and who had a real affection for the language and culture of their homeplace.