Jimmy Crowley is bringing it all back home to Cork

Jimmy Crowley has started a new folk club in his native city, writes Pet O’Connell

IN the late 1960s a teenage Jimmy Crowley could often be found sneaking into Jim O’Donnell’s dimly lit folk club in the below-stairs bar of the Group Theatre on Cork’s South Main St.

The singer who would later be labelled ‘the Voice of Cork’ was there to listen to Irish and Scots songs of rebellion, soaking in the politically charged atmosphere of the burgeoning national folk scene.