Using the arts to revive old traditions in East Cork

Winter may just be beginning but an enterprising couple in Killeagh  are already working on plans to bring back the village’s 150-year-old May celebration, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Jessica Bonenfant Coogan is hunting for memories.

Specifically, she’s looking for people with stories and photographs of annual festivities held for over 150 years in Glenbower Woods in Killeagh, East Cork: the May Sunday festival.