Home town plans to remember Rory Gallagher

Events in Cork will mark what would have been the late guitarist’s 70th birthday, writes Ed Power

GUITARIST Rory Gallagher, who died in 1995, aged 47, would have turned 70 this week. To mark the anniversary, classical guitarist, Jacques Stotzem, will perform a set of the Cork musician’s material on Thursday, in a ceremony in Cork Institute of Technology. A plaque commentating Gallagher will also be unveiled.