IT is appropriate that West Cork and its annual literary festival should provide a platform for arts writer, cultural historian and biographer Nicholas Fox Weber to talk about his subjects — after all, he’s been coming to this section of craggy coastline for 40 years, and it has played a seminal and supporting role in more than a few of his 14 books.

A reproduction of a stunning stained glass window which was destroyed in World War II has been unveiled for the first time.

Josef Albers explored our changing perceptions of colour in his art. He considered tricks of the eye sacred, says Tina O’Sullivan