The property supplement to a recent issue of the Irish Examiner contained a piece by Tommy Barker about the sale of Monkstown Castle House — ‘House of the week’ (June 8) — home of the late Charlie Hennessey and Abby Scott.

For the first time, the city has secured so-called URBACT European funding - a specific fund to aid urban development in cities across the EU - to promote play as a means of promoting social inclusion.

From trad sessions to rock concerts, poetry readings to magical 3D projections, Cork’s Culture Night was, as ever, one to remember.

The Handbook of the Irish Revival contains violent material and covers a period when theatre was never so exciting because history itself was excited, writes Thomas McCarthy.

The man who lent his name to Cork city’s railway station, Thomas Kent, was aside from Robert Casement, the only 1916 leader executed outside of Dublin, says Richard Fitzpatrick

We’ve never been closer to the past. The continuing proliferation of online searchable material is making available to us all an ocean of information and artefacts from our past. 

For movie fans, 2015 is the year Marty McFly came Back to the Future again, but, thanks to modern technology another time traveller has come from a more distant past — and is tweeting about when he founded The Cork Examiner.

A former Cork teacher who left his job to pursue a writing career is set to launch his first book.

Möbius is the culmination of months of hard work, writes Georgina O’Halloran.

Celebrating ten years in existence, the Cork World Book Fest (April 22-26), organised by Cork City Library and Triskel Christchurch, is one of the city’s most popular cultural events.

Limerick-born author Kevin Barry, whose novel City of Bohane scooped the world’s most valuable literary prize, said the importance of the Impac award was that it kept books at the centre of life in Ireland.

MEMBERS of any of Cork’s eight libraries can access millions of books and other resources in the other facilities in the city and county under the first scheme of its kind in the country.

THE build-up to Cork’s 30th jazz festival began yesterday with the first of a series of free public concerts designed to broaden its appeal.

LEADING journalists from Ireland, Britain and the US will assemble in Cork next week for a fascinating one-day conference on the art of sports-writing.

THE post of director for the Cork 2005 European City of Culture was filled last night, just four days after the incumbent quit in controversial circumstances.