Faith Ryan offers old lace making skills, Irish linen and elegant furniture in a homespun tale of interiors.

Summer time should mean expeditions and adventures out of doors but it feels like we haven’t moved beyond March.

Today we are so technologically-minded we can hardly remember a world where everything was not accessible at the click of a mouse, where a desired item was not instantly purchasable online, but took days,weeks, months to create.

FOR the inevitable rainy days that speckle our otherwise sunny summer, Cork Craft Month kicks off on Tuesday next and runs through to September 5 at venues throughout the city and county.