Launch of Fleishmann centenary celebrations

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese visited Cork to launch the Aloys Fleishmann Centenary Celebrations at Cork City Hall and reopen the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC.

Speaking at City Hall, President McAleese spoke of the late Dr Fleishmann’s “immeasurable contribution to the cultural life of the country”.

Dr Fleishmann, she said, had served as “a teacher, an activist and an advocate for the arts, and made himself one of the most pivotal figures of Irish music in the 20th century”.