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ART AND CULTURE VENUES open their doors in Youghal on Friday night, Sept. 23th 2011. Drama, behind-the-scenes tours, and music performances are all part of the fare on offer. The night is one of the highlights of Youghal’s cultural calendar and will give people the opportunity to explore venues and facilities at night and for free!
Click on image to see the list of events for Youghal Culture Night 2011
ART AND CULTURE VENUES open their doors in Youghal on Friday night, Sept. 23th 2011. Drama, behind-the-scenes tours, and music performances are all part of the fare on offer. The night is one of the highlights of Youghal’s cultural calendar and will give people the opportunity to explore venues and facilities at night and for free!
Click on image to see last year's Youghal Culture Night 2010 on this site
Click on image to see last year's Youghal Culture Night 2010 on this site
Please note correct time for the McGoldrick Exhibition is from 7.30pm to 9.30pm (demonstration to commence at 8pm)
ART AND CULTURE VENUES opened their doors in Youghal last Friday night (Sept. 24th 2010) for Culture Night 2010. Drama, behind-the-scenes tours, and music performances were all part of the fare on offer. The night is one of the highlights of Youghal’s cultural calendar and gave people the opportunity to explore venues and facilities at night and for free!
Photo: Michael Hussey www.youghalonline.com Email: news@youghalonline.com
Youghal Culture Night 2010 at Gallery 126
The majority of events started after 6 o`clock. This was the first year that Youghal took part in the national event which originally began in Dublin’s Temple Bar as a small event and now reaches out all over the island.
Youghal Culture Night 2010 C R Y broadcasting from the Mall Arts Centre: Tim Smyth, Jim Coleman, John Kennedy, Tony Sheehan with Noel Cronin live on air for the cultural evening
Local radio station CRY hosted an open mike night with Tim Smyth, John Kennedy, Tony Sheehan and Jim Coleman broadcasting live from the Mall Arts Centre. Youghal Heritage Centre at the Tourist Office was open 7pm to 10pm.
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Fox's Lane Folk Museum: Pat and Ann Lynch show some of the exhibits to Jim O'Mahony from Killeagh
Pat Lynch at Fox’s Lane Folk Museum talked about the collection and told stories relating to items in the museum which gave a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the unique exhibition of domestic bygones – a fascinating display of some 600 gadgets and appliances used in the home from the 1850s to the1950s
Youghal Culture Night 2010 literary evening at the Padrone Restaurant: Sheila Mannix reading a short story.
Padrone Restaurant hosted several local writers reading from their works. Sheila Mannix, a runner-up in this year’s Francis MacManus Short Story Competition read a selection of prose and poetry while Jerry Twomey read from his recent poems. Local journalist Christy Parker read a selection of poems from his book ‘Don’t Step on the Poems’ and Tom FitzGerald read excerpts from his historical guide ‘An A to Z of Youghal’. Sheila Loughnan also read a selection of prose. Alan Prim from Prim’s second-hand book shop was MC for the cultural evening.
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Literary evening at the Padrone Restaurant: Alan Prim, Tom Fitzgerald, Sheila Loughnan, Christy Parker, Sheila Mannix and Jerry Twomey
Claycastle Recording Studios was open late and gave an opportunity for budding musicians to find out how a recording studio works.
Eamonn O’Brien from Gallery 126 was delighted with the large turnout and featured Galway musician Tom Connolly on Mandolin to entertain the crowds who visit his gallery. The gallery was showing some new paintings by Barbara Dempsey and a unique watercolour of Youghal harbour, painted in 1903 by Joseph Poole Addey
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Gallery 126: The Dempsey family from Youghal with musician Tom Connelly
St. Mary’s Collegiate Church held performances by Ian Sexton who gave an organ recital at by J.S.Bach, Passacaglia & Fugue while local Harpist Úna Whyte gave a solo performance.
Youghal Culture Night 2010 St. Mary's Collegiate Church: Úna Whyte performing at the church - Pic Ed Guiry
Tom McCarthy from Tynte’s Castle was proudly showing the recently built salmon yawl by Jim Horgan and his team, together with a pictorial history of the project.
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Tynte's Castle: Mary and Dermot Fitzpatrick with Tom McCarthy from Tynte's Castle
Meanwhile Luigi from the Rendezvous Gallic Café hosted local musician Bobby Lee and friends who entertained the audience with a selection of their own songs.
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Rendezvous Gallic Café: Luca, Simona Baldari and Luigi from the Café enjoying the evening
With a fantastic atmosphere and buzz around the town in it’s first year participating in this national cultural event, it can only be bigger and better with more and more venues taking part. Youghalonline covered all of the events on the night and looking forward to next year’s Youghal Culture 2011!
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Literary evening at the Padrone Restaurant: Carmelo Barkache, Magda Olajliczak, Anna Krasuska and Chester staff from Padrone
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Fox's Lane Folk Museum: Rowena Allorde from the Phillipines and Monika Lefek from Poland enjoying the Culture Night in Youghal
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Gallery 126: Pat, Niamh and Eleanor O'Keeffe
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Youghal Heritage Centre: Katrina Griffin from the Youghal Tourist Office, Artist Chris Meehan, Eileen Quill from the Youghal Heritage Centre and Patrick Feeney from Coolbawn, Fermoy
Youghal Culture Night 2010: Leo Mullane, Helen Murray and Bobby Lee, musicians taking part in the event
Youghal Culture Night 2010 C R Y broadcasting from the Mall Arts Centre: Brendan Fitzgerald, Eileen Fitzgerald, Renne Swift and Barty Murphy at the live CRY broadcast
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Literary evening at the Padrone Restaurant: The Sheehan family from Youghal
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Fox's Lane Folk Museum: Pat and Ann Lynch
Youghal Culture Night 2010 Literary evening at the Padrone Restaurant: Carmelo Barkache, Margaret and John Griffin, Anna Krasuska and Chester
Click on image to start the slideshow of the venues who took part in this year’s Youghal Culture Night. Photos: Michael Hussey www.youghalonline.com
A record number of diverse art and cultural venues have signed up to take part in Youghal Culture Night 2010, which takes place this year on Friday, 24th September.
Youghal native, Sheila Mannix, won third prize in this year's "Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition", and will read excerpts from her short story entitled "Comfort" - Photo: Sarah Brosnan
Youghal Culture Night is one of the major highlights of the town’s cultural calendar and gives locals and visitors alike an opportunity to explore cultural venues and other fascinating private facilities by night, and all for free.A veritable cultural feast of displays and activities will be showcased ‘after dark’ in a record mix of venues.
Tom FitzGerald will read excerpts from his history guide “An A to Z of Youghal”
Among the free events planned for Youghal is a literary evening at the Padrone restaurant on North Main Street. This will feature several local writers reading from their work. Among the writers taking part are Tom FitzGerald reading excerpts from his history guides “An A to Z of Youghal” and “An A to Z of Cork”; Sheila Mannix, a runner-up in this year’s Francis MacManus Short Story Competition, reading a selection of prose and poetry; and Jerry Twomey reading from his recent poetry. The event starts at 8pm, admission is free and all are welcome.
Fox’s Lane Folk Museum will be open from 7pm to 10pm. Pat Lynch will talk about the collection and tell stories relating to items in the museum at 7.30pm, 8.30pm and 9.30pm. Entrance to the museum will be free on the night, providing a wonderful opportunity to enjoy this unique exhibition of domestic bygones.
Gallery 126 will be open from 7pm to 10pm. Pop in and enjoy listening to music by Tom Connolly on mandolin.
The Youghal Heritage Centre at the Tourist Office will be open from 7pm to 10pm. Admission will be free on the night.
Claycastle Recording Studios wil be open from 7pm to 9pm, an opportunity for budding musicians to find out how a recording studio works.
St. Mary’s Collegiate Church will be open from 7pm to 9pm.
Tynte’s Castle will be open from 7pm to 9pm.
Jack O’Patsy Pottery will be open from 7pm to 10pm for a demonstration of pottery techniques.
Community Radio Youghal will broadcast from the Mall Arts Centre during the evening and will host an “open mike” night and will welcome contributions.
Come out and enjoy Youghal Culture Night Friday September 24 2010
Olive Broderick Winner of Emerging Poetry Award at the Hennessy X.O Literary Awards at Trinity College Dublin-photo Kieran Harnett
Olive Broderick’s poem, Misconception, describing how airplanes seemed about to merge into a daylight December moon, was one of two works that earned her the prestigious 2010 Hennessy Award for Emerging Poetry. Her second poem, Market Forces, reflected the trauma and uncertainty of redundancy and is based on the closure of a factory in the Carrigaline area. Her honour brought her a commemorative trophy and €1,500 prize money.
Olive hails from Ashe Street and is the second of five daughters born to retired schoolteachers William and Teresa. She attended Youghal’s Loreto Convent prior to gaining a Commerce degree in UCC. She subsequently acquired a post-grad Masters in Business Studies before working as a Projects Officer for Age Action Ireland and then as an Information officer with the Higher Education Authority.
While studying for a Creative Writing Masters in Queen’s University Belfast during a year’s leave in 2002, her job at the Higher Education Authority’s Equality Unit was abolished but she undertook a similar position with Voluntary Arts Ireland. She has been based in Downpatrick, Co. Down in this capacity ever since. “I love it here but it is a bit far from home,” she says with the slight lament befitting of a poet.
Through the window…through the pain
Working alone in her office one day in 2008, Olive glanced out at a moon “three quarters visible -buttermilk against delphinium- as framed in a pane of this window.” A temporary closure of Belfast airport had diverted flights into this vision and days later she penned her impressions of the “sequence of airplanes with short contrails, swimming through the blue”, whence they “seemed sure to merge with the stationary orb –but missed it by what looked like little more that a millimetre.” She laughs, “It was all an illusion of course, as they were in a different sphere entirely, but it was gorgeous to watch. There is of course the other, coincidental picture it paints of misconception in the biological sense,” she adds.
The Youghal woman’s works pertain to the school of non-rhyme, laden with profound and insightful imagery. Her poems came before the Hennessy judges by through the Sunday Tribune’s monthly New Irish Writing page, from where they were included in a shortlist of six from a year’s contributors. The awards honour Best Fiction, Best Emerging Fiction and Best Emerging Poetry.
Olive’s second poem, Market Forces, could be metaphorically termed as more down to earth. “I have close relatives in Carrigaline and when a factory closed in the area, even before he Celtic Tiger disappeared, I was contemplating how awful it must be for workers with big mortgages and so on to be going home with that grim news.”
The poem reduces a momentous disruption to the minutiae of reality. The narrator reflects on “the faint ‘ching, ching, ching’ of the breeze” against the masts of nearby yachts upon leaving the workplace, with little to be done except to “figure out how best to tell the children.” It is a work of timeless application with strong contemporary relevance, as the upturned life ponders, “when I get home, I imagine, we will talk ’til well past midnight, trying to read between the lines of a far-off dissertation.” It harbours hope also though, as all sadness must do to retain life and sanity: “But still, hearing in our minds the voices of our parents, repeat assurances of how this might well bring something better. And in the small hours glad to have each other, whispering, where will we be this time next year?”
Olive Broderick
Nursery rhymes
The writer’s love for poetry was initiated by nursery rhymes from “about seven” and nurtured by her parent’s proclivity for “breaking into recitation now and then.”
Like most adolescents, she wrote verse (“some of it cringing I’m sure”), through teenage musings partial to the English and Gaelic works of “modern poets with a romantic leaning” such as Louise MacNiece, Sean O’Riordain and the then emerging Seamus Heaney. “I didn’t take it very seriously but it was a way of marking out who I was in the world,” she explains. “I still find poetry a good way of thinking about one’s self and one’s self in the greater picture.”
She also found the Shakespearean sonnets “so beautiful” and is keen to acknowledge the fine influence of teachers like “Peg Mehegan and Pat McSwiney, who further fostered her interest. The adult Olive, a member of the Queen’s Writers Group, would include Northern Ireland poets Ciarán Carson and Sinead Morrissey amongst “so many wonderful Irish writers” to whom she affords respect and admiration.
Olive’s poetry has featured in various publications. She mostly uses her words to relay her observances and interpretations of life’s everyday offerings, “not so much politically, but on the economic, social and political impact that events have on people’s lives,” she surmises. From that, she perceives a power that most people overlook. “Poetry has a way saying things that are difficult to say in other ways.
Some poems seem to shine a spotlight on a moment in time such that people can be affected by it and navigate where they are going from it to some extent.”
One success behind her, she would like the future to bring some of hundreds of accumulated poems to published collection. “That’s an ambition but there’s a lot of poets out there. It isn’t easy to get published,” she explains, “but I’ll keep trying.” And why not –who better understands what its like to reach for the moon?
Market Forces
Tonight, love, the moon is big over Drake’s Pool
and the wood on the far bank is clearly defined
in shadow. The air is so clear that I can hear
the faint ‘ching, ching, ching’ of the breeze against
the masts of the yachts that are moored there.
There is too much sweetness about all this.
Tomorrow everything will be as normal.
All of that has been organised already.
The school run, the groceries, the monthly
payments
- all confidently sorted. Nothing to do now
but figure out how best to tell the children.
When I get home, I imagine, we will talk
’til well past midnight, trying to read between
the lines of a far-off dissertation; and how
the turn of a page can have such disastrous
consequences. But still, hearing in our minds
the voices of our parents, repeat assurances
of how this might well bring something better.
And in the small hours glad to have each other,
whispering, where will we be this time next year?
Misconception
This is a poem about a moon
that was visible one clear day
in December: three quarters visible
buttermilk against delphinium -
as framed in a pane of this window:
and a sequence of airplanes
with short contrails, swimming
through the blue, in its direction,
particularly the first seemed sure
to merge with the stationary orb –
but missed it by what looked like
little more that a millimetre.
The Gate pub in South Main Street, Youghal will host an open mic night on Tuesday July 28th. Music, poetry, stories and general free expression within (or only barely outside) the libel laws were synonymous on such nights back when the old pub was known as the Clock and heavy rain could blow the electrics!
As then, all in attendance are invited to contribute. Humourist poet Christy Parker, a recent guest at Lismore’s Immrama festival and Paul Casey, renowned poet from Cork’s O’Bheal poetry group, plus other O’Bheal guests, are also expected to perform. Music by Dave Scully. Starts about 9.15
CHRISTY PARKER believes the hen is mightier then the sword as he plots to poach an election seat.
I recall the precise moment when the Eureka! moment hit home. I was watching St. Christopher of Cooney lead a triumphant cavalcade in celebration of his ascendancy to the highest sporting office on earth (or anywhere, according to local disciples). As the GAA President waved pontifically to the adoring kerbside people gingerly sidestepping dog litter on that early Sunday evening, I thought, “I can do that!”
Not that I want to be head of the GAA (not presently anyway) or even spearhead a convoy through town (that can wait too). No, I want to emulate my namesake in spirit. I to can aspire to greatness. I can be a leader. I can fuse, like scaffold poles, my talents, my dreams, my endeavours, my wisdom, my convictions, my evolving philosophies and even my love for my town, into towering triumph. I can scale the summits of great ambition. I can win. “Yes,” I resolved as I watched the man from the Mall negotiate Cork Hill corner towards Club Aras, “I will run for the Council!”
As sure as eggs
Symbolism is everything in politics and I am acutely aware of the merits of a potent logo-cum-slogan to serve my campaign. To my great relief it came easily at noon last Wednesday as I was having breakfast. I believe it was Divine intervention that Read more
Photo: Andrea Barchi
On Thursday 2th October in The Marine Bar Youghal, an excellent night of Poetry, Music and Culture took place which was thoroughly enjoyed by the audience. The poet and writer Christy Parker passed the evening entertaining people with flowing and funny poetry extracted from his latest book “Don’t step on the poems”, and alternating his readings with great solo guitar performances provided by the musician Mal Blackie, creating together, a very warm and friendly atmosphere.
The event was organised by Read more
