Easter Sunday Commemoration 2018

The guest speaker is Gerry White, who is a well known military historian and an author of several books on WWI and local history, including ‘A Great Sacrifice – Cork Servicemen who died in the Great War’, and ‘The Burning of Cork’ with Brendan O’Shea, he also wrote ‘Baptised in Blood’ the Cork story of 1916. Recently Gerry contributed two articles to the Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year relating to the full story of Ireland’s revolutionary history from 1913 to 1923 ‘Atlas of the Irish Revolution’

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Margaret Presented Superb Programme at Gramophone Circle

On Friday, 23rd March 2018 it was Margaret Moynihan of Killarney Road, Millstreet who presented a truly magnificent selection of songs and music at our Gramophone Circle.   The capacity audience was especially impressed by the 1990s recording of a live concert in Italy which featured the late Luciano Pavarotti and the late Dolores O’Riordan in an exquisite duet of “Ave Maria”.  Here we share two images from the very enjoyable event which shows just a section of the attendance with Margaret holding the CD.  Click on the pictures to enlarge.  (S.R.) [read more …] “Margaret Presented Superb Programme at Gramophone Circle”