Celebrations of Con Houlihan’s life and times and the marking of the 10th anniversary of his passing have already taken place in Dublin earlier this month with a gathering at the Lower Deck in Portabello. This weekend, on August 20th and 21st in his home place of Castle Island, events over the two days will…
This is the most genuine ‘asking for a friend’ request you’ll ever find anywhere. Because the label on one of the donkey’s heads reads ‘Castleisland’ the image was forwarded to me in the hope that we can name the boys. We know the names of the donkeys. It is most likely that the photograph is…
Details for Castleisland’s 25th annual Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival have just been released. A comprehensive programme of activity has been put together by the committee under the chairmanship of Cormac O’Mahony for the October bank holiday weekend from Friday 27th to Monday 30th. The usual added warning that it’s subject to changes applies. The…
Castleisland will feature in a repeat of the 2013 shot series Spillane an Fánaí on TG4 on this Wednesday night, April 27th at 10pm. with another showing on Sunday night, May 1st at 9pm. The half-hour look at the town, its attractions, its history and inhabitants was created by a Cork based company in May…
