On this week’s show Elmarie Mawe spoke to George Hanover about a new children’s writing project from Triskel for Cruinniú na nOg.

We’ve new music from Fiona O Brien and Castlyons Gospel Choir…. but they don’t sing a note

A sensational song co-written by Sally O Leary from Cork and recorded by Claire O Leary and her colleagues in the West End

And a new play commissioned by Corcadorca, which incredibly foretold the experience of lockdown we’re all going through. Elmarie was chatting to its author Eadaoin O Donoghue.

 This week Conor Tallon got to catch up with Mick Hannigan from Indie Cork…Cork’s Festival of Independent Film…where they have put out an interesting and fun challenge for Cork Film makers of all types!

And Conor went back in time thousands of years to the age of the Greek Gods …also saying thank you to frontline staff everywhere in the company of Michael Waldron from The Crawford.

And we’ve news on free professional training from the Opera House and ideas on things to do from the Glucksman…we’ve never seen a busier time in the arts to be honest!

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Conor Tallon spoke with assistant Curator Michael Waldron from the Crawford Art Gallery about this week's Art Work of the Week...

Bust of Asclepius

Today’s theme is Heroes so we’re dedicating this WORK OF THE WEEK to all of you frontline healthcare staff out there. Thank you from all of us!

Did you know that the Greek god of healing was named Asclepius? While he may not be a household name today, he was a prominent hero and deity in ancient times. One of his attributes – a snake-entwined staff – still symbolizes healthcare and features prominently on the logo of the World Health Organization (WHO). Son of the god Apollo and the mortal Coronis, his story is quite literally the stuff of legend…

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Conor Tallon spoke with assistant Curator from the Crawford Art Gallery about this week's Art Work of the Week...

An Strachaire Fir (c.1923) by Joseph Higgins is a remarkable bronze sculpture in the collection. Translated as ‘the strapping man’, Cast in Italy in bronze, the original clay model was made c.1916 when the artist was 30 or 31.

A native of Ballincollig, Joseph Higgins (1885-1925) took night classes in our building (then the Crawford School of Art) while working nearby, on French Church Street, at the grocers and tea dealers Newsom & Sons. In 1924,

In 1914, Higgins had married fellow artist, Katherine Turnbull, whom he met at art school. While they were to have four surviving children, he would succumb to tuberculosis in 1925, aged just 39. Their daughter, the artist, designer, and teacher Maighréad (1919-2014), would later marry sculptor Séamus Murphy, whom she had met during her own studies in our building.

Modelled on his nephew, a bronze cast of Joseph Higgins’ Boy with Boat (1910) is a beloved mainstay of Fitzgerald Park in Cork.

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Conor Tallon spoke with assistant Curator from the Crawford Art Gallery about this week's Art Work of the Week...

marking the 104th anniversary of the Easter Rising

The Breadline, 1916 (c.1950) by Muriel Brandt looks back on a tumultuous time in our history and reflects the associated hardship experienced by Irish civilians. The painting has been described as ‘an interpretation of the aftermath of the Rising, showing the effect it had on the ordinary people of Dublin.’

In the foreground of this busy composition, various children are gathered waiting for the women who queue for bread provided by the Daughters of Charity. Ironically, the Rising had left the nearby Dublin Bread Company building in ruins. Popular memory tells of bread being brought in from unaffected bakeries in County Kildare and elsewhere to relieve the city’s hunger. Identifiable by their traditional habit and large starched cornettes, the Daughters of Charity had a premises on Henrietta Street.

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Every week on The Arts House Assistant Curator Dr Michael Waldron from the Crawford Art Gallery takes a journey through a currently exhibiting work in the company of Arts House presenter Conor Tallon.

French artist Francis Tailleux (1913-1981) relocates us to the Dieppe seafront on the Côte d’Albâtre – Normandy’s beautiful Alabaster Coast – in A Street Scene (1936). Flags flutter on the sea breeze, as walkers make their way along the Boulevard de Verdun.

Look closely and you’ll spot a girl playing ‘hoop and stick’, while a smartly dressed staff member emerges from a nearby hotel. Following the strong diagonal of the boulevard, the Hôtel Royal stands further in the background, a building which still exists today.

Fun fact: this leisurely scene was completed in the same year as the Accords de Matignon, the French labour agreement that established the 40-hour workweek and two weeks paid vacation.

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Every week on The Arts House Assistant Curator Dr Michael Waldron from the Crawford Art Gallery takes a journey through a currently exhibiting work in the company of Arts House presenter Conor Tallon.

Donkeys in County Clare (c.1955) by Sylvia Cooke-Collis is painted in the artist’s characteristic style, not unlike that of Henri Matisse.

Perhaps owing to her own childhood at Annes Grove, County Cork, Cooke-Collis returned again and again to depicting horses and rural or coastal landscapes in her work

Three of them have obediently posed for artist Sylvia Cooke-Collis (1900-1973) along the rocky West Clare coastline, while four more can be seen in the background, keeping a safe distance with the Atlantic Ocean spreading out beyond..

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