Following 2011’s successful Cork Harbour Summer School, Meitheal Mara is repeating the event this year

Following 2011’s successful Cork Harbour Summer School, Meitheal Mara is repeating the event this year in a similar format, at the same venue; the Port of Cork board-room, on Friday June 8th. 

The theme of the Summer School is ‘Cork Harbour, ‘Looking Out – Looking In’: the ‘Looking Out’ theme will deal with Cork Harbour’s significance in the past and present; the ‘Looking In’ theme will deal with topics covering the increasing use of every part of the harbour by a variety of users. Many of the presentations will be inclusive of both aspects. 

The Summer School will be opened by Dr. Valerie Cummins of IMERC and sessions will be chaired by Capt. Pat Farnan, Harbour-master, Port of Cork and Mary McCarthy of the Sculpture Factory. Among the speakers are the Crawford Gallery’s Peter Murray on the maritime art of Cork Harbour, Damien O’Mahony of TEAM, Cork City Council, UCC Archaeologist Colin Rynne, Eddie English on the harbour as a cruising ground and Architect David Flannery on the vision for Spike Island. 

The Summer School is one of the events promoted by Meitheal Mara with the object of building awareness the harbour, by showing the people of Cork city and county what a marvelous and magical place it is, by promoting a view of it as an organic whole and finally by getting people on the water in events like the Ocean to City Race, the Cork Harbour Raid and the Spike Island Picnic. 

For Information: 
Contact Marina Sheehan, Meitheal Mara, 021 4847673 or marina@oceantocity.com 


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