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Cork County Council has announced its Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025 programme, with Irish language events taking place in libraries, schools and online next month. Ireland’s largest annual celebration of our native language and culture, Seachtain na Gaeilge, runs from the 1st to the 17th of March.

Cork County Council and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre are delighted to announce a partnership residency for artists Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh and Bernie Masterson.

Cork County Council is offering native trees to schools, community groups and organisations to celebrate National Tree Week 2025. An initiative of the Tree Council of Ireland, National Tree Week will take place from March the 9th to the 16th.

Cork County Council has launched the twelfth book in its ‘Heritage of County Cork’ publication series, this time exploring the county’s trade and retail heritage from the prehistoric period through to the present day.
 

Cork County Council’s Library and Arts Service is inviting everyone to take part in ‘Ireland Reads’, a campaign to get the whole country reading during February, in the lead up to a National Day of Reading on Saturday, the 22nd of February. 

Cork County Council has announced funding of over €166,000 for 123 artists and arts organisations through its 2025 Arts Grants.

A community leader from Castletownbere and a group providing an inclusive environment for people of all abilities to participate in sports have received the top awards at the 12th Annual Mayor’s Community Awards in Cork County Hall.  

Cork County Council has published the final map for 2025 that show lands in County Cork which will be subject to the new Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) in 2025. Landowners are encouraged to check the map. 

Author and mindfulness coach Marie O’Halloran has taken up the role of Cork County Council’s ‘Reader in Residence’ for 2025, working with pupils in Charleville CBS Boys School and Doneraile National School to nurture a love of reading.

Cork artist collective ‘inter_site’ will transform the top two floors of Cork County Hall as part of their ‘⌥ertigo, A Crescendo’ exhibition opening this week. The exhibition takes place from the Friday the 7th to Sunday the 9th of February 2025 between 5:00pm and 8:00pm, advance booking is required.