Cultural Cork Launches

Cork will launch its year as European Capital of Culture with a show of fireworks, water, light and music on Saturday, 8th of January. It should be the most spectacular outdoor event in Ireland from the smallest city to gain capital of culture status.
An ambitious programme of more than 230 events is planned with visual arts projects including a showcase of contemporary Irish Art at the Crawford Art Gallery and an exhibition about the 18th-century Cork painter James Barry, the only professor to be expelled from the Royal Academy for radical views and erratic behaviour.
Irish Art