Bere Island Publishing is a not-for-profit organisation which aims to collect and house all recent and older publications relevant to (or ‘about’ or ‘written on’) Bere Island. These can be fiction stories, or novels, non-fiction and historical works, but also popular-scientific publications and nature, hiking, bird watching guides. Bere Island authors can choose to be …
Thursday 17th February 2022 On the night of February 17th 1875, the Joseph Howe, a large three masted brigantine, was wrecked on precipitous cliffs on the south side of Bere Island. The ship was bound for Cork carrying a cargo of mahogany from Mexico. On that February evening in 1875, as the sun set on the horizon, …
University College Cork (UCC) is conducting a study on Housing and Sustaining Communities on the West Cork Islands in collaboration with the Bere Island Projects Group, Comharchumann Chléire Teoranta, Comhar na nOileán CTR and the SICAP programme, Comhdháil Oileáin na hÉireann, Sherkin Island Development Society, and the West Cork Development Partnership. The study is funded …
Bere Island Projects Group have been accepted onto the Heritage Keepers initiative which is a free programme for communities that will enable them to work together to explore the built, natural, and cultural heritage of their local place and then plan action or actions to enhance their place. Heritage Keepers is run by Burrenbeo Trust …
