Five For Your Radar: Midsummer festival, Rory Gallagher remembered, Snow Patrol live
Arts Festival: Cork Midsummer
Various venues, Friday, June 13, to Sunday, June 22
From circus to dance to theatre and various other artistic forms, Cork Midsummer offers a diverse programme over the next 10 days. The Theatre for One booth returns to Emmet Place for short but memorable experiences, while for a more immersive journey, Cork's own Eileen Walsh stars in The Second Woman (Cork Opera House, June 14-15): Over 24 hours, 100 different men star opposite Walsh as she performs over and over a scene between a man and a woman in a relationship that has lost its creativity and romance.
Music Festival: Beyond the Pale
Glendalough Estate, Wicklow, Friday-Sunday, June 13-15
Amid some last-minute on again, off again drama, one of the best music festivals of the summer is most definitely on again this weekend. Beyond the Pale, back for its fourth edition, brings beloved indie rock acts TV on the Radio and Broken Social Scene to Ireland for some rare shows. Amid talks and activities from yoga to food talks, up and coming Irish acts mix with the likes of Samantha Mumba and Jon Hopkins as festival summer really kicks off.
Samantha Mumba plays Beyond the Pale this weekend.
Streaming: Echo Valley
Apple TV+, Friday, June 13
There's some strong Irish interest in this new Apple TV+ film, which arrives on the streamer on Friday. Fiona Shaw and Domhnall Gleeson star alongside Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney in the thriller. Kate (Moore) is dealing with a personal tragedy while owning and training horses in Echo Valley, an isolated and picturesque place, when her daughter, Claire (Sweeney), arrives at her doorstep, frightened, trembling and covered in someone else's blood.
Exhibition: Cork Rocks for Rory
Various venues, from Saturday, June 14
The Rory Gallagher estate, in collaboration with Cork City Council and Cork City Libraries, is hosting a citywide tribute to the guitar legend to mark the 30th anniversary of his death. There are separate photography exhibitions about Gallagher at the Atrium at Cork City Council's new Civic Offices, the Public Museum in Fitzgerald Park, and the Central Library on Grand Parade. A walking trail highlighting the places and streets that were his stomping ground will be active with a QR code from June 14.
Gigs, Saw Doctors, Snow Patrol
Virgin Media Park (Musgrave Park), Cork, Saturday, June 14; Thursday, June 19
Leo Moran and Davy Carton of The Saw Doctors.
A relatively rare Cork outing for the Saw Doctors. Expect some passionate singalongs from N17 to I Useta Love Her led by Leo Moran and co. Meanwhile, Snow Patrol play the same venue next Thursday. They've been one of the biggest, most persistent Irish acts of the quarter-century so far, and, headed by the charismatic Gary Lightbody, have a back catalogue to rival anyone.
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