Five highlights from Cork's preliminary programme

European Capital of Culture: five highlights from Cork's preliminary programme.

European Capital of Culture: five highlights from Cork's preliminary programme.

European Capital of Culture

1 Architect Daniel Libeskind's Eighteen Turns pavilion which goes on loan to Cork for display in one of the city's urban regeneration areas.

2 The specially commissioned Cathal Coughlan song cycle and performance, Flannery's Mounted Head

3 Sacred Places: Kronos Quartet in St Finbarr's Cathedral

4 Critic and writer John Berger's three-month residency during the city's tenure as European Capital of Culture

5 Exhibition by Cork artist James Berry (1741-1806) in Crawford Municipal Gallery.

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