Monday 15th September Bere Island Christmas NewsletterBere Island Projects Group are putting together the 2025 Bere Island Christmas Newsletter and are looking for submissions. Family news items, photos, poems and stories of Christmas on the island in days gone by. All are welcome. Submissions should be sent to Helen Riddell at bereconservation@gmail.com or dropped into the Projects Group office. The deadline …
Please note, for the remainder of this year tours of Lonehort Battery are by appointment only.
Thank you to all those who attended our Heritage Week events on Bere Island. We had a great turn out at the events, the Ciorcal Comhrá ar Oileán Bhéara, the screening of the Ed White Film Collection, Foraging from Land to Sea and the Children’s Tour of Lonehort Battery. Bere Island Projects Group have been active …
In the 1960s, Ed White from Lynn, Massachusetts, USA would visit Bere Island each summer with his island born wife Mary (nee Harrington, Greenane). Ed always brought his cine camera and spent his visits recording the everyday moments, faces and rhythms of island life. These cine rolls were left to Ed’s daughter Noreen Dennehy. Realising …
Ed White Film Collection: Bere Island in the 1960s Read More »
Bere Island Projects Group are delighted to host a full programme for National Heritage Week 2025 which includes Ciorcal Comhrá ar Oileán Bhéara on Wednesday August 20th, an opportunity to come along to an informal Irish conversation get together at the Bere Island Community Centre over tea and cake. This event is open to all levels of …
Bere Island Projects Group are delighted to host the 2025 Fit Up Theatre Festival at the Lecture Theatre (former Camp Church) Rerrin. On Saturday July 12th Paddy -The Life and Times of Paddy Armstrong is a one man show starring Don Wycherley as Paddy, the play is inspired by Paddy’s memoir Life After Life, a Guildford …
Join a guided kayak tour and explore Bere Island’s hidden coves and rugged shores. Kayaking is available Tuesday, Thursday, Friday Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon. Suitable for ages 8+. Trips require a minimum of 4 people and are weather dependent. For further details see the poster below.
The Bere Island Military Heritage Festival will take place on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd June 2025 at the Drill Hall, Rerrin. Now in its third year, the festival includes talks, exhibitions and displays on Bere Island’s military heritage. Bere Island was one of the most fortified locations in Western Europe. Some of the earliest …
To celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg, a national day of free creativity for children and young people on Saturday 7th June 2025, Bere Island Projects Group will hold a Family Picnic, Circus Workshop and Disco from 3.00pm to 5.00pm at the GAA Pitch, Bere Island. For further details contact Oscar on 027 75099. Cruinniú na nÓg is …
Cruinniú na nÓg – Bere Island Saturday 7th June 2025 Read More »
Bere Island Projects Group have been awarded €24,500 from The Heritage Council’s Heritage Organisations Support Fund 2025. This funding will be used to implement actions on the 2025 workplan for the Bere Island Conservation Plan. The Conservation Plan was launched in 2003 as the result of a partnership with Bere Island Projects Group and The Heritage …
Bere Island Projects Group Awarded Funding from The Heritage Council Read More »
