Bere Island Community Update

Bere Island Projects Group awarded Heritage Council Funding

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Bere Island Projects Group has been awarded €20,000 under The Heritage Council’s Heritage Organisations Support Fund 2024 to undertake further actions under the Bere Island Conservation Plan.      In 2001 with concerns for the long-term viability of the island community, and a realization that the island’s built and archaeological heritage needed to be protected from further […]

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Leadership for Life Programme for Young Islanders

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A Leadership for Life Programme for Young Islanders will empower island youth with leadership capabilities to reach their full potential which will allow them to learn, practice and develop the core skills they will need in their future life.  The programme is run by Foroige and is Ireland’s only evidence-based accredited Youth Leadership programme for under

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New book on Bere Island Internment Camp

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Bere Island Internment Camp 1921, Nora O’Neill’s Autograph Book by Ted O’Sullivan is now available to purchase from the Bere Island Heritage Centre and Murphy’s Shop, Rerrin priced €20. The first internees arrived at the Bere Island Internment Camp in April 1921 and were a diverse group of men comprising of poets, writers, intellectuals and

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The Hold by Mary Sullivan and Bere Island Women Create

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The Hold by Mary Sullivan and Bere Island Women Create is currently on sale from a number of venues on Bere Island and throughout West Cork. The book was launched at Bere Island Women Create’s exhibition The Hold in June 2022 and details the project which led 24 island women to document through art the

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Bere Island Radio producing podcasts for EU Clean Energy Secretariat

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Bere Island Community Radio have produced a series of podcasts on behalf of the EU Clean Energy Secretariat. The Clean energy for EU islands secretariat, an initiative of the European Commission, is the central platform for the clean energy transition of the more than 2,200 inhabited European islands. Despite having access to renewable sources of energy,

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Bere Island Projects Group Awarded CLAR Funding to Purchase Electric Bus

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Bere Island Projects Group have been awarded €72,693 of CLÁR funding from the Department of Rural and Community Development to purchase an electric wheelchair accessible bus and install a PV charging point at the island community centre.   The funding was announced by Minister Heather Humphreys, as part of an overall €412,000 funding package for eleven

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