The #BereIsland Storytelling Festival will take place on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May, we’re delighted to welcome Dr Angela Maye-Banbury and Teddy Black to the festival, and a big thank you to our funders Our Irish Heritage

A public meeting will be held on #BereIsland on Tuesday 8th May at 2pm in the Community Centre with artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley to discuss their project The Museum of Birds and Beasts bereisland.net/the-museum-of-…

Great news for #BereIsland over €15,000 of funding allocated by Cork County Council for various island projects this year.

Bere Island Projects Group are grateful to the continued support of The Heritage Council for their work on the #BereIsland Conservation Plan.

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Great to see the recent #BereIsland Spring Clean featured in the EchoLive.ie

Impressionist artists at work ‘‘en pleine air’
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Beeeeee Proud of #BereIsland - please help the Bere Island Tourism & Environment Group in their new 5 year Biodiversity Plan. Pollinator info will soon be popping up in various flower beds and tubs around the island. If you would like to get involved please contact 027 75099.

St Michael’s Church #BereIsland all set for Confirmation taking place on the island today. Wishing all the best to the three pupils from Scoil Mhichil Naofa, Bere Island N.S. who will be making their Confirmation.

A great mention from C103 on all the work undertaken on #BereIsland for #NationalSpringClean and thanks to Bere Island Ferries for their support.

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Don’t forget to leave flowers on the doorstep this evening for May Day Eve #Bealtaine
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Calling all #BereIsland children to help prepare the island for the 2024 #TidyTowns campaign. Bere Island had won the island category of the competition for the last 15 consecutive years, help us keep our record!

I am honoured to be working with Helen Riddell Bere Island as part of Bere’s storytelling celebrations. The inspirational team on Bere shows what is possible with shared vision of oral history. Save our Irish island stories with #oralhistory Our Irish Heritage The Heritage Council

Save the date! The #BereIsland Storytelling Festival will be held on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May at the Lecture Theatre, Rerrin with oral history workshops and storytelling sessions. The full programme of events will be announced next week.

To mark #PoetryDayIRL a poem written by #BereIsland man Dennis Harrington in 1876 about the wreck of the Joseph Howe off the coast of Greenane, Bere Island. Dennis and his neighbour Michael Shanahan rescued four of her crew.

Celebrating #WorldEarthDay2024 on #BereIsland Our Irish Heritage

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Today is International Day for Monuments and Sites. Here on #BereIsland we have four listed national monuments, as well as numerous other archaelogical and architectural sites #WorldHeritageDay Our Irish Heritage

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On this day in 1912 the #RMSTitanic sank with the loss of 1500 lives. When the ship went down also onboard were over 7 million pieces of mail including a piece of #BereIsland lace Our Irish Heritage

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Help us Spring Clean #BereIsland this weekend! NationalSpringClean

The Milky Way over Ardagh Martello Tower #BereIsland 📷 Chris Twomey. In 2017 Bere Island Projects Group received funding from The Heritage Council to undertake a Dark Sky Feasibility study on the island and purchase a community telescope #DarkSkyWeek

A 360 view of the landscape on the south side of #BereIsland - this part of the island is a Special Protection Area, it’s wild, untamed, completely exposed to the Atlantic and is heaven on earth.