Diocesan News
Christmas Carols for Cork City
St Fin Barre’s Cathedral in association with St Fin Barre’s Quarter is delighted to announce its unique and innovative presentation of Christmas Carols for Cork City.
Recorded at the Cathedral by a reduced choir due to Covid–19 restrictions, the uplifting and traditional Christmas Carols will be presented at strategic locations in Cork City over five days from Thursday 17th December to Monday 21st December.
Using the latest mobile LED screen technology and sound projection St Fin Barre’s Cathedral will be turned “inside out”. Some of the music from the traditional carol service, a highlight of Christmas in Cork and sadly cancelled this year, will instead be brought to the people.
Following the launch on Thursday the Christmas Carols will first call to City Hall and Anglesey Street Fire Station & Garda Station. Over the following days the performance will be brought to the city’s hospitals so that the Christmas cheer from the Cathedral is shared with front line workers and patients.
Leading this initiative, the Dean of Cork, the Very Rev Nigel Dunne, said: “We were devastated to have to cancel the hugely popular carol services especially in this our 150th anniversary year. However thanks to some very creative thinking by St Fin Barre’s Quarter Committee and the generous support of the City Council we can now bring some of our wonderful music, sung by reduced socially distanced choir, onto the streets of the city. While it is not the same as gathering as a community in the Cathedral I hope it will bring some Christmas cheer to the streets of our city and our front line workers in these difficult times.”
The Chair of St Fin Barre’s Quarter Development Committee, Eoin Murphy, welcomed the programme, saying: “The Cathedral is at the heart of the historic St Fin Barre’s Quarter and this initiative shows what a significant contribution it makes to Cork City especially at Christmas time. For me the Carol service has always symbolised the start of Christmas and I am thrilled that the tradition continues albeit in a different way.”
This innovative programme is sponsored by Cork City Council through the Reimagine GLOW Programme
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Ms Denise Stobart
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