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JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE RETURNS TO SPIKE ISLAND CORK

Spike Island Cork are inviting Cork’s rebels to be inmates for an evening as the is-
land recreates the infamous ‘Folsom prison’ gig played by Johnny Cash 50 years ago
this year. Johnny Cash’s prison performances became legendary in musical circles
as he played to some of the most hardened criminals in America at San Quentin and
Folsom prison. The Man in Black became forever linked to these prison gigs and
this Spike Island gig will recreate his prison escapade.
Filling the shoes of the infamous performer will be ‘Strictly Cash’, who have previ-
ously recreated a prison gig in Dublin. In 2008 for the 40th anniversary of Johnny
Cash’s legendary concert at California’s notorious Folsom Prison, they decided to
mark the occasion in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of that San Quentin Prison concert, STRICT-
LY CASH will be together again on Cork’s own Alcatraz, Fort Mitchell, Spike Island.
Special guests will include a choir performance to accompany the band.

Tickets are on sale by advance booking only from www.spikesislandcork.ie as Spike
Island gives Cork the chance to hear all the hits including those made famous from
the concerts at San Quentin and Folsom Prison. Boats depart at 5pm and 6pm from
Kennedy pier Cobh with a short tour and then the concert before returns at 9.10pm
and 9.30pm. The concerts are on Friday 31st May and Saturday 01st June for the
June bank holiday weekend. The concerts will be held indoors in the island Mitchel
Hall, a former church space.
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Frances Morris, Director, Tate Modern,
The Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland Project

In the light-filled Centre Gallery of Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, County Cork, behind
layers of liner paper and white emulsion, lay, until recently, a very well-kept secret.

One, Here, Now is a nine-part series of spectacular floor-to-ceiling wall paintings by
the New York–based Irish artist Brian O’Doherty (formerly Patrick Ireland), which
were created in 1995/96 and subsequently covered over for the following twenty-
two years.

Led by Sirius Arts Centre Director Miranda Driscoll, an ambitious project was
launched to celebrate the temporary restoration of the murals in 2018 by
conservator Don Knox: a year-long series of new partnerships, commissioned
artworks, compositions, performances, and talks to honour, re-interrogate, and,
most importantly, preserve these important works for future generations.

One Here Now: The Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland Project, co-published by Sirius
Arts Centre and Paper Visual Art, comprises essays on each of the projects and
discussions on O’Doherty’s work. It reflects on this important year at Sirius Arts
Centre and serves as a legacy of the murals that will be covered up again in May
2019 or as Miranda Driscoll said in her address “they will go to sleep for a time”