Last year included arts workshops, and performances by nationally acclaimed performers including Declan Sinnott and Snatch Comedy.
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Ballycotton was the scene of a major movie called 'Divine Rapture' in summer 1995 which starred Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp and Debra Winger.
The small Irish town of Ballycotton in County Cork where filming took place on it in the summer of 1995 expected to generate significant revenue during filming.
He was a prolific and colourful letter-writer as can be seen from correspondence with the Cork Examiner and Cork Constitution newspapers in October 1848 when he took issue with the local Protestant curate of Ballycotton, the Rev. George Hingston whom he accused of proselytism; i.e., of bribing hungry children with food to attend Protestant schools, etc.