Craicly Stories at Ballyvolane House - Friday, 27th June 2025
CRAICLY STORIES
About the Event:
CRAICLY STORIES and Ballyvolane House are hosting a storytelling event as part of a series of events being held in historic homes that are members of the Historic Houses of Ireland.
The event will kick-off at 7.30pm and on arrival guests will be served a complimentary B&T. Once everyone has arrived, a casual 2-course fork supper will be served in the house. After supper, the speakers will be introduced by CRAICLY STORIES founder and curator Jane Gormley and the speakers will take the floor (the storytelling will last around an hour). The conversations will continue over tipples and pints in the bar in the barn afterwards.
Speakers:
Sally Barnes
One of Ireland’s culinary legends and founder of Woodcock Smokery in West Cork. Sally Ferns-Barnes is one of the key figures in Ireland’s food renaissance of the last forty-plus years. Alongside other pioneer women in the Irish food community like Myrtle Allen, Veronica Steele, Jeffa Gill, Iris Diebrok, Giana Ferguson, Madeline McKeever, Sally McKenna, Darina Allen, and Danette Milne, Sally has ensured that Ireland’s indigenous food culture is celebrated and experienced by locals, visitors, and international tourists.
A self-taught smoker, Sally founded Woodcock Smokery in West Cork in 1981, working exclusively with the best wild fish from Ireland’s waters. Facing challenges with the supply of wild salmon, she has diversified over the years, consistently winning awards for her sustainably sourced albacore tuna, haddock, pollack, and mackerel. In 2020, Sally launched the Keep, a place where she can teach masterclasses in fish curing and smoking to pass on her knowledge to as many people as she can. Somehow, in between all this, she raised two beautiful daughters who are the lights of her life.
A lifetime against the tide - click here to view the trailer for a new documentary on Sally Barnes - due for release in 2025.
More speakers to be announced in due course.
- Where: Ballyvolane House, Castlelyons, Cork
- Time: 7.30pm to 11.30pm
- Date: Friday, 27th June 2025
- Booking Info: Click on the button above to book online or please email info@ballyvolanehouse.ie or phone us on 025 36349 (office hours). Tickets are €75.00 per person. Price includes a B&T (Bertha & Tonic) on arrival, a 2-course fork supper (main course and pudding) in the house, CRAICLY storytelling with some of our local food and farming heroes. Please note tickets are non-refundable.
