Contempo to begin Galway Cathedral Recitals

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

THE GALWAY Cathedral Recitals series of summer recitals returns with the opening concert, featuring the ConTempo Quartet and David Grealy, taking place this evening at 8pm.

See the art unfold at 126

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

Nine artists over nine consecutive days will create, destroy, and re-arrange artworks in 126, and the public will be able to see it unfold on-line and in the gallery.

THE NUDE in Western art can be either be a study of the form, contours, and idiosyncrasies of the human body (eg, Gwen John, Lucien Freud), or be unashamed erotica (Ingres, Delveaux, Allen Jones) - it just depends on who is painting them.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
The pursuit of it is as good as it gets.

Icelandic films @ the fleadh

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

ICELAND’S ECONOMY imploded in 2008 devastating the nation, but through courage, unorthodox ingenuity, and zero tolerance for politicians’ excuses, the nation is getting back on its feet.

Sundance Festival hit to be shown at Fleadh

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

AMERICAN INDIE FILM Bellflower, a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh this weekend.

See all the Harry Potter films @ The Eye

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

THE EYE Cinema will celebrate the final instalment of the Harry Potter series by screening all the films in epic saga.

Win tickets to The Guard @ Omniplex

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

THE GUARD is the new Irish comedy starring the great Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle, a small-town Irish policeman.

A literary gem in the arts festival crown

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

NO MORE than the Galway Races and the Galway Oyster Festival, not to mention Cúirt and the Galway Film Fleadh, the Galway Arts Festival has become a major event in the Irish festival calendar.

Rockabilly - the second American revolution

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

ELVIS PRESLEY and his friends Scotty Moore and Bill Black were in Sun Studios in July 1954 recording some tracks. During some down time they started “goofing around” with a tune called ‘That’s All Right (Mama)’.

They played fast and loose with this black blues number, speeding it up and injecting it with a good dollop of white country. They knew the end result was something different but it was producer Sam Phillips who recognised that they had created something revolutionary - rock’n’roll was born.

Request Programme’s ‘wordless sauce’

Thu, Jun 30, 2011

CORK’S MUCH-feted Corcadorca Theatre Company celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and mark the occasion with a national tour of Franz Xaver Kroetz’s remarkable one-woman play Request Programme, featuring Eileen Walsh, which promises to be one of the must-see events at this year’s Galway Arts Festival.

Filmvorführung - German movies at the Fleadh

Thu, Jun 30, 2011

FRANCE’S LUMIÈRE brothers may have gone down in history as the pioneers of cinema when they stunned Parisenne audiences by screening their films in 1895.

Fleadh to show first American films made in Ireland

Thu, Jun 30, 2011

IN 1910 New York’s Kalem Film Company made history by sending its leading filmmakers - director Sidney Olcott and screenwriter/actress Gene Gauntier - to County Kerry.

Two shows from Galway Youth Theatre

Thu, Jun 30, 2011

GALWAY YOUTH Theatre will stage Brian Friel’s play Loves: Winners and Losers and Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money in the Nuns Island Theatre this July.

Hear the Songs of Ireland at the Town Hall

Thu, Jun 30, 2011

SONGS OF Ireland, a concert of music and song of the nation, will take place in the Town Hall Theatre this Saturday at 8pm.

A theatrical game for Galway

Thu, Jun 30, 2011

GALWEGIANS ARE being asked to solve a series of mysterious clues both on-line and on the city streets in order to help unite two young lovers.

Austra - when new wave and classical collide

Thu, Jun 30, 2011

“I DON’T think it’s possible for me to write in a major key. I don’t know why. It doesn’t seem to factor in my brain.” So says Katie Stelmanis, lead singer and songwriter of Toronto’s Austra.

Ari Hest to play Campbell’s

Thu, Jun 30, 2011

ARI HEST, whom The Boston Globe describes as “a prolific songwriter and a captivating live performer”, plays Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, this Saturday at 9pm.