'Getting to Know...' Páraic Breathnach

Thu, Mar 10, 2022

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sailing in a warm breeze.

Fibín welcomes you to Baile Beag Mór

Thu, Mar 10, 2022

A WORLD premiere by artistic director Philip Doherty will open Fíbín’s first season in residence in Ireland’s national Irish language theatre, An Taibhdhearc.

Galway artist wins prestigious 2022 Hennessy Craig Award

Thu, Mar 10, 2022

GALWAY ARTIST, Cecilia Danell, has been announced by the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts as the winner of the 2022 Hennessy Craig Award.

Galway band's new single to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees

Thu, Mar 10, 2022

GALWAY BAND Baba Yarga, made up of members from eastern Europe, have released a new song, ‘Zozulya’, based on a Ukrainian folk song, and with proceeds going to the UNHCR’s work with Ukrainian refugees.

Free screening of Sonya Kelly’s Once Upon a Bridge

Thu, Mar 10, 2022

DRUID THEATRE Company will give a free ‘encore screening’ of Sonya Kelly’s acclaimed Once Upon a Bridge from Wednesday March 16 to Friday 18.

Éirí for a musical odyssey

Thu, Mar 10, 2022

TWO CONCERTS will take place in Galway this year - one is themed around journeys, the other around transformation, and both come under the overall theme of Éirí - arise.

African-Irish artists are GAC’s new artists in residence

Thu, Mar 10, 2022

TWO WOMEN, one of Congolese heritage, the other a member of the Igbo people of West Africa, have been appointed as artists in residence at the Galway Arts Centre.

The Opacas new single, ‘Bye Bye’, out today

Thu, Mar 10, 2022

TODAY, THURSDAY March 10, sees the release of the new single and video by the Galway/Leeds pop-rock band, The Opacas.

Matt Keane to play The Claregalway Hotel

Thu, Mar 10, 2022

AFTER AN absence of two years, the Matt Keane & family concert returns to the Claregalway Hotel on Friday March 25.

Galway Street Club - Róisín Dubh shows and new single

Wed, Mar 09, 2022

GALWAY STREET Club make their long awaited return to the stage with two headline shows at the Róisín Dubh for St Patrick’s Day.

‘I’ve always had that feeling nothing could stop me’

Wed, Mar 09, 2022

SITTING BY a river in the south of France on a windy day in 1980, as November and the dark and cold drew in, Eddi Reader made a decision that would change the course of her life, and define it over the next 40 years.

Colin Geddis for the Sunday Night Comedy KARLnival

Tue, Mar 08, 2022

COLIN GEDDIS, the comedian, YouTuber, podcaster, and one of the powerhouses of the Northern Irish comedy scene, is coming to Galway this weekend.

World premiere of Olympic award winning work

Tue, Mar 08, 2022

THE 1948 Olympics in London still saw artists, musicians, painters, and architects compete for medals, alongside sportspeople, and one of the works for that olympiad has never been given a public performance.

Jason Byrne: on your marks, get set...gig

Tue, Mar 08, 2022

JASON BYRNE, the man The Times called “the outright king of live comedy” returns to Galway with his new show, On Your Marks, Get Set... Gig!

Inni-K - live in Galway on Thursday

Tue, Mar 08, 2022

INNI-K, “one of the most acclaimed voices in the extraordinary revival of traditional and folk music we have witnessed in recent years,” according to RTÉ’s Arena, plays Galway this Thursday, March 10.

Aristophanes’ The Frogs to be staged at NUIG

Mon, Mar 07, 2022

ATHENS IS at war and it is not winning. The best playwrights in Greece are dead. Morale in the city is low. The time is right for a hero to step forward.

'Getting to Know...' actor Siobhan O’Kelly

Thu, Mar 03, 2022

What is your idea of perfect Happiness?
Sunshine, sea swims, tanned legs, and Tayto crisps.

Groundbreaking new book on Irish trad to be launched

Thu, Mar 03, 2022

A GROUNDBREAKING new book on Irish traditional music, particularly the music of the Aran Islands, will be launched next week.

EP Review: NOBRO

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 03, 2022

IT BEGINS with a gospel choir, all harmonies, hand claps, and finger clicks, and an immaculate delivery of the lines, “I spent my whole life running away…”