Film review: The Tragedy Of Macbeth
Films Reviews Wed, Jan 05, 2022
DO WE need another version of Macbeth? There was quite a good version in 2015 with Micheal Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, and two really terrific versions from Roman Polanski and Orson Welles.
Read more ...Three Galwegians compete for Glór Tíre winner 2022
Tue, Jan 04, 2022
THE NEW Year sees a new studio, set, and format for TG4’s popular reality country music talent search, Glór Tíre which reaches its milestone 18th season when it returns to TV screens on January 11.
Read more ...Galway indie musicians - live at the Town Hall
Tue, Jan 04, 2022
TRACY BRUEN, Eoin Dolan, Anna Mullarkey, and others, will be in concert at the Town Hall Theatre throughout January, starting this weekend.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Seosaimhín Uí Shuilleabháin
Thu, Dec 30, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Spending time with my family, especially my niece and nephew.
Ahead of Licorice Pizza - a Paul Thomas Anderson retrospective
Thu, Dec 23, 2021
WITH HYPE building for Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film Licorice Pizza, Pálás Galway will host screenings of some of the award-winning director’s finest films, including Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre New Year poetry workshops
Thu, Dec 23, 2021
STARTING IN January, the Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, facilitated by the acclaimed poet Kevin Higgins.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Santa Claus
Thu, Dec 23, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Presents delivered, and the sight of Lapland as it speads over Finland and Sweden - job done, I'm almost home.
A Galway perspective on Seán Ó Riada
Wed, Dec 22, 2021
SEÁN Ó Riada was only 40 when he died in 1971, but his music, his achievements, his legacy, and his influence, continue to resound through Irish folk and traditional music.
Read more ...The best movies to watch at Christmas
Films Reviews Wed, Dec 22, 2021
FOR ME, the best part of Christmas is sitting around the TV after a big feed, and watching a movie, while trying not to get stuck with the Bounty in the box of Celebrations.
Read more ...Peter O’Toole - Réalta & Rógaire
Tue, Dec 21, 2021
THE LIFE of the legendary, Connemara born actor, Peter O’Toole, will be explored on Peter O’Toole - Réalta & Rógaire, to be broadcast on TG4 on Christmas Day at 9.25pm.
Read more ...New exhibition from Anne Korff
Tue, Dec 21, 2021
MEDITATIONS - ROSES Of Hope, the new exhibition from Anne Korff is on display at The Courthouse, Kinvara, throughout Christmas.
Read more ...Spend Christmas with The Saw Doctors
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
ON SAINT Stephen’s Day, TG4 will broadcast Steven Lock’s 1991 TV documentary on The Saw Doctors - Sing A Powerful Song - just after the Connacht versus Ulster rugby match.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus’ January Bang Bang
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
THE DIRTY Circus will be starting the New Year with a serious ‘bang’ as it brings all things ‘saucy and naught but nice’ to the Róisín Dubh at 5pm on Saturday January 1.
Read more ...Junior Brother to play Róisín Dubh
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
IDIOSYNCRATIC KERRY singer-songwriter, Junior Brother is admired by Lankum, Lisa O’Neill, and Pillow Queens, and will close at 2021 at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Mandy Maher
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Family, love, and health.
Celebrate Stanford in 2022
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
THE MUSIC Of Charles Villiers Stanford is “dramatically significant, as well as beautiful in itself. It has, moreover, that quality so rare among modern composers – style.”
Read more ...Aoife Welby exhibition
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
CONNEMARA, and the wild Atlantic coastline, are the inspirations behind the works in a new exhibition from the Galway artist, Aoife Welby.
Read more ...Bernadette Divilly to showcase work from year as Galway Dance Artist in Residence
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
GALWAY DANCE Artist in Residence 2020-2021, Bernadette Divilly, will showcase the culmination of her work from her residency at a show next week.
Read more ...BEST ALBUMS OF 2021
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 16, 2021
1. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu (Parlophone)
Forty-one years after their debut, Maiden are still operating at the highest level. Few bands of their vintage can still create masterpieces, but with this sombre meditation on war and its consequences, Maiden deliver yet another masterwork in a discography with few equals.
Cousin Tablet release new single
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
GALWAY BAND Cousin Tablet have released their second single, ‘Lost At Sea’, which finds the quartet joined by members of The Raines and The Waterboys.
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