Rachel Goode, country and Irish singer

Tue, Feb 01, 2022

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being happy in oneself and singing my way through life.

Galway Arts Centre to launch 2022 visual arts programme

Tue, Feb 01, 2022

FRIDAY WILL see the launch of the Galway Arts Centre’s 2022 visual arts programme, Entangled Histories, the first under its new director/curator Megs Morley.

St Patrick’s Day Festival to return to the city streets

Tue, Feb 01, 2022

The St Patrick’s Day parade makes its long awaited return to the streets of Galway city in March, and this year’s festivities will include an outdoor village, family activities, vintage amusements, and a new ‘Greening’ initiative.

Careful Now! - TedFest returns in March

Mon, Jan 31, 2022

INIS MÓR on the Aran Islands will be the venue for Ireland’s first post-pandemic festival - TedFest, the celebration of all things Father Ted.

These Moments - Cian Finn to release new EP

Mon, Jan 31, 2022

CIAN FINN, the Galway musician whose works straddles reggae, world, folk, and traditional, releases a new EP, These Moments, on Thursday February 3.

Album review: The Divine Comedy

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 27, 2022

FOR AN artist with a very definite, almost idiosyncratic, sound, style, and identity, Charmed Life reminds us that Neil Hannon’s influences and range are both broad and diverse.

A feel good movie from Galway Film Society

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

DREAM HORSE, a “heart-warming, feel-good and family friendly” film, according to the Sunday Independent, is the next Galway Film Society screening.

Steve Wickham in Breath at the Town Hall

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

THE WATERBOYS’ Steve Wickham, and actor Karl Quinn, will explore our recent experiences of life during a pandemic, with the ‘music play’, Breath.

Club Scannán Sailearna new film season

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

LEADING DANISH actor, Mads Mikkelsen, stars in Another Round, which will be screened by Club Scannán Sailearna.

Deadline extended for young filmmaker competition

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

THE DEADLINE for entry to Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year 2022 has been extended to Friday February 4.

Film review: Nightmare Alley

Films Reviews Wed, Jan 26, 2022

THIS IS the best time of year film-wise, we are getting all the Oscar contenders and every week there is a new movie worth seeing in the cinema.

The extraordinary adventures of Danny O’Brien

Wed, Jan 26, 2022

FROM MILKING goats to encounters with a boozy deity in Guatemala, Danny O’Brien is conceivably the only person in the world whose life under lockdown and the pandemic restrictions can be described as action-packed.

Conchúr White to play Róisín Dubh

Tue, Jan 25, 2022

CONCHÚR WHITE, the Armagh singer-songwriter who has been compared to Father John Misty and Lana Del Rey by earmilk.com, is about to play the Róisín Dubh.

Galway Community Circus free workshops

Tue, Jan 25, 2022

SUNDAY CIRCUS is a new, free series of circus workshops from Galway Community Circus, for young people from migrant backgrounds.

John Williams - a celebratory birthday concert

Tue, Jan 25, 2022

JOHN WILLIAMS, composer of some of the most memorable, iconic, and much loved film scores in all cinema history, will be celebrated in Galway with a concert marking his 90th birthday.

What a Complete Aisling authors to read at Cúirt 2022

Mon, Jan 24, 2022

SARAH BREEN and Emer McLysaght, the authors of the immensely popular Aisling comic novels, and young adult fiction writer Bethany Rutter, will read at Cúirt 2022.

A night of Irish trad - on the viola

Mon, Jan 24, 2022

IRISH TRAD is often played on the violin - or fiddle when speaking about folk music - and rarely, if ever on the instrument’s slightly larger, deeper sounding sibling, the viola.

Album review: Cat Power

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 20, 2022

IN MOST cases, a covers album is a stop-gap in an artist’s career, a point where they take stock before plotting their next move. Other times it is simply an easy way to meet a contractual obligation.