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.

Theatre and ballet at The Eye

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

TOM STOPPARD’S latest play Leopoldstadt, and the Bolshoi Ballet’s production of Jewels will be on screen at the Eye Cinema this month.

'Getting to Know...' musician Ríona Ó Dúinnín

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Snuggled up watching a movie with my boys.

Representation matters - Breaking Ground Ireland at Cúirt 2022

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

IN APRIL, Galway will host a landmark project showcasing and celebrating 80 writers and illustrators from ethnic minority backgrounds in Ireland.

Cúirt New Writing Prize 2022 seeks entries

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

The Cúirt New Writing Prize 2022 is seeking entries for its poetry and short fiction categories, while the judges will be novelist Lisa McInerney and poet Gail McConnell.

‘Bajazet is a playlist of wonderful arias’

Wed, Jan 19, 2022

WHEN GIANLUCA Margheri steps onto the stage of the Town Hall Theatre to perform the title role in Vivaldi’s opera Bajazet, it will be a double debut for the acclaimed opera singer.

Film review: Belfast

Films Reviews Wed, Jan 19, 2022

WE ARE beginning to see some films coming out now that have been written and produced during the lockdowns. The first genuinely interesting one - to me anyway - is Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical Belfast.

Connemara siblings to perform at TradFest Temple Bar 2022

Tue, Jan 18, 2022

CAOIMHE AND Séamus Uí Fhlatharta, the award winning singers and musicians from Connemara, will perform at TradFest Temple Bar 2022 later this month.

Kae Tempest - live at the Róisín Dubh

Mon, Jan 17, 2022

KAE TEMPEST, the award winning poet, spoken word artist, and Sunday Times bestselling author releases a new album in April, the same month they play the Róisín Dubh.

Bob Vylan - the ‘too extreme’ duo promoting ‘essential discussion’

Mon, Jan 17, 2022

FOR RAISING issues of “police brutality, racism, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and fear mongering in the media”, Bob Vylan were deemed “too extreme”.

MfG midwinter festival concerts to be live streamed

Mon, Jan 17, 2022

MUSIC FOR Galway’s midwinter festival, Stanford, takes place this weekend, and all shows in the Town Hall Theatre will be live streamed as well as in person.