Poets and playwrights go Over The Edge
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
POETS AND playwrights, and the launch of issue 15 of Skylight 47, will make up the first Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2022.
Read more ...Galway piper releases debut solo album
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
UILLEANN PIPER Pádraic Keane, from Maree, County Galway, a former TG4 Young Musician of the Year, has released his debut solo album - In Full Time.
Read more ...Penelope Isles - Galway gig in February
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
PENELOPE ISLES, the alt-rock/indie/electro/psychedelic band centered around siblings Jack and Lily Wolter, will play the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 4.
Read more ...Galway filmmaker wins prize at literary award
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
AMY-JOYCE Hastings, the County Galway actor and filmmaker, won third prize for her script, Perspective, in the screenplay category of the 2021 Hammond House Publishing International Literary Prize, awarded by the University Centre Grimsby.
Read more ...Film review: Licorice Pizza
Films Reviews Wed, Jan 12, 2022
PAUL THOMAS Anderson has a new movie out. Which is the best news. I do not think any director working in the English language is as constantly interesting as he.
Read more ...‘When a teacher creates enthusiasm, that rubs off on the performer’
Wed, Jan 12, 2022
SOMETIMES A chance event can dictate the entire course of a life, one random instance can establish a pathway and a pattern to follow.
Read more ...George Murphy to play Galway in March
Tue, Jan 11, 2022
GEORGE MURPHY will play an intimate show at Galway’s Mick Lally Theatre on Saturday March 12 as part of his upcoming nationwide tour.
Read more ...Waterboys’ Steve Wickham at the Town Hall
Tue, Jan 11, 2022
THE WATERBOY’S Steve Wickham will join Carpet Theatre actor Karl Quinn in a new ‘music play’ at the Town Hall Theatre - Breath.
Read more ...Bajazet - a tense, politically charged opera
Mon, Jan 10, 2022
VIVALDI’S OPERA Bajazet, a tense thriller set in a politically charged environment, will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday January 25 at 5pm.
Read more ...Is Galway in line for another Choice Music Prize win?
Mon, Jan 10, 2022
COULD ANOTHER Galway based musician scoop the Choice Music Prize when the awards are announced in Vicar Street on March 3?
Read more ...Could you be Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year 2022?
Thu, Jan 06, 2022
IRELAND’S YOUNG Filmmaker of the Year 2022 - as part of the Fresh International Film Festival from March 28 to April 2 - is seeking entries from budding filmmakers aged between seven and 18.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' musician John Finucane
Thu, Jan 06, 2022
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Peace and quiet in the countryside.
Alan Carr - in Galway in May
Thu, Jan 06, 2022
ALAN CARR, correctly described by The Sunday Telegraph as "belly achingly funny", who delivers "sheer entertainment,” says the Evening Standard, is coming to Galway in May.
Read more ...‘Stanford was masterful in the way he wrote for orchestra’
Wed, Jan 05, 2022
CHARLES VILLIERS Stanford is one of the greatest composers to have ever come out of Ireland. Yet in Ireland, both the man, and his music, continue to go somewhat under the radar - certainly in comparison to his predecessor, John Field.
Read more ...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.
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