‘The music I create is built for performance’

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

EIGHTEEN MONTHS of no live music, then September arrives and suddenly it all starts to happen again for producer, composer, and musician, Daithí.

Galway Comedy Festival returns in October

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

IRELAND'S BIGGEST festival of comedy comes roaring back to Galway this October Bank Holiday, and organisers are planning a triumphant return for this week-long festival of fun.

'Getting to Know...' Chantal McCormick, choreographer

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A healed planet.

‘To our imaginations and beyond’ - Baboró International Arts Festival for Children

Tue, Sep 07, 2021

Baboró International Arts Festival for Children turns 25 this year and will be celebrating its silver anniversary in style with six premieres of work by Irish artists; seven new commissions, and young people co-creating many of the events.

Get involved in Galway Fringe Festival 2021

Tue, Sep 07, 2021

GALWAY FRINGE Festival will present an outdoor programme of creative arts activities throughout Galway city and county during the autumn.

A Reliquary of Beasts at 126 Gallery

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

ANIMALS - THEIR place in our lives, how they have been depicted in art, and divergences on cross-border practices on animal products caused by Brexit, are being examined in a new exhibition.

Catherine Corless to launch her memoir in Galway

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

CATHERINE CORLESS, the historian whose work brought to light the deaths and burials of hundreds of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, and which led to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, will launch a memoir this month.

Lisa Hannigan to play new music festival at Claregalway Castle

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

AFTER 18 months of no live music, suddenly there are new, in person, outdoor, music festivals for Galway, and Claregalway Castle is the venue.

The thrills, pills, and bellyaches of being a Marxist poet

Thu, Sep 02, 2021

THE PAMPHLET was the chief means by which an 18th century man - particularly one with revolutionary zeal - with things to say got those things off his chest.

Album review: Whipping Boy

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 02, 2021

I AM old enough to remember when Whipping Boy were Jesus and Mary Chain wannabes, and their utter transformation a couple of years later as witnessed on a grandstanding performance on The Late Late Show.

Is Briain alive? TG4’s Ros na Rún returns on September 7

Thu, Sep 02, 2021

ROS NA Rún, TG4’s popular Irish language drama series returns for season 26 on Tuesday September 7 at 8.30pm and the burning question for viewers is, is Briain alive?

Athenry Music School Sinfonietta to give online Culture Night concert

Thu, Sep 02, 2021

THE YOUNG musicians of Athenry Music School Sinfonietta will give their debut performance of ‘A Baroque Session (with Carolan & Friends)’ by Raymond Deane online at 7pm on Culture Night, Friday, September 17.

Film review: The Nest

Films Reviews Wed, Sep 01, 2021

AFTER BEING held back for almost a year, The Nest, the second film from director Sean Durkin, is finally available to Irish audiences.

Galway made film Arracht optioned for Hollywood remake

Wed, Sep 01, 2021

FOLLOWING RAVE reviews, awards, and being selected as Ireland’s official entry for the 2021 Oscars, Galway made film Arracht has now been optioned for a Hollywood remake.

Pretty Happy - Cork post-punk trio for Fall Right Into Place

Tue, Aug 31, 2021

PRETTY HAPPY, the post punk Cork trio “who sound at times like a deranged Pixies – which is an entirely good thing!", according to Hot Press, are coming to Fall Right Into Place.

What about the sea goddesses?

Tue, Aug 31, 2021

THINK OF the gods of the sea and there is really only one name - the Greek sea god, Poseidon, or Neptune if you are more familiar with his Roman name.

Gilgamesh - a short film, to premiere at Town Hall Theatre

Mon, Aug 30, 2021

GILGAMESH, THE story of the ancient hero-king from the Middle East, and brilliantly reimagined by Macnas, will be screened as a short film in the Town Hall Theatre next week.

Live music is back at Monroe’s

Mon, Aug 30, 2021

SHARON SHANNON, Hudson Taylor, The Frank and Walters, and Kíla are just a few of the names that will be headlining gigs at Monroe’s Live as live music returns to the Dominick Street venue.

Beckett as Gaeilge ar Inis Óirr

Mon, Aug 30, 2021

HAPPY DAYS, Samuel Beckett’s 1961 play, cited as one of the 40 best plays of all time by The Independent, is coming to Inis Óirr in a version as Gaeilge.