New single released

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Chris Haze has released his new single entitled 'WDGAF'.

Galway’s Baboró festival reflects on its 25 year history

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

A QUARTER century ago, Baboró, Ireland’s International Arts Festival for Children was founded, to fly the flag for brilliant child-focused arts experiences.

‘After the Movie’ - Partland releases new single

Music Reviews Wed, Aug 04, 2021

‘AFTER THE Movie’, the new single from Galway singer-songwriter Partland, is released today, Wednesday August 4, and is accompanied by a wonderful animated video.

'Getting to Know...' - Robert Hilton

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Real happiness only exists by contrast to other experiences.

Exhibition depicts south Galway landscapes of the mind

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

OF LAND, Sea, and Mind, a new exhibition of oil paintings by Patrick Kenneally, and inspired by the mind’s adaptation to the lockdown restrictions, and our absence from the landscape as a result, opens this weekend in Kinvara.

Album review: LUMP

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 29, 2021

THE SECOND album from LUMP - singer-songwriter Laura Marling, and Mike Lindsay of folktronica band Tunng - is, as Marling says, about “desires running wild”.

The Playboy of the Western World - The Musical comes to Coole Park in August

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

KATE O’TOOLE, daughter of the legendary actor Peter O’Toole, will be coming to Galway in August to narrate a special live performance of The Playboy of the Western World - The Musical.

Galway Pride Week 2021 to be launched outside the Pálás

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

Galway Community Pride will mark its 32nd year this month with a series of online, outdoor, and in person events to celebrate the LGBT+ community in the city and county.

New exhibition from leading Galway women artists

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

AIMSITHE (discovered) is the third Exhibition of Summer 2021 from Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme and will feature the work of County Galway artists collective AKIN.

‘If we’re not producing theatre, we do not exist, you have to perform’

Wed, Jul 28, 2021

A PLAY about love, about art, about relationships, ambition, desire, the declines of the Anglo-Irish gentry, and the emergence of a new society - Anton Chekhov’s tragi-comedy The Seagull, in the acclaimed adaptation by Thomas Kilroy, is all of these things.

Galway singer-songwriter to perform live in Paris

Wed, Jul 28, 2021

A LILAC Decline - the musical alter-ego of visual artist Cecilia Danell - will play a live gig, outdoors at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, as part of Culture Night.

JG Ballard meets Ballinasloe

Mon, Jul 26, 2021

THE LANDSCAPE and towns of east Galway, and the science fiction of JG Ballard, have inspired a new album by the Galway musician, The Cube of Unknowing.

Film review: Untold Secrets

Films Reviews Mon, Jul 26, 2021

IT HAS been a tremendously successful 2021 Galway Film Fleadh this year. Anecdotally I spoke to several people who had not attended the festival in the past, but did so this year due to the outdoor screenings - and all said they would be back next year.

NUIG lecturer’s feature film wins major award at Fleadh

Mon, Jul 26, 2021

FOSCADH, THE Irish language feature film, inspired by Donal Ryan's The Thing About December, won Best Irish First Feature at last night’s Galway Film Fleadh 2021 Awards.

Thoughts of home at new Kinvara exhibition

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

HOME, THE new exhibition from County Galway artist and children's book author, Terri Kelleher, opens at the Kinvara Courthouse on Friday July 23.

‘Floating’ - Uisce Jones to release new single

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

‘FLOATING’, THE new single by Galway/Spanish indie singer-songwriter, Uisce Jones, will be released on Friday July 23.

Galway Pride Guide to be launched at the Pálás

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

GALWAY WILL continue its tradition of having the longest continually running Pride event in Ireland, with an array of events from Monday August 9 to Sunday 15.

NUIG academic nominated for debut feature film at Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

NUI GALWAY academic and filmmaker Seán Breathnach has been nominated for the prestigious Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the 33rd Galway Film Fleadh.

New studio space for artists to open in the city

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

BARTON STUDIOS, a new studio space for artists in Galway is set to open on St Francis Street, and a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help equip and run the premises.

‘I believe in the ability of artists to change the world’

Wed, Jul 21, 2021

AT EVERY arts event in the city he would be there, the jolly man with the glasses and the long hair, a smile and good company, enthusiastic for what he, and we, were about to see that night, be it theatre, music, literature, visual arts - and he usually had an important role in supporting it.

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