Deadline looms for Remote Control #2 applications

Tue, Mar 16, 2021

MONDAY MARCH 22 is the closing date for Remote Control #2, the artist development programme from Brú Theatre, the Town Hall Theatre, and Galway Dance Project, now in its second year.

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New curator announced for TULCA 2021

Tue, Mar 16, 2021

EOIN DARA, head of exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts, and who has curated exhibitions at The Mac in Belfast, has been appointed curator of the 2021 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts.

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Mick Flannery - live from the Róisín Dubh

Mon, Mar 15, 2021

MARKING ONE year since live music venues closed their doors had to close their doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mick Flannery is showcasing a nine-venue virtual tour of Ireland.

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Ardal O’Hanlon headlines the online Comedy KARLnival

Mon, Mar 15, 2021

HE PLAYED Fr Dougal McGuire on Father Ted; a hard working superman in My Hero; a tropical detective in Death in Paradise; even a spaceship piloting cat on Dr Who.

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Free screen writing workshop for young people provided by The Junior Galway Film Fleadh

Mon, Mar 15, 2021

The Junior Galway Film Fleadh, in association with the National Network of Young Irish Film Makers & Animators is delighted to present a FREE Script-to-Screen workshop with Gavin and Teresa from Nova Productions. Taking place online on Saturday 20th March from 10.30-4.30pm it is aimed at young people aged 13-17 years old.

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Cúirt’s Super Springtime

Mon, Mar 15, 2021

Here at Cúirt Literary Festival, we love all things books and literature! With Saint Patrick’s Day around the corner and spring well and truly underway (fine stretch in the evenings, isn’t there?!), we decided to compile a list of what we believe are excellent recent releases in children’s literature. We hope this list inspires and occupies your children during these beautiful spring evenings. Read on to find out all about our Paddy’s Day Limerick Competition! The winner will receive a whopping €200 cash prize!

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The Galway Advertiser and Galway City Council St Patrick's Day Takeover!

Mon, Mar 15, 2021

ST PATRICK'S Day will be an online celebration this year. So as we have to do without the parade, the pageantry, and the festivities, we are delighted to announced that we have partnered up with Galway City Council to bring you St Patrick's Day at home festivities like no other! Tune in on our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram page for a St Patrick's Day Takeover on March 17th 2021. We will be sharing and interactive content and activities for all the family, using the hashtag #StPatrickTakeover. Your contributions are also welcome. Just tag us in photos featuring your St Patrick's Day-at-home celebrations and use the hashtag #StPatrickTakeover.

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Druid’s The Cherry Orchard - free to stream next week

Thu, Mar 11, 2021

DRUID’S ACCLAIMED production of The Cherry Orchard, starring Derbhle Crotty, will be accessible to audiences across the globe, when it is free streamed next week.

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New Galway novel explores embattled family farming life

Thu, Mar 11, 2021

AN AGEING Irish farmer, Íosac Mulgannon, is trying to keep hold of his farm. He may be going senile, and as these twin battles rage, he seeks to protect and care for a mute boy, burdened with a particular curse.

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‘Cúirt will make you think, will entertain you, it won’t hold back’

Thu, Mar 11, 2021

MERE DAYS after the programme for the 2020 Cúirt International Festival of Literature was announced, the Republic of Ireland went into Lockdown. And yet, in the face of that unprecedented setback, Cúirt emerged triumphant.

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Final ten playwrights for Baboró’s You, Fin and the Play Between announced

Thu, Mar 11, 2021

The final 10 participants have been selected for You, Fin and the Play Between, the new playwriting programme from Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, Graffiti Theatre and Theatre for Young Audiences Ireland.

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Cherry - a film made for awards it will never win

Films Reviews Wed, Mar 10, 2021

THERE IS quite a good podcast called This Had Oscar Buzz, which looks at films from the past that were specifically made to win awards, but for one reason or another, failed to do so.

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Town Hall Theatre announces €150,000 programme of artists' supports

Wed, Mar 10, 2021

THE TOWN Hall Theatre this week announced details of a ground-breaking programme of artist supports including commissions, awards, and residencies worth more than €150,000, made possible through support from the Arts Council, the Galway City Council, and others.

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Livefeed - online concert from young Galway musicians

Tue, Mar 09, 2021

EMERGING YOUNG Galway singer-songwriters Ellen Quinn Keane, Amy Rose Friel, Cian Feeney and Mia Fitzgerald, will take part in the next Livefeed online concert.

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Galway made film nominated for BAFTA awards

Tue, Mar 09, 2021

CALM WITH Horses, the Irish feature film which was largely shot in Galway city and county, has been nominated for 4 BAFTAs.

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Classical music concert from Galway Cathedral

Tue, Mar 09, 2021

ARCADIA is a region of Greece, which in ancient times was sparsely populated by farming communities. In the Renaissance imagination, it became the epitome of the bucolic, pastoral, idyll.

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The Dirty Circus - a decadent Saturday night awaits

Mon, Mar 08, 2021

THE JESSICA Rabbit of burlesque, the Galway 'Queen of Soul', the Galway based champion pole dancer...this is just some of what is in store at this weekend's The Dirty Circus.

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'Boy In The Debs Suit' - Slyrydes new single out today

Mon, Mar 08, 2021

'BOY IN The Debs Suit', the new single from Galway indie-punk band Slyrydes, is released today and acts as a taster for the acclaimed quartet's forthcoming debut album.

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Cúirt programme to be launched next week

Thu, Mar 04, 2021

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature will launch the programme for it's 2021 events online at 7pm on Thursday March 11.

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Field Recordings - Loner Deluxe's sonic trip through these troubled times

Thu, Mar 04, 2021

THERE IS, perhaps, a certain West of Ireland echo - or echoes, if you will - in the sleeve of Field Recordings, the new Loner Deluxe album, to that of the sleeve for Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother.

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