Eoin Dolan - Good human being

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

IT ALL began with something that no longer exists. It started at a rehearsal by the long defunct Renmore Brass Band, but it would have a profound effect on one young member of the audience.

Galway made film is Ireland’s entry for Oscars’ Best International Feature Film category

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

ARRACHT, AN Irish-language feature film which was made in Connemara, has been selected as Ireland’s entry for the Oscars’ Best International Feature Film category for 93rd annual Academy Awards.

'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A day when the painting is going well and the coffee is good, followed by a pint of Beamish with the fella.

The Stinging Fly - Galway 2020 edition

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

LISA McINERNEY, the acclaimed and award winning author of The Glorious Heresies and The Blood Miracles is the guest editor of a special Galway 2020 edition of The Stinging Fly.

Doire Press to mark 10th birthday with online reading

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

CONNEMARA BASED publishing company, Doire Press, will mark its 10th birthday with a cross-border/cross-genre reading and panel discussion as part of this weekend's Dublin Book Festival.

ROPES seeks submissions

Thu, Nov 26, 2020

ROPES, THE annual literary journal from NUI Galway's MA in Publishing and Literature students is seeking submissions for writers and artists.

Online contemplative dance retreat

Mon, Nov 23, 2020

A free, online, contemplative dance retreat for professional dance artists will take place this Sunday, November 29, from 10am to 4pm.

World premiere of new music to be performed at St Nicholas'

Thu, Nov 19, 2020

THE WORLD premiere of Rhona Clarke's O Vis Aeternitatis, along with music by Handel and Purcell, will be performed in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this weekend.

New poetry collection from Denis Mockler

Thu, Nov 19, 2020

THE POET and songwriter Denis Mockler will launch his new collection of poems, More Poetry From The Heart Of Galway, with a series of Facebook Live events.

Album review: Marina Kaye

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 19, 2020

ANY HONEST look at the music created over this past decade reveals a basic truth - most of the best music is being made by women.

InterAction 2.0 - a weekend of virtual theatre for Galway

Thu, Nov 19, 2020

A WEEKEND of theatre from Galway will close out the month of November. InterAction 2.0 will feature visual, online theatre shows where the focus will be on the immersive, the challenging, and the imaginative.

‘The arts take us to a different place, a more human place’

Thu, Nov 19, 2020

THE ARTS are essential to politics, precisely because they can go beyond ideologies and entrenched positions, into the mind and lived experience of another person. Through the artist’s presentation of that life, we can see another perspective; who we might be in other circumstances; or into a reality we have been fortunate enough not to have lived.

'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Nov 19, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Having pints of the local brew in a quaint old English pub.

An Taibhdhearc seeks company/individual to 'take the theatre in hand'

Thu, Nov 19, 2020

AN TAIBHDHEARC, the national Irish language theatre, is seeking applications from Irish language theatre companies, artistic directors, or producers, to run the theatre.

Wolfwalkers - an Irish cinema triumph

Films Reviews Tue, Nov 17, 2020

ONE OF my most hotly anticipated releases this year is from Kilkenny based animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, which burst on the scene a decade ago with the Oscar nominated Secret Of Kells.

'Sorry' - Rofi James release timely new single

Mon, Nov 16, 2020

IN A time of lockdown, and uncertainty over the future, and in a moment when people are discussing mental health more openly than ever before, Rofi James' new single, 'Sorry', feels very timely.

1981 hunger striker to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 12, 2020

LAURENCE MCKEOWN, who endured 70 days on hunger strike in 1981 in the Maze Prison, and who since become an awarenesses winning writer, will read at the next Over The Edge.

The Silly Virtual Quiz with Karl Spain and Fred Cooke

Thu, Nov 12, 2020

THE GREAT Karl Spain, and his glamorous assistant Fred Cooke, will host a night of laughs, quizzing, and plenty of prizes - including online vouchers that will help #SupportLocal businesses - in The Silly Virtual Quiz.

Dylan Murphy's elegy for the 'days of live music'

Thu, Nov 12, 2020

"A WISTFUL elegy for the good old days of live music," is how Galway based singer-guitarist Dylan Murphy has described his new single, ‘Between The Songs’, which is released on Friday November 13.

Platform 31 - new support scheme for artists

Thu, Nov 12, 2020

PLATFORM 31, a State-wide artist development scheme to allow artists develop their practice, and test new ideas, has been launched by The Association of Local Authority Arts Offices, in collaboration with the Arts Council.

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