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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...‘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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...'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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...'The Lake' - Derek Ellard releases new single
Thu, Mar 04, 2021
'THE LAKE', the fifth single in the past 12 months from Galway based singer-songwriter, Derek Ellard, is released on Friday March 5.
Read more ...Manchán Magan and Galway 2020 give new lease of life for forgotten Irish words
Thu, Mar 04, 2021
MANCHÁN MAGAN is best known as a globe trotting adventurer and travel writer, but with the Covid-19 pandemic keeping us all grounded and close to home, Manchán has embarked on a different kind of journey.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' John Patrick McHugh
Wed, Mar 03, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Snug in Tigh Neachtain's with friends and we’re all packed in like sardines.
Young Galway songwriters live and online
Wed, Mar 03, 2021
YOUNG GALWAY singer-songwriters Siobhan Kelleher, Eoin Hardiman, Uisce Jones, and Sorcha Carrick will perform an online gig tomorrow, Friday March 5 at 8pm.
Read more ...‘The sound of the cello, it seems as if it’s coming up from the earth’
Wed, Mar 03, 2021
“THE CELLO can be bass, soprano or alto. Its endpin strikes the ground and it seems as if its power and deep sound are coming up from the earth. When played it lies between the musicians legs and they have to embrace it. It’s a very physical thing, it almost becomes part of their body.”
Read more ...All-star Galway line-up on new Dave Clancy album
Tue, Mar 02, 2021
A HOST of Galway's leading folk and roots musicians are featured on The Path, the debut album from Galway born, Clare based, folk musician, Dave Clancy.
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