Artworks to be projected onto city buildings for Science Week
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
Comerford House at the Spanish Arch, along with public buildings in Westside and Ballybane, will become canvasses for works by artists Karen Conway and Cleary Connolly, as part of Science Week.
Read more ...‘A cursory glance at his career gives us some sense of his stardom’
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
HE WAS Ireland’s first literary celebrity; he moved in exciting political and artistic circles; he was a best selling writer; a political satirist; a biographer, and above all a celebrated lyricist, admired by Hector Berlioz.
Read more ...'Getting To Know...'
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Not being asked difficult existential questions.
Echo Harte releases new single 'Rain In June'
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
'RAIN IN June', the new single from Tuam alternative-rock singer-songwriter, Echo Harte, will be released on Friday November 13, across all digital platforms.
Read more ...Films to discover, films worth watching again
Films Reviews Tue, Nov 10, 2020
THE CINEMAS have not yet reopened and the nights have gotten even longer, so I have put together a list of some excellent films available on Netflix you might not have watched or be aware they are available on the service.
Read more ...Science of Dancing, Circus and Microbes on Festival Opening Day
Fri, Nov 06, 2020
Galway Science and Technology Festival will hold a special opening event on Sunday 8th November on their YouTube Channel. Fun and innovative events for all the family include ‘The Science of Dance’ where you can learn to dance to improve your brain health. Learn how to juggle in ‘Science of the Circus’ with James Soper.
Read more ...'I like to layer a story in the same way a painting is constructed'
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
KEVIN PARKER is a literary agent in London, but his is not a glamorous life. Professionally and personally, everything is falling apart around him.
Read more ...Fregoli Theatre Company presents a new work-in-progress comedy play Cross Street
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
Fregoli Theatre Company announces a new work-in-progress edition of its latest work Cross Street. A virtual reading of its new comedy play, offers hints of horror while exploring mental health issues and can be seen for one night only on Saturday November 28 from 7pm.
Read more ...Heavy metals - new music, new restrictions, new problems
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
Providing a combination of DIY indie, folk, and rock and inspired by Joshua Burnside, The Frames, Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and Band of Horses, Derek Ellard and the future business model's new album, Heavy Metals, is about modern grief, a loss of personality but, evidently, a new normal for many.
Read more ...Luminosa Music to perform live streamed concert from Galway Cathedral
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
Luminosa Music, Galway’s own professional string orchestra, will perform a very special live streamed concert from Galway Cathedral tomorrow evening from 7.30pm.
Read more ...ConTempo Quartet to celebrate female composer Dora Pejacevic in Croatia Concert
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
Galway Music Residency’s From Europe with Love is back with another instalment this Friday at 1pm.
Read more ...A near masterpiece of revolutionary intent
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
KARL PARKINSON is a writer many Irish men and women of letters secretly think should not exist. This is partly the snobbery of the well fed, who dominate the deciding echelons of conventional literary taste-making.
Read more ...'Freeze Frame' - new single from Galway artist Niamh Regan
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
Since the release of Niamh Regan’s debut album Hemet on September 4 this year, she has quietly and assuredly taken her position at the top table of the Irish music scene.
Read more ...Enable Ireland seeks wild atlantic art
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
Enable Ireland is appealing to artists to donate art pieces inspired by the wild Atlantic coast for its upcoming charity sale.
The national charity is holding an online art sale in November and is seeking donations from artists based along Ireland’s Atlantic way in the counties of Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, and Donegal. Pieces created by artists based outside this area (that are related to the Atlantic coast) are also welcome.
Read more ...Science on Screen Film Festival for Galway opens this week!
Tue, Nov 03, 2020
A new film festival – Science on Screen Film Festival Ireland – runs from this Thursday November 5 to Sunday November 8. The festival, hosted by CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices based at NUI Galway and Galway Film Centre, will show the best of science films – shorts and features - from around the world and will include a world premiere, a European premiere and lots of Irish premieres.
Read more ...'Getting To Know...'
Thu, Oct 29, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Craft beer in the shower.
The Opacas release second single and video
Thu, Oct 29, 2020
THE OPACAS, the virtual band featuring members from Galway and Leeds released their second single, 'She Walks Away', along with a video featuring an array of local acting talent.
Read more ...Acrobatic duo chosen for first Inis Óirr arts residency
Thu, Oct 29, 2020
CIKADA CIRCUS, an acrobatic hand to hand performance company, have been chosen as the first beneficiaries of a new month long residency programme in the Aras Eanna arts centre on Inis Oírr.
Read more ...Twists of L - Harlean Palfrey releases new album
Thu, Oct 29, 2020
HARLEAN PALFREY, the Galway singer-songwriter, will release her new album, Twists Of L, tomorrow, Friday October 30. "The title describes twists of life, love, and discovering light in shifting times," the singer says.
Read more ...Carpe Diem - Sing and Play: Remembering Eimear begins November 1
Thu, Oct 29, 2020
Carpe Diem - Sing And Play: Remembering Eimear is a novel online performance challenge, commencing on Sunday November 1 2020 on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. It will run for two weeks and is open to all levels of proficiency.
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