Sharon Shannon to launch NUIG's Arts in Action festival with online concert

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

SHARON SHANNON, one of Ireland's finest and most popular traditional musicians, will open NUI Galway’s 2021 Arts in Action programme with a free online concert.

Baboró seeks writers for new playwriting programme

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

YOU, FIN, and the Play Between is a new, six month playwriting programme which is seeking entrants, but the deadline is fast approaching.

'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Family, friends, an open fire, and musical instruments.

‘Lockdown Diaries’ - seeking stories of older people's experience of the pandemic

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

THE GALWAY County Council and Galway Public Libraries are seeking submissions from older residents of Galway city and county to reflect on life in Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic.

ALL 4, the on demand service from Channel 4 is full of great programmes and is completely free. There are a few ads, indeed some in the middle of episodes, but they ran smoothly and with no buffering.

Al Murray - the pub landlord, live in your front room

Mon, Feb 01, 2021

GREGARIOUS, COCKY, outspoken, back-slapping, pint raising, Bulldog spirited, and brimming with Jingoism, it can only be The Pub Landlord, and he will be serving the laughs in your front room.

Ceol ó Kylemore: Ceiliúradh na mBan

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

ON THE eve of Saint Brigid's Day/Lá 'le Bríde, TG4 will broadcast Ceol ó Kylemore: Ceiliúradh na mBan, a feast of traditional Irish much from some of the leading women in the field.

Fleadh extends Solstice screenings for another month

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh has extended its winter streaming season, Solstice, celebrating independent Irish films made between 1978 and 2011, for an additional month.

Sonya Kelly's new play - live streamed from The Mick Lally Theatre

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

ONCE UPON A Bridge, the new play by Sonya Kelly, author of Furniture, the hit play of the 2018 Galway International Arts Festival, will be performed by Druid in February.

Album review: Ashnikko

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 28, 2021

SHE LOOKS like a blue haired version of She-Ra's Entrapta, armed with an equally colourful array of hip hop, garage, and pop beats - even a touch of emo - and an attitude that screams 'women power'.

‘There were chapters in my twenties where I could have been a bit like Luke’

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

WHEN THE email arrived, asking Fiachna Ó Braonáin to audition for a part in TG4’s long running soap Ros ns Rún, his first thought was “Again?”

'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being healthy.

Fia Rua - new single, new album

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

FIA RUA - the Galway based singer-songwriter and actor Eoghan Burke - has released a new single, 'The Ballad Of Tony Dunne', a murder balled set in a pub in the midlands.

Cúirt New Writing Prize deadline looms

Wed, Jan 27, 2021

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature New Writing Prize is open for submissions, with poems and short stories being sought.

What's streaming on TG4?

Wed, Jan 27, 2021

TG4 HAS had a great few years. It was recently announced as the sixth most watched channel in Ireland, putting the Connemara based station ahead of BBC 2 and Channel 4. I decided to try and just watch TG4 for the week and see how I got on.

Two new Galway stars in the poetry sky

Thu, Jan 21, 2021

BOTH VINNY Glynn-Steed and Aoife Reilly have an ongoing love affair with language. It is this that drives their poetry rather than any need to deliver a message.

Druid - free homeschooling resources for primary school children

Thu, Jan 21, 2021

DRUID THEATRE Company is offering free homeschooling resources for primary school children and parents, as part of the DruidGregory Education and Community Programme.

Baba Yarga - a Slavic/Irish fusion from Galway

Thu, Jan 21, 2021

AN OLD Russian song from Siberian Cossacks, given an atmospheric, electro-pop reimagining by a Czech woman and two Poles, and recorded in Galway - this is 'Zoriushka' by Baba Yarga.

‘I enjoy being the bassline of the story’

Thu, Jan 21, 2021

IF HEARING Bach’s Goldberg Variations for the first time, at the age of 14, was not life changing for cellist Natalie Clein, it was close to that - a profound sense of awe which has stayed with her to this day.