Oughterard virtual artwork market
Thu, Nov 26, 2020
AN ONLINE art market takes place tomorrow evening in Galway, with work by more than 20 artists available to purchase.
Read more ...Galway Pride plans series of online events for December
Thu, Nov 26, 2020
As the days darken towards the end of an unprecedented and difficult year, a bit of joy and colour will be brought to Galway when Galway's LGBT+ community hosts Winter Pride.
Read more ...EP Review: Laura Groves
Music Reviews Thu, Nov 26, 2020
AS BLUE Roses, she recorded piano based songs which had the shifting tonal qualities and structures of classical music, and over which her voice danced beautifully.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...'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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...‘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.
Read more ...'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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...'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.
Read more ...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.
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