ConTempo - concerts online and in person

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

WHAT DO you get when you cross the ConTempo Quartet with jazz musicians? JazzTempo! To close the summer, Galway Music Residency is hosting a special live streamed concert tomorrow (Friday August 28) at 1pm.

The Dilemma - new poetry from Danielle Holian

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

THE DILEMMA, a work in three chapters charting the loving, breaking, and healing of a relationship, is the second poetry collection from Galway writer Danielle Holian.

Would you like some laughter with your meal?

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

GALWAY'S FIRST comedy show of the autumn will take place in Massimo, William Street West, next week, with stand-up from Stephen Ryan, Eddie Mullarkey, and MC Karl Spain.

‘It’s a big, noisy, intergenerational book’

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

SINÉAD HYNES is a closed book emotionally. She is not inclined to share what goes on inside her with her husband Alex, and only with difficulty with herself. For her, it is easier to lie in hospital, claiming she has respiratory illness, than to tell him the truth.

Poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

GALWAY ARTS Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, starting in September, and facilitated by the poet Kevin Higgins.

Creation In Solitude exhibition

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

CREATIVITY IS often a solitary pursuit, but the title of this new exhibition also reflects how, despite the recent Lockdown, many artists remained creative despite the imposed 'solitude' Lockdown and social distancing demanded.

EVØKE releases debut EP

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

REVELATIONS, the debut EP by Loughrea indie/pop/folk-trad quartet EVØKE is released today - Thursday August 27 - and limited edition physical copies will be available.

'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A sea swim followed by a song by a bonfire with my partner. Can I have Indian food too?

Paddy Hanna - new single, new album

Mon, Aug 24, 2020

ECCENTRIC, BRILLIANT, unpredictable, Paddy Hanna is one of the most original voices in contemporary Irish music, a point he proves again on his new single, 'Colosseum'.

The Playboy... musical at Galway Summer Garden

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

LIVE THEATRE is back in Galway, in the form of a musical version of one of the greatest and most controversial works ever to take place on the Irish stage.

Gilgamesh is coming to Galway

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

IT IS older than The Iliad and The Odyssey, and may have influenced both. It parallels stories in The Bible. It is the oldest surviving story in the world, and the world's oldest surviving piece of literature.

An online evening with Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

THE MULTI-award winning writer, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, will read from her new work, A Ghost in the Throat, in a special online event, taking place later this month.

'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Access to affordable housing and free healthcare - I like the simple things

Three poets go Over The Edge

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

THE POETS Knute Skinner, Derek Coyle, and Sinead Mongan will read from their work at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading via Zoom on Thursday August 27 from 6.30pm.

Inception - convoluted, overrated, but worth another look

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 20, 2020

NEXT WEEK sees Tenent - the first proper international blockbuster released since March and the eleventh film from director Christopher Nolan.

Construction begins on GIAF's Mirror Pavilion

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

MIRROR PAVILION, the 7-metre cubed mirrored structure, with an LED wall, created by the Irish artist John Gerrard, is being erected this week in the Claddagh.

Retreat! - a new Galway comedy series

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

IF YOU spend your day contemplating family, Irish history, commercialisation of the arts, politics, globalisation, stoats, Greta Thunberg, and homeopathic underarm deodorant, then Retreat!, a new audio comedy series, might just be for you.

Engage Art Studios to re-open

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

AFTER ALMOST six months of being closed, Engage Art Studios in Churchfields, Salthill, re-opens on Friday August 28 with a solo exhibition by Galway artist Tadhg Ó Cuirrín.

Bard Yard to host Belfast poet Elizabeth McGeown

Mon, Aug 17, 2020

BELFAST POET Elizabeth McGeown, a four time finalist in the All-Ireland Poetry Slam, will read at this week's Bard Yard, Galway's new, online, poetry open mic event.

See the Mirror Pavilion in Galway and Connemara

Thu, Aug 13, 2020

MIRROR PAVILION, by the artist John Gerrard, the centrepiece of Galway International Arts Festival’s Autumn Edition programme, will be unveiled next month.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.