Poems for the Lockdown - the changing face of Galway

Coffee Break Read Mon, Jun 01, 2020

THIS POEM was written in 2002 and features in my first collection of poems, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon in 2005.

Exhausted Netflix? Then check out All 4

Thu, May 28, 2020

IF, LIKE me, you have exhausted everything interesting on Netflix and Amazon, and are now desperate for good content, check out All 4, Channel 4's online offering.

'This album comes from a journey of sorts, actual and figurative'

Thu, May 28, 2020

A RUMINATION on nature, quietness, solitude, mental health, and a joy in the organic process of creation, are the things which define Us and Then, the new album from Galway singer-songwriter Yawning Chasm.

A rave on the airwaves

Thu, May 28, 2020

WHEN CIAN Ó Cíobháin marked 21 years on air for his alternative/underground music show An Taobh Tuathail on Raidió na Gaeltachta recently, he felt like it was a community coming together to celebrate on the airwaves.

Friday night's alright for laughing

Thu, May 28, 2020

GALWAY'S FAVOURITE grouchiest comedy cowboy; the man who wrote Ireland's funniest joke; and a comic who put in a memorable performance in It's All Gone Pete Tong, will be live in your living room tomorrow (Friday May 29) evening.

In The Mouth Of Fire at InterAction

Thu, May 28, 2020

INTERACTION - A Digital Theatre Programme continues throughout this weekend, including the presentation of a new work by Galway theatre marker John Rogers.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 28, 2020

Tara Jaye Burke, animator
The Running Man by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

'Getting to Know...'

Thu, May 28, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Producing a festival with unlimited funds where everything that could possibly go wrong has been foreseen.

Poems for the Lockdown - Merlin Park Hospital

Coffee Break Read Mon, May 25, 2020

THIS IS the title poem from my most recent poetry collection, published by Salmon last summer. It was inspired by my visits to the Infusion Unit at Merlin Park Hospital, where I am a regular.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 21, 2020

Paula Healy, station manager, Flirt 101.3 FM
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

From Mars to Connemara...these movies have it all

Thu, May 21, 2020

LOCKDOWN IS being eased but we are far from out of lockdown yet, so here are some more film recommendations to - available on Netflix - to get you through the coming evenings.

Sounds From The Countryside - a sound postcard

Thu, May 21, 2020

SOUNDS FROM The Countryside, a sound postcard by the Galway artist Anne Marie Deacy, will be released tomorrow - Friday May 22 - in a limited edition which can be played at 45rpm.

Album review: Badly Drawn Boy

Music Reviews Thu, May 21, 2020

THE ABILITY of the arts to speak to the moment we find ourselves in, regardless of the original circumstances of its creation, has been keenly felt during the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Galway to Graceland

Thu, May 21, 2020

IT WAS on the streets of Galway that an Englishman and an American woman met, quite by chance, one day in 2016, and discovering a shared love of folk music led them to form the folk duo, A Different Thread.

I dream I am in my favourite pub...

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 21, 2020

Days and nights play out like a loop. It begins with a dream. I am in my favourite pub. Tígh Neachtain, Cross Street. Writers, painters, actors, singers, the whole lot of us, locked in and making merry.

'Getting to Know...'

Thu, May 21, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Warm weather in the summer and the sound of hurling on the radio. Cold dry weather in the winter and the smell of a wood fire.

Galway Community Circus Mayhem festival goes online

Thu, May 21, 2020

GALWAY COMMUNITY Circus, the national and international flagship organisation for youth and social circus based in Shantalla, will present its end of term youth festival online this weekend.

Webinar on Galway and the creative arts

Thu, May 21, 2020

HOW HAS theatre and traditional music developed in Galway since the 1960s? How has Galway been represented, historically, in art and literature?

Cocooning with my books

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 21, 2020

Due to the suddenness of the lockdown in Ireland, I found myself suddenly cocooning at home with little or no contact with the bookshop.

Poems for the Lockdown - Bohermore cemetery

Coffee Break Read Mon, May 18, 2020

I WROTE this poem in 2014 after the English poet Helen Mort, who, as well as being an excellent poet, is an accomplished cross country runner, asked me: "And do you run?"

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