'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'.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...'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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...'Can I Speak To A Manager?' - The Clockworks release new single
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
TOMORROW, FRIDAY August 14, The Clockworks - one of the most exciting bands to come out of Galway in recent years - will release their new single, 'Can I Speak To A Manager?'.
Read more ...Lady Gregory to get the Druid treatment
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
IT HAPPENED with Tom Murphy, it happened with JM Synge, it happened with Shakespeare. Now it is the turn of one of the major lights of the Irish Literary Revival - Lady Gregory - to get a Druid cycle.
Read more ...‘Loughrea is very supportive. There is a deep love for music in the town’
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
SOMETHING IS happening in Loughrea, something exciting. Over the past few years the east Galway town has become a goldmine for new musical talent, nurtured by individual determination and strong grassroots support.
Read more ...Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture launches reimagined programme
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
From next month until March 2021, more than 350 artists from Galway, and across Ireland, will take part in a seven month, reimagined, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture programme.
Read more ...An exhibition by the coast
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
ARTISTS FROM around the Kinvara area will display new work at the Coastal Living exhibition which opens tomorrow [Friday August 14] in Kinvara Courthouse.
Read more ...Galway Fringe Festival 2020 - a physical and virtual festival
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
THE GALWAY Fringe Festival will come in two forms this year - a physical form featuring art exhibitions throughout this month, and a virtual form with online shows in September.
Read more ...New youth music hubs for Ballinasloe and Clifden
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
FROM SEPTEMBER, young people and children in County Galway will have access to two new Music Hubs – one in Ballinasloe, the other in Clifden.
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