House Plant - new release finds Cat Turner in reflective mood

Thu, Jun 18, 2020

CAT TURNER has won notice as an electronic musician, but her new five-track EP, House Plant, finds her adding the experimental and the acoustic to her electro sound.

Commemorating the Connaught Rangers mutiny - a century on

Thu, Jun 18, 2020

ON SUNDAY June 27 1920, a small group of Connaught Rangers, from C Company of the 1st Battalion, based at Wellington Barracks, Jalandhar, the Punjab, announced they were refusing to obey orders.

Druid Debuts go online in July

Thu, Jun 18, 2020

DRUID DEBUTS, the company’s annual rehearsed reading series, will, this summer, become a live online experience featuring four new plays.

June Hope - Eoin Dolan releases new EP

Thu, Jun 18, 2020

THERE IS a long way to go yet, and a recession to be endured, but the easing of restrictions and our gradual emergence from lockdown is a cause for hope.

Dott - an upbeat summer single about social anxiety

Thu, Jun 18, 2020

AN ARTICLE on the satirical website Reductress recently, pointed out - and with a high degree of accuracy - how introverts are having "a ball" during lockdown.

Poems for the Lockdown - romance in a Galway bookshop

Coffee Break Read Mon, Jun 15, 2020

THE FINAL of my nine Poems For The Lockdown is from my third poetry collection, Frightening New Furniture, which was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010. It was inspired by an interaction I observed in a famous Galway bookshop. Any resemblance to Charlie Byrne’s is entirely deliberate.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 11, 2020

Anna McCarthy, lead singer/songwriter with indie-rock band, Dott

Watch to watch before we go back to the cinemas

Thu, Jun 11, 2020

CINEMAS RE-OPENING on July 20 - ahead of the original re-opening date of August 10 - is good news, but in the meantime, Netflix remains our 'home cinema'. Here are my recommendations for this week's watching.

Start the weekend with laughter

Thu, Jun 11, 2020

TERRY ALDERTON is no stranger to Galway, having perfumed at the city's Vodafone Comedy Carnival on numerous occasions, and tomorrow Galwegians will see Terry perform his first online show.

Galway singer releases charity single for COPE

Thu, Jun 11, 2020

DARRAGH O'DEA, the Tuam singer-songwriter releases his new single, 'Lost Dog Loyal' tomorrow [Friday June 12], with all proceeds from its downloads going to COPE Galway.

Town Hall Theatre supports NCFA recovery plan for arts venues

Thu, Jun 11, 2020

THE TOWN Hall Theatre Galway is among the many theatres and arts centres across the State which have given support to the National Campaign For The Arts Recovery Plan.

Confidence in the face of an uncertain future

Thu, Jun 11, 2020

WE MAY be exiting lockdown, but the aftermath of Covid-19 - social distancing, the absence of a vaccine, an oncoming world-wide recession - will remain with us for some time.

New music from Galway label Rusted Rail

Thu, Jun 11, 2020

RUSTED RAIL, the independent Galway record label founded by Keith Wallace, has just released the new single, 'Hello' by English singer-songwriter Songs of Green Pheasant.

'Getting to Know...'

Thu, Jun 11, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A moment of peace beside the sea, the sun in my face, and the wind in my hair.

The Little Book of Galway; a perfect little guide to the county

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 11, 2020

As someone who is absolutely fascinated by the subject of history, it is rather inexplicable that in my five and half years of living in Galway that the only real historical fact I knew about the county was Mayor James Lynch Fitzstephen hanged his own son Walter for murder and thus came the term lynching. So when the opportunity to read The Little Book of Galway presented itself, I finally had a chance to bring my Galway history knowledge up to scratch and it did not disappoint.

Poems for the Lockdown - chatting up girls in Galway

Coffee Break Read Mon, Jun 08, 2020

IN THIS poem from my 2005 debut collection, The Boy With No Face, I take a comic look at my mostly unsuccessful attempts at wooing a person of the opposite gender in night clubs such as The Oasis in Salthill.

'Mindfulness in Lockdown'

Mon, Jun 08, 2020

It is a sunny morning as I sit and sip my coffee. There are many jobs to do and a small list beside me that already has some ticks on it. I love my lists and I especially love getting to tick them off. On my list I have piano practice, work on a new track, skincare, exercise, and meditate.

Town Hall Theatre Patron Donation Award winners 2020

Fri, Jun 05, 2020

The Town Hall Theatre has announced the successful applicants in its inaugural Patron Donation Awards for artists, companies and producers based in Galway.

The purpose of the awards is to support applicants to research and develop projects which are original and ambitious and which have something to say about the times we live in.