Cúirt literature festival goes online
Mon, Apr 06, 2020
CÚIRT INTERNATIONAL Festival Of Literature will become the first literary festival in the world to be a completely digital event, when it goes online later this month.
Read more ...Sorcha Richardson gig postponed to the autumn
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
SORCHA RICHARDSON, the Choice Prize nominated indie-rock singer-songwriter, was due to play the Róisín Dubh on April 18, but that gig has now been postponed.
Read more ...What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Apr 02, 2020
Cecilia Danell, visual artist, songwriter
A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
See the Comedy KARLnival Birthday Bash on Friday
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
IT MAY be only two years on the go, but the Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh is arguably a Galway comedy institution which even the coronavirus cannot keep down.
Read more ...Family movies to watch during the lockdown
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
THIS WEEK I am going to recommend some family movies to watch during the lockdown and coronavirus restrictions that, perhaps, you might not have considered.
Read more ...Enjoy a daily online art exhibition
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
DESPITE THE coronavirus restrictions and consequent social distancing, Galway can still look forward to attending an art exhibition each day at 6pm.
Read more ...‘This book is very much of the moment’
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
NEAR THE start of Sara Baume’s wonderful new book, handiwork, there is a quote from The Craftsman, by Richard Sennett.
Read more ...Druid’s production of Playboy available to watch online for Leaving Cert students
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
DRUID THEATRE'S award-winning 2005 production of The Playboy Of The Western World by JM Synge is now available online for free as a resource for those studying the play for the Leaving Cert.
Read more ...Getting To Know...
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being surrounded by a tight-knit group of friends.
Niamh Regan plays Mick Flannery's new gig series
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Niamh Regan will play tomorrow's Mini Gigs at Mick’s, the new series of online concerts curated by Mick Flannery, in partnership with PlayIrish.
Read more ...ConTempo concerts postponed, but the music does not stop
Wed, Apr 01, 2020
CONTEMPO HAS cancelled its concerts for April and is planning to postpone shows planned for May, owing to the continuing restrictions needed to combat the coronavirus.
Read more ...The Comedy KARLnival goes online
Mon, Mar 30, 2020
THE CORONAVIRUS may have stopped us from going out to see a comedy show, but it cannot stop stand-up comedy coming straight to us.
Read more ...KAVA's latest exhibition goes online
Thu, Mar 26, 2020
AFTER DARK, the latest exhibition from members of Kinvara Area Visual Arts, will not be on display at the Kinvara Courthouse, owing to Covid-19 restrictions, but it will be online.
Read more ...The best box sets to watch on Netflix and Amazon
Thu, Mar 26, 2020
WHILE I do love watching movies, sometimes when the nights are particularly long, having a TV show to binge on can be an enormous comfort. We have all watched a lot of these shows, such as Breaking Bad or Mad Men, so here are a few which maybe you have not seen yet.
Read more ...What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Mar 26, 2020
Gugai - Róisín Dubh music promoter and founder of Strange Brew Records, chooses Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Read more ...‘Doing these Open Mic live streams, I don’t feel like I'm in isolation'
Thu, Mar 26, 2020
IT WAS the first Sunday of the coronavirus restrictions. Pubs and venues were closed. Shops were shut. Streets were deserted. Galway was, to quote The Specials, “coming like a ghost town”.
Read more ...Music for Galway's CELLISSIMO festival moved to next year
Thu, Mar 26, 2020
GALWAY CITY'S new festival, CELLISSIMO, a celebration of the cello, and which was to have its first outing between April and May, has been postponed.
Read more ...Getting to know...
Thu, Mar 26, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Getting a good cup of tea when you’re out somewhere.
Daithí releases new self-isolation single
Thu, Mar 26, 2020
'AN IRISH Goodbye', the new single from composer, violinist, and producer Daithí is being described as the 'first Irish single written and recorded in self isolation'.
Read more ...Daithí releases new self-isolation single
Wed, Mar 25, 2020
'AN IRISH Goodbye', the new single from composer, violinist, and producer Daithí is being described as the 'first Irish single written and recorded in self isolation'.
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