Get ready for The Sopranos Zoom quiz
Thu, Jun 04, 2020
Do you know your Baccalas from your Parisis and your Apriles? Capocollo from prosciutto?
Read more ...What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 04, 2020
Michael Gorman, poet
Short stories of Anton Chekhov
Over The Edge open reading on Zoom
Thu, Jun 04, 2020
THE OVER The Edge readings are back! Covid-19 has prevented the city's popular literary institution from taking place in the city library, but Digital technology is facilitating its return next month.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...'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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...'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.
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