Maija Sofia to take part in live stream concert on Friday
Wed, Mar 25, 2020
GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Maija Sofia, and County Kerry singer-songwriter, Junior Brother, who is signed to Galway label, Strange Brew Records, will take part in a live stream concert on Friday.
Read more ...Simon Armitage - British Poet Laureate comes to Cúirt
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
SIMON ARMITAGE combines an ability to speak to a broad, non-specialist audience – he is one of the few living British poets the bloke down The Dog and Duck might be able to name – with a knack for acquiring establishment accolades.
Read more ...Galway 2020’s Savage Beauty now an online experience
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
IT WAS to have been a public event, taking place this week in the run up to St Patrick’s Day, but following the coronavirus restrictions, Savage Beauty is now an online art experience.
Read more ...Slyrydes - new single, Róisín Dubh gig in April
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
SLYRYDES, THE Galway punk/post-punk/indie rock band, are about to release their fifth single, 'I Claim To Be intelligent', while next month they play a headline show at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Album review: Låpsley
Music Reviews Thu, Mar 19, 2020
THE PERSONAL is political is a phrase/slogan/rallying call which has been around since the late 1960s, but is one that feels ever more pertinent and apt.
Read more ...What to watch on Netflix and Amazon during the lockdown
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
WITH THE CINEMAS closed, and Ireland in lockdown generally, we need distractions, good things to do, and stuff that will raise spirits, and this is where Netflix and Amazon come in.
Read more ...Cúirt 2020 Reading List announced
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
THE CORONAVIRUS has placed massive restrictions on our work, movement, and socialising, but we can still look forward to the Cúirt literary festival at the end of April, and in the meantime catch up on some reading.
Read more ...As You Were – as you will be
Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 19, 2020
ANY CLAIM, like that on the back cover of the proof copy of As You Were, Elaine Feeney’s debut novel, to be published on April 16 by Harvill Secker, that this is “The Irish fiction debut of 2020” needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Read more ...French Ketamine releases new single 'One Thing'
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
GALWAY BAND French Ketamine release their new single, 'One Thing' on all streaming platforms on Thursday March 26.
Read more ...Galway Drum Show postponed until August
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
THE GALWAY Drum Show 2020, which was due to take place next week, has been postponed until August, in response to the Covid 19 outbreak.
Read more ...Galway 2020 - postponed and cancelled events
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
A MAJORITY of events scheduled as part of Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture have been postponed owing to coronavirus restrictions, although a small number of events have been cancelled.
Read more ...A pop song about the coronavirus lockdown
Mon, Mar 16, 2020
“Hibernation in the spring, lots of social distancing, we're in lockdown and shut in, is this really happening?”
Read more ...Galway Film Society Season postponed
Mon, Mar 16, 2020
THE GALWAY Film Society screenings at the Pálás Cinema have been postponed until further notice in the interest of customer safety.
Read more ...Seann Walsh headlines the Friday night KARLnival
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
HE GOT out of Brighton, survived that Strictly Come Dancing controversy, called a recent tour After This One, I'm Going Home, but Seann Walsh is nothing if not irrepressible.
Read more ...Breakfast On Pluto - the musical to premiere at GIAF 2020
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
PATRICK/PUSSY Braden, love child of an errant priest and a local girl is the most flamboyant character in the border town of Tyreelin. Bored with life in 1970s Ireland, he heads to London in search of his mother and a glamtastic new life.
Read more ...Wilderland Film Festival makes Galway debut
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
THE WILDERLAND Film Festival is "special because it gives audiences unparalleled insight into some of the world’s most incredible wildlife”. So said Scottish wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan, best known for The Polar Bear Family & Me.
Read more ...Galway Street Club annual St Patrick's Day shows
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
IT IS fast becoming a Galway institution - Galway Street Club's annual shows for the St Patrick's Day period - with the multi-national band playing the Róisín Dubh on Monday March 16 at 9pm and Tuesday 17 at 6pm.
Read more ...Attracta Fahy launches new poetry collection
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
GALWAY WRITER Attracta Fahy, winner of the 2019 The Irish Times New Irish Writing award, releases her new poetry collection, Dinner In The Fields, tomorrow.
Read more ...Exploring the Liminal Entities at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
THE QUIET tensions existing through and between bodies and objects, is a major theme of Liminal Entities, a new group exhibition currently running at the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street.
Read more ...‘The great and the good of Irish writing'
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
THE FIRST year of the new decade sees a new director at the helm of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Sahsa de Buyl. “If you were to look at a theme for this years’s event,” she says, “it would be the great and the good of Irish writing.”
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