Album review: Liam Gallagher

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2019

IT IS impossible to read the title of Gallagher jr's second solo album and not hear it as he would say it, delivered, undoubtedly with all the Mancunian cock-sure swagger you would expect.

‘Feminism is about understanding what power I have, how I fit into society'

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

THE CHAOS unleashed by Brexit - political, parliamentary, legal, and constitutional — specifically the threat of No Deal is, understandably, not something Jayde Adams wants to get into today.

Clare Daly and Mick Wallace for one day GIAF First Thought Talks event

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

The health of democracy, the European Union, and food will all be examined in a new series of the Galway International Arts Festival's First thought talk, taking place not in the summer, but in October.

Hound Of The Baskervilles revisited

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

SIR ARTHUR Conan Doyle's celebrated Gothic detective story, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, with Sherlock Holmes investigating sightings of a demonic dog, comes to the stage in a production by Rod Goodall and Steve Johnston.

Extra Ordinary - 'Ghostbusters meets The Van'

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2019

MAEVE HIGGINS plays Rose, a lonely, yet happy, shy, driving instructor in her thirties. Once a well regarded exorcist and paranormal investigator, she gave it all up after an accident involving her father which cost him his life.

Inhaler - Bono's son's band for the Róisín

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

INHALER, THE Dublin band fronted by Elijah Hewson, son of Bono and anti-nuclear campaigner Ali Hewson, play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday September 26 at 9pm.

Three women go Over The Edge

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

THE WRITERS Ingrid Casey, Barbara Dunne, and Leah Keane will read from their work at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday September 26 at 6.30pm.

Belfast comics for the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

DAVE ELLIOT has been called “one of the stand out acts on the Northern Irish comedy scene” by the Belfast Telegraph, while John Bishop described him as "fantastic!”. Galway will see why next week.

'Most of my mad humour comes from having lived in Ireland'

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

JOE BOSKE'S keen eye and sense of humour shines forth gloriously in Buying Yak Milk In Gurtymadden, his new book, published by Artisan House, which will be launched as part of the Clifden Arts Festival.

Margaretta D’Arcy's Karl Marx street event

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

THE COMMUNIST Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848, will be proclaimed and debated on the streets of Galway as part of Culture Night, tonight [Friday September 20].

Daniele Di Bonaventura - Galway jazz fest debut

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

THE BANDONEON is a type of concertina that is also an essential instrument in tango ensembles. While the instrument is most popular in Argentina and Uruguay, one of its greatest masters is Italian.

Patricia Forde and the power of words

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2019

IT IS most unusual that the sequel to a wonderful book is anywhere near as good as the first one. In 2015 Patricia Forde’s The Wordsmith was published to great acclaim, winning several awards, and introducing readers to Letta the Wordsmith, whose job it is to hand out words to people who need them.

Charity Irish trad concert for Gavin Ralston

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

MUSICIANS FROM the West Kerry Gaeltacht, and others, are coming to Galway to perform at a concert in An Taibhdhearc to raise funds for Gavin Ralston, who has been has been battling cancer since 2014.

Art classes with Jennifer Cunningham

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

THE AWARD winning Galway artist Jennifer Cunningham will be holding a new term of art classes and one day workshops.

Padraig Stevens and Leo Moran for Eclectics

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

TWO TOWERING figures in Galway music, and two of the county's "greatest and most popular singer-songwriters," as this paper has previously described them, play the next Eclectics gig night.

New book on a moment when an Irish city went Soviet

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

The Limerick Soviet of 1919 was a brief period in Irish revolutionary and labour history when workers defied British colonialism and took power into their own hands.

Julie Feeney to play Athenry Heritage Centre

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

JULIE FEENEY, the award winning and critically acclaimed vocalist and composer, plays a hometown show in the Athenry Heritage Centre this Saturday at 9pm.

Trad On The Prom's Yvonne Fahy releases new album

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

YVONNE FAHY, the multi-instrumentalist trad musician, and a member of Trad On The Prom, has released her new album Diversity, which contains the No 1 iTunes World Music chart hit, 'Sliabh and Oir'.

Club GASS Pride fundraiser

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

CLUB GASS, the monthly LGBT+ clubnight at the Róisín Dubh returns on Friday September 27 and will be a fundraiser for Galway Pride 2020.

A 90s indie clubnight night for charity

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

TWO OF Galway’s best-loved DJs, Ferg and Foz, join forces for a special night of indie, rock, and dance classics in The Loft, Bridge Street, this Saturday from 10pm, to raise funds for the Galway Hospice.

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