The Souvenir - a unsettling depiction of an abusive relationship

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 05, 2019

JULIE IS a film student in London in the late 1980s. She is trying to escape her life of privilege, but lives in her parents' flat in Knightsbridge. Yet, her attempts to make a film in Sunderland about a working class family are honest and admirable.

Emily Cullen to launch new Skylight 47

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THE POET and harpist Emily Cullen will launch the latest issue of poetry journal, Skylight 47, on Sunday September 8 at 5pm in The House Hotel, Lower Merchants Road.

Hardanger virtuoso Nils Økland at Galway Jazz Festival

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THE HARDANGER is a distinctly Norwegian version of the fiddle, but with eight/nine strings instead of four, and decoration, with a carved animal as part of the scroll at the top of the pegbox, and mother of pearl inlay on the fingerboard.

Examining motive and memory in TAPE

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

JON AND Vince, two former schoolfriends, reunite in a dingy motel room. Over the course of the evening, differing perceptions of a past event involving their friend Amy are called into question.

Enjoy afternoon tea at Downton Abbey

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

ENJOY AN afternoon tea that Mr Carson would be proud of at the Pálás cinema for the opening weekend of the highly-anticipated Downton Abbey movie.

Furthermore – new exhibition from AKIN at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

AWARD WINNING Galway arts collective AKIN opens the autumn programme at the Galway Arts Centre with a new show, Furthermore, which is launched tomorrow evening [Friday September 6] at 6pm, and runs until October 5.

David O’Doherty - Ultrasound in the Town Hall

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

DAVID O'DOHERTY, the comedian also known as "the hairy Enya" returns to Galway with a new show made-up of talking and songs played on that plastic keyboard he got for his confirmation.

Judas Diary reform for two shows

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

JUDAS DIARY, one of the great Galway, indeed Irish, bands of the 1990s reform for two shows this month, and featuring the original members who promise "a night of brass and percussion bombast".

Margaret Atwood at The Eye cinema

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

TO MARK the publication of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to her seminal work, The Handmaid’s Tale, the Eye will screen a public interview with the great Canadian author.

Martin Beanz Warde: The Gomey Feen

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

MARTIN BEANZ Warde is undertaking his first Irish tour this month, which includes Galway, and which will see him telling stories about what it is like to be a Traveller in modern Ireland.

Dylan Murphy - new single, Galway gig

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

ON HIS forthcoming single, 'Vending Machine', Dylan Murphy swops the electric guitar for an acoustic, fusing his blues with raw Americana, and injecting some 'cowboy' through the string bends and the song's waltz rhythm.

City Victim - new single out today

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

GALWAY BAND City Victim will launch their new single, 'Valery', today along with a video shot in four different cities - McAllen, Texas; South Padre Island, Texas; Chicago; and Mexico City - over the course of the summer.

Sophie Coyle to play new songs in Galway

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

A RECENT journey through South America has inspired a new set of songs which is likely to make up the second album by Galway born singer-songwriter Sophie Coyle.

Branar Téatar do Pháistí selected for IPAY 2020 showcase

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

BRANAR TÉATAR Do Pháistí acclaimed show for children, How To Catch A Star, has been selected for the IPAY International Showcase, which takes place in January 2020 in Philadelphia.

Druid and the Gate Theatre present the world premiere of The Beacon by Nancy Harris this September

Tue, Sep 03, 2019

Continuing their year of new writing, Druid presents the world premiere of The Beacon, a new play by Nancy Harris, in a co-production with the Gate Theatre, Dublin.

What's on in Galway this September

Tue, Sep 03, 2019

School and college has restarted for the numerous young people around Galway, the last dying embers of sunlight seems to have completely disappeared, and everybody's chilled out existence that only the months of June, July, and August can create, has been replaced by the daily grind of work. Summer has ended folks and as many believe, the season of festivals in Galway has concluded too.

Album review: Ezra Furman

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 29, 2019

THERE WILL not be a better live music gig in Galway in 2019 than the one Ezra Furman delivered in the Róisín Dubh in July as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Druid to stage world premiere of The Beacon

Thu, Aug 29, 2019

A MYSTERIOUS accident. A dead husband. People are talking. Secrets are resurfacing from the depths. Is the past ever truly dead? Not in The Beacon which receives it's world premiere in Galway.

Laughter is the best medicine

Thu, Aug 29, 2019

WITH EIGHT weeks still to go before its opening night, it already looks like another bumper year for the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway as the 2019 laugh fest has already begun to sell out its biggest shows.

Andreas Varady - a true jazz sensation

Thu, Aug 29, 2019

ANDREAS VARADY is the youngest person to have headlined Ronnie Scotts, his admirers include Quincy Jones and the late Louis Stewart, and he is about to make his Galway Jazz Festival debut.

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