Living with father's legacy

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

FRENCH FILM, The House By The Sea, winner of the UNIMED Award at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, will be screened by the Galway Film Society at the Pálás Cinema.

Album review: Maria Somerville

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 07, 2019

MARIA SOMERVILLE'S earliest songs were melancholy, atmospheric, meditations, based around the guitar. In the years since, her music has metamorphosed into electronica, but those qualities of mood and emotionally drenched sonics remain.

Get some Therapy? at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

“WE'RE LIVING in a time riven by conflict. You look at what’s happening in the United States, what’s going on with Brexit, North and South Korea, Palestine and Israel. It’s impossible not to see turmoil and turbulence."

Charlie Adley’s 'Craft of Writing' course

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

GALWAY WRITER, columnist, and prize-winning playwright, Charlie Adley, is bringing his popular 'Craft of Writing' course back to the Westside Resource Centre in April.

Joseph Quilty's love of the Burren

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

THE ENVIRONMENTALIST, artist, and illustrator Gordon D'Arcy will officially open a new, albeit retrospective, exhibition, of the art of Joseph Quilty, a unique self-taught painter who died in 1995.

Jason Byrne...last few tickets remain

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

A HANDFUL of tickets still remain for Jason Byrne's new show, You Can Come In But Don't Start Anything, which he is bringing to the Black Box Theatre this Saturday, March 9.

The Hole In The Ground - a mother and son horror

Films Reviews Thu, Mar 07, 2019

SINGLE MOTHER Sarah has moved to an old farm house in the Wicklow mountains. Her son Chris is unhappy in his new school and misses his father. She does her best, but the isolation is clearly getting to her.

Tracy Bruen's Galway show ahead of German tour

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

TRACY BRUEN is something of a Renaissance woman - singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, band leader, theatre director, and actor - talents that will combine at her Galway show next week, ahead of her German tour.

Exhibition of children's book illustrations

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

TODAY IS World Book Day Ireland 2019, and to mark the occasion, Kinvara Area Visual Arts is holding an exhibition of children's book illustrations in The Courthouse, Kinvara.

South Galway screening for a south Galway film

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

WHEN ALL Is Ruin Once Again, a poetic documentary filmed in and around Gort, which won Best Cinematography in an Irish Feature award at the Galway Film Fleadh, is to be shown at a charity screening next week.

'There is that lovely heart to the story people can relate to'

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

FIRST FILMED in 1984 and starring Kevin Bacon, Footloose has enjoyed many a revival, being adapted for Broadway in 1998 where it ran for more then 700 performances, while 2011 saw it filmed yet again - all proof of its enduring appeal.

Nicole Flattery and the essence of absurdity

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 07, 2019

THE FIRST paragraph in the first story of Nicole Flattery’s first collection, Show Them a Good Time, reads: “The schemes were for people with plenty of time, or people not totally unfamiliar with being treated like shit. I was intimate with both situations. Management interviewed me - bizarre questions through an inch of plexiglass: How long, in hours, have you been unemployed? Did you misspend your youth throwing stones at passing cars?"

All Tvvins and Paddy Hanna for Big Top

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

ALL TVVINS have been announced as support for Two Door Cinema Club, while left-field Irish singer-songwriter Paddy Hanna will open for Burt Bacharach, at those artists respective GIAF 2019 headline concerts.

ABBAesque to play the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

ABBAESQUE ARE on the go longer than the Swedish pop legends to whom they pay homage, but there is good reason for that. The world still loves ABBA, and ABBAesque are arguably the best ABBA tribute act.

What is Irish Contemporary Music?

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

WHAT IS Irish contemporary Mmsic? For a start it is a term which excludes rather than includes. It generally does not include music made by contemporary Irish musicians in the fields of rock, pop, folk, and trad. It usually only refers to classical music.

The Fureys to play Loughrea Hotel & Spa

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

THE FUREYS, one of Ireland's finest folk bands, best known for songs like ‘When You Were Sweet 16’, ‘The Green Fields of France’, ‘Red Rose Café’, and ‘Steal Away’, play the Loughrea Hotel & Spa on Friday March 22.

St Patrick's Day @ DNA

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

JAZZ MUSICIAN and performer Rick Swann, regarded as one of Ireland’s finest trumpet players, is coming to DNA Nightclub, Eyre Square, this St Patrick’s Day, Sunday March 17.

Fire In Cairo - a tribute to The Cure

Wed, Mar 06, 2019

FEW BANDS from the post-punk scene of the late 1970s have proved as enduring, as popular, or as influential as The Cure, whose fusion of Goth, punk, pop, and new wave, was swignificant in the development of indie music.

Anarchist to die accidentally on Thursday

Tue, Mar 05, 2019

UNDER ORDERS from, and directed by, a mysterious maniac, a group of madcap policemen stage and re-stage the cover-up of the scandalous death of an anarchist during an interrogation.

Anna Mullarkey releases new single 'Sometimes'

Tue, Mar 05, 2019

ANNA MULLARKEY, the Galway singer-composer and My Fellow Sponges member, has released a new solo single, 'Sometimes', a video for which goes live next week.

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