Frank Pig Says Hello

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

FRANK MCCABE'S 1992 novel The Butcher Boy was both hilarious and tragic, one of the most acclaimed Irish novels of the era. Its stage version, Frank Pig Says Hello, is equally celebrated.

'Baboró is crucial because it is an outlet which shows children they can express themselves'

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

THE 2018 Baboró International Arts Festival for Children is in full swing and continues until this Sunday. This week’s Baboró Ambassador is Michaela McDermott, the children’s section manager of Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, where she has been working since 2014.

Trouble on the farm

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

FRANCE, 1915. The men are away at war, and women like Hortense and her daughter Solange, are manning the homefront, and taking charge of the running of the farm.

The King's Head Comedy Carnival lunchtime shows

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

THE KING'S Head has long been a bastion of Galway comedy, especially the venue's Ruby Room, home to Gerry Mallon’s lunchtime comedy gigs during the arts festival.

Niall Teague - new album, Galway show

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

NIALL TEAGUE, one of Galway's leading folk/roots musicians and songwriters, releases his new album, Big Red Bridge, this month and launches it with a gig in Galway city.

Michael Harding's Buddhist Tuesdays

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

MICHAEL HARDING, the writer, actor, raconteur, and Irish Times columnist, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre to read from his latest memoir, On Tuesdays I’m A Buddhist.

John Grant to play Galway in 2019

Tue, Oct 16, 2018

JOHN GRANT, who delivered one of the most memorable Galway International Arts Festival Big Top gigs in 2015, is coming back to Galway next year, to play Lesiureland, Salthill.

A reunion of four stalled lives

Theatre Reviews Tue, Oct 16, 2018

THE THEME of the returned emigrant has driven landmark Irish plays such as John B Keane’s The Field, Brian Friel’s The Loves Of Cass Maguire, and Tom Murphy’s Conversations On A Homecoming.

Yurty Jokes for the Vodafone Comedy Carnival

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

WHILE THE 1930s style Spiegeltent in Eyre Square is the central hub of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival, and a festival institution, it will be joined this year by a newer, smaller, more intimate sibling – The Yurt.

Album review: The Fall's Kurious Oranj re-release

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 11, 2018

IT BEGINS with two of the greatest songs in The Fall's vast catalogue - one definitive, the other highly uncharacteristic - and the genesis of the album itself is possibly the oddest in the band's career.

Dream Wife - 2018's best band in Galway next week

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

IT BEGAN as an art project in a Brighton art college, with three students performing as a ‘fake girl band’ as part of an exhibition. What the trio did not expect was for that impromptu band to go down so well.

The Dreamboys - beefcakes set to sizzle

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

DUE TO circumstances beyond the control of the Town Hall Theatre, The Dreamboys have been cancelled. Full refunds are available from the Town Hall box office on 091 - 569777. The venue said it would like to "apologise for any inconvenience caused".

Wealthy sisters fallen on hard times

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

CHELA AND Chiquita are a formerly wealthy couple now forced to sell some of their inherited possessions. When Chiquita is imprisoned for fraud, Chela must embark on a journey of self-discovery.

Follow the Curiosity Trail in Galway’s Westend

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

THREE DAYS of free events hits Galway’s Westend tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday during the Westend Curiosity Trail, featuring music, art, talks, readings, and discussions.

TULCA 2018 to examine the Syntonic State

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

LEADING INTERNATIONAL artists, such as Cyprien Gaillard and the 2008 Turner Prize-winner Mark Leckey, will be among the artists exhibiting at the 16th TULCA Festival of Visual Arts which takes place in Galway this November.

'We are ambitious. We're looking to go as far as we can'

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

SOMETIMES THE hype is justified. When The Last Mixed Tape call The Clockworks “a band definitely on the verge of breaking through”, Outcast magazine declared them ”Ireland's next big thing”; and U&I described them as the kind of group “the Irish music scene has been overdue for some time”, it was not talk. It is fact.

The wild (West) men of comedy

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

THE LATE, great, and sadly missed Robin Williams once observed: “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” It is a sentiment taken to heart by two of Galway’s finest comedic performers - Aindrias De Staic and Paraic Breathnach.

Ultan Conlon - new single, Galway gig

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

ULTAN CONLON and his band The Night Owls play the Black Gate Cultural Centre in St Francis Street, next week, to promote his new duet single with Mary Coughlan, ‘A Weak Heart Like Mine’.

Novelist commits crime of knowing what he’s talking about

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 11, 2018

THE PROBLEM some people have with Danny Morrison’s novels is that, throughout them, he commits the heinous crime of knowing what he’s talking about. Had he been a US soldier returned from Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan, it would be perfectly acceptable for him to write about his war.

Scoil Chroí Íosa pupils imagine a transhuman future

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

PUPILS FROM third-class in Scoil Chroí Íosa will be displaying their sculptural, collage and audio artworks - created with artist Siobhan McGibbon - in the exhibition, Human Being and Human Becoming.

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