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.

Three days of two one-act plays

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

LUCY IN The Sky, a play about three women meeting for the first time in a homeless shelter in England, is a play with much relevance for Ireland during this period of the State's homeless and accommodation crisis.

The Young King - a royal treat for Baboró audiences

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

ONE OF the highlights of next week’s Baboró International Arts Festival for Children will be when acclaimed Australian theatre company, Slingsby, brings to the stage its award-winning adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s story The Young King.

Comedy bingo with Bennett and Sharpe at The Skeff

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

THE BINGO - Craic, Balls and SurPrizes!, with Irish Comedian of The Year 2016 Steve Bennett and the flamboyant phenomenon that is Steven Sharpe, will see a night of madcap comedy bingo at The Skeff, Eyre Square.

Harlem Gospel Choir return to the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

FOR MORE than two decades, The Harlem Gospel Choir have been the USA's premier gospel choir and have toured the globe thrilling audiences with the inspirational power of African-American gospel music.

Lady Gaga on course for an Oscar with A Star Is Born

Films Reviews Thu, Oct 11, 2018

AGEING, GRIZZLY, self-destructive, country singer Jackson Maine’s (Bradley Cooper) career is on the slide. An alcoholic, he is starting to lose his hearing and his passion.

Paul Currie for the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

PAUL CURRIE is no stranger to Galway and will be playing the Vodafone Comedy Carnival later this month, but when a comedian is as good and original as Currie is, then seeing him once is not enough.

Sylvie Simmons to play Monroe's

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

ONE OF rock music's leading journalists and writers, who deservedly won high praise for her magnificent biography of Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, Sylvie Simmons is also a singer, songwriter, and performer.

Fynne to play Monroe's

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

IN JANUARY this year, 'When I See You Standing There' by Irish singer-songwriter Fynne, was picked as the January ‘18 Select Irish Track for FM104, Q102, LMFM Radio, Limerick Live 95, and Cork 96FM.

Mary Robinson and the challenge of global survival

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 11, 2018

“HOLDING HER first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would have to share the planet with more than nine billion people - people battling for food, water and shelter in an increasing volatile climate. The faceless shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal.”

Saint Sister - debut album, Róisín Dubh show

Wed, Oct 10, 2018

FOLLOWING THE release last week of their long awaited debut album, Shape Of Silence, the brilliant Irish "atmosfolk" duo Saint Sister return to the Róisín Dubh on Friday October 19 as part of their current Irish tour.

Milton Jones - The King of Quips

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

“IF YOU'RE being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They’re trained for that!” Such one-liners have made Milton Jones the king of quips and prince of puns.

When the Suffragettes demanded the vote at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

CHRISTABEL PANKHURST, daughter of women's suffrage movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst and the radical socialist Richard Pankhurst, came to Galway in 1911 and spoke at the city's Town Hall at a meeting to demand that women have the right to vote.

Album review: Lala Lala

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 04, 2018

THE ALBUM shudders into abrupt life with a low growling of 'wall of sound' guitars, then everything quietens, and over a steady beat, a voice intones: "Following a lead of all my debt/I sense violence and know you're still a threat."

The Met Opera returns to The Eye

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

TWO OPERAS by Giuseppe Verdi - Aida and La Traviata - will be performed as part of The Metropolitan Theatre's new 2018/2019 season, which will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Okkervil River - 'Let's make people feel good in this crazy time of fear'

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

OKKERVIL RIVER have been on the go for 20 years, in that time they have had many members, but at the centre of it all has been the band founder, lead singer, and songwriter, Will Sheff.

Enya Martin - 'I saw it as a hobby'

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

FROM COMEDY sketches about Dublin huns and Irish mammies to famous Hollywood films reinterpreted with a Dublin twist and everything in between, it is likely you will have come across the work of Enya Martin if you are a regular user of Facebook.

Plaque honouring those who fought with Éamonn Ceannt in 1916, unveiled at city museum

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

A bronze plaque, dedicated to those who served under Galwayman and 1916 Proclamation signatory Éamonn Ceannt, in Dublin during the Easter Rising, was recently unveiled at the Galway City Museum.

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