Bumpfizzle The Best

Thu, Aug 09, 2018

There is an inherent wonder and sometimes infectious joy in picking up a children’s book if only for a minute. The magical wonders promised by the busy colourful images on the cover may only last a few moments, but the memories they bring back are often real, long lasting and always joyful. The suspension of disbelief is total and time stands completely still.

Boost your confidence with new writing skills

Thu, Aug 09, 2018

Writer Charlie Adley’s popular Craft of Writing Course returns to Galway's Westside Resource Centre this September.

“My course is designed for anyone who would like to improve their writing skills, from complete novices to published novelists,” explains Adley. “Just as carpenters must learn how to use their tools, all writers benefit from learning the craft of writing. Anyone can learn this craft. There is no mystery to it.”

Ad hoc choir introductory workshops

Thu, Aug 09, 2018

IF YOU have ever wanted to try singing with others, then the ad hoc choir workshop might be for you, with a new run of introductory workshops this month and next.

Poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 09, 2018

THE POET Kevin Higgins will teach classes in poetry writing for beginners and advanced levels in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, starting in September.

Karl MacDermott - an antidote to dullness

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 02, 2018

THE PUBLICATION of Karl MacDermott's short story collection Juggling With Turnips – in which there is little juggling, other than the metaphorical sort, and not one single turnip – sees the comedy writer and occasional stand-up, widen his repertoire by adding ‘writer of short comic fiction’ to the list of things he successfully does.

Feakle International Traditional Music Festival

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

NOW THAT Galway's summer arts festivals are over, Galwegians determined to soak up more music can go across the border of south Galway, and into east Clare, for the Feakle International Traditional Music Festival.

Jason Byrne - got to be starting something

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

'YOU CAN Come In But Don't Start Anything' is not a warning that will be issued to audiences coming to see Jason Byrne next year. Rather this very Irish expression is the title of his new show.

Joan As Policewoman - 'darker, more pensive' and playing the Róisín

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

SHE CALLS her music "punk rock R&B". She also describes it as "American soul music". She cites Al Green and Nina Simone as inspirations, as well as Sonic Youth and Bad Brains. She is Joan As Policewoman.

Orson Welles, the artist, and Ireland

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

MARK COUSINS, the director of The Story of Film: An Odyssey and I Am Belfast, is coming to Galway to present his new documentary about Orson Welles, to be screened at the Pálás.

Art, Yeah? second exhibition opens tomorrow

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

ART, YEAH?, the youth art group based in Kinvara, will host the second annual ‘Art, Yeah?’ Youth Art Exhibition in the Kinvara Courthouse. The official opening takes place tomorrow at 7pm.

‘It’s always a necessary time to be a feminist’

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

THE F-WORD, the city’s annual Feminist Festival returns from August 6 to 12, with an array of events ranging from music gigs, storytelling, workshops, political discussion, the visual arts, a march, a swim, and even bicycle repair!

Pat McDonnell returns to the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

WHILE HE will always be best known for his Daniel O'Donnell spoofing Eoin McLove character on Father Ted, it should never be forgotten that Pat McDonnell is also one of Ireland’s most accomplished and respected stand-up comedians.

The sound of British 60s pop - and Bowie before he really became Bowie

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 02, 2018

YOU MAY not know the name Ivor Raymonde, but if you know Dusty Springfield's 'I Only Want To Be With You' or The Walker Brothers' 'Make It Easy On Yourself', you have heard his work.

‘Blue is a colour that speaks to me’

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

AS THE rains return at the end of what has been the finest summer in many years - some would say decades - it seems an appropriate moment for the release of Songs From Blue House, the new album by Galway singer-songwriter Yawning Chasm.

Chris Haze to play headline show at Monroe's

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

IS CHRIS Haze the hardest working man in Galway, and indeed Irish, music? Probably, and after three years in which he has enjoyed a string of hits, this month finally sees him playing a headline, hometown gig.

The Elements on display at Oughterard Courthouse

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

ELEMENTS, AN exhibition featuring work by Audrey Murray, Catherine Patrickson, Stephanie McLaughlin and Tamaru Hunt-Joshi, is currently running in the Oughterard Courthouse.

Cinema review: Mission Impossible: Fallout

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 02, 2018

ETHAN HUNT is back, in the IMF, which hilariously stands for Impossible Mission Force. After an operation gone wrong, three plutonium…things? have gone missing and a scientist who has the ability to turn them into nuclear weapons has been kidnapped.

Ye Vagabonds to play the Aran islands

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

YE VAGABONDS, the folk-trad duo of brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn, will play a series of concerts across islands in the West of Ireland, including two shows in the Aran Islands this month.

The Family Stone to bring the funk to Galway

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

ARE YOU ready to get together with 'Everyday People', 'Dance To The Music', and have some 'Hot Fun' at the end of the summertime, and say at the end of it all, 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'?

Daithí - new single is his best work to date

Tue, Jul 31, 2018

AN AMBIENT soundscape, full of echoing, ghostly drones, underpinned by four gently shifting, rising, falling notes, looms into the ears, before the voice of Bell X-1's Paul Noonan intones, "And the words rain down like confetti..."

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