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..."

GIAF reviews: Incantata, The Aspirations of Daise Morrow, Class

Events Review Tue, Jul 31, 2018

"AND DEATH shall have no dominion’ Dylan Thomas once wrote, though if he had been at GIAF 2018 he may have revised that opinion. Death was a major theme of Incantata, The Aspirations of Daise Morrow, Gardens Speak, Orfeo ed Euridice, and Wit, while characters also died in the course of Baoite, Flight, and Class, with a hint of suicide in Shelter for good measure.

Museum to host exhibition on African-American champion fighter buried in Galway

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

AN EXHIBITION about a leading African-American bare-knuckle fighter of the 1800s, who later lived and died in Galway, officially opens at the Galway City Museum today at 5pm.

Strange Brew Summer Shindig #14

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

THE BEST indie bands - be they indie rock, indie pop, indie-electro, or indie-folk - in Ireland right now, and the best indie bands you have not yet heard of, will be on the stage in the Róisín Dubh for the Strange Brew Summer Shindig #14.

Album review: Phantastic Ferniture

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 26, 2018

RIFF FUELLED indie-rock is not what you expect from a band led by Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin, who describes her folk influenced solo work as "playing sad music with a guitar in my hand".

Kevin Gildea - a comedian, and maybe an astronaut?

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

KEVIN GILDEA is one of the most important figures in Irish comedy, having been in the pioneering sketch group Mr Trellis, with Barry Murphy and Ardal O' Hanlon, with whom he also co-founded The Comedy Cellar, Dublin's longest-running comedy club.

André Rieu - live at The Eye

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

ANDRÉ RIEU'S annual Maastricht concert will be broadcast live via satellite, from the violinist and orchestra leader's hometown in the Netherlands, to more than 2000 cinemas worldwide, including to The Eye Cinema in Galway.

Creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginner and intermediate levels, taught by the Galway writers Kevin Higgins and Susan Miller DuMars, take place in the Galway Technical Institute in September.

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