All Our Exes Live in Texas

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

COUNTRY SINGER George Strait may have sung how "all my exes live in Texas", but the four-part indie-folk harmony band who take their name from that Grammy award winning song, come from Australia.

Visual arts at GIAF 18

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

EACH JULY Galway International Arts Festival presents a diverse and quality range of work from Irish and international artists. The visual arts programme is entirely free and attracts thousands of visitors across the 14 days of the festival.

Hot sauce and heat at The Dirty Circus

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

THE WEATHER these days? To quote the title of an old British sit-com, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum! However if you thought it was hot outside, it’s nothing to the heat that will be generated inside The Dirty Circus.

When a kitchen appliance is more important than a husband

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

GRACE THINKS she has the perfect happy family - a loving husband, two wonderful children - but when her husband brings home a new kitchen appliance, she releases there might not be room form them both in the house.

Galway’s biggest literary open-mic

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival and Over The Edge literary events will host what is probably Galway’s biggest literary open mic of the year in the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road.

The Olllam - ‘Neo-acoustic Celtic post-rock’

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

WHAT HAPPENS when you fuse a traditional Irish musician from Belfast with American funk and jazz musicians? You get The Olllam and a sound the band themselves describe as “neo-acoustic Celtic post-rock”.

Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft @ GIAF 18

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft has been called a ‘festival within a festival’ and is, without doubt, a Galway International Arts Festival institution.

Baoite – 'a very human story'

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

AMONG THE exciting new plays being premiered at GIAF is Darach Mac Con Iomaire’s Baoite at An Taibhdhearc, a co-production with Abbey Theatre in association with the arts festival.

Thirty films for One Minute Film Festival

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

THIRTY SHORT films, by local, national, and international ilm-makers, will be screened at the One Minute Film Festival, as part of the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh.

Alibhe Reddy - GIAF gig @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

AILBHE REDDY “stands head and shoulders above the folk mainstream” according to The Line Of Best Fit, her music is “haunting and breathtaking” says Wonderland magazine, and Galway will see why this month.

Denis Hogan students exhibition

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

AND THEY Flew V, the annual exhibition by students of award-winning artists and teachers Denise Hogan and Gill Christie, opens at the Renzo Café Gallery, Eyre Street, next week.

Denis Mockler to launch new poetry collection

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

DENIS MOCKLER is best known as a singer-songwriter, but next week he lain chest a new poetry collection - Poetry From The Heart of Galway.

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Festival Proms

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

THIS YEAR'S line-up at the Heineken Big Top is the biggest in the festival’s 41-year history, with 10 acts taking to the stage over 14 days - one of which is the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for the Festival Proms concert on Saturday July 28.

Sharpie and O’Connor fundraiser for Galway Rape Crisis Centre

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

STEVEN SHARPE and Katie O’Connor are frequent collaborators and the singer-songwriters will again join forces, as they play a gig to raise funds for the Galway Rape Crisis Centre.

Galway Street Club to support Madness

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

GALWAY STREET Club have a busy summer ahead. When the band are not been playing to crowds on Galway's streets, they have been making waves throughout the Irish music scene.

My Fellow Sponges man to sing in Salthill Park

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

THE CURLY Organ - solo project of My Fellow sponges’ Donal McConnon - will endeavour to sustain the attention of onlookers in Salthill Park this summer, using only his voice.

GIAF lunchtime trad gigs @ Monroe’s

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

THE TRADITIONAL Music Showcases are a long standing Galway International Arts Festival institution, and an essential port of call for all trad and folk fans in the city.

Cinema review: Ocean's 8

Films Reviews Thu, Jun 28, 2018

OCEAN'S 8 is a new movie in the Oceans franchise. It is hard to believe George Clooney's Ocean's Eleven came out 17 years ago. It was a fun heist movie with some pretty entertaining sequels. Enough time has passed, and as we are rebooting and remaking anything and everything, why not Ocean's Eleven?

Steve Bennett - back at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 28, 2018

STEVE BENNETT, the inaugural Irish Comedian Of The Year winner in 2016, makes a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh stage to headline the next Comedy KARLnival.

Camille O'Sullivan - solo show for GIAF 18

Thu, Jun 28, 2018

CAMILLE O'SULLIVAN was memorably, and not inaccurately, described by The Scotsman as "a cross between Sally Bowles, Patti Smith, and PJ Harvey", and for the second year in a row, she makes a welcome return to the Galway International Arts Festival.

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