Westside Arts Festival open-mic

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer open-mic - possibly the biggest literary open-mic of the year - returns to the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road, on Wednesday July 12 from 6pm to 8pm.

Galway film Wild Fire Nights to premiere @ Fleadh

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

WILD FIRE Nights, a hard-hitting contemporary drama written and directed by Galway actor Emma Eliza Regan, receives its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh when it is screened as part of the Way Out West strand.

Galway film Sanctuary opens nationwide tomorrow

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

SANCTUARY, the Galway made film, starring actors from Munster Avenue's Blue Teapot Theatre Company, with a screenplay by Galway writer Christian O'Reilly, opens in cinemas tomorrow.

Stockton's Wing - as long running as the arts festival

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

TWO IRISH cultural phenomena celebrate their 40th birthday this year, and they celebrate it together when Stockton's Wing play this month's Galway International Arts Festival.

Galway director's new short for the Fleadh

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

QED, A new short film by Galway actor, writer, and director Amy-Joyce Hastings - exploring the theme of sacrificial love, and asking the question 'What won't love do?' - has its world premiere at the 29th Galway Film Fleadh.

Leading Galway trad musicians to play Spirit Of The West

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

SPIRIT OF The West - traditional music, songs, and dance, a new show produced and directed by folk singer Matt Keane, along with Colm Naughton, comes to The Claregalway Hotel this month.

The black comedy of Mayo's struggle to win Sam

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

WHEN THE victorious All-Ireland Mayo football team won the Sam Maguire in 1951 they passed through Foxford on the journey home. However they failed to wait quietly for a funeral cortège to pass by.

Bounce - a clubnight for ID young adults

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

BOUNCE CLUB Night - the event which creates a fun, safe, and accessible space for young adults with intellectual disabilities to socialise, listen to music, and dance in a club environment - returns to the Róisín Dubh.

Waterboys headline the Carrick Water Music Festival 2017

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

THE 13TH annual Carrick Water Music Festival, staring July 12, and running for five days, will be headlined by the legendary Scottish folk-rock and roots band The Waterboys.

Ireland’s ‘Singing Soldier’ to play the Town Hall

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

DAVID MARTIN, known as Ireland’s ‘Singing Soldier’ takes to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre with his A Night At The Opera show, to perform an array of classical favourites.

Paul Currie - Belfast wildman for Róísín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Wed, Jul 05, 2017

WHAT WOULD it be like to live inside the head of Northern Irish comedian Paul Currie? It would be quite the trip considering his surrealist, wild, imagination has produced some of the most startling and original comedy of recent years.

Galway Film Fleadh - special guests and masterclasses

Tue, Jul 04, 2017

MICHAEL SMILEY, the Irish actor who has performed in A Field In England, Doctor Who, Glassland, and who even appears in Star Wars: Rogue One, will give the Actors' Masterclass at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.

Prose, poetry, and drama - Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

Tue, Jul 04, 2017

AUTHORS, POETS, and dramatists - from Ireland, Canada, and the USA - will read from their work at the July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, next week.

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbot announce Galway concert

Mon, Jul 03, 2017

PAUL HEATON and Jacqui Abbot, the dream team vocalists of The Beautiful South and now a successful duo, have announced a Galway concert as part of their upcoming Irish tour in October.

Pádraic Reaney exhibits in Bulgaria

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

GALWAY ARTIST Pádraic Reaney is among the featured artists included in the 16th Lessedra World Art Print Annual — Mini Print 2017, which opened recently in Sofia, Bulgaria.

'Waking the feminists’ in the mother tongue

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

DÚN NA mBan Trí Thine - The Fairy Fort Is On Fire - a modern play about motherhood and magic with a predominantly female cast and crew, comes to An Taibhdhearc for next month's Galway International Arts Festival.

Art festival gigs @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

BADLY DRAWN Boy, Stockton's Wing, Donal Lunny and Andy Irvine, are among some of the musicians who will be performing at Monroe's Live as part of the 40th Galway International Arts Festival.

Damian Clark @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

MANY YEARS ago, Australian comedian Damian Clark came to Ireland, and he's never really been let leave since. This rambunctious and uplifting stand-up is back again, playing the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow.

Linda Bhreathnach's new film to premiere at the Fleadh

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

LINDA BHREATHNACH, who impressed at last year's Galway Film Fleadh with Adulting, returns with her new film Native, starring Patrick Bergin, which will be screened at the 2017 fleadh.

‘You can be more dark, more beautiful, more scared.”

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN loves that line in Leonard Cohen’s ‘Anthem’ - “There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”, that even in the darkest recesses of life and art, some hope will be found, light will always break through, to, if not banish the dark, then at least to light the path through it.

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