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.

Mayor recalls his one movie roll at film fleadh launch

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

IN HIS first official engagement as Mayor of Galway, Pearce Flannery told the launch of the 29th Galway Film Fleadh, how, as a boy in Ballinasloe, he and his friends were thrilled to be cast as extras in the 1971 movie, Flight Of The Doves.

Teenagers sought to star in Aladdin

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

DISNEY'S ALADDIN will be staged by the award winning Galway theatre company, Twin Productions, and auditions are open for teenagers who would like to perform in the show.

Get your man-bun ready, it's time for 'cool' irregular bingo again!

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

BINGO IS something associated with elderly ladies, not craft beer loving young men who listen to bands that don't even exist yet. Yet, there are hipsters who would love a chance to play the game.

The Deans - new sounds, Róisín Dubh gig

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

THEY BEGAN as an unrepentant blue-rock power trio, they then evolved into a full on roots-rock band. Today the sound is progressive and not afraid to get ambient. They are The Deans.

Debuts feature films at the Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh is never short of world premieres and directorial debuts, and among the films to be screened are new works by Irish film-makers Tom Collins and Nick Kelly.

Looking into the psyche of 'toughened, conflicted' women

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

UNDER A dark and unforgiving sky, in a society in chaos and turmoil, three women who have endured physical, sexual, or emotional trauma and violence, drug abuse, and one finding herself needing to seek an abortion, gather to tell their stories.

Féile Traidphicnic 2017

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

FÉILE TRAIDPHICNIC, the community festival of traditional Irish music and culture, returns to An Spidéal this weekend, with concerts from Kíla, Zoë Conway and Johnny Óg Connolly, and Treasa Ní Cheannabháin.

The reality and responsibility of parenthood

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

A YOUNG couple struggle to adapt to the reality and responsibility of parenthood after the birth of their first child. This is A Break In The Clouds, a short film which premieres at the Galway Film Fleadh.

Pride Bingo - back by demand

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

FOLLOWING THE success of the Bingo night in Nova to raise funds for the 2017 Galway Community Pride festival, two further evenings of “number calling” are being organised for July 5 and 19.

GIAF 17 trad lunchtimes at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

THE ANNUAL lunchtime trad gigs, an essential part of any Galway International Arts Festival, return to Monroe’s Live, with shows taking place from July 20 to 22 and July 27 to 29.

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