‘The story of Iphigenia raises a lot of pertinent questions for today’

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

ONE OF the must-see events at next week’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature is Lorna Shaughnessy’s powerful poetic drama The Sacrificial Wind which explores the characters around Euripides’ tragedy Iphigenia in Aulis.

Cúirt Over The Edge showcase 2017

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

PAUL BREGAZZI, Una Mannion, Eileen P Keane, and Rena Garrett, will read at this year's Over The Edge's annual New Writing Showcase as part of the 2017 Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Rise up and shine - Elaine Feeney's 'multi-layred' take on poetry and life

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

EMPEROR DARTH Sidious ordered Lord Vadar to 'Rise...!' in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith; WB Yeats threatened to "arise and go now, and go to Inishfree"; The Cardigans sang "Rise and shine my sister" - one word, yet each usage has very different connotations.

Therapy? - Live and mellowed out?

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

THERAPY? THE Antrim trio who blazed a trail across the Irish and British music scenes with their loud, lively, and frantic punk/metal, often with a tasty dollop of melody, are touring Ireland, and fans are going to see and hear them in a very different context.

Have I No Mouth?

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

HAVE I No Mouth? has been called "one of the bravest shows I've ever seen" by the Huffington Post, and "an absorbing, wrenching, funny, and cathartic journey" by the Irish Independent. This month it comes to Galway.

FEAST - punk, metal, and 'miserable post-hardcore'

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

A BAND that knows no boundaries between audience and stage, another that just loves guitar riffs, and a third who call themselves "miserable post-hardcore" - play the next FEAST gig.

Lasairfhíona - a sean nós gig for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

SEAN NÓS singer Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola, "a pure breath of everything that is beautiful about Ireland", according to the BBC Folk & Acoustic Reviews, is to sing at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Foróige to run drama and storytelling workshop

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

FORÓIGE WILL run a six week drama and storytelling programme on Wednesdays, starting May 3, in the Galway City Youth Cafe on Fairgreen Road.

The Clandestinos @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

THE CLANDESTINOS, the Galway band who fuse classic Jamaican roots reggae with the Latin tinged sounds of Manu Chao and the Buena Vista Social Club, play Monroe’s Live next week.

A bluegrass night in Monroe's

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

HAILING FROM the Willamette valley in Oregon, True North combine traditional bluegrass instrumentation with fat harmonies and folk-edged songwriting.

Galway - a graphic portrayal

Wed, Apr 19, 2017

TWO SALTHILL natives - Conor Burke and Melanie McDonagh - have created a series of works taking an irreverent look at the social, seasonal, and architectural icons of Salthill itself, for their new exhibition, Amusement.

Famous Galway faces - and who they might have been

Tue, Apr 18, 2017

HE PLAYED his 300th game for Connacht Rugby last weekend, and now province captain, John Muldoon, is declared and celebrated as 'The Gladiator', in a new exhibition depicting some of the city's famous faces.

The French connection - Cúirt to celebrate Michel Déon

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

THE HIBERNOPHILE French author Michel Déon will be celebrated at a series of events at this month's Cúirt International Festival of Literature, organised in conjunction with the French Embassy and NUI, Galway.

Album review: Me and the Bees

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 13, 2017

POSITION YOURSELF between The Breeders' Last Splash - on the 'Divine Hammer', 'Invisible Man', rather than 'Cannonball' side of the spectrum - and The Beatles and 1960s psych-pop, and you have Spain's Me and The Bees.

Joey Dosik - soul, pop, and jazz

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

HE HAS been praised by the legendary producer Quincy Jones, been inspired by jazz star Kamasi Washington, and played the US national anthem in Madison Square Garden - he is Los Angeles singer-songwriter and producer Joey Dosik.

Simon Armitage and ‘a good day’s work’ at poetry

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

AMONG THE hot tickets at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, one of the hottest is Simon Armitage. Since making his debut with Zoom, in 1989, the prolific and versatile Yorkshireman has produced brilliant, award-winning works in poetry, prose, television, theatre and opera.

Molly blooms and Marilyn flies at Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

MARILYN MONROE and Molly Bloom will be celebrated in two new, one-woman, shows, at the Galway Theatre Festival. Galway actor Tara Breathnach’s Molly is a staging of Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy from Ulysses, while Marilyn Monroe Airlines: Always Late and Unreliable! features writer/performer Leonor Bethencourt in the comic persona of Marilyn-worshipping air hostess Zocorro.

Kevin Higgins to release his poetic 'Greatest Hits'

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

“AS NASTY a man as he is poor as a 'poet'” was what John McTernan, a former advisor to Tony Blair called Kevin Higgins - but then, that's Blairites for you. Diarmaid Ferriter though was on the mark, when he described the Galwegian as “Ireland’s accomplished political poet and satirist".

When the vampire stalks Connemara

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

THE SHADOW Of Carmilla, a new play inspired by one of the greatest vampire stories of all time, 'Carmilla', by Irish Gothic-horror writer Sheridan Le Fanu, will be premiered at the 2017 Galway Theatre Festival.

Underground folk and indie @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

THE RIGHTEOUS sounds of underground folk-rock and avant-garde indie will fill the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh this evening with a show featuring Toby Hay, Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon, Yawning Chasm, and Gavin Prior.

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