Lunchtime family concert with ConTempo

Tue, Jul 05, 2016

THE WONDERFUL ConTempo Quartet will give a lunchtime concert today from 1.10pm to 1.50pm - aimed at children as much as adults - in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

Who do you think you are? - GIAF First Thought Talks

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

IDENTITY - ONE word but it covers a multitude of aspects within an individual. There is personal identity, political identity, cultural identity, national identity, sexual identity, and, more than ever before, a focus on gender identity that calls into question the idea of gender itself.

Rubbish art...that's a joy to behold

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

NOBODY WANTS rubbish on the streets or waste dumped outside buildings, but imagine if that waste was re-assembled, re-imagined, re-created into a series of colourful little beasts and monsters, that instead of making a street look shabby, actually give it vibrancy, life, and joy?

Song, sex, and sambuca - Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

SONG, SEX, sambuca, and Scottish choirgirls running amok, are among the lively ingredients of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, the National Theatre of Scotland’s boisterous and brilliant show at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival.

Staid – an award winning Irish film made for €300

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

AMONG THE notable offerings in next week’s Galway Film Fleadh is Staid, the debut feature written and directed by Wexford's Paul O’Brien, which will be screened in the Town Hall Studio on July 9 at 4.30pm.

Al Porter @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

AHEAD OF his biggest tour yet, the brilliant, the outrageous, the magnificent Al Porter, the Vicar Street and Cork Opera House sell-out star, returns to Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh to preview his newest stories.

Majestic Bears - Seven gig and EP launch

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

MAJESTIC BEARS, the Galway band whose music draws on Irish folk, trad, and American country, launch their new EP, Julia, in The Loft at Seven tomorrow at 9pm.

Album reviews: 50FOOTWAVE and Wesley Fuller

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 30, 2016

50FOOTWAVE - Bath White EP (HHBTM Records)
50FOOTWAVE IS one of Kristin Hersh's numerous musical outlets, one which can be seen as Throwing Muses in all but name, given its other key member is Muses bassist Bernard Georges.

The 'Led Zeppelin of the banjo'

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

WE BANJO Three are a band on the move. They have spent the last few months criss-crossing the USA - including playing for Barack Obama; wowing the Japanese; and recording their soon to be released new album. Now their sights are set on being the biggest band in the world - from Galway.

Villagers - drawing confidence from experience

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

“I’m a bit older and I’ve more to write about...I feel now that I can say ‘me’ or ‘I’ instead of ‘jackal’.” So said Conor J O'Brien, the gifted songwriter at the centre of Villagers in an interview with The Irish Times last year.

Hughie O’Donoghue and the legacy of 1916

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

DEPENDING on what part of Ireland you come from, the year 1916 means very different things. For many it means the Rising, the rebellion led by artists and intellectuals, which paved the way for Independence in 1921.

'In Enda’s work there is always hope'

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

IT HAS been six years since Charlie Murphy, then fresh from the Gaiety School of Acting, first made an impact with audiences in the role of Siobhan in RTE’s Love/Hate, for which she twice won an IFTA as best actress.

Jazz festival to return in October

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

THE GALWAY Jazz Festival, described by The Irish Times as “a boutique festival with a big heart and growing international credibility”, returns from October 7 to 9 with three full days of music spread across the city.

66 Days - Bobby Sands life examined in new documentary

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

IRA VOLUNTEER, hero, martyr, terrorist, criminal, political prisoner, poet, MP for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, writer, icon, Irish Republican - Bobby Sands was some of these things, and he has been described as all of these things.

Ukuleles and earworms - Mark Eitzel on Song From Far Away

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

THIS YEAR'S arts festival line up features a number of shows where collaboration is the order of the day, among them Song From Far Away, in which acclaimed English dramatist Simon Stephens teams up with celebrated American singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel to pen a play for Belgian director Ivo Van Hove and Dutch actor Eelco Smits.

‘A playful way of thinking about death’

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

WHAT WOULD happen if, one day, death downed tools and took a holiday? That’s the scenario at the heart of Death at Intervals, the brilliant novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago, a theatre adaptation of which is coming to the Galway International Arts Festival.

Disconauts - first live show of the summer

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

THE DISCONAUTS perform their first live show of the summer, with new percussionist John McGrath and trumpeter Danny Healy, in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday from 11.30pm.

New children's book from Geraldine Mills launches this evening

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

TWIN BOYS Esper and Starn live in a grim world which has been almost laid waste by massive volcanic explosions. Very little grows in Orchard, which used to be a fruit-growing area, and the birds and insects are fast dying out.

Irish LGBT drama to get Fleadh premiere

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

LILY IS a teenager trying to negotiate the difficulties of school life, but she also has a secret, and when a misunderstanding with the beautiful and popular Violet leads to a vicious attack, she must confront the secret head on.

Cameron Russell - looks, modelling, and the eye of the beholder

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

OF ALL the participants in this year’s Galway International Arts Festival it is probably a safe bet to say that Cameron Russell is the most glamorous.

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