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.

Nashville songwriters triple bill @ Monroe's

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS Marcum Stewart, award winning Irish born Pete Kennedy, and the award-winning Shantell Ogden, will play a triple bill concert at Monroe’s Live this Saturday.

Read your story at the Westside open mic

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open-mic, probably the biggest literary open-mic of the year, returns on Wednesday July 6 from 6.30pm to 8pm.

In View - a powerful study of a lost, broken soul trying to stay afloat

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

"A POWERFUL character-study of a lost, broken soul trying to stay afloat in the modern world" and "boasting a stunning lead performance from Caoilfhionn Dunne as Ruth".

Trad lunchtime gigs @ GIAF 16

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

THE WHILEAWAYS, Siobhán Peoples, and Mary Shannon, are among the musicians who will play the Galway International Arts Festival Lunchtime Trad Concerts at Monroe’s Live this July.

Leading vocal coach to open student showcase in Galway

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

JOSHUA ALAMU, vocal coach to Fleur East, Little Mix, and The Voice contestants, and founder of Britain’s acclaimed artist development programme, Ultimate Artists, is coming to Galway.

Adulting - showing the West in a way 'that’s not twee or clichéd'

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

ADULTING, A new short film set in Galway city and Connemara, and featuring Galwegians Linda Bhreathnach, Sorcha Ní Chéide and Emma Eliza Regan, premieres at the Galway Film Fleadh.

American choir to sing in St Nicholas'

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

SONGS FROM the Rocky Mountains, the American mid-west, as well as Rennaisance and early Baroque sacred music will be heard at a concert from Santa Fe's Schola Cantorum.

The Low Anthem announce Róisín Dubh show

Wed, Jun 29, 2016

THE LOW Anthem, the American indie-folk and roots band led by Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky, have announced a new British and Irish tour which will include a show in Galway.

The Bretons are coming - famed pop art collective at Fringe

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

THIS YEAR'S Galway Fringe Festival visual arts programme features a special exhibition of 'rural pop art' by the celebrated Breton collective Hangar’t. The group hails from the village of Nizon, near Pont-Aven southern Brittany, an area which greatly inspired the work of Paul Gauguin.

Rocky Horror Picture Show interactive Pride fundraiser

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

"IT'S JUST a jump to the left/and then a step to the right/put you hands on your hips/and bring your knees in tight/but it's the pelvic thrust/that really drives you insa-ie-ayee-ayee-yay-ane...let's do the timewarp again!"

Saul Williams - a 'radiant creative force'

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

SAUL WILLIAMS has been called "the data-age Gil Scott-Heron" and "a radiant creative force" by Allmusic.com, as well as "a poet at heart" who "resists easy categorization", by Pitchfork.

Eric Lalor @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

YOU KNOW Eric Lalor as that lad Cathal, who your ma loves to hate off Fair City, or from his appearances on Republic of Telly, Next Week’s News, Craig Doyle Live, and The Apprentice. He's also a brilliant stand-up comic.

Ruth Negga to attend Galway Film Fleadh 2016

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

PREACHER, LOVE/HATE, and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D star Ruth Negga is coming to the 28th Galway Film Fleadh in July, where she will give this year's Fleadh acting masterclass.

Book review: Poems of experience and war

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 23, 2016

IT IS fashionable for reviewers, of the perpetually disappointed variety, to lodge Basil Fawlty style complaints against a poet’s first published collection.

'Beckett has been part of my imaginative landscape all my life'

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

TWO MEN, in worn out, dishevelled clothes and bowler hats, wait under a tree on the side of the road. They are waiting for a man called Godot. They don't know much about him, other than that he has a beard and perhaps the offer of some work, but will he ever come?

Bill Drummond - why you should and should not see his film

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

BILL DRUMMOND has never done things the conventional way, whether it was with The KLF and that appearance at the 1992 Brit Awards, to his No Music Day drive, to today, and a new 'film' - sort of - which exists and does not, that is coming to the Galway Film Fleadh.

Ten Ton Slug to play major UK metal festival

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

TEN TON SLUG, the Connemara metal band formed by brothers Sean and Micheál Ó Suilleabhain, are one of only two Irish metal acts playing the prestigious Bloodstock Open Air, one of the biggest heavy metal festivals in Britain.

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