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Considered rock trail blazers for bringing Irish pipes and electronic fiddles to the mainstream, In Tua Nua play Monroe’s Live, tomorrow, Friday, December 29, at 9pm.

The Athlone Art Gallery in the Village@Burgess will host a one man show of late 1970s and early 1980s band photographs by James Mahon.

The Athlone Art Gallery in the Village@Burgess will host a one man show of late 1970s and early 1980s band photographs by James Mahon.

Stellar music line-up at Monroe’s Live for the Galway International Arts Festival 2023

A brand new exhibition, ‘This is the Modern World’ has just opened at Galway City Museum, featuring a wide selection of live music posters promoting gigs in Galway during the period 1977 – 1982.

Traditional music band, Shaskeen, has been a cornerstone of Irish Traditional music and song for over half a century and show no signs of slowing down, ahead of their appearance in the Town Hall Theatre on June 10 as part of Advertiser Events, we look back through various publications that have covered the group's long history.

Composer and musician, Bill Whelan, the man behind some of the most well known Irish productions and bands, including Plantxy and Riverdance, is set to release his memoirs.

The Road to Riverdance spans from Whelan's childhood through to the 1994 Eurovision, an event which completely changed the course of Irish dancing on an international stage.

This 1948 photograph was taken from the old RIC barracks which was opposite the Banba Hotel . The bit of a wall you can see in the immediate foreground was part of ‘The Lazy Wall’. There was a concrete seat running along the other side of this wall and it was there people known as the ‘Fámairí’ used to congregate, people mostly from farming families. When they had the harvest in, they would come to Salthill on holiday and often meet with the same people as last year. They would sit here and gossip, smoke their dúidíns and sometimes paddle in the sea beside them.