'Getting to Know...' Ros na Rún's Caitriona Ní Dhomhnaill

Thu, May 13, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A Covid-free world.

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Why Galway needs a permanent community rehearsal facility

Wed, May 12, 2021

IN JUNE, a pilot scheme will begin which could have huge, and very positive ramifications for Galway's music scene, local musicians, and particularly young people, when a rehearsal space opens in the Nuns Island Theatre.

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'Getting to Know...' Kevin Murphy, theatre maker

Thu, May 06, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being able to create with friends and pushing each other to achieve our potential.

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Theatre from Galway - direct to wherever you are

Wed, Apr 28, 2021

FROM FRIDAY, on screens in living rooms, home offices, and bedrooms around the country, the Galway Theatre Festival will be streaming, offering a feast of live theatre, works-in-progress, workshops, and talks.

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'Getting to Know...' Billy O'Callaghan

Thu, Apr 22, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A good day of writing, at that point when a story really starts to come together.

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‘Nora is not always visible behind James Joyce. I wanted her in the foreground’

Wed, Apr 21, 2021

MENTION NORA Barnacle and four things come to mind: she was from Galway; she was sexually adventurous and advanced for her day; she was the partner and muse of James Joyce; and she never read a word he wrote.

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Declan O’Rourke - learning to trust and let go

Wed, Apr 14, 2021

‘GALILEO’ IS a song which has been good to Declan O’Rourke, opening many doors for him which remain very welcoming to this day - not least the door of Paul Weller.

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‘I find young people respond positively to Shakespeare’

Wed, Apr 07, 2021

PETE MULLINEAUX is rarely a man with little to do, being a poet, a playwright, and an active force in youth theatre and education in Galway.

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Getting To Know...Raquel McKee

Wed, Apr 07, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Never being bored.

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'Getting to Know...' Sophie White

Thu, Apr 01, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Lying in bed, eating a chilled Terry’s Chocolate Orange, reading a brilliant book.

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‘Working class voices are still struggling for representation in literature’

Wed, Mar 31, 2021

TO BE a Booker Prize winner is to be in a distinguished club of novelists working in the English language, but the 2020 winner Douglas Stuart is within an even more select group of recipients.

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'Getting to Know...' Natalie Haas

Wed, Mar 24, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A good book, a cozy fire, and a nice cup of tea!

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‘I’m just at the beginning of what I can achieve’

Thu, Mar 18, 2021

STREETS IN My Mind, the debut album by Galway singer, songwriter, rapper, and producer Chris Haze, has been a long time coming, and for the artist, it represents “the end and a new start”.

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'Getting to Know...' Christopher Ellis

Thu, Mar 18, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Having a lifetime supply of cheese...

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‘Cúirt will make you think, will entertain you, it won’t hold back’

Thu, Mar 11, 2021

MERE DAYS after the programme for the 2020 Cúirt International Festival of Literature was announced, the Republic of Ireland went into Lockdown. And yet, in the face of that unprecedented setback, Cúirt emerged triumphant.

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'Getting to Know...' John Patrick McHugh

Wed, Mar 03, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Snug in Tigh Neachtain's with friends and we’re all packed in like sardines.

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‘The sound of the cello, it seems as if it’s coming up from the earth’

Wed, Mar 03, 2021

“THE CELLO can be bass, soprano or alto. Its endpin strikes the ground and it seems as if its power and deep sound are coming up from the earth. When played it lies between the musicians legs and they have to embrace it. It’s a very physical thing, it almost becomes part of their body.”

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'Getting to Know...' Máire Éilís Ní Fhlatharta

Thu, Feb 25, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Chilling in the sun.

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Glenn Gibson - the ‘accidental artist’

Wed, Feb 24, 2021

IT ALL began in the most unexpected fashion - an artistic career formed by paperclips and enduring long business meetings in the USA.

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‘We believe in this play. I don’t think I’ll let anything stop it’

Wed, Feb 17, 2021

THE OLD saying, ‘’Tis an ill wind that doesn’t blow some good’, has not been without some merit during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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