John Soden exhibition

Thu, Oct 14, 2021

THE ARTIST John Soden will exhibit new works, depicting “everyday scenes I come across through the exploration of colour and its application onto the canvas”.

Film review: No Time To Die

Films Reviews Wed, Oct 13, 2021

THERE IS no point in going over the story of No Time To Die as all the Bond films follow the same blueprint - there is a villain threatening the world. Bond must stop him. He does.

‘Galway provides the best atmosphere...it has that good reputation’

Wed, Oct 13, 2021

FOR KARL Spain, the return to live comedy, and especially the return to indoor gigs, is “akin to Italia 90 - without the climbing up on cars and big crowds hugging each other, we can't do that yet - but that kind of euphoria”.

Hermitage Green to play Black Box Theatre

Tue, Oct 12, 2021

LIVE MUSIC is back and so are Hermitage Green - back on the road and with a new album, and heading to Galway this month.

Japanese Film Festival 2021

Tue, Oct 12, 2021

DRIVE MY Car, the Cannes-winning film from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, will get an exclusive preview at the Japanese Film Festival 2021, which takes place in Galway this week.

A journey through Walter Macken’s Connemara

Tue, Oct 12, 2021

WALTER MACKEN, the Galway author of Rain On The Wind, The Silent People, and The Scorching Wind, fell in love with Connemara as a child, and that fascination will be explored in a new show.

Galway Comedy Festival 2021 - Just one week to go

Tue, Oct 12, 2021

GALWAY COMEDY Festival kicks off next Tuesday, and with shows right through to Monday October 25, excitement is mounting in the City of the Tribes. With 45 shows across seven days and fun-filled nights, Galway really is the place to be this October Bank Holiday weekend.

The Stunning and David Kitt to headline Ceol an tSamhraidh

Mon, Oct 11, 2021

THE STUNNING and David Kitt will headline Ceol an tSamhraidh, a series of free live music events taking place on Saturday October 16 and Friday 22 in Ballinasloe and Clifden.

Loyalist Billy Hutchinson to read at Over The Edge

Mon, Oct 11, 2021

LOYALIST BILLY Hutchinson, a Belfast city councillor, will be among the readers at the Over The Edge annual non-fiction special on Thursday October 28 at 6.30pm.

‘If Ireland is a young nation, the Famine is our childhood trauma’

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

IT IS 1845, the first year of the potato blight, the first year of The Famine. In Connemara, Colmán Sharkey ekes out a living as a fisherman. He is isolated from his community, except from his brother Patsy, a soldier who has returned home.

‘There's a definite need for more working-class voices’

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

“AS A reader you want to hear about other lives, but you need to see that you too are worth something, that you and your community deserve to be at the literary top level. Representation matters. Working class voices are still struggling for representation in a middle class industry.”

Stand in Aaagh of all Mná - horror films at the Pálás

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

FROM IDA Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker to Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge, and Mary Harron’s cult classic American Psycho, the Pálás is set to deliver a season of horror films by women filmmakers.

Danielle Holian launches new poetry collection

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

SURVIVING YOU, the third poetry collection, or rather “a story told through poetry”, by Galway based writer Danielle Holian, has just been published.

Scottish music and architecture, and a night in Galway

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

A SCOTTISH architect’s life and work, a Scottish building, a Scottish documentary maker, and a Scottish composer will come together at a concert in Galway.

'Getting to Know'...a dragon!

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Simply to sing, atop a hill or perhaps astride a hillock.

‘I always tell comedians, you need to go to Galway, that’s where it’s happening‘

Wed, Oct 06, 2021

ASK TERRY Alderton about coming to Galway, and the last thing he will give you is the standard “Oh yeah Galway’s a great city, I really love it” most performers trot out. For Terry, coming to Galway is coming to a city where there is a “funky bohemian atmosphere you only get in the west of Ireland”.

Shifting Ground - new John Behan exhibition at Kenny’s

Art Reviews Wed, Oct 06, 2021

SHIFTING GROUND, the new exhibition of works in bronze, from the celebrated Irish sculptor, John Behan, opens tomorrow, Friday October 8, at the Kenny Gallery.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience – one million happy customers

Wed, Oct 06, 2021

MORE THAN one million people have seen Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the internationally acclaimed homage to the classic BBC sitcom - and it is coming back to the Galway Comedy Festival.

Le Petit Orb - Alex Paterson in concert and in conversation

Tue, Oct 05, 2021

NECESSITY IS the mother of invention they say, and The Orb’s Alex Paterson has proved as inventive in reimagining his career in a time of pandemic, as he has been forward thinking in more than 30 years of music making.

ConTempo - back on the road and ‘countywide’

Tue, Oct 05, 2021

THE CONTEMPO Quartet are back on the road and keen as ever to collaborate with local groups, schools and festivals, and this month it seems they are doing just that.

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