The High Kings Home From Home Tour comes to Galway

Mon, Sep 13, 2021

THE HIGH Kings, always one of the most popular concert draws in Ireland, will be on the road again from this winter, and Galway is in their sights.

Album review: Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 09, 2021

WHAT DO you get when you combine one of the finest contemporary songwriters in the country with one of Irish music’s best kept secrets?

Paula Pohli - city, country, city

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

FOR THE artist Paula Pohli, farmers and visual artists share much in common: they love animals; watch the weather for changes that occur hourly; are interested in flora and fauna, and work long hours.

Niamh Regan releases new video for ‘Two Seagulls’

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

‘TWO SEAGULLS’, from Niamh Regan’s acclaimed debut album Hemet, now has an accompanying video, made as part of the First Cut! Youth Film Festival’s Youth Music Video Competition 2021.

Reflections on the lockdown experience

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

LONELINESS AND social isolation during the lockdowns, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable in rural communities, have inspired a new exhibition which opens in Kinvara.

Solas Photography Club online exhibition

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

SOLAS PHOTOGRAPHY Club, based in Oranmore, is holding an online exhibition of its members' work, which will include a number of award winning photographs.

‘The music I create is built for performance’

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

EIGHTEEN MONTHS of no live music, then September arrives and suddenly it all starts to happen again for producer, composer, and musician, Daithí.

Galway Comedy Festival returns in October

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

IRELAND'S BIGGEST festival of comedy comes roaring back to Galway this October Bank Holiday, and organisers are planning a triumphant return for this week-long festival of fun.

'Getting to Know...' Chantal McCormick, choreographer

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A healed planet.

‘To our imaginations and beyond’ - Baboró International Arts Festival for Children

Tue, Sep 07, 2021

Baboró International Arts Festival for Children turns 25 this year and will be celebrating its silver anniversary in style with six premieres of work by Irish artists; seven new commissions, and young people co-creating many of the events.

Get involved in Galway Fringe Festival 2021

Tue, Sep 07, 2021

GALWAY FRINGE Festival will present an outdoor programme of creative arts activities throughout Galway city and county during the autumn.

A Reliquary of Beasts at 126 Gallery

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

ANIMALS - THEIR place in our lives, how they have been depicted in art, and divergences on cross-border practices on animal products caused by Brexit, are being examined in a new exhibition.

Catherine Corless to launch her memoir in Galway

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

CATHERINE CORLESS, the historian whose work brought to light the deaths and burials of hundreds of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, and which led to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, will launch a memoir this month.

Lisa Hannigan to play new music festival at Claregalway Castle

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

AFTER 18 months of no live music, suddenly there are new, in person, outdoor, music festivals for Galway, and Claregalway Castle is the venue.

The thrills, pills, and bellyaches of being a Marxist poet

Thu, Sep 02, 2021

THE PAMPHLET was the chief means by which an 18th century man - particularly one with revolutionary zeal - with things to say got those things off his chest.

Album review: Whipping Boy

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 02, 2021

I AM old enough to remember when Whipping Boy were Jesus and Mary Chain wannabes, and their utter transformation a couple of years later as witnessed on a grandstanding performance on The Late Late Show.

Is Briain alive? TG4’s Ros na Rún returns on September 7

Thu, Sep 02, 2021

ROS NA Rún, TG4’s popular Irish language drama series returns for season 26 on Tuesday September 7 at 8.30pm and the burning question for viewers is, is Briain alive?

Athenry Music School Sinfonietta to give online Culture Night concert

Thu, Sep 02, 2021

THE YOUNG musicians of Athenry Music School Sinfonietta will give their debut performance of ‘A Baroque Session (with Carolan & Friends)’ by Raymond Deane online at 7pm on Culture Night, Friday, September 17.

Film review: The Nest

Films Reviews Wed, Sep 01, 2021

AFTER BEING held back for almost a year, The Nest, the second film from director Sean Durkin, is finally available to Irish audiences.

Galway made film Arracht optioned for Hollywood remake

Wed, Sep 01, 2021

FOLLOWING RAVE reviews, awards, and being selected as Ireland’s official entry for the 2021 Oscars, Galway made film Arracht has now been optioned for a Hollywood remake.

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