Galway Arts Centre New Year poetry workshops

Thu, Dec 23, 2021

STARTING IN January, the Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, facilitated by the acclaimed poet Kevin Higgins.

'Getting to Know...' Santa Claus

Thu, Dec 23, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Presents delivered, and the sight of Lapland as it speads over Finland and Sweden - job done, I'm almost home.

A Galway perspective on Seán Ó Riada

Wed, Dec 22, 2021

SEÁN Ó Riada was only 40 when he died in 1971, but his music, his achievements, his legacy, and his influence, continue to resound through Irish folk and traditional music.

The best movies to watch at Christmas

Films Reviews Wed, Dec 22, 2021

FOR ME, the best part of Christmas is sitting around the TV after a big feed, and watching a movie, while trying not to get stuck with the Bounty in the box of Celebrations.

Peter O’Toole - Réalta & Rógaire

Tue, Dec 21, 2021

THE LIFE of the legendary, Connemara born actor, Peter O’Toole, will be explored on Peter O’Toole - Réalta & Rógaire, to be broadcast on TG4 on Christmas Day at 9.25pm.

New exhibition from Anne Korff

Tue, Dec 21, 2021

MEDITATIONS - ROSES Of Hope, the new exhibition from Anne Korff is on display at The Courthouse, Kinvara, throughout Christmas.

Spend Christmas with The Saw Doctors

Mon, Dec 20, 2021

ON SAINT Stephen’s Day, TG4 will broadcast Steven Lock’s 1991 TV documentary on The Saw Doctors - Sing A Powerful Song - just after the Connacht versus Ulster rugby match.

The Dirty Circus’ January Bang Bang

Mon, Dec 20, 2021

THE DIRTY Circus will be starting the New Year with a serious ‘bang’ as it brings all things ‘saucy and naught but nice’ to the Róisín Dubh at 5pm on Saturday January 1.

Junior Brother to play Róisín Dubh

Mon, Dec 20, 2021

IDIOSYNCRATIC KERRY singer-songwriter, Junior Brother is admired by Lankum, Lisa O’Neill, and Pillow Queens, and will close at 2021 at the Róisín Dubh.

'Getting to Know...' Mandy Maher

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Family, love, and health.

Celebrate Stanford in 2022

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

THE MUSIC Of Charles Villiers Stanford is “dramatically significant, as well as beautiful in itself. It has, moreover, that quality so rare among modern composers – style.”

Aoife Welby exhibition

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

CONNEMARA, and the wild Atlantic coastline, are the inspirations behind the works in a new exhibition from the Galway artist, Aoife Welby.

Bernadette Divilly to showcase work from year as Galway Dance Artist in Residence

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

GALWAY DANCE Artist in Residence 2020-2021, Bernadette Divilly, will showcase the culmination of her work from her residency at a show next week.

1. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu (Parlophone)
Forty-one years after their debut, Maiden are still operating at the highest level. Few bands of their vintage can still create masterpieces, but with this sombre meditation on war and its consequences, Maiden deliver yet another masterwork in a discography with few equals.

Cousin Tablet release new single

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

GALWAY BAND Cousin Tablet have released their second single, ‘Lost At Sea’, which finds the quartet joined by members of The Raines and The Waterboys.

Bolshoi Ballet’s Nutcracker at The Eye

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

THE NUTCRACKER, the much loved Christmas ballet, will be performed by the Bolshoi Ballet and shown at The Eye Cinema, this Sunday, December 19, at 3pm.

‘I’m sitting on two years worth of jokes’

Wed, Dec 15, 2021

WITH 2022 on the horizon, Reginald D Hunter is not necessarily looking towards the future with hope, more with a sense of caution bred from hard lessons learned.

The best films of 2021

Films Reviews Wed, Dec 15, 2021

10. Censor: Terrific horror movie about a film censor who must sit through endless violent films for her job. One day she thinks she sees her missing sister in a film and sets out to find her. Electric performance from Irish actress Niamh Algar. Not available to stream yet.

Tommy Tiernan - more Galway shows for 2022

Tue, Dec 14, 2021

IF YOU did not get tickets to Tommy Tiernan’s Róisín Dubh shows in January or Leisureland shows in February, fear not, there will be a chance to see him at the Galway Comedy Festival.