Album review: LUMP
Music Reviews Thu, Jul 29, 2021
THE SECOND album from LUMP - singer-songwriter Laura Marling, and Mike Lindsay of folktronica band Tunng - is, as Marling says, about “desires running wild”.
Read more ...The Playboy of the Western World - The Musical comes to Coole Park in August
Thu, Jul 29, 2021
KATE O’TOOLE, daughter of the legendary actor Peter O’Toole, will be coming to Galway in August to narrate a special live performance of The Playboy of the Western World - The Musical.
Read more ...Galway Pride Week 2021 to be launched outside the Pálás
Thu, Jul 29, 2021
Galway Community Pride will mark its 32nd year this month with a series of online, outdoor, and in person events to celebrate the LGBT+ community in the city and county.
Read more ...New exhibition from leading Galway women artists
Thu, Jul 29, 2021
AIMSITHE (discovered) is the third Exhibition of Summer 2021 from Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme and will feature the work of County Galway artists collective AKIN.
Read more ...‘If we’re not producing theatre, we do not exist, you have to perform’
Wed, Jul 28, 2021
A PLAY about love, about art, about relationships, ambition, desire, the declines of the Anglo-Irish gentry, and the emergence of a new society - Anton Chekhov’s tragi-comedy The Seagull, in the acclaimed adaptation by Thomas Kilroy, is all of these things.
Read more ...Galway singer-songwriter to perform live in Paris
Wed, Jul 28, 2021
A LILAC Decline - the musical alter-ego of visual artist Cecilia Danell - will play a live gig, outdoors at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, as part of Culture Night.
Read more ...JG Ballard meets Ballinasloe
Mon, Jul 26, 2021
THE LANDSCAPE and towns of east Galway, and the science fiction of JG Ballard, have inspired a new album by the Galway musician, The Cube of Unknowing.
Read more ...Film review: Untold Secrets
Films Reviews Mon, Jul 26, 2021
IT HAS been a tremendously successful 2021 Galway Film Fleadh this year. Anecdotally I spoke to several people who had not attended the festival in the past, but did so this year due to the outdoor screenings - and all said they would be back next year.
Read more ...NUIG lecturer’s feature film wins major award at Fleadh
Mon, Jul 26, 2021
FOSCADH, THE Irish language feature film, inspired by Donal Ryan's The Thing About December, won Best Irish First Feature at last night’s Galway Film Fleadh 2021 Awards.
Read more ...Thoughts of home at new Kinvara exhibition
Thu, Jul 22, 2021
HOME, THE new exhibition from County Galway artist and children's book author, Terri Kelleher, opens at the Kinvara Courthouse on Friday July 23.
Read more ...‘Floating’ - Uisce Jones to release new single
Thu, Jul 22, 2021
‘FLOATING’, THE new single by Galway/Spanish indie singer-songwriter, Uisce Jones, will be released on Friday July 23.
Read more ...Galway Pride Guide to be launched at the Pálás
Thu, Jul 22, 2021
GALWAY WILL continue its tradition of having the longest continually running Pride event in Ireland, with an array of events from Monday August 9 to Sunday 15.
Read more ...NUIG academic nominated for debut feature film at Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Jul 22, 2021
NUI GALWAY academic and filmmaker Seán Breathnach has been nominated for the prestigious Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the 33rd Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...New studio space for artists to open in the city
Thu, Jul 22, 2021
BARTON STUDIOS, a new studio space for artists in Galway is set to open on St Francis Street, and a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help equip and run the premises.
Read more ...‘I believe in the ability of artists to change the world’
Wed, Jul 21, 2021
AT EVERY arts event in the city he would be there, the jolly man with the glasses and the long hair, a smile and good company, enthusiastic for what he, and we, were about to see that night, be it theatre, music, literature, visual arts - and he usually had an important role in supporting it.
Read more ...Film review: Here Before
Films Reviews Wed, Jul 21, 2021
THE RETURN of the Galway Film Fleadh took place on Tuesday, with the amazing weather coinciding with a massively ambitious outdoor/indoor programme.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' - Conor O’Toole, filmmaker and comedian
Tue, Jul 20, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Cycling down a slight, almost imperceptible incline, makes you feel like the God of Speed. Hermes, right? Like Hermes.
Midnight Macabre - weird and scary stories from Rab Fulton
Tue, Jul 20, 2021
MIDNIGHT MACABRE, an online reading of horror stories by the Galway based, Scottish writer Rab Fulton, takes place this week.
Read more ...Irish LGBT+ film gets world premiere at the Fleadh
Tue, Jul 20, 2021
WHO WE Love, a film about coming of age and coming out, and two friends navigating the troubled waters of school life and Dublin's LGBT+ scene, receives its world premiere at the 33rd Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Druid to film The Seagull at Coole Park for on demand viewing during arts festival
Mon, Jul 19, 2021
DRUID’S PRODUCTION of The Seagull may have sold-out, but Galway will still be able to see the internationally acclaimed company in action, as the shows will be recorded for streaming in September.
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