Lackagh Comhaltas launches online trad music Feis
Thu, Feb 11, 2021
LACKAGH COMHALTAS is launching an online All-Ireland Traditional Music Feis for 2021 and are looking for musicians to sign up and take part.
Read more ...RTÉ Player - better than you might think
Wed, Feb 10, 2021
HAVING REVIEWED the best of what is on offer on Netflix, Prime Video, TG4 Player and AllFour, I am almost running out of streaming services to look at, so this week I turned to the much maligned RTE Player.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus is back, and live in your living room
Tue, Feb 09, 2021
DRAG QUEENS, Drag Kings, pole dancing, burlesque, and lashings of sauce and sexiness - The Dirty Circus is back and ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a bang!
Read more ...Mary Coughlan releases new single
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
MARY COUGHLAN, arguably Ireland's greatest jazz singer, will release her latest single, ‘Forward Bound’, tom arrow, Friday February 5.
Read more ...2021 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
Rita Ann Higgins, one of Galway's most original and outspoken poets, will be among those taking part in the 2021 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase.
Read more ...Album review: The Staves
Music Reviews Thu, Feb 04, 2021
"THE HUMAN voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, the most moving...even the greatest virtuoso will never be able to give you even a fraction of the emotion a beautiful voice can...That is our share of the divine.”
Read more ...French film to premiere in Galway
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
LEGACY, THE new film by French photographer and film-maker, Yann Arthus Bertrand, about the crisis facing humanity from climate change, will receive its Irish premiere in Galway.
Read more ...Galway 2020 - back and in business for 2021 with new events
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
We may have entered the second month of 2021, but the continuing Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown makes it seem like an extension of last year. Yet, in the words of Galway city arts officer, James Harrold, "we will be in ‘play’ mode again and the deferred pleasures of 2020 will be back in our calendars".
Read more ...‘I have always been fortunate to be linked with Druid’
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
PUTNEY BRIDGE, London. It is 7.40am on a bright May morning in 2017. A woman is on her way to work when a jogger, determined not to break his stride or change his pattern, pushes her out of the way, into the path of an oncoming bus.
Read more ...Sharon Shannon to launch NUIG's Arts in Action festival with online concert
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
SHARON SHANNON, one of Ireland's finest and most popular traditional musicians, will open NUI Galway’s 2021 Arts in Action programme with a free online concert.
Read more ...Baboró seeks writers for new playwriting programme
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
YOU, FIN, and the Play Between is a new, six month playwriting programme which is seeking entrants, but the deadline is fast approaching.
Read more ...'Getting To Know...'
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Family, friends, an open fire, and musical instruments.
‘Lockdown Diaries’ - seeking stories of older people's experience of the pandemic
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
THE GALWAY County Council and Galway Public Libraries are seeking submissions from older residents of Galway city and county to reflect on life in Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...What's streaming on All 4?
Wed, Feb 03, 2021
ALL 4, the on demand service from Channel 4 is full of great programmes and is completely free. There are a few ads, indeed some in the middle of episodes, but they ran smoothly and with no buffering.
Read more ...Al Murray - the pub landlord, live in your front room
Mon, Feb 01, 2021
GREGARIOUS, COCKY, outspoken, back-slapping, pint raising, Bulldog spirited, and brimming with Jingoism, it can only be The Pub Landlord, and he will be serving the laughs in your front room.
Read more ...Ceol ó Kylemore: Ceiliúradh na mBan
Thu, Jan 28, 2021
ON THE eve of Saint Brigid's Day/Lá 'le Bríde, TG4 will broadcast Ceol ó Kylemore: Ceiliúradh na mBan, a feast of traditional Irish much from some of the leading women in the field.
Read more ...Fleadh extends Solstice screenings for another month
Thu, Jan 28, 2021
THE GALWAY Film Fleadh has extended its winter streaming season, Solstice, celebrating independent Irish films made between 1978 and 2011, for an additional month.
Read more ...Sonya Kelly's new play - live streamed from The Mick Lally Theatre
Thu, Jan 28, 2021
ONCE UPON A Bridge, the new play by Sonya Kelly, author of Furniture, the hit play of the 2018 Galway International Arts Festival, will be performed by Druid in February.
Read more ...Album review: Ashnikko
Music Reviews Thu, Jan 28, 2021
SHE LOOKS like a blue haired version of She-Ra's Entrapta, armed with an equally colourful array of hip hop, garage, and pop beats - even a touch of emo - and an attitude that screams 'women power'.
Read more ...‘There were chapters in my twenties where I could have been a bit like Luke’
Thu, Jan 28, 2021
WHEN THE email arrived, asking Fiachna Ó Braonáin to audition for a part in TG4’s long running soap Ros ns Rún, his first thought was “Again?”
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