The worker's voice in prose
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
“THE COOKS, the cleaners, the porters: unsung heroes on the frontline” was one of the most memorable headlines to appear in an Irish newspaper this year - and perhaps the most pointedly accurate.
Read more ...Livefeed youth music project to stream Christmas concert
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
A LIVE music concert, featuring young musicians from Galway, Gort, Kinvara, Headford, Tuam, and Loughrea, will be broadcast from Nuns Island Theatre this month.
Read more ...The Curly Organ to play Hibernacle Online Festival
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
DONAL MCCONNON, of Galway prog-folk band My Fellow Sponges and the solo act, The Curly Organ, will join Lisa Hannigan, Paul Noonan, Saint Sister, and others at the Hibernacle festival.
Read more ...The Nutcracker - live from the Town Hall
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
THE NUTCRACKER, one of Tchaikovsky’s great compositions, featuring some of classical music's most popular and loved scores, will be presented as a family concert this weekend.
Read more ...A rock'n'roll Christmas family show
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
CLEAR SOME space in the living room and get ready to rock around the Christmas tree as Galway's Branar Téatar do Pháistí present Rockin' Christmas Rhymes.
Read more ...We Banjo 3 - live online across Ireland and the US
Tue, Dec 15, 2020
A WINTER Wonderful, a Christmas show hosted by We Banjo 3, the Galway bluegrass/folk sensation, takes place this Saturday, December 18, broadcasting at 1pm Irish time and 8pm in the USA.
Read more ...Galway's Danny Darcy releases new single
Tue, Dec 15, 2020
DANNY DARCY, the Galway born singer-songwriter, has this week released his new single, 'Jerusalem Is Calling', and his third album is in the works as well.
Read more ...Joe Rooney and a Christmas comedy cabaret
Mon, Dec 14, 2020
LAUGHTER AND craic in the (socially distanced) company of other people awaits on Tuesday, December 15, when Joe Rooney of Father Ted and Kilnascully fame, performs at Massimo.
Read more ...Padraig Jack - live from An Taibhdhearc
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
PADRAIG JACK, described by Hot Press as "one of Ireland’s most exciting emerging folk artists", will play a special live streamed concert from An Taibhdhearc this Sunday, December 13, at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Why are theatres still closed, while cinemas and galleries re-open?
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
LAST WEEK, as retailers, restaurateurs, beauty, health and fitness businesses began to resume at the new Level 3, theatre spaces around Ireland remained closed, causing confusion and dismay among the arts sector.
Read more ...EP review: Shygirl
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 10, 2020
OSCAR WILDE noted that if you wanted someone to tell you the truth, let them wear a mask, the creation of an alter-ego allowing them a confidence they may otherwise not have.
Read more ...‘We’re continuing Gilgamesh, making it work in a different way’
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
“SHE’S SOME woman for one woman” is a phrase that can very easily be applied to Macnas artistic director Noeline Kavanagh, who also embodies that old adage, “The show must go on.”
Read more ...'Getting To Know...'
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A delicious dinner and a few drinks with my partner and friends, before a gig in Róisín Dubh. Maybe next year.
Rhiannon Giddens to join Galway Early Music Festival's online birthday celebrations
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
RHIANNON GIDDENS, one of the most significant forces in contemporary American folk and traditional music, will be among those appearing in Galway Early Music Festival's Drive The Cold Winter Away event.
Read more ...The Opacas release new single - 'We Won’t Look Back'
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
'WE WON'T Look Back’ a sweeping power-ballad about resilience, and getting back on the right path after a setback, is the third single from Galway/Leeds virtual band The Opacas.
Read more ...3 Kinds of Music - a one-day digital music festival
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
3 KINDS Of Music, Galway city's multi-genre concert series which treated audiences to classical, jazz, and folk/trad on Saturdays is back with a special online edition this weekend.
Read more ...Taobh le Taobh - songs as Gaeilge
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
THE ROAD to Taobh le Taobh, the new EP from two stalwarts of the Galway music scene - Pádraic 'Joycey' Seoighe and Niall Teague - began somewhat by chance one day in 2018.
Read more ...A Wiser Girl – new novel from Moya Roddy
Wed, Dec 09, 2020
IT IS 1975. Second Wave Feminism is in full flow and a young woman, escaping a failed relationship, travels to Italy to make her dream of becoming an artist a reality.
Read more ...Film review: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Films Reviews Tue, Dec 08, 2020
THIS WEEK sees Netflix release another Oscar hopeful - a filmed version of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, with Viola Davis in the title role.
Read more ...Cúirt Festival announces 2021 dates
Mon, Dec 07, 2020
GALWAY'S LITERARY festival, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature has announced the dates for its 2021 festival, which will take place between Wednesday April 21 and Sunday 25.
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