In Conversation - talks at the Fleadh

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

HOLLYWOOD STAR Keith Carradine and directors Joe Dante and Nicole Holofcener will be given free, online, public talks, this weekend as part of the Galway Film Fleadh.

'Getting to Know...'

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A 6am pint at the airport where no one judges you.

A father-daughter collaboration

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

QUIET PLACES and Objects Trouvés, a father-daughter artistic collaboration, will be on display at Anton's Cafe, Fr Griffin Road, throughout July.

HOST releases new single 'Know Your Heart’

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

HOST, THE Galway singer-songwriter and producer, releases her new single, 'Know Your Heart' tomorrow, Friday July 10. It is also the first taste of her forthcoming EP, No Reply.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jul 09, 2020

Ibrahim Noonan
Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Maryam Mosque, Ballybrit

Pride Inside - LGBT+ online events start this weekend

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

COVID-19 and the continuing restrictions means there will not be a Pride parade in Galway this summer, filling the city's streets with colour and joyfulness, but the need for advocacy, activism, and community spirit remains as important as ever.

Daithi soundtracks new documentary at Fleadh

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

DAITHÍ, one of Ireland's most creative and imaginative musicians and producers has composed the music for a new documentary premiering at the Galway Film Fleadh.

Art exhibition at Kinvara Courthouse

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

KINVARA COURTHOUSE is re-opening and tomorrow, Friday July 10, marks the first visual arts exhibition there since lockdown - Moments of Glad Grace.

A Maverick Islander - new film from Margaretta D’Arcy

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

A DREAMER, a radicle, an entrepreneur, a man with a love of place, community, and sport, Connemara's Sean Ó Loingsigh wants to give his local region a boost, by building a golf course in a bog.

An online exhibition from Oughterard

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

CUIMHNÍ (MEMORIES), a new exhibition by artists Leah Beggs and Kathleen Furey opens tomorrow, Friday July 10, as part of the Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme.

Policing in a time of Trump and a nation divided

Thu, Jul 09, 2020

THINK OF the word sheriff and you think of the hat and the badge; Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane in The Dukes of Hazzard; Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven; and Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men.

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Films Reviews Wed, Jul 08, 2020

LIKE EVERYTHING this year, the Galway Film Fleadh is a bit different. Usually the opening night is in a packed out Town Hall Theatre, but in 2020 we are all tuning in from home.

Derek Ellard and the Future business model - 'Equal to or greater than' OUT NOW!

Fri, Jul 03, 2020

Derek Ellard returns after 4 years, and an artistic breakdown, with ‘The future business model’, to bring you his new single ‘Equal to or greater than’. Having previously supported Gavin James, Wallis Bird, Admiral Fallow and The Riptide Movement.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jul 02, 2020

Barry Richardson, musician
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick

Movies which capture these times

Thu, Jul 02, 2020

COMING TO the end of our cinema lockdown (although there are not many new movies on the horizon) this is the last of my streaming service recommendations.

Poetry reading with Trotsky's great-granddaughter

Thu, Jul 02, 2020

LEON TROTSKY'S great-granddaughter, Veronica Volkow, will, along with fellow-poets Kim Moore and Ailbhe Darcy, read at this month's Over The Edge: Open Reading via Zoom.

Album review: Dream Wife

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 02, 2020

GIVEN THE brilliance of the debut, and their prowess as a live band - witness that unforgettable gig in the Róisín Dubh in October 2018 - expectations were high for Dream Wife's second album.

CUBS - music in sync, despite different rooms

Thu, Jul 02, 2020

TOGETHER, YET apart. In sync, yet in separate rooms. Galway indie-rock/folk/underground collective CUBS have never taken a conventional approach to recording, but it always produces warm, and rewarding results.

‘Watching films at the Fleadh will still be a communal experience'

Thu, Jul 02, 2020

IT WILL be a Galway Film Fleadh like no other in the festival’s 32 year history. There will be no screenings at the Town Hall Theatre, no after parties in Woodquay, no spotting that film star walking down Shop Street.