Classic Drive in Cinema comes to GALWAY THIS WEEKEND!!
Wed, Jul 01, 2020
Fasten your seatbelt, bring the popcorn and grab the family and get ready to be entertained. Classic Drive in Cinema is proud to present Bridget Jones Diary, Grease, The Secret Life of Pets & Forest Gump at Castlegar GAA Club on Saturday July 4th and Sunday July 5th. Tickets from €25.00 + booking fees are on sale now from Ticketweb.ie
Read more ...PAULI's Isolation Station available to stream on all platforms
Tue, Jun 30, 2020
PAULI is a brand new artist to emerge in Ireland. Inspired by lockdown the Cork born, Galway raised, and now Dublin based musician took his song writing to the bedroom where he wrote and produced a three track EP delving into everything from isolation, to binge drinking as well as dreams of love and loss.
Read more ...What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 25, 2020
Jenny Farrell
Department of Languages & Humanities, GMIT
Three Galway artists supported under Remote Control programme
Thu, Jun 25, 2020
GALWAY ARTISTS Kristynn Fontanella, SJ Woods, and Fionnuala Doyle-Wade, are this year's participants in Remote Control, the new artist development programme from Brú Theatre Company, the Town Hall Theatre, and Galway Dance Project.
Read more ...Saturday night comedy...and some of it live from the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 25, 2020
JOE ROONEY, a legend of Irish comedy; Enya Martin, internet sensation turned stage sensation; and a host of Galway comics will be performing for your pleasure this Saturday.
Read more ...Live from the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 25, 2020
THE RÓISÍN Dubh, the award winning music venue on Dominick Street, is opening its doors once more to live events with a series of shows to mark its 17th birthday.
Read more ...‘Galway wouldn’t be Galway if it weren’t for the arts’
Thu, Jun 25, 2020
THE ARTS are the lifeblood of Galway city, they are vital to our reputation; they attract tourists and new residents; they are an essential part of many businesses in the city centre; and the arts are a key contributor to the Galway economy, bringing in millions each year.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh 2020 programme launched
Thu, Jun 25, 2020
FOR THE first time in its 32 year history, the Galway Film Fleadh will not take place in cinemas, but will take place entirely online - a response to the strange and extraordinary times we live in.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...'
Thu, Jun 25, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
In this crisis – to be ‘safe’ and ‘healthy’. AND in my garden at about 4pm and not remotely feeling guilty about a chilled glass of Sauvignon.
'Getting to Know...'
Thu, Jun 18, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Right now? Human touch. That and getting back to my studio.
Da 5 Bloods - a wake up call and great entertainment
Films Reviews Thu, Jun 18, 2020
WELL THIS is a treat. A new Spike Lee movie on Netflix. The titular five bloods are a group of Black GIs who return to Vietnam to take back the remains of their commanding officer, Stormin' Norman, and the gold they buried with him years ago.
Read more ...What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 18, 2020
Pauline O’Reilly
Green Party Senator
House Plant - new release finds Cat Turner in reflective mood
Thu, Jun 18, 2020
CAT TURNER has won notice as an electronic musician, but her new five-track EP, House Plant, finds her adding the experimental and the acoustic to her electro sound.
Read more ...Commemorating the Connaught Rangers mutiny - a century on
Thu, Jun 18, 2020
ON SUNDAY June 27 1920, a small group of Connaught Rangers, from C Company of the 1st Battalion, based at Wellington Barracks, Jalandhar, the Punjab, announced they were refusing to obey orders.
Read more ...Druid Debuts go online in July
Thu, Jun 18, 2020
DRUID DEBUTS, the company’s annual rehearsed reading series, will, this summer, become a live online experience featuring four new plays.
Read more ...June Hope - Eoin Dolan releases new EP
Thu, Jun 18, 2020
THERE IS a long way to go yet, and a recession to be endured, but the easing of restrictions and our gradual emergence from lockdown is a cause for hope.
Read more ...Dott - an upbeat summer single about social anxiety
Thu, Jun 18, 2020
AN ARTICLE on the satirical website Reductress recently, pointed out - and with a high degree of accuracy - how introverts are having "a ball" during lockdown.
Read more ...Poems for the Lockdown - romance in a Galway bookshop
Coffee Break Read Mon, Jun 15, 2020
THE FINAL of my nine Poems For The Lockdown is from my third poetry collection, Frightening New Furniture, which was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010. It was inspired by an interaction I observed in a famous Galway bookshop. Any resemblance to Charlie Byrne’s is entirely deliberate.
Read more ...What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 11, 2020
Anna McCarthy, lead singer/songwriter with indie-rock band, Dott
Read more ...Watch to watch before we go back to the cinemas
Thu, Jun 11, 2020
CINEMAS RE-OPENING on July 20 - ahead of the original re-opening date of August 10 - is good news, but in the meantime, Netflix remains our 'home cinema'. Here are my recommendations for this week's watching.
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