In The Mouth Of Fire at InterAction

Thu, May 28, 2020

INTERACTION - A Digital Theatre Programme continues throughout this weekend, including the presentation of a new work by Galway theatre marker John Rogers.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 28, 2020

Tara Jaye Burke, animator
The Running Man by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

'Getting to Know...'

Thu, May 28, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Producing a festival with unlimited funds where everything that could possibly go wrong has been foreseen.

Poems for the Lockdown - Merlin Park Hospital

Coffee Break Read Mon, May 25, 2020

THIS IS the title poem from my most recent poetry collection, published by Salmon last summer. It was inspired by my visits to the Infusion Unit at Merlin Park Hospital, where I am a regular.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 21, 2020

Paula Healy, station manager, Flirt 101.3 FM
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

From Mars to Connemara...these movies have it all

Thu, May 21, 2020

LOCKDOWN IS being eased but we are far from out of lockdown yet, so here are some more film recommendations to - available on Netflix - to get you through the coming evenings.

Sounds From The Countryside - a sound postcard

Thu, May 21, 2020

SOUNDS FROM The Countryside, a sound postcard by the Galway artist Anne Marie Deacy, will be released tomorrow - Friday May 22 - in a limited edition which can be played at 45rpm.

Album review: Badly Drawn Boy

Music Reviews Thu, May 21, 2020

THE ABILITY of the arts to speak to the moment we find ourselves in, regardless of the original circumstances of its creation, has been keenly felt during the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Galway to Graceland

Thu, May 21, 2020

IT WAS on the streets of Galway that an Englishman and an American woman met, quite by chance, one day in 2016, and discovering a shared love of folk music led them to form the folk duo, A Different Thread.

I dream I am in my favourite pub...

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 21, 2020

Days and nights play out like a loop. It begins with a dream. I am in my favourite pub. Tígh Neachtain, Cross Street. Writers, painters, actors, singers, the whole lot of us, locked in and making merry.

'Getting to Know...'

Thu, May 21, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Warm weather in the summer and the sound of hurling on the radio. Cold dry weather in the winter and the smell of a wood fire.

Galway Community Circus Mayhem festival goes online

Thu, May 21, 2020

GALWAY COMMUNITY Circus, the national and international flagship organisation for youth and social circus based in Shantalla, will present its end of term youth festival online this weekend.

Webinar on Galway and the creative arts

Thu, May 21, 2020

HOW HAS theatre and traditional music developed in Galway since the 1960s? How has Galway been represented, historically, in art and literature?

Cocooning with my books

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 21, 2020

Due to the suddenness of the lockdown in Ireland, I found myself suddenly cocooning at home with little or no contact with the bookshop.

Poems for the Lockdown - Bohermore cemetery

Coffee Break Read Mon, May 18, 2020

I WROTE this poem in 2014 after the English poet Helen Mort, who, as well as being an excellent poet, is an accomplished cross country runner, asked me: "And do you run?"

Bard Yard - poetry, music, and an online open mic

Mon, May 18, 2020

EMERGING AND aspiring Galway poets, along with singer-songwriter Bríd Kenny, will feature in the next Bard Yard, the new monthly open-mic event in the city, currently taking place on-line.

The Third Rehearsal release debut single

Fri, May 15, 2020

THE THIRD Rehearsal, the new instrumental project from Galway musicians Patrick Hallinan and Kevin Donnellan, release their new single and video on Friday May 15.

InterAction - a theatre and arts festival online in May

Thu, May 14, 2020

THE COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions may have prevented us from going to the theatre and the art galleries, so instead theatre and exhibition is coming to us.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, May 14, 2020

Leo Moran, singer-songwriter
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Laugh, and the world will be laughing with you

Thu, May 14, 2020

GALWAY WILL be part of an international comedy festival taking place this Saturday, online, as the world unites across 24 hours to enjoy as feast of laughter in spite of the lockdown.

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