From Morley Hill to the Spalla Gap

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

WOOD, AND objects weathered and shaped by marine environments, will be the focus of a fascinating new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre, by a British artist who regularly works under all kinds of aliases.

Galway Street Club St Patrick's weekend shows

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

IT IS something of a local institution, and always one of the liveliest music nights of the year, when the Galway Street Club play their annual St Patrick's Weekend shows at the Róisín Dubh.

Return of the handsome philanderer

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

A HANDSOME philanderer, a pining wife, and a sister who embodies the warning that 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions', are the stuff of French film, Return Of The Hero.

Album review: Julia Jacklin

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 21, 2019

LOOKS CAN be deceiving. Or can they? The cover of Jacklin's second solo album finds her surrounded by bric-a-brac, almost drowning in it, but with an ecstatic expression on her face.

Afro-American life in the seventies

Films Reviews Thu, Feb 21, 2019

BASED ON the James Baldwin novel, If Beale Street Could Talk is director Barry Jenkins follow up to 2017 Oscar winner Moonlight. It was surprising to see him adapting a book considering his screenplay for Moonlight was so well received, but after seeing this film I can see why he chose this text.

Totally Wired and Paul Marsh - Don't Give Up The Day Job

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

THEY CALL themselves "Ireland's oldest and least successful boyband"; The Irish Times call them this nation's "answer to Flight Of The Conchords”; and their new show has the not at all self-deprecating title of Don't Give Up The Day Job.

Chris Haze - new single and EP

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

CHRIS HAZE, the Galway singer-songwriter, will tomorrow [Friday February 22] release his new single, 'Chasing Rivers', which is also the title-track from his forthcoming EP, due for release on April 26.

The way of life of the bee

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

BEES, ANTS, and beetles are disappearing eight times faster than mammals, birds, or reptiles, and the current rate of decline may lead to the extinction of 40 per cent of insects over the next few decades.

Three women go Over The Edge

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

THE NOVELIST Claire Hennessy, the short story writer Aisling Keogh, and the poet Pauline McNamee, will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library.

Bosco to celebrate major birthday at Town Hall

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

FIRST BROADCAST on RTÉ in 1979, Bosco was an Irish children's television phenomenon and a shared cultural experience for a generation, and this year, Bosco is celebrating 40 years.

'What we hear in our heads is what we try and make'

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

THEY ARE not yet finished college. Not all the members are yet in their twenties. They have only released a few singles and an EP, but Valeras are deservedly regarded as one of Britain's most exciting indie-guitar based bands.

Owen Colgan's Woke Tour comes to Galway

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

OWEN COLGAN, Irish cult comedy hero, sex symbol, and Hardy Bucks star, is about to hit the road for his biggest tour yet, with that tour hitting Galway in April.

Experience Dark Side Of The Moon in Galway

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

IF YOU did not manage to make it to either of Roger Waters magnificent Dublin concerts last summer, where he performed pretty much the entirety of Dark Side Of The Moon, then an upcoming recreation of that classic album is not to be missed.

Galway Actors Workshop - new six-week acting courses

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

THE GALWAY Actors Workshop will hold two six-week beginners’ level courses on Thursdays from 7pm to 10pm in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill, starting March 7.

Montauk Hotel to play Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

INSPIRED BY 1980s indie-pop, and creating "streamlined, chorus-drenched jangle-pop” with "earworming charm", according to The Thin Air, Montauk Hotel are fast becoming a rising force in Irish music.

A lunchtime concert of modern music

Thu, Feb 21, 2019

A LUNCHTIME concert from the composer and violist Sebastian Adams, and cellist Yseult Cooper Stockdale, takes place next week in the O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, NUI Galway.

Richard Thompson to play Town Hall Theatre

Wed, Feb 20, 2019

RICHARD THOMPSON, a key former member of Fairport Convention; one of Britain's greatest and most covered songwriters; and who worked with Nick Drake on Bryter Layter, is coming back to Galway in August.

Wake gives voice to female voicelessness

Theatre Reviews Tue, Feb 19, 2019

HANS CHRISTIAN Andersen’s The Little Mermaid was first published in 1837 and since then it has inspired countless adaptations in print, film, TV and theatre. The latest is Deirdre Sullivan’s dark west of Ireland spin on the story, Wake.

Bualadh Busk - a day long busk-a-thon on Saturday

Thu, Feb 14, 2019

BULADH BUSK, a day long busk-a-thon organised by the Galway Buskers’ Community takes place this Saturday, February 16, from 10am to 10pm, for what is being called "a positive protest" against the Galway City Council’s re-proposed busking bye-laws.

Sean Hegarty - hit them with those one liners

Thu, Feb 14, 2019

ARMED WITH a tiny keyboard and a seemingly endless supply of one-liners - mostly hilarious, others very deliberately, knowingly, groan inducing - Sean Hegarty is coming back to the Róisín Dubh.

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