Cúirt / Over The Edge showcase 2021
Thu, Apr 15, 2021
THE 15TH annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature/Over The Edge showcase for emerging writers returns on Thursday, April 22nd at 1pm, via Zoom.
Read more ...Summer poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins
Thu, Apr 15, 2021
STARTING May, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, each taught by the poet Kevin Higgins.
Read more ...Thriving through Digital Transformation is theme of AtlanTec Festival 2021
Thu, Apr 15, 2021
itag has announced Thriving through Digital Transformation as the theme of AtlanTec Festival 2021, taking place in May 17th-21st 2021.
Read more ...Promising Young Woman - an uneasy but important film
Films Reviews Wed, Apr 14, 2021
A YOUNG woman stumbles around a bar drunk. She is being checked out by three guys who laugh at her drunken state, and comment on how they could easily pick her up.
Read more ...Declan O’Rourke - learning to trust and let go
Wed, Apr 14, 2021
‘GALILEO’ IS a song which has been good to Declan O’Rourke, opening many doors for him which remain very welcoming to this day - not least the door of Paul Weller.
Read more ...‘Better Than This’ - Tracy Bruen releases new single
Tue, Apr 13, 2021
“I LOOKED at you lately with a smile in your eyes, well it doesn’t get better than, better than this” - the opening line of the new single from Tracy Bruen.
Read more ...Amhráin - celebrating Galway in song
Tue, Apr 13, 2021
TRACY BRUEN, Steven Sharpe, Field Trip, Katie O’Connor, Eoin Dolan, and an array of other stellar talents from Galway’s vibrant music scene, will appear in a short film celebrating Galway music and the city itself.
Read more ...Imelda May to play Galway in 2022
Tue, Apr 13, 2021
IMELDA MAY has announced that she will play Lesiureland, Salthill on May 5 2022 as part of her Made To Love Irish and British tour.
Read more ...Friday night comedy - live from Galway and Edinburgh
Mon, Apr 12, 2021
FIVE WORLD class comedians, in two studios with multi-camera setups, in two different cities in two different countries, and a live virtual audience? It can only be the Online KARLnival.
Read more ...The Opacas - the Lego video
Mon, Apr 12, 2021
THE OPACAS, the Galway/Leeds 'virtual’ rock band whose catchy singles and quirky videos have brought much joy during the pandemic, are back - and this time with a Lego video.
Read more ...Druid announces new production about poet Eavan Boland, edited by Colm Tóibín
Thu, Apr 08, 2021
Druid has announced a new theatrical production, Boland: Journey of a Poet, which will be live streamed from The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid’s home in Galway, from Thursday April 22 to Saturday April 24.
Read more ...‘I find young people respond positively to Shakespeare’
Wed, Apr 07, 2021
PETE MULLINEAUX is rarely a man with little to do, being a poet, a playwright, and an active force in youth theatre and education in Galway.
Read more ...Getting To Know...Raquel McKee
Wed, Apr 07, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Never being bored.
'Getting to Know...' Sophie White
Thu, Apr 01, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Lying in bed, eating a chilled Terry’s Chocolate Orange, reading a brilliant book.
Over The Edge Fiction Slam 2021
Thu, Apr 01, 2021
THE ANNUAL Over The Edge Fiction Slam, where fiction and prose writers have a chance to read their work to the public, returns on Friday April 9 at 8pm.
Read more ...Karl Clews - jazz-funk bassist releases new album
Thu, Apr 01, 2021
KARL CLEWS, the bass player, session musician, and founder of the Galway jazz-funk-fusion band, Earthship, has just released his new album - Navigator.
Read more ...Mirror Pavilion goes on display in South Korea
Thu, Apr 01, 2021
JOHN GERRARD'S Mirror Pavilion, the key artwork of the Galway International Arts Festival 2020, is now on display at the 2021 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, one of Asia’s leading visual arts events.
Read more ...Films to watch on Netflix this week
Films Reviews Wed, Mar 31, 2021
DESPITE THE Oscars being so close, there have been very few good films released recently, so I decided to browse Netflix and see what might be worth your time watching there.
Read more ...‘Working class voices are still struggling for representation in literature’
Wed, Mar 31, 2021
TO BE a Booker Prize winner is to be in a distinguished club of novelists working in the English language, but the 2020 winner Douglas Stuart is within an even more select group of recipients.
Read more ...Galway Theatre Festival 2021
Tue, Mar 30, 2021
HOW THEATRE and performance is made, presented, and experienced has changed dramatically over the past 12 months, and the 2021 Galway Theatre Festival will explore this new relationship with creativity and space.
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