What to watch on Netflix and Amazon during the lockdown

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

WITH THE CINEMAS closed, and Ireland in lockdown generally, we need distractions, good things to do, and stuff that will raise spirits, and this is where Netflix and Amazon come in.

Cúirt 2020 Reading List announced

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

THE CORONAVIRUS has placed massive restrictions on our work, movement, and socialising, but we can still look forward to the Cúirt literary festival at the end of April, and in the meantime catch up on some reading.

As You Were – as you will be

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 19, 2020

ANY CLAIM, like that on the back cover of the proof copy of As You Were, Elaine Feeney’s debut novel, to be published on April 16 by Harvill Secker, that this is “The Irish fiction debut of 2020” needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.

French Ketamine releases new single 'One Thing'

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

GALWAY BAND French Ketamine release their new single, 'One Thing' on all streaming platforms on Thursday March 26.

Galway Drum Show postponed until August

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

THE GALWAY Drum Show 2020, which was due to take place next week, has been postponed until August, in response to the Covid 19 outbreak.

Galway 2020 - postponed and cancelled events

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

A MAJORITY of events scheduled as part of Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture have been postponed owing to coronavirus restrictions, although a small number of events have been cancelled.

A pop song about the coronavirus lockdown

Mon, Mar 16, 2020

“Hibernation in the spring, lots of social distancing, we're in lockdown and shut in, is this really happening?”

Galway Film Society Season postponed

Mon, Mar 16, 2020

THE GALWAY Film Society screenings at the Pálás Cinema have been postponed until further notice in the interest of customer safety.

Seann Walsh headlines the Friday night KARLnival

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

HE GOT out of Brighton, survived that Strictly Come Dancing controversy, called a recent tour After This One, I'm Going Home, but Seann Walsh is nothing if not irrepressible.

Breakfast On Pluto - the musical to premiere at GIAF 2020

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

PATRICK/PUSSY Braden, love child of an errant priest and a local girl is the most flamboyant character in the border town of Tyreelin. Bored with life in 1970s Ireland, he heads to London in search of his mother and a glamtastic new life.

Wilderland Film Festival makes Galway debut

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

THE WILDERLAND Film Festival is "special because it gives audiences unparalleled insight into some of the world’s most incredible wildlife”. So said Scottish wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan, best known for The Polar Bear Family & Me.

Galway Street Club annual St Patrick's Day shows

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

IT IS fast becoming a Galway institution - Galway Street Club's annual shows for the St Patrick's Day period - with the multi-national band playing the Róisín Dubh on Monday March 16 at 9pm and Tuesday 17 at 6pm.

Attracta Fahy launches new poetry collection

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

GALWAY WRITER Attracta Fahy, winner of the 2019 The Irish Times New Irish Writing award, releases her new poetry collection, Dinner In The Fields, tomorrow.

Exploring the Liminal Entities at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

THE QUIET tensions existing through and between bodies and objects, is a major theme of Liminal Entities, a new group exhibition currently running at the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street.

‘The great and the good of Irish writing'

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

THE FIRST year of the new decade sees a new director at the helm of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Sahsa de Buyl. “If you were to look at a theme for this years’s event,” she says, “it would be the great and the good of Irish writing.”

Join Micky Bartlett on a journey into his own head

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

MICKY BARTLETT, at the age of 32, is still trying to move out of his mother's house - a phenomenon all too familiar to anyone in their twenties and early thirties in Ireland.

The Shakespeare Sessions - the Bard for the modern age

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO and Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet, will each be presented at the Town Hall Theatre, across two days, by the Cyclone Rep theatre-in-education company.

Connemara premiere for new thriller Arracht

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

ARRACHT, the new Irish language feature film from Tom Sullivan, starring Dónall Ó Héalaí, Seán T Ó Meallaigh, and Pádraic Breathach, will receive a special pre-release screening in Indreabhán.

Songs of joy, war, and peace in St Nicholas'

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

SONGS OF JOY, war, and peace will be sung in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church when one of America’s top choral groups perform a special concert to raise funds for the church organ.

Birgit Lochmann exhibition

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

BIRGIT LOCHMANN is originally from Duesseldorf, bur has lived in Ireland since the early 1980s. Since retiring from being a dental ceramist, she is now focused entirely on painting.

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