Adulting - showing the West in a way 'that’s not twee or clichéd'

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

ADULTING, A new short film set in Galway city and Connemara, and featuring Galwegians Linda Bhreathnach, Sorcha Ní Chéide and Emma Eliza Regan, premieres at the Galway Film Fleadh.

American choir to sing in St Nicholas'

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

SONGS FROM the Rocky Mountains, the American mid-west, as well as Rennaisance and early Baroque sacred music will be heard at a concert from Santa Fe's Schola Cantorum.

The Low Anthem announce Róisín Dubh show

Wed, Jun 29, 2016

THE LOW Anthem, the American indie-folk and roots band led by Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky, have announced a new British and Irish tour which will include a show in Galway.

The Bretons are coming - famed pop art collective at Fringe

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

THIS YEAR'S Galway Fringe Festival visual arts programme features a special exhibition of 'rural pop art' by the celebrated Breton collective Hangar’t. The group hails from the village of Nizon, near Pont-Aven southern Brittany, an area which greatly inspired the work of Paul Gauguin.

Rocky Horror Picture Show interactive Pride fundraiser

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

"IT'S JUST a jump to the left/and then a step to the right/put you hands on your hips/and bring your knees in tight/but it's the pelvic thrust/that really drives you insa-ie-ayee-ayee-yay-ane...let's do the timewarp again!"

Saul Williams - a 'radiant creative force'

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

SAUL WILLIAMS has been called "the data-age Gil Scott-Heron" and "a radiant creative force" by Allmusic.com, as well as "a poet at heart" who "resists easy categorization", by Pitchfork.

Eric Lalor @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

YOU KNOW Eric Lalor as that lad Cathal, who your ma loves to hate off Fair City, or from his appearances on Republic of Telly, Next Week’s News, Craig Doyle Live, and The Apprentice. He's also a brilliant stand-up comic.

Ruth Negga to attend Galway Film Fleadh 2016

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

PREACHER, LOVE/HATE, and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D star Ruth Negga is coming to the 28th Galway Film Fleadh in July, where she will give this year's Fleadh acting masterclass.

Book review: Poems of experience and war

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 23, 2016

IT IS fashionable for reviewers, of the perpetually disappointed variety, to lodge Basil Fawlty style complaints against a poet’s first published collection.

'Beckett has been part of my imaginative landscape all my life'

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

TWO MEN, in worn out, dishevelled clothes and bowler hats, wait under a tree on the side of the road. They are waiting for a man called Godot. They don't know much about him, other than that he has a beard and perhaps the offer of some work, but will he ever come?

Bill Drummond - why you should and should not see his film

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

BILL DRUMMOND has never done things the conventional way, whether it was with The KLF and that appearance at the 1992 Brit Awards, to his No Music Day drive, to today, and a new 'film' - sort of - which exists and does not, that is coming to the Galway Film Fleadh.

Ten Ton Slug to play major UK metal festival

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

TEN TON SLUG, the Connemara metal band formed by brothers Sean and Micheál Ó Suilleabhain, are one of only two Irish metal acts playing the prestigious Bloodstock Open Air, one of the biggest heavy metal festivals in Britain.

Colours Fringe Festival 2016

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

THE COLOURS Fringe Festival runs from Monday June 27 to Saturday July 2. The festival is in its seventh year and will host events on the NUI Galway campus and in the city centre.

Megacone to headline FEAST

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

THEY HAVE been called "jewels of the Emerald Isle prog scene" by Prog magazine, and as "willing to challenge the boundaries of instrumental music and bring their own fresh feel to it," by Goldenplec. They are Megacone.

A feast of short films at the Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS from Killing Bono's Martin McCann, and films starring Love/Hate's Peter Coonan and The Stunning's Steve Wall, will be seen at the Galway Film Fleadh's short film programme.

Galway Film Fleadh seeks volunteers

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh is seeking volunteers to help with this year's festival which runs from Tuesday July 5 to Sunday 10.

Trad music titans GIAF 16 concert

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

Four of the leading lights of Irish trad - Sean Smyth, Alan Kelly, Jim Murray and Jim Higgins - will join forces for a Galway International Arts Festival concert next month.

Rootical Sound System reggae concert

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

LEADING MUSICIANS in Birmingham's industrious and creative reggae, roots, and dub scene are coming to Galway this Saturday to perform at the Boatclub, Woodquay.

4 Men and a Bass to play Monroe's

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

4 MEN and a Bass bring their bluegrass fused harmonies to Monroe’s Live Backstage Bar on Sunday July 3 at 11pm, for a free gig.

Plutonic Dust @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

PLUTONIC DUST, fast becoming a household name for their abstract and trippy, underground techno, and punk/funk disco, play the main stage of Monroe’s Live on Thursday July 7 at 10pm.

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