Dan Deacon - late show at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

DAN DEACON is a composer whose work has been heard in Carnegie Hall. He is a legend within indie and electronic music. He is an artist. He is an entertainer. He is all these things.

Colin Geddis - Ulster's funniest for the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

COLIN GEDDIS is a huge name in comedy in Northern Ireland. His January 2020 show at the SSE Arena in Belfast is already sold out, and he has just added a second night.

Galway's Rayleen Kenny gets lead role in Wrath

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

RAYLEEN KENNY, a 13-year-old who is a second year pupil at Coláiste Éinde, will take the lead role in Wrath, a Screen Ireland and Bear Print Media short film, which premieres on Sunday July 13 at the Town Hall Theatre.

Celebrate Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai in Galway

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

YEHUDA AMICHAI was probably Israel's greatest poet, and his poetry will be celebrated and read at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in The Kitchen Café of the Galway City Museum next week.

Re-examining the shooting of Michael Brown Jr

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr, an 18-year-old African-American, was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St Louis.

Emigrant artists explore the impact of place

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

A SARDINIAN and a San Franciscan, both now living in Galway, explore the impact of home, place, and emigration in their new exhibition, Two Places At Once, which opens at the Kinvara Courthouse this evening at 8pm.

‘Where I grew up they didn’t teach soul violin, so I combined my two loves’

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE STORY is well known - but only to an extent. Before she became Joan As Policewoman, she was a member of The Dambuilders, Black Beetle, and then Antony and The Johnsons. What is less remarked on, yet perhaps more crucial to her development as an artist and musician, was her time as a classical violinist.

Album review: Jesca Hoop

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2019

IT WAS often said of The Cure's 1982 album Pornography, that after beginning with the words, "It doesn't matter if we all die", it proceeded to get bleaker from there.

Yesterday - imagine if Black Mirror was upbeat and fun

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2019

YESTERDAY IS a kind of a positive feature length episode of Black Mirror - a pretty basic surreal concept but some pretty exciting talent behind the camera in director Danny Boyle, and writer Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill).

Mikaela Davis - the harp, but not as you know it

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

“A LOT of these songs came from feeling stuck and also like people were pulling me in a bunch of different directions. I wanted to say, ‘Just wait for me. I’ll figure it out.’”

An Criú - Macnas artists exhibit on Inis Oírr

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

A GROUP of Macnas artists will hold their second visual art exhibition on Inis Oírr, with An Criú, a "theme-less, aim-less, point-less cross-disciplinary" show of sculpture, painting, video, and sound.

Fíbín appoints new artistic director

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

PHILIP DOHERTY has been appointed artistic director of Fíbín, the theatre group based in Indreabháin, Connemara, which is the country's only Irish language touring drama company.

A film about Big Tom's statue

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

A FILM about the creation of the statue to the late, legendary, Irish country singer, Big Tom, will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, and it is a documentary with Galway connections.

Galway Fringe Festival 2019

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE 2019 Galway Fringe Festival, which this year celebrates it's ninth anniversary, runs from July 15 to 28, and will host more than 50 events in 15 venues across Galway city.

Finky - a redemptive tale ‘with chainsaws and motorcycles’

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

A SURE-FIRE highlight of the Galway Film Fleadh will be Finky, the locally-made debut feature from writer/director Dathaí Keane, creator of the award-winning series An Klondike.

A jazz night with the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE HISTORY of New Orleans jazz is, in many respects, the early history and origins of jazz itself, and The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys style is resolutely that of The Big Easy.

Enter Éadaín's Enchanted Forest

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE ENCHANTED Forest, an exhibition of oil paintings on canvas by Galway artist Éadaín, is currently running in the Ballybane Public Library, Castlepark Road.

The Big Geraniums - back in Galway

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

AFTER A 21-year hiatus, folk-pop band The Big Geraniums have reformed - with all the original members - to play two special, one-off shows, in Dublin and Galway this month.

Cellists wanted for exhibition

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

GALWAY CELLISTS are being sought to take part in what will be a photographic exhibition that will run in April 2020 as part of Music For Galway new Cellissimo festival, celebrating all things cello.

Grammy winning Pacific Boychoir Academy's debut Galway show

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THREE-TIME Grammy winning US choir, the Pacific Boychoir Academy, are making their debut tour to Ireland, and on the itinerary is a concert in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this Saturday, July 6.

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