Culture Night 2021 - what are you going to see?

Wed, Sep 15, 2021

FOR 18 months the arts were in lockdown, but the autumn saw them return, and this weekend there will be events all over the city and county with Culture Night 2021, under the theme of ‘Come Together Again’.

‘Comedians are delighted to see the Galway Comedy Festival coming back’

Wed, Sep 15, 2021

“Laughter is the best medicine, it is important for our mental health, for audiences, for the people working in the industry, and also for comedians themselves. They use it as therapy, it’s their only release. You can’t really do it on Instagram, you have to do it live.”

Galway Cartoon Festival returns in October

Tue, Sep 14, 2021

THE GALWAY Cartoon Festival is back next month with a host of exhibitions, events, and brilliant cartoons and cartooning from October 1 to 9.

‘Take A Chance’ on Crescent Moon’s new single

Tue, Sep 14, 2021

CRESCENT MOON, the Galway rapper and producer has released his latest single, 'Take A Chance', a song about self-improvement and self-confidence.

Immortal - new family musical at the Town Hall

Mon, Sep 13, 2021

A DAUGHTER goes in search of her missing father, but her journey away from their home in Tír na nÓg results in her being stranded in the Ireland of the Civil War.

Laura Vecchi Ford - The West is Awake

Mon, Sep 13, 2021

FOR MORE than 30 years, Laura Vecchi Ford taught Italian at NUI Galway, but for much longer than that she has been a visual artist.

The High Kings Home From Home Tour comes to Galway

Mon, Sep 13, 2021

THE HIGH Kings, always one of the most popular concert draws in Ireland, will be on the road again from this winter, and Galway is in their sights.

Album review: Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 09, 2021

WHAT DO you get when you combine one of the finest contemporary songwriters in the country with one of Irish music’s best kept secrets?

Paula Pohli - city, country, city

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

FOR THE artist Paula Pohli, farmers and visual artists share much in common: they love animals; watch the weather for changes that occur hourly; are interested in flora and fauna, and work long hours.

Niamh Regan releases new video for ‘Two Seagulls’

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

‘TWO SEAGULLS’, from Niamh Regan’s acclaimed debut album Hemet, now has an accompanying video, made as part of the First Cut! Youth Film Festival’s Youth Music Video Competition 2021.

Reflections on the lockdown experience

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

LONELINESS AND social isolation during the lockdowns, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable in rural communities, have inspired a new exhibition which opens in Kinvara.

Solas Photography Club online exhibition

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

SOLAS PHOTOGRAPHY Club, based in Oranmore, is holding an online exhibition of its members' work, which will include a number of award winning photographs.

‘The music I create is built for performance’

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

EIGHTEEN MONTHS of no live music, then September arrives and suddenly it all starts to happen again for producer, composer, and musician, Daithí.

Galway Comedy Festival returns in October

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

IRELAND'S BIGGEST festival of comedy comes roaring back to Galway this October Bank Holiday, and organisers are planning a triumphant return for this week-long festival of fun.

'Getting to Know...' Chantal McCormick, choreographer

Wed, Sep 08, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A healed planet.

‘To our imaginations and beyond’ - Baboró International Arts Festival for Children

Tue, Sep 07, 2021

Baboró International Arts Festival for Children turns 25 this year and will be celebrating its silver anniversary in style with six premieres of work by Irish artists; seven new commissions, and young people co-creating many of the events.

Get involved in Galway Fringe Festival 2021

Tue, Sep 07, 2021

GALWAY FRINGE Festival will present an outdoor programme of creative arts activities throughout Galway city and county during the autumn.

A Reliquary of Beasts at 126 Gallery

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

ANIMALS - THEIR place in our lives, how they have been depicted in art, and divergences on cross-border practices on animal products caused by Brexit, are being examined in a new exhibition.

Catherine Corless to launch her memoir in Galway

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

CATHERINE CORLESS, the historian whose work brought to light the deaths and burials of hundreds of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, and which led to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, will launch a memoir this month.