Cinema review: In The Heights

Films Reviews Wed, Jun 23, 2021

IN THE Heights was written by Lin Manuel Miranda the man who wrote the Broadway behemoth Hamilton, so this is a pretty hotly anticipated film.

From stone forts to the revolution - Galway’s story in one place

Wed, Jun 23, 2021

PERSONAL BELONGINGS of IRA volunteer Seamus Quirk and Fr Michael Griffin; Bronze Age artefacts from Dún Aonghasa; the myths of the River Corrib; and an exploration of Gaelic Ireland - there is a wealth of local and Irish history to be experienced at the Galway City Museum.

Robocobra Quartet to play Róisín Dubh in September

Tue, Jun 22, 2021

ROBOCOBRA QUARTET, hailed as “pioneers” by the BBC and who have been compared to a cross between Fugazi and Charles Mingus by Drowned in Sound, are coming to Galway.

One Good Turn - live from The Abbey to Galway

Tue, Jun 22, 2021

ONE GOOD Turn, a new comedy play by Una McKevitt opened this week at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and this weekend it will be livestreamed to Galway.

HousePlants - new single and debut album date

Tue, Jun 22, 2021

MEMORIES OF the aftermath of the 2015 marriage equality referendum have inspired the new single by HousePlants, a collaboration between Galway based musician, Daithí, and Bell X1’s Paul Noonan.

John Cooper Clarke - legendary punk poet returns of Galway

Mon, Jun 21, 2021

"I SAY to people, have you heard of John Cooper Clarke and if they say, ‘Yes, yeah he's an absolute genius’, and you just go, 'Oh - OK, you've saved me a lot of time."

‘We Used To Play Here’ - a pop-up concert for Inishbofin

Mon, Jun 21, 2021

A POP-up gig amid the wild splendour of Inishbofin awaits music fans when the ‘We Used To Play Here’ tour comes to the Connemara island next week.

New stage school launches performing arts camp in Headford

Thu, Jun 17, 2021

A NEW dance, drama, singing, and musical theatre stage school for children and young people has been launched in Headford with summer camps starting at the end of this month.

Black Lives Matter - a night of poetry and discussion

Thu, Jun 17, 2021

TWO POETRY anthologies, which have emerged from the Black Lives Matter movements in both the USA and Britain, will get an Irish launch at the next Over The Edge reading.

Baba Yarga - Galway multicultural band release new single

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 17, 2021

AN EASTERN European folk song, transformed into a modern, soul-pinching, ethno-pop ballad - this is ‘Vershe’, the new single from Galway multicultural band Baba Yarga.

Galway Community Circus outside summer camps

Thu, Jun 17, 2021

GALWAY COMMUNITY Circus is holding a variety of summer camps from July 5 to 25 for children, adults, and families.

The Raines - cowgirls get their guns on new single

Wed, Jun 16, 2021

"This is our version of a folk cowgirl song, that feeling of falling madly in love, a whirlwind of desire with someone, and then that same love falling apart.”

Deadline looms for Galway Film Fleadh pitching competition

Wed, Jun 16, 2021

MONDAY JUNE 28 is the closing date for submissions to the Galway Film Fleadh pitching competition, which will be a live-streamed event as part of the online edition of the festival.

The Mary Wallopers - live and unleashed in Galway

Tue, Jun 15, 2021

"ISN’T THERE hope for the country with The Mary Wallopers in it." So said Tommy Tiernan about the raucous Irish folk band who are playing the Róisín Dubh later this year.

Reginald D Hunter brings new show, Bombe Shuffleur, to Róisín Dubh

Tue, Jun 15, 2021

CLIMATE CHANGE, Brexit, the Alt.Right, economic downturns, the Covid-19 pandemic. What could Reginald D Hunter possibly say that could offend or upset you?

Take a musical trip to Greece with ConTempo

Tue, Jun 15, 2021

“THINKING IS the best way to travel,” sang The Moody Blues in 1968, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, journeys of the imagination are the best way to ‘go abroad’.

Album review: Saint Sister

Music Reviews Mon, Jun 14, 2021

“MY BRILLIANT friend traces where I should end and where I should begin, and he touches me with all the need and the want that goes on between us.”

Frankie Gavin, Mairtín O’Connor, Johnny Duhan - live at the Town Hall

Mon, Jun 14, 2021

FRANKIE GAVIN, Mairtín O’Connor, and Johnny Duhan - three titans, not only of the Galway folk and traditional scene, but of Irish music, will be live in concert at the Town Hall Theatre.

'Getting to Know...' Annamaria Nic Dhonnacha, Ros na Rún

Thu, Jun 10, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Love and Laughter.

‘It was great to be part of this, because it involved the postman, my teachers, Baboró, and my family’

Wed, Jun 09, 2021

THROUGH THE tumultuous times of the Covid-19 global pandemic, children in Galway took on starring roles in two creative projects - St Pat’s Lockdown Olympics and The Street Are Ours - thanks to the RISE programme from the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, in partnership with Galway 2020.

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