Get funky with The Good Hustle

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE FUNK, the whole funk, and nothing but the funk, will be the order of business when Galway review band The Good Hustle play The Loft @ Seven.

Traid Phicnic 2015 - ceol agus craic in July

Wed, Apr 08, 2015

LIAM Ó MAONLAÍ and TG4 Musician of year 2014 Harry Bradley will be among the musicians coming to An Spidéal from Friday July 3 to Sunday 5 for the village’s fourth annual Traid Phicnic festival.

Leo and Anto start their biggest US tour tomorrow night

Wed, Apr 08, 2015

FOLLOWING THEIR headlining spot at the 2014 Vancouver Folk Festival, Leo Moran and Anthony Thistlethwaite begin their biggest North American tour to date tomorrow evening.

Japanese Film Festival - movies for the cherry blossom season

Tue, Apr 07, 2015

FROM ANIME to historical comedies, stories of financial corruption to all kinds of romance, the seventh annual Japanese Film Festival promises a programme of acclaimed new Japanese cinema from some of the country’s leading directors and actors.

Award winning songwriter Jenn Grant to play Galway

Tue, Apr 07, 2015

JUNO NOMINATED singer-songwriter Jenn Grant will begin her Irish tour with a show upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on tomorrow night from 9pm. Her set is liekly to be dominated by songs from her new album Compostela, which was released last week.

‘We’re not afraid to experiment and shake things up’

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

AN ARCHITECT, a university lecturer, and a fine artist hardly sounds like a combination that could create thrilling, high energy, indie-electro dance music, but these are the day jobs of Belfast’s Not Squares, and that is the kind of music they make when they are together.

The Assassination of Brian Boru

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

THE BATTLE of Clontarf is both a landmark event in Irish history and a fabled story passed down the generations, right up to our present day, 1,001 years after its occurrence. The famous battle provides the backdrop for an acclaimed new play, The Assassination of Brian Boru, by Lauren-Shannon Jones, which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday April 13 at 8pm.

IMC Galway to screen Cobain: Montage Of Heck

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

COBAIN: MONTAGE Of Heck, the new film on Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, will be screened in the IMC Cinema, Headford Road on Friday April 10 at 8.30pm.

Stand-up comedy about the quality of our food

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

COMEDIAN TOMIE James used to eat whatever he wanted and laughed at people on diets. Then he was diagnosed with a food allergy.

HamsandwicH - new album and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

HAMSANDWICH RELEASE their third album, Stories From The Surface, on Friday April 17, and before that play the Róisín Dubh on Friday April 10 at 9pm.

Exhibition inspired by Marconi’s transmitter

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

A FIELD trip to the Marconi radio station in Derrigimlagh, Clifden, has inspired a new exhibition, You Are Here, which opens this evening [Thursday April 2] in the Galway Arts Centre.

Naomi Shihab Nye: Palestine and poetry meet at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

NAOMI SHIHAB Nye has had both the good fortune, and the bad luck, to have lived in interesting times and places. Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1952 to a Palestinian father and an American mother; she grew up in (the now notorious) St Louis suburb of Ferguson, in Jerusalem, and in San Antonio, Texas, where she currently resides.

Album review: The Go! Team

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 02, 2015

LAST TIME out on 2010’s Rolling Blackouts, Brighton collective The Go! Team delivered a set of full on funk, soul, blaxploitation, and samapdelic urban.

'I absolutely hated going to school. Every day I went there I was nervous'

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

MEET PAKIE, an orphan, storyteller, adventurer, and survivor. He may not be the sharpest tool in the box, but he does know the history of his native town, from vicious Vikings to less-than Christian Brothers.

SBB Ina Shuí sa Town Hall

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

EVENING TIME on Irish TV in the early 1980s. A psychedelic animation of red lips against a green background, all soundtracked by Horslips’ ‘Sword Of Light’. SBB Ina Shuí was starting.

Sean Keane to play Croí charity concert

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

THE GREAT Seán Keane will play Heartbreak Hotel, a charity concert in aid of Croí, in Monroe’s Live on Thursday April 16, which will also feature performances form a host of well known Galway and Irish performers.

Dr Sketchy’s - Gotham bad girls are back

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

GOTHAM CITY’S bad girls, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman, will be the subjects and inspirations for Dr Sketchy’s, very alternative life drawing class.

Back Alleys on the Arts Corridor

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

THE ARTS Corridor at University Hospital Galway is currently full of Back Alleys, giving glimpses into childhood freedoms and childhood environments that are rapidly disappearing.

On being autistic: a personal witness

Literature Reviews Thu, Apr 02, 2015

IN HIS extraordinary book, The Reason I Jump - One Boy’s Voice From The Silence Of Autism, Naoki Higashida, an autistic boy aged 13, writes: “We are misunderstood and we’d give anything if only we could be understood properly...Please, understand what we really are, and what we’re going through.”