The Global Game Jam® - Taking place January 25th-27th in at the PorterShed

Mon, Jan 14, 2019

The Global Game Jam® (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical locations. Wait, what is a gamejam? One way to think of a game jam is like a musicians jam session, except instead of making a song you are collaborating to make a game. You can also think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. Now that we have a better idea of what a game jam is, let's talk about Global Game Jam!

Who is coming to the Róisín Dubh Comedy in 2019?

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

IF COMEDY was a religion, Róisín Dubh would be Mecca, the Vatican, or Jerusalem. OK, maybe it is more like Knock, but one thing for sure, it is arguably the home of comedy in the west of Ireland.

20 Shades of Pencil Grey

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

20 SHADES Of Pencil Grey, an exhibition of pen and ink drawings by the Galway artist and writer Jim Ward, is currently running at the Renzo Café and Gallery on Eyre Street.

Tracy Bruen headlines new music night at the Pálás

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

TRACY BRUEN, one of Galway's most outstanding singer-songwriters will headline the first Applause At Pálás - a new series of music gigs taking place in the cinema's Merrow Bar.

Marion Cotillard's fight to save her job

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

MARION COTILLARD is no stranger to appearing in block-buster films, but Two Days, One Night is a chance to see her in a very different role, in this superb, low key, French film.

The Favourite - Olivia Colman on course for an Oscar?

Films Reviews Thu, Jan 10, 2019

SET IN 1708, Britain is at war and the monarchy has absolute rule. However the country is stuck with a childish, petulant, and depressed Queen who has no real interest in ruling.

The 'silvery threads' which led to Ailish Tynan's glittering career

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

ONE OF the star names in this year’s Music for Galway Midwinter Festival, Swansong, is internationally-feted Irish soprano Ailish Tynan, whose glittering career has taken her all the way from Mullingar to Milan’s La Scala and established her as one of today’s finest opera singers, recitalists, and recording artists.

Galway graphic artist selected for prestigious New York fellowship

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

GALWAY GRAPHIC artist and designer, Leon Butler, has been selected for a prestigious New York Fellowship by Design Incubation – an organisation for educators and practitioners of communication design to further design research and practice.

'Theatre in Galway is made against the odds'

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

THEATRE57, a newly formed collective of independent theatre artists in Galway city and county, including Little John Nee, Fregoli’s Maria Tivnan, Aindrias DeStaic, Sarah O’Toole, and Moonfish’s Mairéad Ní Chroinín, will be officially launched this month.

Show Me The Funny returns for 2019

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

SHOW ME The Funny, Ireland's longest running and most wide reaching comedy talent competition, returns for its 12th season at The King's Head this month.

'Humanity Dick' and Lady Gregory at Ballynahinch Castle

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

RICHARD 'HUMANITY Dick' Martin, the pistol packing MP for Galway, and founder of Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Lady Gregory, a leading light of Ireland's literary revival, are the subject of two plays at Ballynahinch Castle Hotel.

NUIG Comedy Soc turns ‘January blues’ into January Laughs

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

THE DARK days of January can be a dreary time of year but NUIG’s Comedy Soc, in association with Bank of Ireland, has the perfect antidote to those seasonal blues with January Laughs, an evening of top-notch comedy with some of Ireland’s leading laughmeisters.

Album review: You Tell Me

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 10, 2019

YOU TELL Me is Field Music’s Peter Brewis and Admiral Fallow's Sarah Hayes, and despite drawing on a diverse set of influences, the duo has created a cohesive, often beguiling debut as a duo.

We Banjo 3 to play major US festival

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

WE BANJO 3, the Galway folk/bluegrass/trad sensation, and one of the biggest band's to emerge from Ireland in recent years, have been announced to play the BottleRock Music Festival in Napa Valley, California in May.

Free public lectures on Frankenstein and Once Upon a Time in the West

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

Sir Christopher Frayling, rector of Britain's Royal College of Art, will deliver two free public lectures in Galway - one on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the other on the classic spaghetti western, Once Upon a Time in the West.

The High Kings to play Leisureland

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

THE HIGH Kings - Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Darren Holden, and George Murphy - make a welcome return to the west of Ireland when they play Leisureland, Salthill, on Saturday January 19 at 7pm.

The reality for asylum seekers in Ireland's direct provision centres

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 10, 2019

A MONTH or so before Christmas, a rather imposing volume landed on my desk. Bound in a strong blue cloth, the front cover declared the title to be Asylum Archive, the author to be Vukasin Nedeljkovic. The spine declared the publisher to be Asylum Archive.

Don those 'Fancy Pants' for The Dirty Circus

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

NEW YEAR'S resolutions are mostly about trying to do what you have so far failed to do, rarely are they about treating yourself, and they are never about indulging in anything remotely naughty.

Neil Delamere brings new show to the Town Hall

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

AS SURE as January follows Christmas, the first month of the year will see Neil Delamere, one of Ireland's most popular comedians, make his annual trip to Galway with a new show.

Galway Actors Workshop 2019 courses

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

GALWEGIANS LOOKING to get into acting in 2019, or actors who feel they need to brush up on their skills for stage or TV, should take a look at the new series of classes from the Galway Actors Workshop.

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