When working women took on apartheid
Tue, Jul 08, 2014
IN 1984, a 21-year-old check-out girl, Mary Manning, working in a Dunnes Stores on Henry Street refused to register the sale of two Outspan grapefruits.
Read more ...Football crazy @ Galway Film Fleadh!
Mon, Jul 07, 2014
THE YOUNG Roy Keane; Northern Ireland at Mexico 86; Amadeo and his unbeatable team; and a football match featuring Northern Ireland veterans and the Galway Film Fleadh - it’s all happening this week.
Read more ...Somm - inside the world of the wine expert
Mon, Jul 07, 2014
THE COURT of Master Sommeliers sounds like something from Dungeons and Dragons or a Yes concept album, but it is a serious institution with extremely high standards.
Read more ...Galway Is Film!
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
IN THE year Galway city makes its bid to become a UNESCO City of Film, and in recognition of the film-making history of the county, the Galway Film Fleadh is celebrating local film with its Galway Is Film! strand.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh to show world premiere of Glassland
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
GLASSLAND, THE new film by Pilgrim Hill director Gerard Barrett, and starring Jack Reynor, the IFTA winning actor best known for his role in What Richard Did, will have its world premiere at Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...The best new Canadian cinema
Tue, Jul 01, 2014
TODAY IS Canada Day/Fête du Canada, the Great White North’s national holiday, and this month’s Galway Film Fleadh is showing a range of films from the North American nation.
Read more ...When Northern Ireland reached Mexico 86
Mon, Jun 30, 2014
BEFORE JACK’S Army, there was another band of ‘Men in Green’ who against-the-odds qualified for World Cups, scored unexpected victories, and did much better than anyone expected.
Read more ...Fionnuala Flanagan to give Fleadh actor’s masterclass
Thu, Jun 26, 2014
FIONNUALA FLANAGAN, the only Irish actor to play guest roles on three different Star Trek series - The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Enterprise - will give the actor’s masterclass at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Out On Film @ Galway Film Fleadh
Tue, Jun 24, 2014
MISMATCHED LESBIAN hookers, trailblazing senior citizens, courageous African gay rights activists, and gay rom-coms, all films to make you laugh, cry, think, and act. This is Out On Film.
Read more ...Five Irish premieres for Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
NEXT MONTH’S Galway Film Fleadh will host the premieres of five new Irish films - Patrick’s Day, The Canal, Gold, A Nightingale Falling, and An Bronntanas.
Read more ...A History of Violence screenwriter to attend Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Jun 19, 2014
Josh Olson, the scriptwriter of the 2005 film A History of Violence, directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen, is coming to the Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh reveals opening and closing films
Thu, Jun 12, 2014
An Irish-language thriller shot in Connemara and a musical romantic-comedy from the director of Once, starring Keira Knightley, are the opening and closing films at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Theatre on-screen @ The Eye
Mon, Jun 09, 2014
ALAN AYCKBOURN’S celebrated and award winning play A Small Family Business is enjoying a revival in London’s National Theatre, but Galway will be able to see it too.
Read more ...Major Matisse exhibition @ The Eye
Thu, May 29, 2014
HENRI MATISSE is one of the key figures in 20th century art, and his Cut-Outs, which he began in the late 1930s, are among his best loved works.
Those works are now the subject of Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition at Tate Modern in London. Galwegians will be able to tour the exhibition through Matisse Live, a live cinema event produced by the Tate Modern London, which will be broadcast live via satellite to The Eye Cinema on Tuesday June 3 at 7.15pm.
Read more ...Dancehall days - Jimmy’s Hall and sinful dancing
Tue, May 27, 2014
KEN LOACH, the acclaimed British film-maker and director of The Wind The Shakes The Barley, returns to Ireland for his latest film - Jimmy’s Hall.
Read more ...Film directing workshop for teens
Thu, May 22, 2014
MARTIN SCORSESE, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock are among the greatest of all film directors.
It is the director’s job to guide the actors through the making of the film, to pick the crew, and oversee the production and final edit. It is a major job, and a coveted one.
Read more ...A weekend of African film
Thu, May 15, 2014
FROM EGYPT to Morocco, from Nigeria to Burkina Faso, the best new African movies will be on screen at he seventh Galway African Film Festival.
Read more ...High Society on the big screen
Thu, May 15, 2014
HIGH SOCIETY, the classic 1956 musical rom-com starring three legends - Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra - is to receive a big screen showing.
Jazz musician CK Dexter Haven (Crosby) is divorced from the wealthy Rhode Island socialite Tracy Samantha Lord (Kelly), but remains in love with her.
Read more ...Filmmaking workshops for young people
Thu, May 15, 2014
SPECIAL EFFECTS artists, screenwriters, and directors will be in Galway city this month to give beginner workshops in film for young people.
Hosted by the Galway Youth Arts Alliance, all workshops will take place at the Fóroige Galway City Youth Café, The Fairgreen.
Read more ...Galway African Film Festival
Tue, May 13, 2014
FROM EGYPT to Morocco, from Nigeria to Burkina Faso, the best new African movies will be on screen at he seventh Galway African Film Festival.
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