Declan O’Rourke - learning to trust and let go

Wed, Apr 14, 2021

‘GALILEO’ IS a song which has been good to Declan O’Rourke, opening many doors for him which remain very welcoming to this day - not least the door of Paul Weller.

‘I find young people respond positively to Shakespeare’

Wed, Apr 07, 2021

PETE MULLINEAUX is rarely a man with little to do, being a poet, a playwright, and an active force in youth theatre and education in Galway.

Getting To Know...Raquel McKee

Wed, Apr 07, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

'Getting to Know...' Sophie White

Thu, Apr 01, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

‘Working class voices are still struggling for representation in literature’

Wed, Mar 31, 2021

TO BE a Booker Prize winner is to be in a distinguished club of novelists working in the English language, but the 2020 winner Douglas Stuart is within an even more select group of recipients.

'Getting to Know...' Natalie Haas

Wed, Mar 24, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

‘I’m just at the beginning of what I can achieve’

Thu, Mar 18, 2021

STREETS IN My Mind, the debut album by Galway singer, songwriter, rapper, and producer Chris Haze, has been a long time coming, and for the artist, it represents “the end and a new start”.

'Getting to Know...' Christopher Ellis

Thu, Mar 18, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

‘Cúirt will make you think, will entertain you, it won’t hold back’

Thu, Mar 11, 2021

MERE DAYS after the programme for the 2020 Cúirt International Festival of Literature was announced, the Republic of Ireland went into Lockdown. And yet, in the face of that unprecedented setback, Cúirt emerged triumphant.

'Getting to Know...' John Patrick McHugh

Wed, Mar 03, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

‘The sound of the cello, it seems as if it’s coming up from the earth’

Wed, Mar 03, 2021

“THE CELLO can be bass, soprano or alto. Its endpin strikes the ground and it seems as if its power and deep sound are coming up from the earth. When played it lies between the musicians legs and they have to embrace it. It’s a very physical thing, it almost becomes part of their body.”

'Getting to Know...' Máire Éilís Ní Fhlatharta

Thu, Feb 25, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Glenn Gibson - the ‘accidental artist’

Wed, Feb 24, 2021

IT ALL began in the most unexpected fashion - an artistic career formed by paperclips and enduring long business meetings in the USA.

‘We believe in this play. I don’t think I’ll let anything stop it’

Wed, Feb 17, 2021

THE OLD saying, ‘’Tis an ill wind that doesn’t blow some good’, has not been without some merit during the Covid-19 pandemic.

‘I feel a real momentum and I’ll keep going with it’

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

FOR THOSE who lived through it, 2020 was a year that will never be forgotten. It was also a year that few, if any, will remember with any trace of positivity. There may, though, be an exception.

Getting To Know...Racheal Palmer

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

‘I have always been fortunate to be linked with Druid’

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

PUTNEY BRIDGE, London. It is 7.40am on a bright May morning in 2017. A woman is on her way to work when a jogger, determined not to break his stride or change his pattern, pushes her out of the way, into the path of an oncoming bus.