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.
Read more ...‘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.
Read more ...Getting To Know...Raquel McKee
Wed, Apr 07, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Sophie White
Thu, Apr 01, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Read more ...‘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.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Natalie Haas
Wed, Mar 24, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Read more ...‘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”.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Christopher Ellis
Thu, Mar 18, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Read more ...‘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.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' John Patrick McHugh
Wed, Mar 03, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Read more ...‘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.”
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Máire Éilís Ní Fhlatharta
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Read more ...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.
Read more ...‘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.
Read more ...‘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.
Read more ...Getting To Know...Racheal Palmer
Thu, Feb 11, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Read more ...‘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.
Read more ...‘There were chapters in my twenties where I could have been a bit like Luke’
Thu, Jan 28, 2021
WHEN THE email arrived, asking Fiachna Ó Braonáin to audition for a part in TG4’s long running soap Ros ns Rún, his first thought was “Again?”
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