'Mindfulness in Lockdown'
Mon, Jun 08, 2020
It is a sunny morning as I sit and sip my coffee. There are many jobs to do and a small list beside me that already has some ticks on it. I love my lists and I especially love getting to tick them off. On my list I have piano practice, work on a new track, skincare, exercise, and meditate.
Read more ...Getting To Know… Charlotte Gallagher Questionnaire
Fri, Jun 05, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sharing a beautiful feast with friends, family, and newcomers.
'This album comes from a journey of sorts, actual and figurative'
Thu, May 28, 2020
A RUMINATION on nature, quietness, solitude, mental health, and a joy in the organic process of creation, are the things which define Us and Then, the new album from Galway singer-songwriter Yawning Chasm.
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Thu, May 28, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Producing a festival with unlimited funds where everything that could possibly go wrong has been foreseen.
From Galway to Graceland
Thu, May 21, 2020
IT WAS on the streets of Galway that an Englishman and an American woman met, quite by chance, one day in 2016, and discovering a shared love of folk music led them to form the folk duo, A Different Thread.
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Thu, May 21, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Warm weather in the summer and the sound of hurling on the radio. Cold dry weather in the winter and the smell of a wood fire.
‘In times of isolation, music still provides a way of coming together’
Thu, May 14, 2020
IT IS frustrating for a band like Dream Wife, who thrive on live performance, and who can rip up the stage with their potent combination of indie-punk music and Feminist politics, that Covid-19 means no touring is possible.
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Thu, May 14, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Content children.
'Every day I send off an album, it's a win'
Thu, May 07, 2020
WHEN ULTAN Conlon emerged from the recording studio in Burbank, California, on the final day of sessions for what would become his fourth album, he could have had no idea of the world into which it would be released.
Read more ...Galway artists and life under Lockdown
Thu, May 07, 2020
'I try to accept the darkness and remind myself a new day is around the corner'
Read more ...‘I walked down High Street and there was no one about’
Thu, Apr 30, 2020
WHEN DAVID Bowie entered the studio to record what would become Station To Station he had no songs written and little idea what he wanted to do.
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Thu, Apr 16, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being surrounded by family and friends which seems a distant memory now!
The (radio) show must go on
Thu, Apr 09, 2020
COVID-19 HAS restricted our movements, created the necessity of social distancing, self-isolation, and cocooning, and resulted in economic hardship for many due to loss of employment of falling revenue.
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Thu, Apr 09, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Waking up slowly, without the sound of an alarm.
‘This book is very much of the moment’
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
NEAR THE start of Sara Baume’s wonderful new book, handiwork, there is a quote from The Craftsman, by Richard Sennett.
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Thu, Apr 02, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being surrounded by a tight-knit group of friends.
‘Doing these Open Mic live streams, I don’t feel like I'm in isolation'
Thu, Mar 26, 2020
IT WAS the first Sunday of the coronavirus restrictions. Pubs and venues were closed. Shops were shut. Streets were deserted. Galway was, to quote The Specials, “coming like a ghost town”.
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Thu, Mar 26, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Getting a good cup of tea when you’re out somewhere.
‘The great and the good of Irish writing'
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
THE FIRST year of the new decade sees a new director at the helm of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Sahsa de Buyl. “If you were to look at a theme for this years’s event,” she says, “it would be the great and the good of Irish writing.”
Read more ...'Writing is always mysterious, contradictory, revelatory‘
Thu, Mar 05, 2020
LAURA CASSIDY has ambition – she is determined to do whatever it takes to become a movie star – but not only ambitions dhe believes stardom is her birthright. Yet something inside her continually thwarts her meeting her destiny.
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