Album review: Villagers

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 19, 2021

FEVER DREAMS is expansive, ambitious, and cinematic in scope, fusing the many disparate strands of Conor J O’Brien’s music into one entity. It is also the oddest album of his career.

Barbara Rockman to read at this month’s Over The Edge

Thu, Aug 19, 2021

THE AWARD WINNING poet, Barbara Rockman, along with poets Siobhan Potter and Hannah Ward, will read at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.

The Three Tenors to play Galway Cathedral

Thu, Aug 19, 2021

HAILED AS “Ireland’s greatest voices”, The Three Tenors make a welcome return to Galway to play a socially distanced concert at Galway Cathedral.

Tom O’Mahony’s Buckshot podcast at The Grand Auld Stretch

Thu, Aug 19, 2021

GALWAY HAS a chance to make Irish podcasting and comedic history by being part of the 200th episode of Tom ‘Bear’ O’Mahony’s Buckshot podcast, which will be recorded in the city this week

Black and Tans spotted in Connemara in run up to GIAF show

Thu, Aug 19, 2021

Members of the public travelling west of An Spideál had quite a shock recently when a 1920s era Saracen truck, with a full complement of Black and Tans, was spotted speeding along the R336 at various times of the day.

Classic films at Pálás Cinema’s Summer of Fun

Thu, Aug 19, 2021

The heatwave is long over, and the days are more overcast, and sometimes damp, but that is all the more reason to head to the cinema, especially to the Summer of Fun screenings continue at the Pálás.

Megs Morley appointed head of visual art at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 19, 2021

THE CURATOR, public art commissioner, educator and editor, Megs Morley, has been appointed as the new head of visual art at the Galway Arts Centre.

Poetry workshops in September

Thu, Aug 19, 2021

POETRY WORKSHOPS from beginner to advanced levels, with the poet, Kevin Higgins, begin in September and take place via Zoom.

Film Review: Boys from County Hell

Films Reviews Wed, Aug 18, 2021

WILLIAM AND Eugene are two Irish lads in their mid-twenties. They are feeling aimless, and spend their time drinking pints, playing ball, and ripping off tourists.

‘Working with another's voice gives you a new set of tools to play with’

Wed, Aug 18, 2021

SOMETHING CATHARTIC, something collective, happened when Mick Flannery played the first live gigs in Galway in more than a year, a spontaneous response to seeing such a thing happening again.

A day in the life - Bedsit at GIAF 21

Tue, Aug 17, 2021

“I'M UP and about and living again without realising that that’s what I’m doing.” So says a woman Galway will meet during the 2021 Galway International Arts Festival.

HousePlants and Jape - live in Galway

Tue, Aug 17, 2021

HOUSEPLANTS, the exciting duo of Bell X1’s Paul Noonan and electro artist Daithí, and Jape, the solo project of The Redneck Manifesto’s Richie Egan, play The Grand Auld Stretch at Nimmo’s Pier this week.

Darragh O'Dea - new album and County Galway shows

Mon, Aug 16, 2021

FOLLOWING THE release of the single, 'Guerrilla Warfare In Your Back Garden', Tuam singer-songwriter Darragh O'Dea, has announced a debut album and two Galway gigs this winter.

Online creative writing classes for the autumn

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

CREATIVE WRITING classes with the poet Kevin Higgins, and the post and short story writer Susan Millert DuMars, will begin in September.

Niamh Regan gets ‘Happy Again’ on new single

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

‘HAPPY AGAIN’, the new single from County Galway singer-songwriter Niamh Regan, is released tomorrow, Friday August 13, on all digital platforms.

Cultural infrastructure must be made a key factor in Galway’s expansion, says Theatre 57

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

AFTER THREE years without funding, Theatre57 have successfully been awarded grants from the Galway County Council and the Arts Council for three separate strands of activity, which will support independent theatre artists in Galway city and county during the next nine months.

New exhibition from Olga Magliocco

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

ICE MELTING into water, thermodynamics, motion, and constant change - these are the ideas behind Entropy, a new exhibition at Oughterard Courthouse.

Christy Moore to open new series of Pearse Stadium concerts

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

FOR THE first time in more than a decade, Pearse Stadium will host a series of major concerts, starting with the legendary Christy Moore on August 26.