JG Ballard meets Ballinasloe

Mon, Jul 26, 2021

THE LANDSCAPE and towns of east Galway, and the science fiction of JG Ballard, have inspired a new album by the Galway musician, The Cube of Unknowing.

IT HAS been a tremendously successful 2021 Galway Film Fleadh this year. Anecdotally I spoke to several people who had not attended the festival in the past, but did so this year due to the outdoor screenings - and all said they would be back next year.

NUIG lecturer’s feature film wins major award at Fleadh

Mon, Jul 26, 2021

FOSCADH, THE Irish language feature film, inspired by Donal Ryan's The Thing About December, won Best Irish First Feature at last night’s Galway Film Fleadh 2021 Awards.

Thoughts of home at new Kinvara exhibition

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

HOME, THE new exhibition from County Galway artist and children's book author, Terri Kelleher, opens at the Kinvara Courthouse on Friday July 23.

‘Floating’ - Uisce Jones to release new single

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

‘FLOATING’, THE new single by Galway/Spanish indie singer-songwriter, Uisce Jones, will be released on Friday July 23.

Galway Pride Guide to be launched at the Pálás

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

GALWAY WILL continue its tradition of having the longest continually running Pride event in Ireland, with an array of events from Monday August 9 to Sunday 15.

NUIG academic nominated for debut feature film at Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

NUI GALWAY academic and filmmaker Seán Breathnach has been nominated for the prestigious Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the 33rd Galway Film Fleadh.

New studio space for artists to open in the city

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

BARTON STUDIOS, a new studio space for artists in Galway is set to open on St Francis Street, and a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help equip and run the premises.

‘I believe in the ability of artists to change the world’

Wed, Jul 21, 2021

AT EVERY arts event in the city he would be there, the jolly man with the glasses and the long hair, a smile and good company, enthusiastic for what he, and we, were about to see that night, be it theatre, music, literature, visual arts - and he usually had an important role in supporting it.

Film review: Here Before

Films Reviews Wed, Jul 21, 2021

THE RETURN of the Galway Film Fleadh took place on Tuesday, with the amazing weather coinciding with a massively ambitious outdoor/indoor programme.

'Getting to Know...' - Conor O’Toole, filmmaker and comedian

Tue, Jul 20, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Cycling down a slight, almost imperceptible incline, makes you feel like the God of Speed. Hermes, right? Like Hermes.

Midnight Macabre - weird and scary stories from Rab Fulton

Tue, Jul 20, 2021

MIDNIGHT MACABRE, an online reading of horror stories by the Galway based, Scottish writer Rab Fulton, takes place this week.

Irish LGBT+ film gets world premiere at the Fleadh

Tue, Jul 20, 2021

WHO WE Love, a film about coming of age and coming out, and two friends navigating the troubled waters of school life and Dublin's LGBT+ scene, receives its world premiere at the 33rd Galway Film Fleadh.

Druid to film The Seagull at Coole Park for on demand viewing during arts festival

Mon, Jul 19, 2021

DRUID’S PRODUCTION of The Seagull may have sold-out, but Galway will still be able to see the internationally acclaimed company in action, as the shows will be recorded for streaming in September.

Galway short film to be screened at international film festivals

Mon, Jul 19, 2021

POLITICS AS Usual, the debut short film by Galwayman Liam Kimball, will be screened at a variety of film festivals throughout 2021.

Galway poet Mary Lee to launch new collection

Thu, Jul 15, 2021

MARY LEE, the acclaimed Galway poet will launch her latest collection of poetry, Everyday Epiphanies at a special Zoom event on Friday July 23 at 7pm.

Cosmic Leaf release new album today

Thu, Jul 15, 2021

COSMIC LEAF, the experimental, indie/alternative duo of Aaron Coyne and Aaron Hurley, today released their new album, Are Androids Stung By Electric Bees?.

Art inspired by the landscape and history of Oughterard

Thu, Jul 15, 2021

CUIMHNÍ, AN exhibition of paintings and prints by artists Leah Beggs and Kathleen Furey, opens tomorrow at the Courthouse, Oughterard.

‘It’s like three festivals in one - the digital, the indoors, the outdoors’

Thu, Jul 15, 2021

IT HAS been a long time since we have been able to say “Let’s go out to the cinema this evening”, but this summer we can, and indeed being ‘out’ at the cinema - literally - will be the highlight of summer 2021 in the city.