Geraldine Mills' poetic trek into her family history

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 14, 2019

THE OPENING verse of Geraldine Mills' new poetry collection, The Bone Road, reads: “They’re glad to see the back/of all the wind-crippled whins,/turn their heads from/the rain over Achill Island,/smoor the final fire.”

Jogging return to Galway...with a new album

Thu, Nov 14, 2019

LAST FRIDAY, Jogging released Whole Heart, their first new album in seven years, the long-awaited follow-up to 2012's the much-acclaimed Take Courage. This weekend, they play Galway.

Kilfenora Céilí Band to play the Town Hall

Thu, Nov 14, 2019

REGARDED BY many as the quintessential Irish céilí band, the Kilfenora Céilí Band, have released a new album, Both Sides Now, and are about to play the Town Hall Theatre.

Sorcha Richardson - upstairs at the Róisín

Thu, Nov 14, 2019

SORCHA RICHARDSON'S music has been declared "cinematic, relatable, and completely and utterly heartwrenching" by The Line of Best Fit and as "ultra-catchy" by The Guardian.

Phil Coulter returns to the Town Hall

Thu, Nov 14, 2019

PHIL COULTER - who has written songs for Van Morrison, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, and Luke Kelly - makes a welcome return to Galway's Town Hall Theatre.

Club GASS to celebrate fourth birthday

Thu, Nov 14, 2019

CLUB GASS - the Great and Secret Show, Galway's main LGBT clubnight is celebrating its third birthday in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow evening from 11.30pm.

Danielle Holian’s brutal truth telling

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 07, 2019

DANIELLE HOLIAN'S debut poetry collection, Beautifully Chaotic, is part of a boom in the popularity of poetry among young people – particularly young women – over the past few years.

Fregoli Heart Project to perform at popular Roscommon Arts Centre

Thu, Nov 07, 2019

In an era of borders, marginalization and mass attempts to inspire hate and difference, the Galway based Fregoli Theatre Company embark on a project which sees them return to what is quintessential to life - love. Love which can be deceptively simple or complex, in all its forms.

Rock Against Homelessness - Saturday 23rd November at Monroe’s Galway

Mon, Nov 04, 2019

The Sunday Independent’s Rock Against Homelessness concert in aid of Focus Ireland - now in its fifth year - is heading West. Earlier this year, the show sold-out the Olympia Theatre and saw performances from Camille O'Sullivan, Tommy Fleming, Aidan Gillen, Deirdre O'Kane, Finbar Furey, The Celtic Tenors and Laura Whitmore among others, helping to raise a record total of over €25,000.

Delving into magic with TULCA

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

Tomorrow evening, Friday, November 1, sees the launch of the 17th TULCA Festival of Visual Arts at the Festival Gallery in William Street, formerly An Post’s sorting office.

Druid to stage The Cherry Orchard in 2020

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

DRUID THEATRE Company has announced its first major production for 2020 - a staging of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in a version by the late, great, Tom Murphy.

Three hit films - back on the big screen

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

A STAR Is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, and The Greatest Showman - three of the most popular films of the last 18 months - are getting a fresh outing on the big screen of the Omniplex Cinemas in Galway.

Album review: Starcrawler

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 31, 2019

WHAT A difference a year makes. In 2018 LA's Starcrawler's debut album arrived after much hype and celebrity endorsements from Dave Grohl and Elton John. It was spirited and energetic, but scrappy and inconsistent.

From The Fall to Imperial Wax

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

FROM FOUNDING The Fall in 1976, until his death in 2018, Mark E Smith was the band's only consistent member, with 66 other musicians passing through the ranks during that time.

New exhibition from Pat Flannery

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

ONE OF Galway's most popular artists, Pat Flannery, is hosting an exhibition of her watercolours, depicting animals and the natural world, at the Renzo Café on Eyre Street.

John Devoy's epic solo journey

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

JOHN DEVOY, author of the acclaimed 'alternative' travel book, Quondam: Travels In A Once World, will be in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop to sign copies of the book on Friday November 8.

Jack Dee announces Galway show for 2020

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

JACK DEE has announced he is bringing his new stand-up show, Off The Telly, to Galway's Town Hall Theatre in 2020 for two nights, and tickets go on sale tomorrow morning.

Finghin Collins - a solo piano recital at NUIG

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

HE IS one of Ireland's most outstanding classical pianists, but remarkably, when Finghin Collins plays NUI Galway next week, it will be his first solo recital in the city since taking over as artistic director of Music for Galway in 2013.

New play tells stories of the homeless in Galway

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

"WE ARE stardust, we are golden," sang Joni Mitchell on her iconic song ‘Woodstock’ and a similar idea informs Starseed by Killian Glynn, which receives its premiere from Eva’s Echo Theatre Company at the Town Hall Theatre studio next week.

A 'sad and sexy' love story at the Pálás

Thu, Oct 31, 2019

ELENA AND Jake meet after a New Year’s Eve party in Glasgow. It is love at first sight. Very soon they move in together and start to plan for a family. That is when the problems start.

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