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Since its earliest days, one of the defining characteristics of the Galway Arts Festival is the way it has forged strong friendships with its featured performers and invited them back for repeat visits.

It is one of the most famous photographs ever taken. Eleven construction workers sit and eat lunch on a girder which hovers 850 feet above New York, with nothing to catch them if they fall.

IN FRENCH, ‘nouvelle vague’ refers to daring, iconoclastic, films made in the 1950s and 1960s by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. In English, ‘new wave’ was music by bands like Blondie and Joy Division.

NORA BARNACLE, the Galwegian who was James Joyce’s wife, muse, best friend, and source of strength will be celebrated in a new work by Tom Cullivan.

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BRONAGH GALLAGHER, the actress, singer, and songwriter is about to release her new album, simply entitled Bronagh Gallagher, and this month will see her on tour across Ireland.

The Body&Soul Festival, now in its third year, exploded on to the summer scene in 2010 with its inaugural weekend at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath.

THE OTHER Side Of Sleep, a new Irish film, will be screened at The Eye Cinema from tomorrow, while the film’s director Rebecca Daly will be attending a screening next week.

The European premiere of Mayo-born composer Patrick Cassidy’s ‘Famine Remembrance’ will take place at a special celebration to commemorate the centenary of St Colman’s Church in Claremorris on April 13. Now living in North America, Cassidy is widely known for his musical scores for many Hollywood movies, including Hannibal, Veronica Guerin, Kingdom of Heaven, Che Guevara, King Arthur, Layer Cake and most recently The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt.

The American president does it, the British Queen does it, the lifetime achievement award winner at IFTA 2012 actress Fionnuala Flanagan does it and during Seachtain na Gaeilge, so can you.