July 5th, 2010
Counting Sheep, a documentary by Romanian director Dieter Auner, is on this Friday 9th July in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, as part of the 22nd Galway Film Fleadh. Dieter spent the better part of five years constructing this tale of Romanian sheep farmers, living among them in some of Europe’s most remote landscape. From [...]
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June 30th, 2010
Summer heralds Galway at its most attractive: the city’s waterways achieve colours of an almost impossible intensity for the short duration of the warmest season. White swans swarm the Claddagh and Spanish Arch, blue dragonflies dance over the canals whose banks heave with explosions of flowers, and the daylight plays that golden trick that attracts [...]
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June 28th, 2010
Matt Smith: kinda silly, but very cool. Via Forbidden Planet.
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June 24th, 2010
Galway actor Sarah O’Toole will be running her popular kids’ drama programme this July. First camp starts week of July 5th and runs for 2 weeks meeting on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays. Venue is Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill, Galway. Second Camp starts week of July 19th and runs for 2 weeks meeting on Tuesdays Wednesdays [...]
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June 12th, 2010
If you’re around Galway it’s worth checking out illustrator Annie West‘s new work in the Art Corridor of University College Hospital, Galway. Vividly beautiful and hilarious, featuring many figures from the Irish literary canon in what if moments. The exhibition runs until 2nd July.
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March 18th, 2010
Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo. Nestlé had this ad pulled from Youtube claiming copyright violation. Greenpeace put it up on Vimeo instead. Remember, Nestlé are as dirty, as dodgy as they come. Further reading: Greenwashing.
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March 17th, 2010
Palladius (fl. 408-431; probably died ca 457/461) was the first Bishop of the Christians of Ireland, preceding Saint Patrick. The Roman Catholic Church considers Palladius a saint. It is believed that he is the same Palladius that is earlier described as the deacon of Saint Germanus of Auxerre. If this is the case, then he [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests: snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends low, comes up twenty years away Stooping in rhythm through potato drills Where [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Irish (Gaeilge) is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language only by a small minority of the Irish population but is also used as a second language by a larger and expanding minority. It also plays [...]
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March 15th, 2010
Galway based actor Sarah O’Toole will be running drama workshops in Galway in the coming weeks. Introduction to Acting – Wednesday Nights 7.00 – 9.00pm This course is aimed at adults from 16 upwards covers all the basics in approaching acting and theatre through a varied selection of games, exercises, improvisations and techniques, whilst sharing [...]
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March 12th, 2010
Macnas will take to Shop Street in Galway on Sunday 14th March with the first of its “Random Acts of Macnas”, The Hare. “A giant hare wanders the streets with some rather bizarre ladies with unusual hairstyles, bringing some of the Macnas style to St. Patricks Festival in Galway. Don’t miss this fabulous new street [...]
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March 10th, 2010
The Literary and Debating Society of NUI Galway is hosting an Audience with Garry Hynes, founder and Artistic Director of the Druid Theatre Company, tomorrow evening, Thursday 11th March, in the Aula Maxima in the main Quadrangle of NUI Galway, at 7pm. Hynes will be interviewed by Adrian Frazier, Professor of English in NUI Galway [...]
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March 8th, 2010
Starting today and for the rest of March Kelly’s will be hosting lunchtime theatre at 1pm. The programme is as follows- 8, 9, 10 March: Waterdonkey Theatre presents The Fourth Wall and What Does a Duck Mean? by Meadhbh Haicéid 15, 16, 17 March: Moonfish Theatre presents Brewers Fayre by David Greig 22, 23, 24 [...]
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March 3rd, 2010
It’s easy to write Leap Year off as another inbred descendent of The Quiet Man. First appearances are of a film full of twinkly-eyed drunken charmers with secret pasts and promiscuous fists having twinkly eyed drunken fights over promiscuous pasts in secret fields. However, this mere shillelagh shop window dressing hides a more sophisticated cloth [...]
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