Roisin Dubh

In 1990s and 2000s, Irish club night scene collided with both acid house and Celtic Tiger

There are lots of alternatives this weekend – and ironic takes on Francis’s Irish trip

Programme straddling popular and esoteric work attracts record numbers

Scottish songwriter Aidan Moffat on an influential American guitar record that helped start post-rock

Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020

The poet and playwright on ‘The Young Offenders’, Ruth Negga and Galway

The singer-songwriter John Smith on the album that taught him less is more

Alex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHS

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

As part of today’s celebrations, Lewis Kenny will be writing personalised verse at Poetry Ireland’s HQ

Architect turned musician Eoin French aka Talos spent months preparing for his debut album, but it was sudden impulses in the studio that led to his best musical moments

This week, Fight Like Apes called it a day. I first discovered them in the Róisín Dubh in Galway and nothing was ever quite the same

In terrible revolutionary fall-out his Mise Éire master piece was expropriated by Republicanism

Bronze tribute to Thin Lizzy frontman previously damaged in 2013 by vandals