The Velvet Underground of Italian Renaissance painting

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THE ‘GIORGIONE’ in the title of Tracking Giorgione (Brandon), the ambitious novel by Hungarian born writer Thomas Kabdebo, is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, an Italian Renaissance painter and contemporary of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Inside the Maze

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

WITH A fresh inquiry under way into the murder of loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright in the Maze prison in 1997, a book by William McKee sheds some light on the murder from the inside of the prison, as well as life in the infamous Maze throughout the Troubles.

Tommy Tiernan and his marathon Easter testimony

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

TOMMY TIERNAN is about to undertake his greatest challenge yet. In the Nuns Island Theatre during the Easter weekend, he will attempt to perform 36 hours of non-stop stand up comedy in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book Of Records. What can we expect? “Imagine the Sex Pistols doing an album of ballads!” he says.

Bank robbers, children, and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

OWEN ASHWORTH, the man behind the lo-fi electro-indie project Casiotone For The Painfully Alone admits he feels a certain amount of anxiety about the possibility of starting a family.

The art of comedy with Colin Murphy

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

IN 1991 Colin Murphy was asked to join an improvisation group at the Irish Student Drama Awards. A life on stage was not something he had really planned and on the day in question he was just filling in for a friend who had to withdraw due to illness.

Get ready to hear The Cunningham Sound

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

THE CUNNINGHAM family from Cashel, Connemara, have played their part in the revival sean nós dancing has enjoyed these last number of years.

New Electric Ballroom returns to Town Hall

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

DRUID THEATRE Company’s award-winning production of Enda Walsh’s blistering New Electric Ballroom comes to the Town Hall shortly for a brief run as part of a national tour.

Jinx Lennon’s trauma themes and idiot times

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

WHEN DUNDALK agit-folk singer David ‘Jinx’ Lennon arrived on the Irish music scene in the 1990s his spoken word diatribes poked at the back of what he called the Septic Tiger.

Bahh Band Galway gigs

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

THE BAHH Band are one of the more unusual acts on the Irish music scene today in that their sound is a mixture of the blues, psychedelica, and Indian classical music.

Paul O’Reilly album launch @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

GALWAY BASED singer-songwriter Paul O’Reilly is set to release an album with The Hollows’ Greg O’Brien in the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

Ships Leaving is a split album featuring separate songs from both artists. There are five tracks from O’Reilly and five from O’Brien (who goes under the name At Last An Atlas when solo).

Chrysalis Dance premieres new show this month

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

“One truly has to admire Sibley and her company of dancers for their ambition, their commitment, their creative energy and their drive in creating a successful full length evening work.”

Harriet Leander exhibition at Galway

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

HARRIET LEANDER will have an exhibition in the Galway City Museum this month featuring photography and paintings.

The theme of the exhibition will be, in Ms Leander’s own words, “scrap and discarded things that are in the best of cases recycled”.

Choral concert at Salthill Church

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

THE TRIBAL Chamber Choir, under director Mark Keane, will host A Musical Journey Through Holy Week, in Christ The King church, Salthill on Sunday at 8pm.

A barrister and a golf fan to open Cúirt readings

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

IRISH BORN Joseph O’Neill works as a barrister in New York while the Irish-American Timothy O’Grady has a passion for golf. Both men area also acclaimed writers and will give the opening reading at Cúirt.

Cinema Review - Knowing

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

It’s so annoying when a film starts off quite interesting, leads into a dramatic action packed edge-of-the-seat middle, and then just fails miserably fobbing you off with an ending which is just ridiculous. It could have been so much more.

Comedy and film screening at the Laughter Lounge

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

BEFORE COMEDIAN Jim Tavare takes to the stage of the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday April 8, two short films made by local producers Ant Entertainment will be screened.

Trad music at PJ Flaherty's

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

PJ FLAHERTY’S in Lower Salthill was established in 1872 and as is fitting for a venue which sees itself as a traditional pub, there are trad sessions every Saturday night.

The bar also shows all major sporting events on four screens, hosts regular poker nights, and caters for parties (with a complimentary bottle of champagne). Food is catered for by head chef Mark Rowat.

David Kitt - beating a retreat to his true self

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

IT IS almost a decade since David Kitt released his debut album Small Moments in 2000 and he is fast approaching 10 years on the go - a milestone in anyone’s career.

Town Hall unveils April-June programme

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

CHRISTY MOORE, Liam Clancy, Virginia Kerr, Druid Theatre Company, and Opera UK are among the highlights in Town Hall Theatre’s programme for the coming months.

Easter improv laughs with Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

YOU HAVE to admire the audacity and foolhardiness of a group of comedians who perform a show with only a skeleton idea of what they will do, little in the way preparation, and relying on the goodwill and creativity of the audience.

It’s mad, but that’s what comedy improv is all about and as Galway audiences know so well, it’s what the Whose Line Is It Anyway? team do so brilliantly.

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