North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

KERRY POET Donal Ó Siadhachain, the 2008 All Ireland Slam Winner, will read at the next North Beach Poetry Night on Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar.

This North Beach Night is billed as a ‘Beat the recession once-off admission free gig’ so you don’t have to pay to go in! The special guest MC will be the 2008 Cúirt Grand Slam winner Elaine Feeney.

Brian Friel’s The Home Place comes to the Town Hall

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE TOWN Hall will shortly host what promises to be one of the year’s theatre highlights when Brian Friel’s most recent play The Home Place arrives in a major new production jointly presented by Belfast’s Lyric and Letterkenny’s An Grianan theatres.

Blue stories and devilish tales from Canadian comedian Mike Wilmot

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

ONE OF the most popular comedy performers in Britain and Ireland is without doubt foul-mouthed funny man Mike Wilmot. Prowling the stage like a caged animal he strikes with lightning precision with a one-liner that leaves the audience helpless with laughter.

John Calder on Beckett and Endgame

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

THE ACCLAIMED London-based troupe The Godot Company arrive at the Town Hall Next week with a very special production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.

GUMS to unleash a Disco Inferno

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

TAKING ITS cue from funk and soul, and developing in the Latino and gay clubs of New York in the mid-1970s, disco became a global phenomenon by the end of the decade.

New plays, new playwrights, at Múscailt One Act Play Series

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

ST PATRICK, trollied teenagers, culture clashes, bus stops, and clampers are some of what audiences can expect to see in this year’s Múscailt One Act Play Series.

Capote’s kingdom; Kingdom’s Capote

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

TRUMAN CAPOTE - social butterfly, gossipmonger, and faded novelist dropping names until those names drop him - is vividly resurrected in Bob Kingdom’s brilliant one-man show which comes to the Town Hall from next Tuesday to Thursday.

Images Of Galway to be launched in Town Hall

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

IMAGES OF Galway, a book of photographs by Galway based photographer Paul Malone, celebrating the city, its streets and characters, will be launched tomorrow.

Trash Dolls - alternative female DJs

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

THE TRASH Dolls - Louise Cunnane and Nicola Cosgrove - are a new Galway based duo determined to inject something different and ‘alternatively feminine’ into the city’s mostly male dominated DJ scene with their club nights in the Róisín Dubh and Cuba*.

Spend Valentine’s with Cagedbaby

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

BRIGHTON DJ Cagedbaby will be leading the Valentine’s Love Parade at the GPO on Saturday February 14 at 11pm.

Cagedbaby is DJ/producer Tom Gandey who has worked closely with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, Talking Head’s David Byrne, and Grace Jones. He is about to release his new album on the Southern Fried label this spring and will follow this with a string of festival appearances in the summer with a full five piece band.

Be inspired by Múscailt exhibitions

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

MASSIVE INSTALLATIONS, metal sculptures, photographs of death, and student artists reacting to the recession - these are the exhibitions that will make up Múscailt.

Classical and trad concerts in Nuns Island

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

THE NUNS Island Centre will host a concert of Irish trad tonight while on Monday there will be a classical music concert with music performed on a piano owned by composer Clara Schumann.

Tonight at 8pm The Sullane Sessions concert takes place with Cork musicians Fiona Kelleher (vocals), Jim Murray (guitar), Richard Lucey (accordion), and Ciaran Coughlan (piano). The show will feature new arrangements of traditional songs from Fiona’s debut album My Love Lies. These musicians have worked with Altan and Sharon Shannon. Tickets are €15/12.

Japanese and Irish poetry reading

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

MOST PEOPLE have heard of the Japanese form of poetry known as haiku, but tanka is a much older form, and Galway will get to experience it on Saturday.

From 3pm in the Wa Café on the second floor of the Galway City Museum, Japanese tanka poetry and Irish poetry will be read. Tanka are traditional poems consisting of 31 syllables with 5-7-5/7-7 mora pattern.

Revolutionary Road

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

If there ever was a film to portray the boring monotonous hell of life in surburbia, or should I say disturbia, then Revolutionary Road is it. Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet are back together again and on form as their characters struggle to do the unthinkable - do what they want to do, not what society demands.

Fake Dog Films’ second annual party

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

GALWAY’S FAKE Dog Films will throw the second annual Fake Dog Party in the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday at 8pm with proceeds going to Cancer Care West.

On the night, Fake Dog Films - Dara, Paul, and Gearoid - will screen their short films like Crackdown and Crackdown 2, music videos for The Butterfly Explosion and Vancougar, and Fake Dog’s own sitcom, A Dog’s Life.

Pappy’s Fun Club - a very English kind of good–natured silliness

Thu, Jan 29, 2009

IT’S HARD to top English comedy, but that nation’s approach to humour falls into two distinct categories, the dark, such as The League Of Gentlemen and One Foot In The Grave, or the wonderfully silly, like Monty Python.

The Datsuns - around the world with rock’n’roll

Thu, Jan 29, 2009

THEY NAMED themselves after a Japanese car. They play rock’n’roll, but also new wave and psychedelica. They’re from New Zealand but strangely don’t follow rugby. They are The Datsuns.

An Armada Corazon for Luis Asturias

Thu, Jan 29, 2009

GALWAY MUSICIANS and DJs will gather in the Black Box Theatre on Saturday February 7 from 6pm for Armada Corazon, a major fundraising show for the Spanish born, Galway based, musician Luis Asturias.

Cecelia Ahern’s onstage blend of ice cream and romance for Town Hall

Thu, Jan 29, 2009

HER BOOKS are sold in more than 40 countries; her debut novel – PS I Love You – has been filmed and others are already optioned, and she is the co-creator of hit US TV series Samantha Who?

Second Age bring King Lear to Town Hall

Thu, Jan 29, 2009

SECOND AGE Theatre Company makes its annual visit to the Town Hall in the first week of February with its production of one of the greatest of Shakespeare’s plays; King Lear.

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