Earl Jeffers to DJ @ new TRIBE night

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

DJ EARL Jeffers who formerly released music under the moniker Chesus, will headline Tribe, a new club night in The Loft, at Seven, which takes place on Tuesday February 16 at 10pm.

Club Lonely for Valentine's dancing

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

CLUB LONELY, a night of serious disco, house, "love and plenty of dancing", takes place in The Blue Note this Sunday, with DJ sets from P.Disconaut, Mitch, Byron B Yeates, and Nuff' Said.

My Tribe Your Tribe - alt-rock and electro

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

MY TRIBE Your Tribe, whose music mixes alternative rock and electro, will play Monroe’s Live on Thursday March 3 at 10pm.

Soul man Buck Taylor to play Galway

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

AMERICAN SOUL singer Buck Taylor, and his band, will take to the stage of The Clybaun Hotel this Saturday, when the Kentucky born singer will present his Soul Fever Show.

Get funked up with The Good Hustle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

FUNK, SOUL, rock, and dance, will collide in floor-filling and exciting fashion when The Good Hustle play The Loft at Seven, Bridge Street, on Saturday February 20.

Valentine's Day at Biteclub

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

BITECLUB on Abbeygate Street will mark Valentine's Day this Sunday, with music, food, and drinks.

Solo show from Augustines' William McCarthy

Wed, Feb 10, 2016

WILLIAM MCCARTHY, the charismatic frontman of Brooklyn indie band Augustines,' plays a solo show at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 18 at 8pm.

The outspoken vicar who called Pearse a 'mincing floor-walker'

Mon, Feb 08, 2016

The Rev Richard Henebry was not shy about speaking his mind, particularly when it came to his great passion - the Irish language. Indeed he called Pádraig Pearse's Irish language stories, "the mincing of an underassistant floor-walker of a millinery shop".

Public lecture on the life and ideas of Eoin MacNeill

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

Eoin MacNeill is best known as the man who countermanded the order for the 1916 Rising to begin, and for representing the Government at the boundary commission which left the country still partitioned.

Páraic Breathnach - Straight Outta Connamara

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

NWA WERE Straight Outta Compton, but Galway's own Connemara bad boy raconteur, Páraic Breathnach, is comin' Straight Outta Connamara, in his new stand-up comedy show at the Róisín Dubh.

Druid announces 2016 programme

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

SAMUEL BECKETT'S Waiting For Godot, and Helen and I, a new work of Tuam playwright Meadhbh McHugh, will both be performed as part of Druid Theatre Company's programme of work for 2016.

Des Kelly - the quiet legend of Irish music

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

HE FOUNDED The Capitol Showband that scored a number of firsts for Irish bands at home and abroad. He discovered songwriting legend Phil Coulter, he set visionary trad band Planxty on the road to success, he is Des Kelly.

Album review: The Prettiots

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 04, 2016

IT COULD all be very twee, a light hearted look at love'n'life'n'boys by New York twentysomethings Kay Kasparhauser (vocals/ukulele), Lulu Prat (bass), and actor/musician Rachel Trachtenburg (drums), all very kooky, quirky, and indie.

Award winning Nordic film @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

TWO BROTHERS have lived side by side for 40 years, tending their sheep farms, but in all that time they have refused to speak to each other, communicating only via written messages delivered by a pet dog.

2016 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

THE 2016 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring readings by poets, and book launches, takes place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday February 12 at 6.30pm.

Get ready for a threesome with Little John Nee

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

LITTLE JOHN Nee presents his new show Talking Derry Boat, at the Town Hall Theatre studio tomorrow and Saturday, in what is the first of three shows at the venue, the others being The Church of Chill in March and Ribbons, a collaboration with Laura Sheeran, in April.

Taking a satirical scalpel to the body politic

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

"THE BEST satire has always been militantly about the present," declares Galway poet and critic Kevin Higgins, who turns his witty, devilishly humorous, eye and words upon Alan Kelly, Irish Water, Official Ireland, and Jeremy Corbyn’s enemies, in a new collection.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

JOHN COLLEARY, a star and co-writer of three times IFTA nominated The Savage Eye, and regarded as one of Ireland’s best comedic wits, plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh, tomorrow [Friday February 5] at 8.30pm.

The Whileaways to play Foróige Youth Café

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

THE ACCLAIMED Galway folk, roots, and Americana trio, The Whileaways, will play the first Show Up and Show Off, a new concert series at the Foróige Galway City Youth Café on The Fairgreen.

The other bomb plot to kill Hitler

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

THE JULY 1944 bomb plot to kill Hitler is widely known, but there was an earlier attempt on the Führer's life, a story explored in the film 13 Minutes, from Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.