Album review: The Wedding Present

Music Reviews Thu, Dec 08, 2016

A SLOW, atmospheric, post-rock instrumental is not what a seasoned Wedding Present listener expects to hear, nor a stately and majestic track built around a worldless choir of male and female vocals, nor a sublime movement for string quartet and piano.

Mr Pussy to attend tomorrow's GASS clubnight

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

MR PUSSY, "the doyen of Irish drag queens...the original of the species," according to the Sunday Independent, will be in Galway tomorrow to attend GASS - The Great and Secret Show.

Citóg Christmas show for AMACH! and Teach Solais

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

STEVEN SHARPE & The Broke Straight Boys headline the second annual Citóg Records Christmas show in the Róisín Dubh, which will raise funds for AMACH! LGBT Galway, and its new resource and support centre, Teach Solais.

Christmas screening of Scrooge

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

SCROOGE, THE classic British film adaptation of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, will be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Christmas family concert of song, music, and ballet

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

A CHRISTMAS feast of classical music, song, story, and ballet to delight families, takes place in the Town Hall Theatre at the Galway ConTempo Quartet and Friends' Christmas Family Concert.

Joe Rooney @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

JOE ROONEY is best known as 'gurrier priest' Fr Damo from Father Ted, barfly Timmy Higgins on Killinaskully, and from his appearances on Red Rock, but he is also a first rate stand-up and improv comedian.

Galway/Mayo moods at The Kenny Gallery

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

MOODS, MEMORIES, and Mayo, a new exhibition of works by Paul Guilfoyle, features, despite its title, landscapes from Galway, Down, and Laois, as well as Mayo.

The Sugarhill Gang - rap pioneers to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

"I SAID a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie, to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop the rockit to the bang bang boogie, say up jumped the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat."

Pádraic Ó Conaire's 1916 stories re-launched

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

PÁDRAIC Ó Conaire's short stories about the 1916 Rising, Seacht mBua an Éirí Amach/Seven Virtues of the Rising, is to be re-launched in a new edition and translation by acclaimed Galway actor Diarmuid de Faoite.

Book review: Not backpacking in Oz

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

THERE ARE three central characters in EM Reapy's debut novel Red Dirt: Fiona, who has fled Ireland to extricate herself from an abusive relationship; Hopper, who is trying to find himself by taking acid and being left for dead in the outback; and Murph, whose family back home have been broken by the great construction crash of 2008.

Breda Fox exhibition

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

GALWAY ARTIST Breda Fox is hosting an exhibition of her oil paintings in Pearla na Mara, Lower Fairhill Road, just off Dominick Street, with the official launch on Sunday December 11 from 5pm to 7pm.

The Academic to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

THE ACADEMIC, the Westmeath indie-rock sensation called “one of Ireland’s most exciting new bands” by The Independent, play the Róisín Dubh next week, as part of their December tour of Ireland.

Final Over The Edge of 2016

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

THE POETS Matthew Caley, Helena Kane, and Mary Lee will read at the final Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2016, in the Galway City Library on Thursday December 15 at 6.30pm.

A feast of Christmas choral concerts for Galway

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

A FEAST of Christmas choral concerts will take place in Galay over the coming days, featuring many of Galway city and county's leading choirs - The Kiltullagh Community Choir, Coole Harmonies, and Cois Cladaigh.

Big Jelly to headline charity concert

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

GALWAY SKA and reggae band Big Jelly will headline a charity concert night, the Haiti Music Project Fundraiser, which will also feature an array of Galway musical talent.

St Patrick's Brass Band annual Christmas concert

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

ST PATRICK'S Brass Band holds its annual Christmas concert this weekend, joined by vocalist Nicola McGuire, and the show will also help raise funds for homeless charity COPE.

Welsh choir to sing in the Town Hall

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

NORTH WALES' leading male voice choir, Cantorion Gogledd Cymru, will join the Galway Choral Association for a concert in the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday 17 December 17 at 8pm.

Kinvara pupils help create Ireland’s first history book written and illustrated by children

Wed, Dec 07, 2016

Sixty pupils from third to sixth class in Northampton National School, Kinvara, have contributed to Across An Open Field, the first Irish history book written and illustrated by children.

Máirtín Mór - the man who was Galway

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

IT IS a measure of the man named Máirtín Mór that, more than 80 years after his passing, mention of the name to certain generations of Galwegians, brings an instant reaction of awe, mingled with a touch of fear.

Breda Joyce to launch debut poetry collection

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

CADENCE, THE début poetry collection from County Galway born poet Breda Joyce, will be launched by Rita Ann Higgins in the Galway City Library on Thursday December 8 at 6pm.

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