Pat Flannery to hold first solo exhibition

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

GALWAY ARTIST Pat Flannery will hold her debut solo exhibition, Full Circle, in the Renzo Gallery Café, Eyre Square, this month and running into the New Year.

Fred Cooke @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

TOMMY TIERNAN says he has "the real spirit of the clown in him”. The Munster Express praised his “high octane, manic brand of surreal genius”. He is Fred Cooke and he plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh.

Paddy Casey - new single and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

PADDY CASEY closes 2016 with new song, ‘Everything Must Change’, a taster for his forthcoming sixth album, due for release in spring 2017. Before that he plays the Róisín Dubh.

Oliver! hits the Black Box Theatre

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

OLIVER! THE much-loved family musical by Lionel Bart, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a vibrant staging from Twin Productions. This fully-staged, fully costumed production, features students from Power Performance Academy and many talented adult performers from some of the best musical societies in the west of Ireland.

'Music is the saviour'

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

IT IS a mark of the man that Christy Dignam, who has endured far more than his fair share of struggles and hard times, has borne his illness - a rare form of terminal cancer - with great dignity and stoicism.

Hans Christian agus a chairde

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

THE STORIES of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, will be told as Gaeilge in a new musical, Hans Christian agus a Chairde, An Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe's Christmas show.

An artists's view of the Nile Lodge area

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD around the Nile Lodge and Fr Griffin Road area is the subject of a new exhibition by the Galway artist Melanie McDonagh.

A night of Left poetry book launches

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

POETS KEVIN Higgins, Fred Voss, David Betteridge, and Bob Starrett have poetry new collections from Culture Matters/Manifesto Press, which will be launched in Galway next week.

Handel’s Messiah - 'always dramatic and satisfying'

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

AN ANNUAL favourite, the Irish Baroque Orchestra’s production of Handel’s glorious masterpiece, Messiah, returns to Galway on Saturday December 10 at 7.30pm, with the work directed by the artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Monica Hugget, world renowned for her expressive and impassioned performances.

Viral sensation Dan Owen to play Seven

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

THE RISE of singer-songwriter Dan Owen began with a kind gesture. A friend who felt Owen deserved wider exposure for his talent uploaded a video of him performing Bob Dylan's 'The Ballad of Hollis Brown' to Reddit.

Julie Feeney to play Moycullen

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

JULIE FEENEY, the award winning and critcally acclaimed Athenry born vocalist and composer, plays her only Galway show this year, at The Forge, Moycullen, on Saturday December 10 at 8.30pm.

Commemorative events for Galway 1916 leader Liam Mellows

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

LIAM MELLOWS, the Republican Socialist and leader of the 1916 Rising in Galway - the county which saw the highest level of activity outside Dublin - will be commemorated at a series of events this month.

FEAST brings the metal to the Róisín

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

MARES OF DIOMEDES, the doom/fuzz/sludge metal band are back in Galway this weekend, having just released a new split record with Copenhagen based purveyors of bleak doom, Dreich.

Public talk on Galway RIC men on opposing sides in the revolution

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

TWO RIC men with Galway connections, and the very different parts they played during the revolutionary period, will be the subject of two public talks at the Galway City Museum this weekend.

Syrias Vibes Fundraiser @ Electric

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

THE DISCONAUTS, Shake!, Gigantic, 110th Street, Graham Dolan, and other leading Galway and Irish DJs hit the decks at Electric tomorrow from 8pm, to raise funds for Syrias Vibes.

Galway writer nominated for prestigious literary award

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

Fred Johnston, the Belfast-born, Galway based, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, has been nominated for a prestigious Pushcart Prize by the literary magazine, The Luxembourg Review.

Seán Keane's Town Hall Christmas show

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

THIS YEAR saw Seán Keane release his first new album in almost a decade and he closes 2016 with his Christmas By The Hearth show in the Town Hall Theatre on December 9 and 10.

Frank Naughton's A Vintage Christmas

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

FRANK NAUGHTON, one of Galway's best loved singers, host shis annual yuletide concert, A Vintage Christmas, in the Town Hall Theatre, where he will be joined by soprano, Sandra Oman.

Do you want to be TG4’s next soap star?

Wed, Nov 30, 2016

TG4’s hit TV soap opera Ros na Rún is searching for an actress over 50 to join its cast and fluent Gaeilge is required for the role in Ireland’s only Irish language soap.

Rusangano Family - music for a new Ireland

Tue, Nov 29, 2016

THE RUSANGANO Family are from Zimbabwe, Togo, and County Clare; they are based in Limerick; their bass-led sound fuses hip-hop and world music; Nialler 9 said they "continue to impress everywhere they play"; and they are coming to Galway.

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