Limitless competition winners

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

THE WINNERS of copies of the novel The Dark Fields by Irish author Alan Glynn, on which the new Bradley Cooper film Limitless is based, were: Grainne Traynor, Athenry; David Molloy, Claregalway, Deirdre Kearney, Galway; Carl Dennis, Tuam; and Sana Khan, Galway.

Joyces’ Ulysses in graphics and sculpture

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

SCENES FROM James Joyce’s Ulysses have been imagined, depicted, and interpreted by two Irish artists for an exhibition as part of this year’s Cúirt festival.

Elif Batuman - to Russia with love

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

AMONG THE notable international visitors jetting in for Cúirt is Elif Batuman, author of the hugely enjoyable The Possessed; Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them.

The book charts Batuman’s abiding love of Russian literature and her often hilarious adventures amid the world of academia or on her travels as a student to regions of the former Soviet Union.

Sean Tyrrell, discovering Who Killed James Joyce

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

IN WHAT promises to be one of the highlights of this year’s Cúirt, singer-songwriter Sean Tyrrell will premiere his new show Who Killed James Joyce, inspired by the poems and life-stories of some of Ireland’s foremost poets, both past and present.

Grenades returns for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

NUALA KELLY loves Thin Lizzy and The Undertones, but she loves her older brother Oran even more. In fact she idolises him.

The Unthanks - it’s a family affair

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

RACHEL UNTHANK admits to being “very excited” and it’s not surprising. She and her husband Adrian McNally are expecting their first child.

Mr McTell got the blues

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

MICHAEL GRAY is best known as the author of the celebrated books on Bob Dylan, Song and Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan and The Bob Dylan Encyclopaedia, and it was after hearing Dylan sing about an obscure American bluesman which prompted Gray to go in search of Blind Willie McTell.

Football Crazy

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

SURVIVING A withering glare from Diego Maradona; partying with French and Spanish football supporters on a train from Hanover to Berlin; and sitting in a Canadian bar, experiencing agony and ecstasy while following the Irish soccer team - it’s all in a day’s work for John Doyle.

Gerbrand Bakker - The Twin author to read at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

AMONG THE literary luminaries gracing this year’s Cúirt festival is Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker, winner of last year’s IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Twin.

Emmet O’Malley to launch debut solo EP

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

GALWAY BASED singer-songwriter and filmmaker Emmet O’Malley, under the stage name of Mali Junior, will release his debut EP The Smell Of Bees, this weekend.

Go back to the fifties with All Shook Up

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

GREASE YOUR hair, quiff it, and don a leather jacket if you are a guy, or put on a poodle skirt and bobby socks if you’re a girl, and get ready to be All Shook Up.

All Shook Up, the rock’n’roll musical comedy, featuring the greatest hits of Elvis Presley will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre by the Galway Musical Society from Monday April 4 to Saturday 9 at 8pm.

Alternative hip hop for Cúirt

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

WHAT GOES through your mind when the words rap or hip hop are mentioned? Images of guns, scantily clad women, and lyrics boasting about wealth and sexual prowess?

NUIG students stage At The Black Pig’s Dyke

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

NUI Galway students are performing Vincent Woods’ At The Black Pig’s Dyke in the Nuns Island Theatre today, tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at 8pm.

Galway Actors Workshop summer term

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

THE GALWAY Actors Workshop will begin its summer term of classes for adults next month in the Anno Santo Hotel in Salthill.

The Deans @ The Crane

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

COUNTY GALWAY roots rockers The Deans play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, tomorrow and it may be your last chance to see them in Galway for a while.

Go Bump with Dave Barry

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

GALWAY’S SOUL brother Number 1, Dave Barry, will be DJing at Bump in The Office Bar, Salthill, this Saturday. This is a one off event due to popular demand following some floor filled nights in the Office Bar.

Go ska crazy for The Beat

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

IN THE late 1970s and early 1980s, punk and new wave were not the only choices for those who wanted music that was alternative to the mainstream - there was also British ska.

British ska’s mix of Jamaican ska, music hall, sly wit, political awareness, and an aggression inspired by punk lit up the charts and the big three of that era were The Specials, Madness, and The Beat.

Scroobius Pip’s spoken word event @ Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

BEFORE HE joined forces with DJ Dan Le Sac to create some of the best and most intelligent British indie/hip hop ever, Scroobius Pip was a spoken word artist.

The Forge to host trad music feast

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

LEADING TRAD musicians like Liz and Yvonne Kane will be playing The Forge in Moycullen on Friday April 8 as part of National Music Day.

Christy Moore returns

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

CHRISTY MOORE is coming back to Galway to play Leisureland on Saturday September 24 at 8pm and tickets go on sale on Monday.

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