Tommy Tiernan’s December Cuba* show
Thu, Nov 11, 2010
TICKETS FOR Tommy Tiernan’s new show Crooked Man, which takes place in Cuba*, Eyre Square, on December 8, 9, and 10, go on sale today.
With his latest show Crooked Man, Tommy ponders the perils of turning 40 in his characteristic style, full of honesty, integrity, and outrage.
Read more ...Howard Marks rolls into Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 11, 2010
DURING THE 1970s Welshman Dennis Howard Marks built up one of the most sophisticated drug smuggling operations in the world.
Read more ...Jerry Fish @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 11, 2010
IRELAND’S LEADING lounge lizard Jerry Fish plays Monroe’s Live on Friday November 19 as part of his The Naked Fish Tour.
Read more ...Galway Baroque Singers’ concert
Thu, Nov 11, 2010
THE GALWAY Baroque Singers will perform a concert in the Franciscan Abbey, Francis Street, on Wednesday November 24 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Win Skyline film-tie in goodies
Thu, Nov 11, 2010
SCI-FI THRILLER Skyline opens in cinemas tomorrow and to mark the release the Galway Advertiser has three film tie-in goodie bags to give away.
Read more ...Making dents in ignorance
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
GALWAY WILL be the last date on dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip’s upcoming tour but despite their gruelling schedule, the band will deliver nothing less than one hell of a great night. After all Galway is a city for which they genuinely have affection.
“Galway has always been really good,” Scroobius Pip (aka David Meads) tells me during our Thursday morning interview. “It was one of the first places we played outside of London that we got an excited welcome. There is a really good local scene and the promoters seem to have everyone on board.”
Read more ...The Adventures Of The Wet Señor
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
ON SEPTEMBER 21 1588, a violent storm of tornado strength broke up three ships of the Spanish Armada and ran them aground on Streedagh Beach in County Sligo.
The Adventures Of The Wet Señor by Donal O’Kelly is a new play based on the experiences of a survivor of that fateful evening - Captain Francisco De Cuellar of the barque San Pedro of the Levant squadron.
Read more ...Hit show makes its debut Galway visit
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
OEDIPUS LOVES You, the critically acclaimed drama and possibly the most toured production in Irish theatre history, comes to the Town Hall Theatre on November 15 and 16 at 8pm.
Read more ...Dora returns to The Druid Theatre
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
FOLLOWING ITS sell out three night run during the Galway Arts Festival, Dora, by the award-winning poet and playwright Shane Daly Hughes, returns to the Galway stage next week.
Read more ...Farewell to Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
CASIOTONE FOR The Painfully Alone, the brilliant solo electronic pop/singer-songwriter project of Owen Ashworth, play upstairs at the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 9pm.
Read more ...Go Panda Go release debut EP
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
GALWAY BAND Go Panda Go have just released their debut EP El Troubador on Bluestack Records, featuring the band’s signature sound of melodic beats and haunting harmonies.
Read more ...The Deans get worried on new single
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
ATHENRY ROOTS-rock trio The Deans will release their new single ‘Worried All The Time’ next Wednesday.
Read more ...Fia Rua to launch new album in Kelly’s
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
IT’S BEEN a long time coming, but finally folk-rock singer-songwriter Fia Rua is releasing his second album Falling Time.
Read more ...Re-imagining those old, familiar, places
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
YOU VISIT places every day. You walk in the city, you might take a stroll through a park, you might even visit fantastic landscapes when you play your computer games.
Read more ...TULCA to explore migrant stories
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
THE EXPERIENCE and perilous journeys of immigrants will be explored in three video installations which will be shown in Galway as part of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art.
Read more ...Songs of freedom and justice
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
GALWAY SINGERS and choirs are being invited to take part in a singing workshop with the leading Irish choir Resurgam.
Read more ...Dick Donaghue to launch new novel tomorrow
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
DANCE OF The Mocking Birds, the new novel by Dick Donaghue, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow at 6pm.
Read more ...Native American storyteller at city museum
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
MARTÍN PRETCHEL, the artist, musician, storyteller, and teacher will be telling traditional stories in the Galway City Museum on Thursday November 11 at 7pm.
Read more ...Fred Johnston en Français
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
THE BRETON publisher Terre de Brume has just published a collection of short stories by the Galway based poet and critic Fred Johnston.
Read more ...Enjoy operatic favourites in the Franciscan Abbey
Thu, Nov 04, 2010
THE DURHAM Voice Studio’s Autumn Voice Recital takes place in the Franciscan Abbey, St Francis Street, this Sunday at 7pm.
Soprano Maeve Cairney, along with John Kennedy, Aurélie Boulos, Veronica Nube, Fiona Flanagan, and Tara Broderick, will perform works by Schubert, Mozart, Faure, and Delibes. They will be accompanied by Morgan Cooke on piano. There will also be a special performance by The Gombeens’ Miquel Barceló.
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