The first Spaghetti Western live from New York to Galway
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
LA FANCIULLA Del West, Puccini’s 1910 opera set in the American Wild West, will be staged by The New York Metropolitan Opera and broadcast live to Galway this week.
Read more ...New season of world cinema for Indreabhán
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
CLUB SCANNÁN Sailearna will host a new season of world cinema in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán.
The season starts on Wednesday January 12 at 8.15pm with The Girl Who Played With Fire, the Swedish film based on the second of the best-selling crime series by Stieg Larsson.
Read more ...Have a laugh in 2011 at The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
“LAUGHTER IS by definition healthy,” said the author Doris Lessing, while Lord Byron advised: “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
Read more ...Ex-Oasis drummer Tony McCarroll on life inside Britpop
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
IN THE early 1990s boy band and girl band acts dominated the British and Irish charts. Take That, The Spice Girls, East 17, and Boyzone sold millions of singles and were constantly on television.
Read more ...Women with dark glasses and boyos with big ideas
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
DESPITE IT’S rich tradition, which stretches from Frank O’Connor to Claire Keegan, the short story is currently Ireland’s most neglected literary genre.
It is notoriously difficult to find a publisher willing to risk publishing a collection of them. A poet with any talent at all will eventually achieve publication, as long as he or she occasionally leaves the house to send poems out.
Read more ...Nothing to lose
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
IT WAS a quiet midday morning in Bohermore when Galway writer Ken Bruen received the call that would change his life forever. However, he was somewhat unprepared for the moment.
Read more ...Cinderella at The Black Box
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
A REAL seasonal treat is in store for all the family when the boys and girls of the Performing Arts School Galway take to the stage of the Black Box Theatre, from January 1 to 8 with their panto version of Cinderella.
Read more ...Panto fun with Renmore’s Sleeping Beauty
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
THE MUCH loved fairytale Sleeping Beauty will be brought to the Galway stage by the Renmore pantomime, starting tonight and running until Sunday January 16.
Read more ...Coming to the Town Hall in 2011
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
PIANIST BARRY Douglas, illusionist Keith Barry, comedian Des Bishop, singer Johnny McEvoy, and classic plays by Tennessee Williams, Brian Friel, and Shakespeare all feature in the Town Hall’s programme over the coming months.
Read more ...The Scots are coming
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
SCOTLAND HAS been producing some of the greatest and most influential indie/alternative bands there has ever been.
Think about it - The Vaselines, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Josef K, Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, Arab Strap, Frightened Rabbit, Cocteau Twins, Franz Ferdinand, and The Pastels.
Read more ...The Nitty Gritty New Year’s party set to rock Salthill
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
THE NITTY Gritty Galway’s only club night to cater for Rockabilly, Soul, 60s Ska, Swing, 50s Rock n’ Roll and the rest, is back.
Read more ...Ring in 2011 with Ireland’s most exciting new bands
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
“THE ONLY way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”
Read more ...Rubberbandits add second Róisín Dubh date
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
THE SCOURGE of Liveline listeners, the urban poets of Limerick, the wild men of Irish comedy, The Rubberbandits are all this and more.
Read more ...Cinderella in January
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
THE PERFORMING Arts School Galway will stage its pantomime Cinderella in The Black Box Theatre from Saturday January 1 to Saturday January 8.
Read more ...Matt Keane at the Claregalway Hotel
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
DOLORES KEANE will join her brother, the folk-singer Matt Keane, on-stage at Matt’s fifth annual Christmas season concert in the Claregalway Hotel.
Read more ...Keith Barry’s The Asylum returns for final run
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
THE ASYLUM, Keith Barry’s acclaimed live show, returns to the west of Ireland in January, as part of its final Irish run.
Read more ...Seanua album brings world cultures together
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
IN 2002 Israeli producer and engineer Shay Leon launched his professional recording studio Shay’s Studio in Leitrim village, outside Loughrea.
Read more ...And So I Watch You From Afar @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
NORTHERN IRELAND has given us three of the most exciting Irish bands to emerge over the last 18 months - Two Door Cinema Club, not Squares, and And So I Watch You From Afar.
Read more ...An indie disco for COPE
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
DO YOU love indie and alternative music? Do you love Joy Division, The Smiths, The Cure, Stone Roses, Pixies, Kings Of Leon, Arcade Fire? Want to raise some money for charity?
Read more ...The Nitty Gritty New Year’s party set to rock Salthill
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
THE NITTY Gritty, Galway’s only club night to cater for Rockabilly, Soul, 60s Ska, Swing, 50s Rock n’ Roll and the rest, is back.
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