Galway to feature in new film Seven Songs For Amy
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
GALWAY WILL be one of the main locations for shooting the film, Seven Songs For Amy, which will be directed by BAFTA nominee Konrad Begg, and feature Patrick Bergin and Galway’s Aindrias de Staic.
Seven Songs For Amy will be shot in Galway city and county in and also in New York. The Galway connections do not end there as the company behind the film is Kinvara based Sonny and Skye Productions, while County Galway based singer-songwriters Jim McKee and Ultan Conlon will contribute music to the soundtrack.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh Awards 2011
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
THE 2011 Galway Film Fleadh concluded on Sunday with the touching and beautiful film Beginners, starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer, while the Fleadh awards were also announced.
Read more ...Win tickets to new Harry Potter film @ Omniplex
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
HARRY POTTER and the Deathly Hallows: Part II sees the young wizard take on the might of Voldemort in the showdown between good and evil.
Read more ...Feel good by seeing comic Glenn Wool
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
“SEEING GLENN Wool perform should be made compulsory for the melancholy. There’s no way you won’t feel a bit better about the world afterwards.”
Read more ...Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
LUNCHTIME LAUGHS are the order of the day at Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft in the Ruby Room in The King’s Head throughout the Galway Arts Festival.
Read more ...Gleeson and co hit red carpet for The Guard premiere
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
The red carpet was well and truly rolled out and trodden at the Eye Cinema recently for the Irish premiere of The Guard with stars such as Brendan Gleeson, Pat Shortt, Liam Cunningham, and Danny O’Donoghue from The Script having a ball and chatting the night away during the glitzy after-show party in The g Hotel.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.
Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. All comedians are welcome. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.
Read more ...Don’t panic - Blondie are back
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
SOME PEOPLE are just cool. They ooze a sense of calmness, experience, and ability to take life in their stride.
Read more ...Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s extraordinary political journey
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
SHE WAS the firebrand young MP from County Tyrone whose electrifying presence on the stage of Northern Irish politics in the late 1960s catapulted her to the forefront of the Civil Rights movement.
Read more ...Who Needs Enemies? returns next week
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
FRESH FROM a Buddhist retreat in the Himalayas, Eoin Hancock returns to Galway to draw a line in the sand, and escape from his self-indulgent lifestyle and party animal friends.
Read more ...Cillian Murphy on Misterman’s ‘amazing immersive experience’
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
Playwright Enda Walsh’s Misterman is one of the hottest tickets at this year’s Galway Arts Festival due in no small measure to the fact it sees Cillian Murphy take a rare break from his film career to ‘tread the boards’ again.
Read more ...Enter the world of Silent
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
MCGOLDRIG ONCE had it all, but today he is homeless and has lost his mind. Yet through his fascination with Rudolph Valentino, he finds the courage to confront his past.
Read more ...Last places for Core Theatre College course
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
CORE THEATRE College has filled all but two places for the performance course, starting on September 19.
Read more ...The Guard competition winner
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
THE WINNER of a pair of tickets to the gala première screening of The Guard in The Eye this week is Fergus MacSweeney of Barna.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.
Read more ...Percy French Summer School
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
THE PERCY French Summer School will take place at Castlecoote House, Castlecoote, Co Roscommon, from Wednesday July 13 to Friday 15.
Read more ...Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft, the ever popular series of lunchtime comedy shows in The Ruby Room, The King’s Head, return this month.
Read more ...The Vaselines - indie legends to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
WHAT IS it about Scotland and indie music? This is the nation which has given the genre many of its defining bands - Belle and Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, Camera Obscura, and of course The Vaselines.
Read more ...Mick Hanly and Arty McGlynn @ The Forge
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
TWO OF the giants of Irish folk - Mick Hanly and Arty McGlynn - along with Nollaig Casey, play The Forge in Moycullen this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Driftwood Manor album launch @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
GALWAY AVANT-folk band The Driftwood Manor will launch their new album with a show upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 15 at 9pm.
The album, The Same Figure (Leaving), is a joint release between independent Galway label Rusted Rail and independent Dublin label Slow Loris.
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