Major new John Behan show in Kenny Gallery opens Friday

Wed, Oct 11, 2017

A MAJOR new exhibition of work by sculptor and artist John Behan opens this Friday October 13 at the Kenny Gallery. Award-winning actor Stephen Rea will officially open the exhibition entitled Eternal Recurrence, at 6pm.

Mario Rosentock - In Your Face in Galway

Tue, Oct 10, 2017

ONE MAN...one hundred faces...In Your Face! Those last three words are the title of Mario Rosenstock's new one-man stage show which he is bringing around the country next April and May.

Cinema Review: Blade Runner 2049

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 09, 2017

BLADE RUNNER 2049 is the sequel to 1982 classic Blade Runner. The 2049 is the year the sequel is set. So, don't worry, you haven’t missed Blade Runner the other 2047 sequels. Am I the first person to make that joke? Probably.

Druid’s Waiting for Godot returns to Galway

Mon, Oct 09, 2017

DRUID THEATRE'S acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, one of the highlights of the 2016 Galway International Arts Festival, will return for a 12 week national and international tour in 2018.

Sky Road Film Festival features an exciting lineup, the festival takes place on Saturday October 14th!

Fri, Oct 06, 2017

This year's Sky Road Film Festival features an exciting lineup, the festival takes place on Saturday October 14th at the Station House Theatre in Clifden, Co Galway.

Bob’s BlundaBus - a pop up double-decker of creativity

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

WHEN IS a bus not a bus? When it’s a double-decker comedy venue on wheels! One of the oddest successes of last year’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival returns to Eyre Square this October - Bob’s BlundaBus, a big red converted ex-London bus.

Album review: Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 05, 2017

WARFARING STRANGERS: The Darkscorch Canticles, released in 2013, was a treasure trove of underground Black Sabbath-influenced US metal from the early 1970s by an array of short lived, yet fascinating, bands.

Jake Clemons - E Street Man for the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

JAKE CLEMONS, saxophone player for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and also a much admired solo artist, makes a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh this month as part of his Fear & Love Tour - Ireland Edition.

Experiencing Peter Pan anew at Baboró

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THE BABORÓ International Arts Festival for Children gets underway in less than two weeks’ time and one of the must-see shows is The Peter Pan Experience by acclaimed Dutch company Het Laagland.

'We met at a circus in Cork and decided to do some stuff together'

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

AHEAD OF their Absolute Legends gig at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival in Galway, Cormac Mohally, one half of comedic duo Lords of Strut, spoke to the Galway Advertiser about how he and Cian Kinsella are saving dance, their time on Britain's Got Talent, and Simon Cowell.

Graham Linehan is special guest at FÍS TV Summit

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

GRAHAM LINEHAN, the co-creator of Father Ted and Black Books, and the creator of The IT Crowd, will give a public interview at the FÍS TV Summit in Galway next week.

Exhibition explores the life of the hedgerow

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THE DIVERSITY of plants, flowers, and wildlife found within hedgerows in Ireland, has inspired a new exhibition, Head In The Hedgerow by Hugh Barr, which is currently running at University Hospital Galway.

Met Opera returns to Eye Cinema

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THE METROPOLITAN Opera in New York's 2017–18 season opens this Saturday at 5.55pm with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as the druid priestess, and Joyce DiDonato as her rival, Adalgisa.

Gould Piano Trio to play NUIG

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

SINCE WINNING first prize at both Florence's Premio Vittorio Gui and the Melbourne Chamber Music Competition, the Gould Piano Trio has firmly asserted itself as one of the most outstanding piano trios of today and this year is marking its 25th anniversary.

Fiction Slam - read your story out loud!

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THERE ARE many slam events for poets, but fiction writers never get the same look it. To rectify this, the ninth Over The Edge annual fiction slam returns to The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum next week.

Have one for the road with Seann Walsh

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

SEANN WALSH, “unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation", according to The Guardian, and "this generation’s Dylan Moran" in the view of Time Out, plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh this week.

Tá scéal san mBéaloideas

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THE BLURB on the back of City of Streams - Galway Folklore and Folk life in the 1930s by Caitrîona Hastings, published by the History Press is clear and concise:

The Playboy Of The Western World – The Musical

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

A RAUCOUS and rollicking musical production of JM Synge's The Playboy Of The Western World, which raised the roof of the Town Hall Theatre when it ran there last November, returns this month for three performances.

The street cats of Istanbul

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

CAT LOVERS are in for a treat when Kedi, the 2016 Turkish film, about the street cats of Istanbul, is screened in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Niall Murphy goes Bus King

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

NIALL MURPHY, lead singer and guitarist with Oh Boland, one third of indie band Half Forward Line, and one of the finest contemporary songwriters in County Galway, plays the next Bus King gig.

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