An intimate view of the everyday

Thu, Nov 08, 2012

THE AWARD winning photographer and artist Patrick Hogan will be exhibiting as part of this year’s TULCA Festival of Visual Art, which opens tomorrow.

Body duet @ Town Hall

Thu, Nov 08, 2012

BODY DUET, from the John Scott Dance company, which has received rave reviews in New York and Germany, is coming to Galway.

Body Duet celebrates that ecstatic feeling of being together, of losing fear and inhibition, and trusting being together. It features the dancers Michelle Boulé, a winner of New York’s Bessie Award and Irishman Philip Connaughton.

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Nov 08, 2012

THIS MONTH’s North Beach Poetry Nights will have a fiction slant as the night will see the launch of a new short story anthology.

Over The Edge reading

Thu, Nov 08, 2012

FIONA SCOBLE, Mary Noonan, and Dave Donovan will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 15 at 6.30pm.

Tommy Tiernan’s World Tour of Galway

Thu, Nov 08, 2012

THE GREAT Tommy Tiernan has announced dates for his World Tour Of Galway, a series of shows around the county, which take place next month.

Berlin Philharmonic @ The Eye

Thu, Nov 08, 2012

THE BERLIN Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a programme of Russian music to be broadcast live via satellite to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

The orchestra will perform Rachmaninov’s romantic cantata ‘The Bells’, Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’ and ‘The King Of The Stars’.

Be the first to see Niko 2 - Little Brother Big Trouble

Thu, Nov 08, 2012

NIKO 2 - Little Brother Big Trouble, the family adventure film co-produced by Tidal Films in Galway, will receive a special preview screening this weekend.

Digital Chaos @ The Cellar

Thu, Nov 08, 2012

DIGITAL CHAOS DJs will be taking to the decks of the Cellar Underground this Saturday for a night of sinister techno and rocking electro.

‘I’m just getting started’ - Jimeoin comes to Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

THE GALWAY Comedy Festival may be done and dusted for another year but comedy fans are in for another special treat next week as the inimitable Jimeoin comes to the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday November 6 as part of his current tour, Jimeoin - What?!

The loneliness of the long distance writer

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

MY MOTHER sometimes articulated a memory of a Friday evening sometime in the early 1950s when a young girl and boy entered the shop and spent the afternoon there.

Wildflowers - the sound of Galway Americana

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

WILDFLOWERS, the folk/roots/Americana band of Noriana Kennedy, Noelie McDonnell, and Nicola Joyce, play this month’s Spirit of Voice festival.

KATS take on Agatha Christie

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

KATS, THE Knocknacarra Amateur Theatre Society take to the stage of the Town Hall studio next week in a staging of Agatha Christie’s compelling thriller, The Unexpected Guest.

Theatre for children at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

THE BABORÓ festival has concluded but that does not mean that theatre shows and experiences for children should come to a close for another year.

Country and Trad stars for Salthill Hotel

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

DOLORES KEANE, Philomena Begley, and Michael English are among the singers coming to Galway to perform at the annual Michael Commins Music Shows.

Eoin Glackin @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

EOIN GLACKIN, the Dublin singer-songwriter, will play Monroe’s tomorrow at 10pm as part of a tour to promote his new single ‘New World Blue’.

The Riptide Movement - new single and Galway show

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

THIN LIZZY founder Eric Bell has described The Riptide Movement as “an awesome band, Hendrix himself would be shaking in his boots!”

The band are undertaking a short tour around Ireland, including Galway, to promote their new single ‘Without You’, which is out tomorrow, and taken from their acclaimed second album Keep On Keepin’ On.

A rock’n’roll night @ The Westwood Hotel

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

GALWAY MUSICIANS are putting on a night of rock and roll in the Westwood Hotel, Dangan, in honour of those gone to ‘the great gig in the sky’.

The public are invited to join the musicians in remembering those who have passed away - especially their families and friends, and anyone involved in the Galway music scene.