Liam Neeson’s vigilante crusade

Thu, Oct 02, 2008

After reading numerous half-hearted reviews, there was an expectation of disappointment walking into the theatre to see Liam Neeson’s newest flick Taken. Surprisingly, however, the let down never came and after 90 minutes of energy-packed excitement I found myself ready for more.

An interestingly original concept, Neeson plays Bryan, a former CIA spy who must rely on his old skills and contacts when his 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace)is kidnapped by sex traffickers while on vacation with a friend in Paris, France.

A Film With Me In It is coming to Galway

Thu, Oct 02, 2008

NEW IRISH movie, A Film With Me In It, starring Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, David Doherty, Keith Allen and Amy Huberman, will open in the Omniplex and The Eye on Friday October 17.

Celebrating Lady Gregory - the Autumn Gathering at Coole

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

TOMORROW, SATURDAY, and Sunday, the fabled Coole Park plays host to the 14th annual Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering which, as ever, features a top-notch array of speakers and performers coming together to celebrate Lady Gregory and her world.

Conway Savage talks Bad Seeds, pianos, and cricket

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

WHEN NICK Cave asked Conway Savage to join The Bad Seeds, he said he would have to “think about it”. However the two men had already played together, performing a couple of impromptu Elvis numbers at a friend’s wedding.

Geoff Muldaur - the voice of white blues

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

“THERE ARE only three white blues singers, and Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.” This praise for the American singer and guitarist came from no less a songwriter than Richard Thompson.

Stephen Brennan on Waiting for Godot

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

GALWAY THEATRE goers are in for a very special treat next weekend when Dublin’s Gate Theatre brings its world-renowned production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot to the Black Box, for one night only, this Saturday.

The Galway date is part of the Gate’s first ever all-Ireland tour, mounted to mark the theatre’s 80th anniversary, which sees Godot visit 40 venues across the country throughout September and October.

Jane Eyre at Town Hall

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

DUBLIN’S CITY Theatre Company are in the Town Hall next week with a dynamic new staging of Charlotte Brontë’s timeless classic, Jane Eyre.

Genet’s The Maids at Town Hall

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

Fregoli Theatre Company presents Jean Genet’s The Maids in the Town Hall Studio from this Monday to Saturday October 4 at 8.30pm. This adaptation incorporates elements of colour and movement to convey the social and sexual ties that bind these women in an internal role play. For tickets contact the Town Hall on 091 - 569777.

Johnny Finn composes soundtrack for TG4 series

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

A NEW six-part nature series, Ciomhtioch Gan Cuireadh, or 'Alien Invaders' starts on TG4 tomorrow at 8.30pm and features music by Galway’s Johnny Finn.

Anglo-Irish bluegrass from The Southern Tenant Folk Union

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

THEY DON’T come from the Southern states of the USA, but when it comes to playing top quality bluegrass and American folk, London’s The Southern Tenant Folk Union are the real deal.

Bell X1 to play Campbell’s

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

BELL X1 have just announced that they will play an intimate acoustic tour of Ireland in October and November and Co Galway is on their list of places to play.

Galway singer releases debut album

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

Linda Welby is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and a mother of eight children, who has just released her debut album A Story To Tell on LAW records.

Politically charged punk @ Cuba*

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

Politically charged melodic hardcore punk band Strike Anywhere play Cuba*, Eyre Square, on Monday at 7.30pm.

Flamenco classes start soon

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

FLAMENCO DANCER Fatima Lucia will begin a new term of flamenco dance classes on Tuesday in Árus na nGael, 45 Dominick Street, from 7pm to 10pm.

Flamenco is an old tradition from the south of Spain which fused forms of Islamic, Jewish, Gipsy, and Iberian forms of dance and music - during a time when diverse groups lived in a state of toleration and co-operation in Muslim Spain.

Vestis virum reddit @ CPs

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

“VESTIS VIRUM reddit” - clothes make the man - as Roman rhetorician Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, once famously said, and CPs will put his maxim into practice tonight.

Galway will be asked to do its best Julius Caesar impersonations by donning that most Roman of garments - the toga - for CPs’ A Roman Affair! toga party.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Total contentment.

The Lunatick, The Lover and the Poet - Music For Galway’s Shakespearean lute-songs

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

A QUOTE from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream - “The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact” - inspires the programming of the Music for Galway concert in NUIG’s Aula Maxima next Tuesday at 8pm.

Creative writing course at NUIG

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

WRITER AND critic Fred Johnston begins a new creative writing course at NUI, Galway starting Thursday October 9.

Book launches at Galway City Museum

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

THE CRITIC Gerald Dawe and the poet Michael Heffernan will launch their new books at the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 2pm.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

In an era of romantic chick flicks and frat boy comedies it is not often that you find a film that can be described as heartbreakingly beautiful. Until now. Based on the hugely successful young-adult novel by Dubliner John Boyne, which has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, centres around eight-year-old Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant who is uprooted from his posh home in Berlin to the bleak countryside on the grounds of Auschwitz. Bored and anxious, the young boy who loves to explore, eventually finds a way to sneak out into the back gardens where he strikes up a forbidden friendship with Schmuel, a young Jewish boy of the same age, who is imprisoned on the other side of an electrical barbed wire fence.

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