The Hive’s birthday celebration

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

THE HIVE clubnight celebrates one year of throwing parties in the Róisín Dubh when DJs Cian Ó Cíobháin and Cyril Briscoe hit the decks tomorrow from 11.30pm.

The girl who sings sean nós

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

AISLING GHEAL are a group of women keeping sean-nós alive by attracting young people to this traditional form of Irish singing - including Shahira Apraku.

New film by maker of The Pipe

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

RICHIE O’DONNELL, who made the acclaimed documentary The Pipe, will screen his new film in Galway next Tuesday.

Atlantic will be screened in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, by The Little Cinema Club at 9pm. The night will include the launch of the website for the film.

Dum Dum Girls to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

THE BRILLIANT Los Angeles pop-punk/indie-rock band Dum Dum Girls play the Róisín Dubh on Friday May 9 as part of their European tour.

Foals man to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

EDWIN CONGREAVE, the keyboardist with leading English indie-rock band Foals will be in Galway this weekend, DJing at the Electric Garden and Theatre.

Senakah - new single and Kelly’s show

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

IT’S ALL go for Irish indie band Senakah, with a new single and an Irish tour which takes in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street this Saturday.

The story of a fighting man

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

JOHNNY KILBANE, the Irish-American boxer who remains the longest reigning World Featherweight Champion of all time, is the subject of a film to be shown on TG4.

Six of the best on stage

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

LIVERPOOL-GALWAY punk band Vamos will storm the stage of Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street tomorrow, headlining a bill featuring six bands.

Sal Vitro @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

THE GRITTY stomp-rock of Sal Vitro will be on display in Monroe’s Live tonight from 10pm.

Second collection of Tom Duddy’s poems

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

THE YEARS, a collection of poetry by the late philosopher and academic Tom Duddy, is to be launched in Galway city this month.

Mr Duddy was a lecturer at NUI Galway, working in the Department of Philosophy from 1979 until he became ill in 2011. He was also a keen poet. His debut collection, The Hiding Place was published by Arlen House in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry. Mr Duddy died in June 2012, while compiling his second book of poems.

Choral concerts for Simon

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

GALWAY SIMON Community has been selected as the chosen charity for two concerts to take place during St Patrick’s Weekend.

The concerts will take place in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church. The first takes place on Saturday at 8pm with the Laramie and Kelly Walsh Choirs from Wyoming. The choirs are made up of 90 singers from the western US and perform popular classics, spirituals, pop, and Irish and American folk songs. The choirs will also be accompanied by a bluegrass band.

Cúirt 2014 - from Booker winners to new voices

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

IT SAYS something about the ambition of Cúirt 2014 that an eminent author like Sebastian Barry; Irish fiction’s rising star Dónal Ryan; and the Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton, are among the major - but far from only major - names coming to this year’s festival.

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry - the mad genius of Jamaican music

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

ASKING “WHO is Lee Perry?” is like asking “What is literature?” or “What is colour?” The question is too big. He is the Muhammad Ali of Jamaican music. A pint sized genius with purple hair.

A concert of Jewish themed music

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

SHOSTAKOVICH’S VISIT to Ireland in 1972 and ‘Jewish themed’ works by him andf Aaron Copeland will be the centerpieces of a Music For Galway event.

On the road with A Skull In Connemara

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

“I’M STANDING here and my car has just been clamped!” Garret Keogh informs me when I ring him on Monday afternoon to chat about Decadent Theatre Company’s production of Martin McDonagh’s A Skull In Connemara which comes to the Town Hall Theatre this month.

Memento Morte in Town Hall

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

JACK THE Ripper’s reign of terror forms the backdrop to a new tragi-comedy, Memento Morte, which runs in the Town Hall studio next week.

Perm Ballet masterclasses in Galway

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

RUSSIA’S PRESTIGIOUS Perm State Ballet is sending one of its leading teachers, Olga Salimbaeva, togive a masterclass in Galway.

Claregalway Drama Festival

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

THE 32ND Claregalway Festival of Drama opens on Thursday March 13 and runs until Friday 21, and will include works of Irish and international theatre.

The opening play will be Compántas Lir’s production of Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan, while the closing event will be Arthur Miller’s A Room With A View by the Thurles Drama Group.

Comedy with Maxwell and Bishop

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

ANDREW MAXWELL and Des Bishop, two of Ireland’s greatest comics, bring their new stand-up shows to the Róisín Dubh this month.

Award winning Mexican film for Town Hall

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

NEWLY ARRIVED in Mexico City, Roberto opens a restaurant, while daughter Alejandra quickly makes friends with the popular kids in school. It seems a great start to a new life.

However, when a drunken sexual experience gets recorded and circulated, Alejandra becomes the object of vicious bullying, and she keeps it a secret from her father, who still grieves after his late wife.

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