New Year laughs with Brendan Grace

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

RIGHT NOW we are all enjoying the festive season and looking forward to Christmas Day. Inevitably though comes January and the post-Christmas slump.

Neil Delamere is coming to the Town Hall

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

NEIL DELAMERE will perform his new stand-up show Restructuring in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday January 19 at 8pm.

Poetry and short story writing competition

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

GALWEGIANS INTERESTED in entering the Doire Press 2012 International Poetry & Fiction Chapbook Competition have until Monday January 9 to do so.

The competition is accepting one short story of 4,000 words or four to six poems (10 pages maximum. Entries must include a cover page with full contact information, the title of the story or first poem. The entrant’s name must not appear on the manuscript.

New Year creative writing classes

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

IF ONE of your goals for the New Year is to put pen to paper and write that novel, memoir, or poems that have been in your head for ages, then you are in luck.

Galway Arts Centre poetry workshops

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

IN JANUARY, the Galway Arts Centre will host a choice of three poetry workshops, facilitated by the acclaimed poet Kevin Higgins.

Lunchtime poetry reading

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre presents a lunchtime reading by poets Fiona Clark Echlin and Mary Ellen Fean this afternoon at 1pm at the Galway City Museum.

Go bird spotting at Kai Café

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

FIRST FLIGHT, an exhibition of colourfully taxidermied exotic birds, set into vibrant, kitsch backdrops, is launched at Kai Cafe and restaurant, Sea Road today.

Proust Questionnaire Santa Claus

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Giving gifts.

Giving gifts.

Dignity brings the X Factor to Galway

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

X FACTOR’S Kitty Brucknell will perform at Dignity on Shop Street tomorrow night, for what will be one of her first shows in Ireland.

Stanley & Friends @ Carbon

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

THE STANLEY & Friends DJ night Christmas Special Residency Launch Party takes place in Carbon nightclub, Eglinton Street, tonight.

The night involves DJ Stanley and various different friends playing electronica, indie, rock, and occasionally some old skool metal. DJs for the night will be Stanley, Itchy Labels, Deep Heat, and T-Noise. Admission is free before 12.30am.

Citóg’s Bethlemayhem

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

CITÓG WILL host its annual Bethlemayhem event in The Cellar Bar tomorrow at 9pm.

Indie Disco for COPE

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

PANIC!, A night of classic indie anthems from bands like Joy Division, The Smiths, The Cure, Stone Roses, Pixies, Blur, Arctic Monkeys, etc, takes place next week.

Daft Funk @ Kelly’s

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

DAFT FUNK bring their live Daft Punk tribute show to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Thursday December 29 at 10pm.

Lemonheads to perform classic album in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

2011 HAS given us the opportunity to look back on some of the albums released in 1991 and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the best of that year.

Indeed those 12 months gave us a shedload of seminal albums - Loveless, Screamadelica, Trompe Le Monde, Out Of Time, Blue Lines, Bandwagonesque, (to name but a few) and above all Nevermind - so much so that ‘91 deserves to be ranked alongside 1967, 1969, 1977, and 1980 as being among the select stand-out, turning point years, for rock and popular music.

Last minute book ideas for Christmas

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

“A ROOM without books is like a body without a soul,” said the Roman writer Cicero, and a book is never a bad Christmas present, so here are a few suggestions for last minute gift buyers.

Christmas Eve gig @ The Crane

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

ENJOY A musical Christmas Eve at The Crane Bar when Tony and Jackie Small play the Sea Road venue at 6pm.

Expect a traditional atmosphere and a hearty mix of songs about Galway and Christmas carols from one of the county’s great folk-singing families. The gig is part of The Crane’s Singers and their Songs series of gigs.

GYO to perform Pirates of Penzance

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

GILBERT & Sullivan’s much loved comic opera, the Pirates of Penzance, will be performed in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway, on Saturday, January 7.

Hansel and Gretel come to Cloughanover

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

SOLSTICE ART Group, Cloughanover, Headford will present Hansel and Gretel as its Christmas pantomime.

There is nothing like a dame

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

THE RENMORE Panto is a staple fixture of Galway’s festive season and Peter Kennedy is a staple fixture of the Renmore Panto. This year’s offering is Aladdin and, as always, Kennedy has both written the script and plays the role of Panto Dame.