Luke Kennard to read at Over The Edge

Thu, May 21, 2015

BRITISH POET Luke Kennard will launch the latest edition of the Skylight 47 poetry newspaper, and read from his own work, at the Over The Edge reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday May 28 at 6.30pm.

The Dirty Circus Everybody Love Everybody Party

Thu, May 21, 2015

SEXINESS, SAUCE, song, and a whole lotta love will be on stage and in the room when The Dirty Circus burlesque and cabaret show returns to the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm for its Everybody Love Everybody Party.

The Dub Doctor album launch @ The Loft

Thu, May 21, 2015

GALWAY BASS and dub DJ, producer, and mixer The Dub Doctor will launch his new album URBANOMIX, with a show in The Loft @ Seven, Bridge Street this Saturday at 10pm.

Beagán Grá - a concert for Palestine

Thu, May 21, 2015

GALWAY SKA band Big Jelly and Tuam's brilliant pop-punk trio Oh Boland! will play a concert this weekend to raise funds for the charity Music Harvest which works with children in the Palestinian West Bank.

Just who were The Impressionists?

Thu, May 21, 2015

THE IMPRESSIONISTS, the French movement that heralded the beginnings of modern art in the late 19th century, are among the world's best loved painters, whose works sell for millions of dollars.

Rainbow Rain author to read in Galway schools

Thu, May 21, 2015

LAURA BRETT, the Galway born author of the new children's book Rainbow Rain, will be in Galway on Wednesday May 27, visiting a number of schools.

Torche to play FEAST

Thu, May 21, 2015

FLORIDA SLUDGE-pop titans Torche, will bring their heavy riffs and sweet melodies to FEAST at the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh this Sunday [May 24] from 9pm.

Fundraising night for Nepal and Africa

Thu, May 21, 2015

A FUNDRAISING night featuring comedy, impressions, a DJ, and a raffle, in aid of Nurture Africa and the Trocaire Nepal Appeal, takes place in The Cellar Bar on Friday May 29 at 8.30pm.

Sugarbeat festival to take place over two days

Thu, May 21, 2015

THE SECOND SugarBeat Music Festival has been expanded into a two-day event in response to the success of last year's festival, and will take place in Tuam Stadium on Saturday August 22 and Sunday 23.

Fiction writing classes

Thu, May 21, 2015

POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will teach classes in advanced fiction writing, starting June 17 and running for six weeks every Wednesday from 7pm to 9.30pm.

Mundy to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 21, 2015

HE HAS a new album, a new single, a new Irish tour, and he will be in Galway tomorrow. He is singer-songwriter Mundy who plays the Róisín Dubh at 9pm.

Relive the Grunge era @ Monroe's Live

Thu, May 21, 2015

GRUNGE BEGAN in Washington State in the 1980s, with bands like Green River - containing future members of Pearl Jam and Mudhoney - before going overground with Nirvana's Nevermind, and coming to an untimely end with Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994.

Birdsong - a concert of songs about birds

Thu, May 21, 2015

THE BIRDSONG Project, a concert of trad songs about our feathered friends takes place in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this Saturday at 8pm, and is the Bealtaine Festival's flagship performance.

Natty Wailer to bring the reggae to Monroe's Live

Thu, May 21, 2015

NATTY WAILER, the Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter who worked with Bob Marley, returns to Monroe's Live on Thursday May 28 at 10pm.

Basement Project @ The Cellar

Thu, May 21, 2015

FRESH FROM his headline set at Phase One, former Disco Nouveau crew member Murch will headline the next Basement Project in The Cellar this Saturday from 9pm.

Theatre review: DruidShakespeare

Theatre Reviews Wed, May 20, 2015

IN RECENT years Druid Theatre Company has shown itself the master of largescale theatrical projects with both DruidSynge and DruidMurphy. Yet in both cases it was dealing with playwrights in whose work it already had a deep grounding, writers and plays that could be said to be part of the company’s DNA.

Alt.Folk, Americana, and Mná Mná

Wed, May 20, 2015

LEFT-FIELD folk, Bluegrass, and Americana, will all be heard in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh when Laura Mulcahy, Wilde Ida, and Rivers & Crows play the next Mná Mná Music night this Thursday [May 21] at 8.30pm.

Captain A & The Commercial Monsters to launch debut album

Tue, May 19, 2015

CAPTAIN A & The Commercial Monsters, the Galway band whose sound mixes the diverse influences of prog, Bill Withers, and Big Tom, will launch their debut album Dreams at the Citóg night in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow [May 20] at 9pm.

Helen Mirren, and culinary worlds colliding

Mon, May 18, 2015

HELEN MIRREN stars as the rather less than friendly owner of a posh restaurant who does not like the idea of an Indian restaurant opening opposite hers in The Hundred-Foot Journey which is being screened in the Town Hall Theatre this evening at 8pm.

Cinema review - Mad Max

Films Reviews Mon, May 18, 2015

THE TRAILER for Mad Max: Fury Road is the best 2 minutes 30 seconds YouTube has to offer, indeed it is the best trailer I’ve ever seen. In the past I’ve been burned by great trailers. A good trailer can build up what you think will be a great movie and deliver only a good or sometimes a terrible one - I’m looking at you Godzilla and crappy Miami Vice reboot. So does Mad Max live up to the best trailer ever? Oh yes.

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