Lorraine Fletcher to exhibit at Renzo Café

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

A NEW exhibition, featuring “vintage style females, vibrant colours, and hats”, by Galway artist Lorraine Fletcher, opens at the Renzo Café Gallery, Eyre Street, this Saturday.

An all day and night theatre experience

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

A NEW theatre show, which takes place over the course of 24 hours, runs at the Nuns Island Theatre as part of the Galway Theatre Festival 2015.

Staging George Orwell at the Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

GEORGE ORWELL’S first full-length book was Down and Out in Paris and London, his classic account of living on the breadline in France and England in the 1920s. More than 80 years after its publication in 1933, the book’s vivid portrayal of people struggling to survive from one day to the next has lost none of its power. Indeed, with homelessness again a headline-making issue, the book has gained fresh topicality.

Walpurgis Night IV - unleash the metal

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

WALPURGIS NIGHT was a May Day’s eve festival when witches met and held revels with their gods to stir up trouble before the spring came. Sounds like a good night to hold a metal gig.

Booker listed Joseph O’Neill returns to Cúirt

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

IRISH AUTHOR Joseph O’Neill, who has previously been long listed for the Booker, will take part in a public interview for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Opera double bill @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and Pagliacci, two classics of opera, are being performed at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and will be broadcast to The Eye Cinema, this Saturday at 5.30pm.

Art exhibition at Oughterard Courthouse

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

M’ÁIT DHÚCHAIS - My Native Place, an art exhibition on the theme of emigration and the Connemara landscape, opens in Oughterard this evening at 8pm.

Tongue Fu - poetry, but not as you know it

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

TONGUE FU, a riotous experiment in live literature, music, film, and improv, and one of London’s best attended spoken word nights, is coming to Galway.

The Young Folk to play The Loft

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

THE YOUNG Folk, “one of the most promising young bands to come out of Ireland in several decades,” according to Maverick magazine, play The Loft (formerly Kelly’s) this Saturday.

Celebrate the legacy of Lady Gregory

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

THE LEGACY of Lady Augusta Gregory will be celebrated in the Lough Cutra Castle and estate, outside Gort in south Galway, next month.

Blooms (Louise Cunnane) to play Factory

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

BLOOMS, THE London based project of Irish singer-musician Louise Cunnane, will play Factory, Abbeygate Street, tomorrow at 9pm as part of her first Irish tour.

Stephen Young & The Union @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

“STEPHEN YOUNG & The Union are the cream of the crop in Ireland when it comes to Americana/Folk-rock.” So said Radio Nova about the band that plays Galway next week.

Public lecture on Liam O’Flaherty by his publisher

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

LIAM O’FLAHERTY, had the dubious honour of being the first novelist to endure the wrath of the Free State censors, when his The House Of Gold was banned.

Launch of ROPES Literary Journal today

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

Ropes 2015, a literary journal published by the MA in Literature and Publishing at NUI Galway, will be launched during this year’s Cúirt Festival.

Voice of Ireland’s Brendan McCahey @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

BRENDAN MCCAHEY, the 2014 Voice of Ireland winner takes to the stage of Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 8pm, as part of his current Irish tour.

Galway Youth Orchestra concert

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

GALWAY YOUTH Orchestra will give the last concert of its current season in Seapoint Leisure Centre, Salthill, this Sunday [April 26] at 3pm, with some 170 musicians taking part.

Community - a musical experiment @ The Loft

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

COMMUNITY IS the improv alter-ego of Galway band My Fellow Sponges, whose drive is to see the audience create music along with the band.

Bell X1 announce Galway date for upcoming tour

Wed, Apr 22, 2015

BELL X1 have announced they will play Galway’s Town Hall Theatre as part of their 17 date October Acoustic Tour 2015, tickets for which go on sale this week.

Kodaline add second Big Top concert date

Wed, Apr 22, 2015

KODALINE HAVE added a second show at the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top, and will now play on Friday July 17 alongside the already sold-out Saturday 18 show.

Delorentos play Seapoint on Saturday

Tue, Apr 21, 2015

DELORENTOS CONTINUE their ascent as one of Ireland’s finest, and most popular, bands with a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ show at Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, this Saturday at 8pm.

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