The world is on screen

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

FAMILY DRAMAS, WWII, gender identity, comic adventures, and examinations of Australian and Russian society will be played out on-screen as part of the Galway Film Society’s winter/spring season of films at the Town Hall Theatre.

Beowulf: The Blockbuster

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

AN EARLY highlight of the Town Hall’s spring season comes around next week with Bryan Burroughs’ hugely acclaimed solo show Beowulf: The Blockbuster.

Album review: Belle and Sebastian

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE TWIN peaks of Belle and Sebastian’s artistic achievements, 1996’s If You’re Feeling Sinister and 2003’s Dear Catastrophe Waitress, have set a high standard for a band that, over its long career, has regularly delivered quality work.

The Fear’s Ross Browne @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

ROSS BROWNE, one of the stars of RTE’s hit hidden camera show The Fear, is taking his Professional Idiot show on his first national stand up tour and Galway is one of his stops.

Over The Edge reading returns for 2015 season

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE FIRST Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2015 takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday January 22 from 6.30pm to 8pm, with writers Liz Quirke, Michelle Coyne, and Paula Cunningham.

Coming to Monroe’s Live in February

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

FROM KRAUTROCK to country, mainstream rock to full on techno, a range of bands and singers working in diverse styles are set to play Monroe’s Live next month.

Galway Arts Centre to host films by Gareth Kennedy

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE MOST comprehensive presentation to date of the work of Gareth Kennedy, the award winning Irish artist, who co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, opens this week in Galway.

Show Me The Funny - round two

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE SECOND round of this year’s Show Me The Funny, takes place on Monday at The King’s Head Bar, with special guest, the great Karl Spain.

Irish Youth Choir seeks Galway members

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE IRISH youth choir is seeking singers aged between 18 and 28 and auditions for new members will take place in Galway this Saturday.

Treasure Island on stage and live on screen

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic story of murder, money, and mutiny is currently running in the National Theatre, London, in a new staging by Bryony Lavery.

Mná Mná @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

SINGER-SONGWRITERS Niceol Blue and Ruth Dillon play the Mná Mná showcase in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh tonight at 8.30pm.

New exhibition from Arja Sweeney

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

SPIRIT OF Nature II - Beauty of Life, the second solo exhibition by Galway based artist Arja Sweeney, opens in the Renzo’s Cafe, Eyre Street, next week.

Kastis Torrau to DJ @ Kelly’s

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

KASTIS TORRAU, the Lithuanian DJ, producer, and remixer brings his electrifying mix of tuneful house and tech rhythms to Kelly’s this Saturday at 10pm.

See The Merry Widow @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE MERRY Widow, the much loved Franz Lehár opera, first staged in 1905, is enjoying a new production by The Metropolitan Opera in New York, which Galway audiences can see.

New exhibition by Paul Malone

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

GALWAY ARTIST Paul Malone will exhibit his latest abstract works in the Secret Garden Café, William Street, this Saturday at 3pm.

The Three Tenors to play Town Hall

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE THREE Tenors return to Galway in the New Year to play the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday January 24 at 8pm.

Core Theatre College spring courses

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

CORE THEATRE College has announced a new acting course which will run from March 3 to May 10, and enrolment is taking place now.

Revenge, romance, and renaissance drama

Wed, Jan 14, 2015

DOOMED ROMANCE, violence, revenge, and misogyny erupt into force in The Duchess Of Malfi, one of the greatest tragedies of English renaissance drama, yet one that is rarely performed in Ireland.

€1 million target to make Thoor Ballylee a major cultural centre

Wed, Jan 14, 2015

FEBRUARY WILL see the launch of a major project to restore Thoor Ballylee and create a world class culture/education centre in time for the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats in June.

Fán Nóiméad - a place to sit and think

Tue, Jan 13, 2015

TOMORROW SEES the official opening of Fán Nóiméad, a public pavilion designed as a place to sit, relax, think, and let the world go by, which was created by the award winning Irish artist Gareth Kennedy, Headford Men’s Shed, and traditional boat builder Patrick Connolly.

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