Hardwicke Circus - power-packed r'n'b @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

HARDWICKE CIRCUS are a seven piece band, aged between 17 and 20, from Carlisle, in Cumbria, in the north of England, and despite their tender years, they have already played the Glastonbury, Leeds, and Reading festivals.

New Year creative writing classes

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

ADVANCED FICTION writing classes with the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars have been announed for the New Year, but bookings are already being taken.

Evie Gaughan exhibition

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

GALWAY ARTIST Evie Gaughan's new exhibition, Flower Child, a collection of vibrant and whimsical works, is currently running at the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Galway musicians feature on new charity album

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

GALWAY MUSICIANS A Lilac Decline and Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon, who are both on the independent Galway record label Rusted Rail, feature on a new album which will raise funds for Médecins Sans Frontières.

Rehearsals in full swing for Renmore Panto

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

REHEARSALS ARE in full swing for Renmore's 38th annual pantomime, Little Red Riding Hood, which will run at the Town Hall Theatre from December 30 to January 15 for a total of 21 performances.

DJ Kate Simko to bring Chicago house to Galway

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

KATE SIMKO, the Chicago DJ and electronic and house producer, will bring the underground sounds of Chicago to its sister city of Galway when the Heineken Sound Atlas Chicago event hits Electric.

The art of 1916

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

THE ULSTER Protestant who rejected unionism in favour of Irish nationalism, and how Irish artists have interpreted the Easter Rising and WWI, will be the subject of public talks at the Galway City Museum.

A concert of Brahms, Bartók, and Bates

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

BRAHMS' ROMANTIC, tuneful, and sweetly melancholic clarinet quintet will be heard in NUI Galway's Aula Maxima when ConTempo join forces with French clarinetist Romain Guyot for the next Music For Galway Concert.

Get the Shivers with GE-OLOGY

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

GE-OLOGY, THE producer, DJ, and gifted visual artist, who has worked with Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, De La Soul, and a young Tupac Shakur, is coming to the Electric Garden and Theatre for the next Shivers night.

Jinx Lennon- new albums and Galway shows

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

JINX LENNON, the Dundalk agit-folk, punk-poet, has just released two new albums - Past Pupil Stay Sane and Magic Bullets Of Madness To Uplift Grief Magnets - and plays two shows in County Galway this week.

Country and Irish legends to play Salthill

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

BIG TOM and Margo O’Donnell, two of the major names in Irish country music, top the bill at the annual Michael Commins Concert Shows in the Salthill Hotel, on Sunday November 13 and Monday 14.

Theatre review: The Playboy of the Western World - the musical

Wed, Nov 09, 2016

THE PLAYBOY of the Western World has had countless outings and re-imaginings since its 1905 premiere, but few as rollicking and royally entertaining as Justin McCarthy and Diarmuid De Faoite’s musical version running in the Town Hall Theatre until Saturday.

Tommy Tiernan - Out Of The Whirlwind

Tue, Nov 08, 2016

OUT OF The Whirlwind, the new DVD from Tommy Tiernan, capturing the Irish comic's Edinburgh Comedy Festival 2016 show, will be released on DVD on Friday November 18.

Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! voice actor in Galway in January

Mon, Nov 07, 2016

ERIC STUART, a leading voice actor in some of the most popular and enduring modern cartoon series, as well as a musician who has toured with Ringo Starr and Lynyrd Skynyrd, is coming to Akumakon 2017.

'The Bonnie and Clyde of mythological Ireland'

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

GALWAY'S FÍBÍN Theatre Company will premiere Tóraíocht, its new version of the epic tale, The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne - written by Philip Doherty and directed by renowned actor and director Mikel Murfi - next week at the Black Box Theatre.

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

MARTIN HAYES and Dennis Cahill just may be one of, if not the greatest, partnership in Irish trad. The duo, going strong since they met in Chicago in the 1980s, make a welcome return to Galway, to play the Róisín Dubh this month.

Two films this Sunday from Galway Film Society

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR'S latest film, the critically acclaimed Julieta, and the award winning French film, The Measure Of A Man, will both be screened in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday.

'I write in books as much as in individual poems'

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

GALWAY POET Mary O'Malley recently published her latest volume of poems, Playing the Octopus, her fourth collection with Carcanet Press and her eighth in all since her 1990 debut, A Consideration of Silk.

Album review: Oh Boland

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 03, 2016

ASK NIALL Murphy, or rather, get into an engrossing discussion with him on music, and eventually he will come straight out and say it: "I'm a punk". Give him another few minutes and he'll cough up: "But I really like Yes...but no I'm a punk!"

Sail to Byzantium in Bastard Amber

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

INSPIRED BY the poet WB Yeats and the artist Patrick Scott, Bastard Amber, a dance production by the acclaimed Liz Roche Company, makes its Galway debut at the Town Hall Theatre next week.

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