New monthly jazz club @ Monroe's

Thu, Feb 18, 2016

A NEW monthly jazz night, Killer Joe’s Jazz Club, presented by The Galway Jazz Quartet, will open in The Side Bar, Monroe's Live, on Sunday February 28.

DJ Franck Roger @ The Loft

Thu, Feb 18, 2016

FRENCH HOUSE producer and DJ Franck Roger will spin the decks in The Loft Venue, at Seven, on Saturday February 27, at 10pm.

A concert with the Something to Sing About choir

Thu, Feb 18, 2016

THE SOMETHING to Sing About Choir Galway will host an evening of music and song in the g Hotel this Saturday at 8pm, where they will be accompanied by Alison Slattery.

Welsh guitar wizard Gareth Pearson for Galway

Wed, Feb 17, 2016

GARETH PEARSON, the phenomenal fingerstyle guitarist, who has won praise and admiration from fellow guitarists, including Jan Akkerman, who called him "a genius", plays Galway this weekend.

Cinema review: Deadpool

Films Reviews Mon, Feb 15, 2016

IN DEVELOPMENTAL hell for more than 10 years, the Deadpool movie is finally released. A cult favourite comic book anti-hero, this has been destined for the big screen since his inception, but with the success of Marvel's movies, aimed more at kids and young adults, it has been asked if there is a place for a comic book film targeted at the over 16s market alone?

Eoin Dolan to launch new EP at Arus na nGael

Mon, Feb 15, 2016

EOIN DOLAN, one of Galway city's finest young singer-songwriters, will launch his new EP, Something Good, with a gig at Club Árus na nGael, Dominick Street, this Wednesday [February 17] at 9pm.

Steven Sharpe to host the Valentine's Dirty Circus

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

LOVE EVERYBODY...Harder!! is the double entendre laden subtitle for the upcoming show from The Dirty Circus in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday from 9pm, where naughtiness and glamour will reign supreme.

'I am the creator of dub and creator of love'

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

IT IS 10:30pm and Hurricane Bridgett, or what ever they are calling it this week, is beating sheets of rain against the window, almost in time to the dread beat emanating from the speakers while Lee 'Scratch' Perry’s Super Ape LP spins on the record deck.

‘A bold, imaginative, staging’

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

ONE OF the very best shows at last year’s Galway International Arts Festival was Andrew Flynn’s brilliant large-cast staging of Pat McCabe’s The Dead School. The production was presented by the combined talents of Galway Youth Theatre and Galway Community Theatre, and Flynn has now re-assembled the same cast for a revival by Decadent Theatre Company at the Town Hall Theatre.

Eric Lalor @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

YOU MIGHT know Eric Lalor as Fair City bad guy Cathal Spillane, but the Dubliner is also a very fine comedian who headlines the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow at 8.30pm.

Alright The Captain to headline FEAST

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE FEAST nights of metal, punk, and math-rock in the Róisín Dubh celebrat's its second anniversary with a show by the forward-thinking British post-rock trio Alright The Captain.

Celebrate a century of film in An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

GALWAY UNESCO City of Film will celebrates 100 years of cinema and the centenary of the 1916 Rising, with screenings of Irish film and TV landmark s, across eight Saturdays in 2016.

Gerry Conneely in The Great Push

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

ON THE morning of September 25 1915, 75,000 British soldiers emerged from their trenches on the Western Front to begin what was then the biggest battle in British history, the Battle of Loos. It would also be the British army’s bloodiest day of the war so far.

Public lecture on Galway city and the 1916 Rising

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

OUTSIDE OF Dublin, Galway saw the most significant action of the 1916 Rising, but this took place in the county. Galway city by contrast was hostile to the rebellion and firmly supported the British.

Uncover the real Renoir

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

RENOIR IS one of the best loved artists of all time, for his wonderful depictions of beautiful women and 19th century French life, but he is also one of arts most influential figures.

Rackhouse Pilfer return to Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

RACKHOUSE PILFER, acclaimed for their stomping alt.country, bluegrass, and Amerciana, as evidenced by their winning the Hotpress/Jaegermesier Live Band of the Year 2015 award, return to Galway.

Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

FOR THE first time in a quarter of a century, Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, about a servant girl impregnated by a royal, receives a full production in Galway.

A concert of Mozart wind serenades

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

MUSIC BY Mozart, as well as the Irish premiere of Jonathan Dove's 'Figures in the Garden', will be performed in Galway by eight leading national and international wind players

Bizarre love triangle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE FRENCH are masters when it comes to the bizarre love triangle, they are of course the inventors of the concept of the menage à trois, and a complicated love trio is at the heart of All About Them.

The Addams Family @ The Black Box

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE ADDAMS Family, the comedy musical about everyone's favourite dysfunctional ghoulish relatives, is currently running at The Black Box Theatre in a production by the Galway University Musical Society.

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