The Irish Pink Floyd return to the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
AFTER THE Beatles, there are few English bands that have cast as large or as long a shadow, or wielded greater influence on all areas of rock music than Pink Floyd.
Read more ...Spanish-Irish fusion in Árus na nGeal
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
The connections between Galway and Spain were at their strongest in the 1500s when Galway was a major commercial port and Spanish vessels came here to trade.
Read more ...Calling all unsigned Galway bands
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
UNSIGNED GALWAY bands are sought to take enter The JD Set - Jack Daniel’s competition for unsigned bands in Ireland - and there is only another three weeks left to enter.
Read more ...Youth Ballet West to perform Nutcracker Suite
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
EXERTS FROM the much loved ballet, the Nutcracker Suite, will be performed by Youth Ballet West as part of its new production in the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Galway Baroque Singers’ annual Christmas concert
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
THE GALWAY Baroque Singers’ annual Christmas concert takes place in the Galway Cathedral on Saturday December 13 at 8pm.
Read more ...Messiah to be performed in Galway
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
HANDEL’S CELEBRATED Messiah will be performed by the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Resurgam in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Friday December 12 at 7.30pm.
Read more ...Have A Change Of Heart for the Abbey Church
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
A CHANGE Of Heart, a new play by Maria Keogh, will be staged in the Town Hall next week to raise funds for the Abbey Church roof restoration fund.
Read more ...Ardvarna to launch new album
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
OUGHTERARD’S FAVOURITE traditional music group, Ardvarna, launch their new CD The Lakeshore Town on Sunday in the Crane Bar.
Read more ...Winter drumming workshop
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
A DRUMMING and singing workshop will take place in Brigit’s Garden, Roscahill, this Sunday from 10.30am to 6.30pm.
The workshop will be fun and suitable for adults of all musical ability. Beginners are welcome. Food is provided and there are also some special concession places available.
Read more ...How Hugo Chávez survived the coup
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
IN APRIL 2002 there was an attempt to overthrow the president of Venezuela Hugo Chávez, but 48 hours later he was back in power.
Read more ...Emotionally charged Eastwood flick has Oscar written all over it
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
The powerful true story of the courageous woman who was the first to stand up to the corrupt Los Angeles Police Department in the 1920s, Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, is an intensely emotional experience that is hard to watch and hard to stop watching all in the same breath.
Read more ...A flurry of clichés
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
IN TRUE seasonal style, Four Christmasses combines a romantic comedy with an attempt at a heart-warming holiday story. Reese Witherspoon reprises her trademark blonde perkiness as Kate, happily cohabiting with boyfriend Brad (Vince Vaughan) in San Francisco.
Read more ...Madagascar style fun @ The Eye
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
TOMORROW SEES the release of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and The Eye Cinema has planned fun activities for children coming to the movies this Saturday and Sunday.
Read more ...Win Saw Doctors’ CDs and DVDs
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
THE SAW Doctors have just released their new album Live At the Melody Tent and documentary DVD Clare Island to Cape Cod - and we have six copies to give away.
Read more ...You havin’ a laugh?
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
PJ Gallagher, (pictured) the undisputed star of Naked Camera, and creator of the memorable characters Jake Stevens and The Dirty Auld Wan, plays the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday at 9pm. Support is from Bob Hennigan and Cathal Murray. The guest MC is Paddy Courtney. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.
Read more ...Corsetless @ Nuns Island Theatre
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
Corsetless, written and performed by Catherine Eaton (pictured), comes to Nuns Island Theatre tomorrow at 8pm, following a sell out run at the Andrews Theatre in New York. In the play Eaton becomes Olivia, a woman committed to solitary confinement because she refuses to speak anything except lines from Shakespeare. Eaton has appeared in Training Day and Sex In The City. Tickets are available from the Galway Arts Centre on 091 - 565886.
Read more ...Coyote Factor continues
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
THE COYOTE Factor - the singing competition at Coyote’s on Forster Street - continues tonight at 9pm.
Read more ...Biblio - A monthly review of Irish Books
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
IN A curious way, Barack Obama’s recent presidential campaign has some strange parallels with Daniel O’Connell’s battle for Catholic Emancipation in the 1820s.
Read more ...Biblio - A monthly review of Irish Books
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
OLIVER CROMWELL is a hugely divisive figure. In Ireland his opinion poll ratings remain even lower than those of soon-to-be-former president George W Bush and only slightly higher than those of that famous Austrian advocate of a very different type of European unity: the late Adolf Hitler.
Read more ...Biblio - A monthly review of Irish Books
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
AMONG THE estimable authors to ‘make the cut’ in Des Kenny’s recent lively compendium of 101 Irish Books You Must Read, is Sligo-born Jack Harte.
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