Imagining Ireland - a celebration of creative Irish women

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

LANKUM SINGER Radie Peat, Galway poet Elaine Feeney, and Choice Music Prize 2020 nominees SOAK and Sorcha Richardson will perform at the Imagining Ireland event as part of Galway 2020.

Alan McMonagle’s walk of fame

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 30, 2020

ONE OF the great joys of book selling is to watch the progress of a promising local writer from debut appearance in print – generally in a local journal – to first book, again by a local publisher, before making it onto the national and international stage.

Galway Film Society - new season

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

FRENCH FILM La Belle Époque, starring Daniel Auteuil (Jean de Florette) and Fanny Ardant (Paris, Je T'Aime), will open the new season of screenings from the Galway Film Society at the Pálás Cinema.

2020 Over The Edge poetry book showcase

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

EMILY CULLEN, Jenny Farrell, and Nicola Geddes, will be among those reading at the 2020 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday February 7 at 6pm.

‘Stand-up is me inviting the audience into a montage of my life’

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

AN EARLY experience in comedy, overhearing people talk outside his dressing room, became a formative moment for Jack Dee, one that has driven his sense of commitment and ambition throughout a career spanning almost 35 years.

President to launch new John Behan exhibition at Kenny Gallery

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D Higgins, will officially open Migrants, an exhibition of new works by leading Irish sculptor John Behan, and the first event of the Kenny Bookshop & Art Gallery's 80th Anniversary year.

Tom O'Mahony headlines the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

HE FIRST came to attention as Tarquin the toff on Damo & Ivor, and later as oddball neighbour Paddy d'Pervert in Bridget & Eamon, while the late, great, Rik Mayall called him a "psychotically funny bastard".

Irish debut for The New Half a Sixpence Musical

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

A MUSICAL from George Stiles, Anthony Drew, and Julian Fellowes, the team best known for adapting the classic Disney film Mary Poppins for the stage, will be performed in the Black Box in February.

Just Mercy - a timely story worth telling

Films Reviews Thu, Jan 30, 2020

JUST MERCY is the true story of the beginning of Bryan Stevenson's incredible career. Stevenson moved to the American South after graduating law school in Harvard to set up the Equal Justice Initiative to help people who were wrongly convicted.

Mango X Mathman - Irish hip hop pioneers to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

MANGO X MATHMAN have set new standards for Irish hip hop, which every other act in that genre now has to reach for, and which they will be compared to, and there are few more exciting acts in the country right now.

Colour, light, and the Galway landscape

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

LIGHT, AND how it affects the colours of the Galway landscape is at the heart of a new series of paintings by the artist Eileen Keane currently on show at the Town Hall Theatre bar.

Father Ted star for Show Me The Funny

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

PATRICK MCDONNELL, best known for his role as Eoin McLove on Father Ted and for his role in The Savage Eye, is the special guest at the third heat of Show Me The Funny.

Looking at the life of Walter Macken

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

WALTER MACKEN was one of the finest writers to emerge from the west of Ireland in the 20th century, and one of the most popular, but in recent decades his work has fallen into neglect.

Zeros & Ones to launch debut single

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

GALWAY ALTERNATIVE rock band Zeros & Ones release their debut single '15 to 1' (featuring Tiny Murder), to stream/buy on all standard online platforms on Friday February 7.

Mikel Murfi - two one man shows over two nights

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

THE MAN In The Woman's Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice, Mikel Murfi's highly acclaimed one man shows, return to the Town Hall Theatre for what may be the final time.

Maria Kesselman to sing at the Viennese Strauss Gala

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

MARIA KESSELMAN, who starred opposite Michael Crawford in the celebrated Phantom of the Opera performances of the late 1980s, is coming to Galway to take part in the Viennese Strauss Gala.

Carvin Jones to bring the blues to Galway

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

CARVIN JONES can count two of the finest guitarists to ever play the instrument - Eric Clapton and Albert Collins - among his admirers, while Jimi Hendrix drummer Buddy Miles called him "the New King of Strings".

The music of two Irishwomen

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

TOMORROW BRITAIN formally - finally! - leaves the EU, which means we no longer have to pretend there are 28 EU member states or say the "remaining EU 27".

John B Keane's The Matchmaker returns

Thu, Jan 23, 2020

TWO OF Ireland's best loved actors, Mary McEvoy and comedian Jon Kenny, are coming to the Town Hall Theatre to star in John B Keane's much loved comedy, The Matchmaker.

Laughter in the Eyre - Comedy Carnival on RTÉ 2

Thu, Jan 23, 2020

THE VODAFONE Comedy Carnival Galway - Ireland’s biggest comedy festival - brings hundred of comedians and thousands of comedy fans to the city every October, and next week sees a chance to relive a bit of that hilarity.

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