André Rieu: 70 Years Young at the Eye Cinema
Thu, Jan 02, 2020
The Eye Cinema in Wellpark is delighted to invite you to André Rieu’s ’70 Years Young’ special birthday celebrations.
Read more ...Scéal Ale Sessions: Terrie McEvoy, Ally McGinn and Edita Maciulyte
Tue, Dec 31, 2019
Enjoy the perfect girls’ night out at The Skeff Late Bar this Friday, 3rd January. Gather the troop for one last Christmas hoorah before returning to work. Join our host Dinny Cro as he takes to the stage for the second round of his Scéal Ale Sessions. This time he will interview three top Fashion and Beauty experts to hear all about their professional journeys to-date, their life behind the lens, makeup tips, styling tricks, advice for those interested in blogging and their aspirations for 2020.
Read more ...New Year poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
PEOPLE INTERESTED in finally getting around to writing poetry, or who are interested in doing so but do not know where to start, can check out the new series of classes by leading Galway poet Kevin Higgins.
Read more ...Give the gift of laughter this Christmas
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
IT HAS been one hell of a great year for comedy in Galway, with the team at Róisín Dubh Comedy delivering the weekly Tuesday Comedy KARLnival, featuring established and emerging joke-slingers, hosted by Karl Spain.
Read more ...Druid’s The Cherry Orchard to be live streamed to cinemas
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
IN A first for an Irish theatre company, Druid’s production of Tom Murphy's version of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, will be live streamed from the Black Box Theatre, to cinemas across Ireland and the world.
Read more ...Galway Advertiser Best Galway Musicians 2019
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
Best band: Ten Ton Slug
FROM THE soil of Connemara to the stages of Europe, what a year it has been for Ten Ton Slug. The sludge/doom metal, stoner rock, quartet have flown the flag high for both Irish, and County Galway metal.
Galway Advertiser's Best Albums of 2019
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 19, 2019
1. Lankum - The Livelong Day (Rough Trade) - Galway Advertiser album of the year
Read more ...Renmore Panto ready to show Galway to the world
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
LIKE THE festive lights on Shop Street and Quay Street and the Continental Market and big wheel in Eyre Square, The Renmore Pantomime features prominently in the mind of Galwegians when it comes to Christmas in the city. Having celebrated its 40th anniversary in October, The Renmore Panto has been a cornerstone in the local community, raising money for a selected charity while providing a spectacular feast of entertainment which the whole family can enjoy.
Read more ...Two artists - one venue
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
THE ARTISTS Harriet Leander and Finbar McHugh - aka street artist Finbar247 - are holding a joint exhibition of their work which opens next week in the Town Hall Theatre bar.
Read more ...Creative writing classes at GTI
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
THE WRITERS Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will host creative writing classes for beginner and intermediate levels, at the Galway Technical Institute in January.
Read more ...Black Christmas - not a very scary yuletide horror
Films Reviews Thu, Dec 19, 2019
CHRISTMAS MOVIES and horror go well together, and there is a long tradition of great Christmas horror films. Gremlins is the gold standard and showed a good Christmas horror has a good amount of comedy.
Read more ...Wild Atlantic Cabaret returns
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
STAND-UP comedian Breda Larkin, from east Galway, and Limerick born burlesque performer Laura Lavelle, join forces for the Wild Atlantic Cabaret.
Read more ...Mick Flannery - two nights in the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
MICK FLANNERY, rightly regarded as one of Ireland's finest songwriters, makes his annual Christmas pilgrimage to the Róisín Dubh, playing two nights at the Dominick Street venue.
Read more ...Ó Cadhain’s last, existential, word
Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 19, 2019
A RARE Christmas gem has just been offered to those who are fans of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s work, but who have great difficulty in reading him in the vernacular.
Read more ...Galway choirs top the iTunes charts
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
'SOMEWHERE IN My Memory', the single by the GMIT Voices and the GMIT Student choir, with special guests, the Scoil Íde children’s choir, has hit No 1 in the Irish iTunes Christmas chart and the overall Irish iTunes chart
Read more ...Lusting after the tastes and aromas of Istanbul
Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 19, 2019
AUSTRALIAN-BORN poet Robyn Rowland has been a significant figure on the Irish poetry scene since she first came here in 1983, and it is more than a bit ridiculous her poetry is not more celebrated than it is.
Read more ...Rofi James - Christmas gig
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
FOLLOWING THE release of their latest single, 'Love Shot', one of Galway's leading bands, Rofi James, play their annual Christmas gig on Saturday December 21, joined by Fallen Lights for a co-headline show.
Read more ...Eoin Dolan - new single, new album
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
EOIN DOLAN, one of Galway's finest singer-songwriters, this week released a new Christmas themed single, which follows on the heels of his new album, Commander Of Sapiens.
Read more ...A night of hits with ABBAesque
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
ABBAESQUE ARE on the go longer than the Swedish pop legends to whom they pay homage, but there is good reason for that. The world still loves ABBA and ABBAesque are arguably the best ABBA tribute act.
Read more ...Johnny McEvoy to play the Town Hall
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
JOHNNY MCEVOY has been a leading folk singer-songwriter in Ireland for more than 50 years, and next month he comes to the Town Hall Theatre for a nostalgic evening of song and story.
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