New York's funniest Irish comics for Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

COLUM TYRRELL and Sean Finnerty, two of the most talked about and exciting Irish acts on the New York comedy scene, and hosts of an award winning podcast, bring their unique and energetic comedy stylings to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday December 22 at 8pm.

Comedy Review: The Macnas Was On Me

Comedy Reviews Thu, Dec 20, 2018

PÁRAIC BREATHNACH'S latest seanachaí-cum-stand-up comedy show, The Macnas Was On Me, brings us from Connemara to Colombia, from the FCA to arts festival parades, and charts his colourful journey from a boyhood steeped in rural custom to his globe-trotting, genre-defying, times as an art and theatre maker.

Kilroy was here

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 20, 2018

THE FIRST chapter of Over The Backyard Wall - A Memory Book, Thomas Kilroy’s 'autobiography', is entitled 'The Eye of Memory' and opens thus: “I have been asked more than once to write a memoir and I’ve always had to say no. I couldn’t do it. I could scarcely remember what happened the previous week, never mind the distant past, at least with any degree of accuracy. Then in 2006, at the age of seventy-two, something odd happened to me - rather, something routine occurred - but it had an odd result. I had a cataract operation in both eyes.”

Poetry workshops for 2019 at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

THE POET Kevin Higgins will teach a new series of poetry workshops in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominck Street, with classes for beginner and experienced levels.

Moxie are Strange Brew bound

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

THEIR MUSIC has been described as having "irresistible, revolutionary energy" by The Irish Times, while the Irish Examiner called their songs "streetwise, fast moving, clever…full of superb moments".

Love Ghost and Modernlove - Irish tour starts in Galway

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

TWO YOUNG bands, one Irish - Modernlove, one American - Love Ghost, are touring Ireland throughout December and January with the first show taking place in the Róísín Dubh next week.

Ad Hoc choir voice workshops

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

THE AD Hoc choir voice workshops return in the New Year for a full term of singing and are open to anyone who would like to move from singing in the shower to singing with other people.

Album review: Neil Young

Music Reviews Thu, Dec 20, 2018

WHILE NEIL Young has long been one of the great champions of heavy and distorted guitar, often his finest performances have resulted from playing the acoustic form of that instrument.

Fundraising gala for Cellissimo 2020 - Galway's new festival

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

CELLISSIMO, GALWAY'S new triennial festival celebrating the cello - the instrument some believe most resembles the human voice - takes place in 2020, but ahead of that comes a fundraising gala for the festival itself.

The Amazing Apples to play The Loft

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

THE AMAZING Apples are back in their hometown of Galway to play their annual Christmas concert, which this year takes place tomorrow [Friday December 21] in The Loft at Seven, Bridge Street.

Ultan Conlon - new single from an old song

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

'REALLY GONE', the song Ultan Conlon recorded with John Conneely, and to which the legendary singer-songwriter John Martyn contributed vocals, has been re-recorded and is to be re-released.

Ye Vagabonds to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

YE VAGABONDS - Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid MacGloinn - mix Irish trad, Appalachian music, and 1960s folk revival styles, and combine them within their vocal harmony rich songs.

Danny Darcy - new album, Galway gig

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

RENMORE SINGER-songwriter Danny Darcy lives and plays music full time in Tenerife, but he is coming home for Christmas to play a show at Monroe's BackStage Bar.

Ballinasloe set for Legends of American Country show

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

THE HIT show, Legends of American Country, seen by more than 250,000 across Britain, will make its Galway debut on Saturday January 5 2019 in the Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe.

Brú Theatre to present new show in 2019

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

SELVAGE IS the word for the self securing first and last line of knitting. It is also the title of a new theatre show from Galway's Brú Theatre about "the many avenues people trudge to try and calm their ‘gnaw’".

Music for Galway's midwinter festival - Swansong

Thu, Dec 13, 2018

SWANSONG, MUSIC For Galway's 2019 midwinter festival, will feature works by Brahms, Beethoven, Ravel, and Fauré, composed towards the end of their lives.

Renmore Panto's Sleeping Beauty

Thu, Dec 13, 2018

RENMORE PANTOMIME will celebrate its 40th anniversary with Sleeping Beauty, specially scripted by Panto Dame Peter Kennedy, and directed by AIMS award-winning twins, Brian and Seán Power.

Wreck It Ralph 2 - school holiday fodder

Films Reviews Thu, Dec 13, 2018

IN WRECK it Ralph 2, we catch up with Ralph and Vanellope, our heroes from the first movie, right where we left them, enjoying life as sentient 1980s video arcade game characters.

Christmas laughs with Fred Cooke and Steve Bennett

Thu, Dec 13, 2018

GONE ARE the days when Fred Cooke was best known as Fergus from the Spar TV ads. These days, the guitar wielding Irish comedian has a CV that can justifiably proclaim 'rising star'.

Daithí - from electro wunderkind to artist

Thu, Dec 13, 2018

DAITHÍ’S MUSICAL evolution, from the exuberant, breezy, early singles like ‘Chameleon Life’, to the brooding, ambitious, art-pop he now creates, has been one of the great artistic journeys in modern Irish music. Ahead of next week's Róisín Dubh gig, he reflects on an extraordinary 2018, and the creation of his finest songs to date.

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