Make May the month to visit the National Museum Of Ireland

Wed, Apr 25, 2018

1. National Treasures - The Exhibition
The museum has just launched a new temporary exhibition, called National Treasures. The exhibition arises out of the hugely popular RTÉ television programme of the same name, which saw John Creedon and a team of curators travel around the country to assess a fascinating mix of social history objects from the last 100 years.

The changing face of Salthill through the decades

Tue, Apr 24, 2018

SALTHILL, FROM its days as a "wholesome if uninteresting place" to today, when it is a popular west of Ireland seaside resort, will be chronicled in a photographic exhibition in the Galway City Museum.

Limmy's Vines - last few tickets remaining

Tue, Apr 24, 2018

THE ONLINE sensation, the published author of two short story collections, the acclaimed stand-up, the Twitter addicted scourge of Donald Trump supporters - Limmy is all of these things.

Rising comedy talent at the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

THREE OF the finest emerging young comedians in Ireland - Belfast’s Shane Todd, Mayo’s Paul David Murphy, and Cork’s Ashley Manning - play the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.

Thoroughbred horses inspire exhibition for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

THE BYERLEY Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Barb, were three 18th century stallions that were the founders of the modern thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock. They have also inspired a new exhibition.

Steven Sharpe - new single, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

STEVEN SHARPE writes about gay male sex with the kind of ribaldry and attention to salacious detail Prince and Snoop Dogg brought to their songs about straight male sexual adventures.

Album review: The Shacks

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

OVER THE last 10 years indie music has rediscovered and re-explored 1990s genres, but it is rare to see young musicians going back any further than that. Recently however, a new series of disparate bands - School Damage, Mermaidens, Starcrawler, and now The Shacks - have delved into different aspects of sixties and seventies rock, delivering fresh new presentations of those forms.

My Fellow Sponges set to 'blur lines between gig and theatre'

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

MUSICIANS, WRITERS, performance artists, jugglers, videographers, animators, conductors, designers, and all kinds of doers, will partake in a genre defying ‘live music video’ experience, as part of the 2018 Galway Theatre Festival.

'An English Fiddler On The Roof'

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

GALWAY MUSICAL Society encamps in The Black Box Theatre for the first week of May with its bravura staging of The Hired Man, which is based on Melvyn Bragg's stirring novel of Cumbrian rural and industrial working life.

Cinema review: Rampage

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

RAMPAGE OPENS in space. An off-planet research ship is breaking apart and three vials of genetic altering substance falls to earth. One of them lands in a San Diego wild life reserve run by Davis Okoye, played by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.

Guitar great Albert Lee to play Town Hall

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

ALBERT LEE boasts a career that is the envy of many musicians, having worked with numerous legends in rock and country, and becoming something of a legend in his own right.

Examining choices in The Streets Are Ours

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

"IN THE city you choose your friends, here you take the hand you're dealt." Four friends are trapped, all in different ways, and each finds that the freedom to choose is not always a welcome privilege, that it can be a burden in itself.

Out of the Ordinary with Moya Roddy

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

AMONG THE feast of events at next week’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature is the launch of the debut book of poems by well-known Galway writer Moya Roddy - Out Of The Ordinary, published by Salmon Poetry.

Enni Liessem exhibition

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

ENNI LIESSEM, the German artist now based in Dunmore, north Galway, is currently displaying her latest works in an exhibition at the Renzó Gallery Café, Eyre Street.

Arrival on Irish poetry scene of true original

Literature Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

RACHEL COVENTRY was born in Scotland to an Irish mother, spent her teenage years in Galway attending the Mercy secondary school, and lived for most of the 1990s in north London.

Galway Loves Music #1

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

GALWAY LOVES Music is a new evening of discussion and performances in the Róisín Dubh, and a chance for musicians in Galway to meet local and national voices who will share their knowledge of how music works.

A night of dance with Youth Ballet West

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

YOUTH BALLET West will present what promises to be a spectacular evening of classical and contemporary dance, when its dancers take to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Olivia to spin the decks @ Electric

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

DJ OLIVIA, a key player in the Polish electronic music scene for more than a decade, returns to Galway to play the next Factory night at the Electric Garden and Theatre.

The Hot Sprockets @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

TAKE SOME good-time revolutionary spirit, add a pinch of psychedelic flavour, simmer with some indie-soul and seventies style rock, and you have the cosmic vibe of The Hot Sprockets.

State Lights set for Monroe's

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

"STYLISTICALLY PERCHED between classic U2 and The Killers, State Lights songs are made for radio." So said Golden Plec about the rising Irish band who are playing Monroe's Live.

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