Let's go crazy with Terry Alderton

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

BACK IN 1972 Slade told Mama "weer all crazee now!". In 2018 Terry Alderton isn't just telling it to Mama, he's telling everyone - and he's made both a radio show and a new stand-up comedy show about it.

Kenny’s Gallery celebrates eight decades of Galway Art Club

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

ONE OF Galway’s most venerable arts groups is celebrated in Kenny’s Gallery from next week, when the venue hosts a large scale exhibition saluting 80 years of Galway Art Club.

Cillian Murphy to launch new history book in Galway

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

Cillian Murphy, the acclaimed Irish actor and star of Peaky Blinders and Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes The Barley film, will launch a new book on politics of memory in post-independence Ireland.

Hayseed Dixie - let there be rockgrass

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THEY CREATED the musical genre rockgrass - a fusion of classic rock and bluegrass/American folk - have won the respect of legendary rockers, been going for nearly 20 years, and have a new album out.

Bodies, institutions, and art

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

HOW AN individual's body is treated by the State, as well as by corporate, medical and pharmaceutical institutions, is the theme of a new exhibition, about to open at the Galway Arts Centre.

Romeo and Juliet - from The Bolshoi to The Eye

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE BOLSHOI Ballet's production of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet will be broadcast live from Moscow to The Eye Cinema on Sunday January 21 at 3pm.

Show Me The Funny 2018

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

IT'S BACK! Show Me The Funny, one of Ireland's major comedy competitions, returns to The King's Head this month, with emerging comedians fighting it out over the coming weeks, for the right to play Electric Picnic.

Cúirt New Writing Prize deadline nears

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE DEADLINE for The Cúirt New Writing Prize is Thursday January 25 at 5pm. The categories are poetry and short stories with a €500 cash prize for the winner of each category and the opportunity to read at Cúirt 2018.

Arts festival's Ballyturk wows New York critics

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

The US premiere of the Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival co-production of Ballyturk, written by Enda Walsh, and starring Mikel Murfi, Tadhg Murphy and Olwen Fouéré, has won rave reviews from New York critics.

Mary Coughlan to play Druid Sessions #3

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

MARY COUGHLAN, Ireland's greatest jazz singer, will headline the next in Ollie Jenning's new series of gig nights, the Druid Sessions, with the show taking place in early March.

Humanity Dick - back home in Ballynahinch Castle

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

HUMANITY DICK, a hit show of the 2016 Galway Fringe Festival about the colourful life and times of Galway MP, humanitarian, and serial duelist Richard Martin, is about to be performed in Martin's own home - Ballynahinch Castle.

Take up creative writing in 2018

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

CHARLIE ADLEY, the Galway based columnist and prize-winning playwright, will host his popular Craft of Writing Course in the Westside Resource Centre this March.

Derek Ryan - new single, Town Hall concert

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

IRISH COUNTRY singer-songwriter Derek Ryan has just released his new single, ‘Down On His Uppers’, and will play the Town Hall Theatre this month.

Arts festival and Druid up for Irish Times Theatre Awards

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

The Galway International Arts Festival and Druid Theatre Company are strong contenders at this year's Irish Times Theatre Awards, with both being nominated in a variety of categories.

U.M.A.N to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

U.M.A.N - an acronym for U. Must. Act. Now - and the stage name of Irish soul singer and songwriter Brian Flanagan, play the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

Circus VIII to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE CLUE is not so much in the band name of Circus VIII, as in the title of their EP - Rock + Disco + Bad Ass!! This is what the London trio are promising to deliver to Galway.

Queens Of The Stone Age tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

QUEENS OF The Sauce Age describe themselves on Facebook as "five lovely lads from Cork playing Queens of the Stone Age songs” as Galway will see next week.

Breast Cancer Research Valentine’s Ball!

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

The Ardilaun Hotel, Taylor’s Hill will play host once again to this year’s Breast Cancer Research annual Valentine’s Ball on Saturday 17th February. The gala evening, which always marks the start of Galway’s social calendar, is one of the charity's major fundraising events and monies raised help to support the breast cancer research team lead by Prof. Michael Kerin based locally at the Lambe Institute, University Hospital, Galway.

Boots & Kats play Electric tomorrow night

Wed, Jan 17, 2018

BOOTS & KATS, the Dublin duo who have taken the country by storm over the last 18 months, especially after their sets at the Life17 festival, return to play Electric's main floor tonight.

Cranky Face - Galway band release new single

Tue, Jan 16, 2018

CRANKY FACE, the Galway alternative/indie-rock band have released their new single, 'Vultures', the first track from their forthcoming EP which will be released later this year.

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