The book auction
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
FOR SOME unknown reason, I have only ever attended two book auctions and did not bid at either, so when an important customer asked me over a fortnight ago to attend one in Kells and to bid on his behalf I felt as though I was going out on my first date. The prospect was as fascinating as it was terrifying.
Read more ...Blues, wit and haiku
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
THERE ARE those who say there are too many women poets nowadays. For these reactionary critics all was well in the garden of poetry until it was ruined by feminism and the advent of poetry workshops, which have conspired together to encourage many more women to write poetry. And most of it, shock horror, does not even rhyme.
Read more ...The Wilde family saga
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE STORY of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family is a remarkable one. Oscar’s sensational triumphs and terrible downfall are incredibly moving but his parents, the brilliant Sir William Wilde and the flamboyant Lady Jane Wilde, also led amazing lives and experienced triumph and tragedy.
Read more ...Keegan Theatre and Town Hall combine for The Crucible
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
ARTHUR MILLER’S classic parable of mass hysteria, The Crucible, will be presented by the Keegan Theatre Company from Washington DC at the Town Hall Theatre this month.
The play draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch hunt of 1692 – “one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history” – and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s, when the play was written.
Read more ...Emmet O’Malley to launch debut album @ Monroe’s
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
EMMET O’MALLEY, the Galway based singer-songwriter, will launch his debut album Playtime, with a gig in Monroe's Backstage Bar on Friday September 9.
Read more ...Theatre review: Faith Healer
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE WAY in which memory shapes our identities and the way in which we in turn shape our memories, selecting this detail and altering that, have been recurrent themes in the work of Brian Friel and nowhere more so than in his great play Faith Healer, currently running at the Town Hall.
Read more ...The struggle of two sisters
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
DOLORES, A one-act play by American playwright Edward Allan Baker will run at the Nuns’ Island Theatre from Wednesday September 7 to Saturday 10.
Read more ...Renmore Pantomine holding auditions for Aladdin
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE RENMORE Pantomime is this year doing the popular show Aladdin in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, from December 30 to January 15.
Read more ...Olaf Tyaransen for Electric Picnic
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
GALWAY WRITER and journalist Olaf Tyaransen will be performing and interviewing live at Electric Picnic in Stradbally this weekend.
Read more ...Truewest Theatre call for auditions
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
TRUEWEST THEATRE is looking for men in their forties and fifties for its next production taking place in October and November.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.
Read more ...The Driftwood Manor @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
PSYCHEDELIC FOLK band The Driftwood Manor will perform songs from their new album The Same Figure (Leaving) upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday September 8 at 9pm.
Read more ...Roots/Americana gig @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
MONROE’S LIVE will host a night of roots rock and Americana this Sunday when singer-songwriters Tony McLoughlin and Ben Reel take to the stage.
Read more ...Student season at Carbon Nightclub
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
TODAY IS September 1 and Galway is about to become a student city once again and Carbon nightclub on Eglinton Street has a host of great nights and events lined up.
Read more ...Strange Brew @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
IRISH/CANADIAN band Nightbox and Dublin/US band Favourite Sons play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight from 10pm.
Read more ...Rita Ann Higgins to launch new poetry collection
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
RITA ANN Higgins’s latest collection of poetry, entitled Ireland Is Changing Mother, will be launched in Galway on Friday September 16.
Read more ...Chatham Saxophone Quartet free debut concert
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE CHATHAM Saxophone Quartet will perform its debut Galway concert in the Town Hall Theatre Studio on Tuesday September 6 at 1.10pm.
Read more ...GMIT graduates exhibit @ 126
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THREE GRADUATES of the GMIT and Limerick School of Art and Design will hold an exhibition of their work entitled Sensory Threshold in the 126 gallery on Queen Street.
Read more ...Galway Youth Orchestra auditions
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE GALWAY Youth Orchestra will hold a registration day in the GTI, Fr Griffin Road, this Saturday from 11am to 12.30pm.
Read more ...Stagecoach Galway theatre and dance classes
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
STAGECOACH GALWAY is running a new series of classes in dance, drama, and singing for those aged from four to 17 in St Mary’s College, starting Saturday September 10.
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