Fundraising for Galway Theatre Festival
Thu, Aug 23, 2012
THE GALWAY Theatre Festival, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, has launched a fundraising campaign on the FundIt website.
Read more ...Stories for grown-ups at Celtic Tales
Thu, Aug 23, 2012
WE MAY think of stories being just for children, but that is not always the case. Storyteller Rab Swannock Fulton performs his acclaimed Celtic Tales every Thursday at the Cottage Bar, Lower Salthill.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, Aug 23, 2012
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.
Read more ...Comedy legend Brendan Grace comes to Galway
Thu, Aug 23, 2012
One of Ireland’s greatest comedians, Brendan Grace, is celebrating 41 years in the comedy business. His new show Best of 41 Years features some new material as well as old favourites, including the ‘Father of the Bride’ and ‘Chinese Takeaway’.
Read more ...Mike Scott’s adventures of a Waterboy
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
ROCK MEMOIRS are not always noted for their literary excellence but Mike Scott’s Adventures Of A Waterboy, recently published by Lilliput Press, triumphantly bucks that trend.
Read more ...One man show on Karl Marx at Town Hall
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
KARL MARX, author of Das Kapital, co-author of The Communist Manifesto, and the revolutionary thinker, whose ideas on class, economics, and capitalism, remain challenging to this day, will be the subject of a play at the Town Hall Theatre studio.
Marx In Soho, written by historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of America, will be staged on Thursday August 23. The show will be performed by Jerry Levy.
Read more ...Tom Portman Trio @ Monroe’s
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
TOM PORTMAN, the gifted guitarist, and his band, will take to the stage of Monroe’s Backstage Bar next Wednesday at 10pm.
Read more ...‘Play it again, Sam’... Casablanca @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
CASABLANCA, THE much loved 1942 film, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, will be screened in the Róisín Dubh on Monday August 20 at 8pm.
If you have never seen Casablanca before, now is your chance. If you have seen it before, take the opportunity to see it again, at this event billed as I Can’t Believe You Haven’t Seen...CASABLANCA.
Read more ...Velvet Revolution comes to Campbell’s Tavern
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE TIRELESS Truman Town Theatre are in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloghanover, Headford, this weekend for two performances of their latest hit play, Velvet Revolution, written and directed by Mick Donnellan.
Read more ...Win tickets to the Jameson Cult Film Club screening of Snatch
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
SNATCH, THE cult gangster classic starring Brad Pitt and Vinnie Jones, will be screened at the exclusive Jameson Cult Film Club, which is coming to Galway for the first time on August 23.
Read more ...Jedward competition
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE WINNER of a pair of tickets to see Jedward at the Summer Pop concert in Galway later this month is Chloe Cooke from Oughterard.
Read more ...Create bars at Electric Picnic
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
HEINEKEN IS calling on music fans to create their own Electric Picnic ‘memory’ bar at this year’s festival.
Heineken is asking Galwegians to name the best festival moments of the last eight Electric Picnics as inspiration for each of the three Heineken bars at EP 2012.
Read more ...Fight blindness @ Carbon
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE CARBON night-club will host a blind date night in aid of Fighting Blindness Ireland on Friday August 24.
Read more ...Little Cinema to screen new films
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE LITTLE Cinema club will screen three, new, short films by Galway film makers in Kelly’s Bar, on Tuesday August 21.
Read more ...Autumn/winter at the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
FOLK, INDIE, pop-punk, prog-rock, singer-songwriter, and electro acts ranging from The Cast Of Cheers to Pierre Bensusan, will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh over the coming months.
Read more ...Duke Special to play Inishbofin
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
COUNTY ANTRIM singer-songwriter Duke Special will be heading west to play the Dolphin Hotel on Inishbofin, this Tuesday.
On the night, Duke will performing tracks from his new album Oh Pioneer, as well as the forthcoming single ‘Condition’, which is released on September 7.
Read more ...Noel Gallagher’s brother @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
PAUL GALLAGHER, who has recently completed a DJ tour with his brother Noel Gallagher and his band ‘High Flying Birds’, is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Them Martyrs release new EP
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
GALWAY HARDCORE band Them Martyrs will launch their new EP Wretched, with a gig in Sally Longs tomorrow night.
Read more ...The Four of Us @ HALO
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
LONG RUNNING County Down band The Four Of Us return to Galway to play Upstairs @ HALO tomorrow at 11pm.
Read more ...Hijackers @ Carbon
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
HIJACKERS - duo Richie Burke and Sean Hayden - best known for the singles ‘Stronger’, ‘Lose Your Mind’, ‘Sparks’, and ‘Piece Of Me’, play Carbon, Eglinton Street, tonight.
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