Ben Reel @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

COUNTY ARMAGH singer-songwriter Ben Reel plays Monroe’s Live tonight at 9pm.

Ben is currently promoting his best of album Ben Reel 10 1999 - 2009 which showcases his Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young influenced roots, blues, and soul songwriting style.

Sam Amidon @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

THERE WILL be songs - some sacred, some secular; there will be storytelling, and maybe some field recordings and cartoon videos to watch while you listen.

Kormac band leader of Kormac’s Big Band

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Either on-stage with the band or at home, cooking and listening to Newstalk’s Off The Ball.

Either on-stage with the band or at home, cooking and listening to Newstalk’s Off The Ball.

Mary Coughlan to play Inishbofin

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

THE GREAT jazz-blues singer Mary Coughlan, will be among the performers taking part in the Inishbofin Concerts series which takes place in the island’s Dolphin Hotel on Tuesdays.

Galway Fringe art exhibition

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

ART OF Galway, the main art exhibition at the Galway Fringe Festival, featuring numerous local artists, is on show in the Dominican Hall in The Claddagh.

The exhibition features Human Collage by Ali Raza, exploring in the dark side in an expressionist style; The Insomniac is a cinematic narrative by Enda Burke; Symbiosis series of photos by Lara Luxardi; Tara Breathnach’s Saothair on Iarthar, inspired by the west of Ireland; Deirdre Deegan’s prints examining the process of decay, entitled What’s left Behind; Joanna Kasinska will exhibit conceptual ceramics; and An Spidéal’s Ruth Cadden will display landscape, figurative, and mythological paintings and drawings.

Theatre and music on Inis Oírr

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

SINGER-SONGWRITER Juliet Turner and Geraldine Aron’s comic play My Brilliant Divorce can both be seen on Inis Oírr this weekend.

Kate Hodmon exhibition

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

PLACE, THE new exhibition by Galway artist Kate Hodmon opens at Padraig’s Restaurant & bar on Dock Road on Monday.

Trad lunchtimes at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

IF YOU love Irish trad and fancy hearing some music during your lunch break then head down to Monroe’s for the Galway Arts Festival Trad Lunchtimes.

Today will see the box and fiddle duo of David Munnelly and John Kilkenny perform. David has performed with the Chieftains on numerous occasions.

Stiúideo na Coiríbe exhibition

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

PARTICIPANTS IN the Stiúideo na Coiríbe art school with artist Jim Kavanagh, will host an exhibition of their work at The Oslo Bar, Salthill, this evening at 6.30pm.

John Daly to go Deeper @ The Cellar

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

JOHN DALY, the DJ and founder of Feel Music and One Track Records, will be spinning the decks at Deeper in The Cellar Bar this Saturday.

Irish speaking writers/ film-makers sought

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

WRITERS AND film-makers working as Gaeilge are being sought to take part in the new Scéal 2 scheme.

Scéal 2 is a development scheme which offers Irish-speaking writers/directors an opportunity to adapt a well-known story from literature as Gaeilge - short story, poem, folklore, myth - into a 30 minute film.

Give Danny Dowling a spanking

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

ESTABLISHED AND up and coming comedians will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh in August for the venue’s Brand Spanking New nights.

Pervish - the bawdy side of Irish music

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

LIMERICK FOLK-band Pervish, who delight in the tradition of bawdy, lewd, and suggestive Irish folk songs play Galway this weekend.

Over The Edge New Writer competition

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

THE DEADLINE is approaching for the 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, with the closing date for entries Wednesday August 8.

The competition is open to poets and fiction writers. The best fiction entry and poetry entry will each win €300. One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2012.

Lunchtime laughs @ The Laughter Loft

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft in The Ruby Room of The King’s Head continues throughout the remaining days of the Galway Arts Festival.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Jul 26, 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.

The show is open to the public and comedians, and admission is free. Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.

‘Oh I do like to be beside the seaside’

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

ALL-YEAR-round swimming is a passion for Galwegians, but there are even more who never set foot in the sea, even on the hottest days - a fact made all the stranger given Galway is a coastal city.

However Just Add Water, a new exhibition by Galway artist Jennifer Cunningham, is a fond tribute to seaside resorts, a lament for their neglect, and a call to make use of and enjoy these resources on our doorstep.

‘How’s it going everybody?’

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

HIS FIRST time in Galway was in 1962 as a teen folk singing ‘wannabe’. A decade later he was back as part of Irish trad’s first ‘supergroup’. Ten years later he was a controversial supporter of the Hunger Strikers. And tomorrow he headlines the Galway Arts Festival Big Top.

Readings at Galway Fringe

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

GALWAY-BASED writers Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Fred Johnston will be in The Bridge Mills this weekend, reading from their work as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.

Novelist, poet, critic, and songwriter Fred Johnston will read tomorrow at 3pm. He will be joined by Mary Dempsey, who will also read, and there will be music is by guitarist Paul Mulligan. Fred’s most recent book is the short story collection, Dancing In The Asylum (Parthian).