Aslan @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

LONG RUNNING Dublin rock band Aslan are coming to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Friday April 13 at 8pm.

Gourmet laughs with Maeve Higgins

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

MAEVE HIGGINS will perform two lunchtime shows at the Ruby Room in The King’s Head on Saturday April 7 and Sunday 8 .

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Mar 29, 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.

Little Cinema @ Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

THE NEXT Little Cinema Club takes place on Tuesday April 3 at 9pm in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.

Mikey and the Scallywags to launch debut EP in Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

THEY PLAY folk rock, gypsy-swing, and a bit of hip-hop. You can see them at Kelly’s Window Sessions gig, and some of the members busking flamboyantly on our city streets.

They are Mikey and The Scallywags and they will play a gig upstairs in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Thursday April 5 at 9pm, where they will launch their debut EP Living In The Light.

Fuzzed Out Sessions at The Cellar Bar

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

FUZZED OUT Sessions is the name of a new night for hard rock and heavy metal gigs and the pilot event for the nights takes place downstairs in The Cellar Bar this evening at 8pm.

Sunday Service @ Massimos

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Great food and great sounds played on vinyl. Expect to hear chilled out Soul, Jazz, Hip-Hop, 60s R&B and Reggae and what ever else the lazy Sunday dictates. Every Sunday from 1-3pm.

Gerry O’Connor to play Kinvara

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

GERRY O’CONNOR, one of the finest banjo players in Ireland, mandolin master Brendan O’Regan, and guitarist Tony Byrne are coming to Kinvara.

The trio will play Johnson’s Hall this Saturday at 9pm. Gerry O’Connor has released three solo albums and is a member of Three Men and a Dog. Brendan O’Regan has written scores for Druid and Abbey Theatre productions. Tony Byrne is a member of Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis’ band.

Headford gets ready to rock at Headstock

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

FIVE GALWAY bands will be taking to the stage of the Headford Town Hall on Saturday April 7 for a night entitled Headstock.

Community Skratch Games

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

THE COMMUNITY Skratch Games returns on Saturday April 7 and Sunday 8 in The Bierhaus.

Do mention the war

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

AS WELL as being a poet of note, Kevin Higgins is also a perceptive, cutting, witty, and rather wise critic, and a new book collects some of the best of his reviews and essays.

Salmon has published Mentioning the War – Essays and Reviews (1999 - 2011) by Kevin Higgins. The collection will be launched by Darrell Kavanagh on Saturday April 7 at 3pm in the Galway Arts Centre.

Auld Ireland through a Swedish lens

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

TWENTY PHOTOGRAPHS taken by Swedish photographers in the early 20th century are on display at NUI Galway’s James Hardiman Library.

BAAD by name but not by nature

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

AN EXHIBITION of work by part-time art and design students in the Cluain Mhuire campus, GMIT, entitled The BAAD Art Show, opens today at 2pm.

Gerry Hanberry reading

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

GALWAY WRITER Gerard Hanberry will be reading from More Lives Than One, a biography of Oscar Wilde and the Wilde family, this weekend.

Talk on Kate O’Brien at Forge At Gort

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

KATE O’BRIEN, one of the most notable and controversial Irish writers of the 20th century, will be the subject of a public lecture at the Forge At Gort festival.

David Mitchell - language animal storyteller

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

OVER THE last 13 years, British author David Mitchell has produced a series of stunning novels such as Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet.

Brian Holton; climbing the Jade Ladder

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

BRIAN HOLTON is something of a one-man Tower of Babel. Among the languages he grew up with or learned are English, Scots, French, Greek, Latin, Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, and Chinese.

Rural Savage @ Citóg

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

THE BRILLIANT Rural Savage, the Galway based Donegal punk trio will headline the next Citóg gig at The Cellar Bar tomorrow night.

Monsieur Durcan, poète, Je te salue

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

READING HIS new collection, Praise In Which I Live And Move And Have My Being, the image of Paul Durcan that emerges is of a shadowy figure in a great cloak moving imperceptibly in and out of the cracks, crannies, and crevices of the human experience.

Drawing workshop in Connemara

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

A ONE day intensive drawing workshop with artist Denise Hogan, takes place in Connemara, on Saturday March 31 from 10.30am to 5.30pm.

The workshop will be held in Ballydoulough (three minutes from Cornamona, 10 minutes from Clonbur, one hour from Galway). Participants will draw with brush, paints, egg tempera, charcoal, etc.

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