Eye to screen major Goya documentary

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

THE SPANISH artist Francisco Goya created some of the most memorable and in his Disasters Of War and Dark Paintings series, some of the most disturbing, images in western art.

Listen to stream of debut EP by Galway 'supergroup' Cranky Face

Essential Playlist Tue, Nov 24, 2015

CRANKY FACE, the Galway group featuring guitarist Fuz Reilly (Boyfights), vocalist/guitarist Simon Noble (Spats Colombo, Mugger Dave), drummer Mosey Byrne (Rural Savage), and bassist/Citóg co-organiser Hob Junker, have released their debut EP, We Should Hate.

Galwegians take a photographic look at Germany

Mon, Nov 23, 2015

GERMANY, OR rather, its Chancellor Angela Merkel and finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, have had plenty to say about, and dictate to, Ireland in recent years, but what have the Irish to say about Germany?

Pure imagination, based on science-fact

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

ART AND science, one based on subjectivity and a response to the emotions and imagination; the other the result of rational inquiry, study, and experiments to proving or disproving; would seem unlikely bedfellows, each requiring different sides of the brain.

Galway Arts Centre art and Christmas craft classes

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

THE GALWAY Arts Centre will hold art classes for children and teenagers, and Christmas craft-making workshops at the centre on Dominick Street.

Titus Andronicus - 'selling out' in American punk style

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

ON THEIR website Titus Andronicus declare themselves to be "specialising in punk solutions since 2005", and now, 10 years into the game, they find themselves 'selling out'.

Patrick McDonnell to headline Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

AS FATHER Ted's Eoin McLove he delivered such immortal lines as "Go away! I don't want to catch the menopause!" Now man who played him, comedian Patrick McDonnell, is coming to the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh.

Margaret O'Dowd and Patricia Comer exhibition

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

A SHOWCASE of work by Galway artists Margaret O'Dowd and Patricia Comer takes place in The Ardilaun hotel, Taylor's Hill, this Sunday from 12 noon to 6pm.

Album review: Ty Segall

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 19, 2015

ALTHOUGH HIS death is approaching its 40th anniversary, Marc Bolan's influence remains potent for musicians, not within the mainstream, which he dominated from 1971 to 1973, but within indie/alternative.

Annie as Gaeilge sa Taibhdhearc

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

ANNIE, ONE of the best known and loved musicals in the world, receivse an Irish language performance in An Taibhdhearc Theatre, Middle Street, from Saturday December 12 to Sunday 20.

French Film Festival at Town Hall Theatre

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

IN THE week following the horrific attacks in Paris, a timely reminder of the resilience of French culture, and the joy it brings to world, comes to Galway through next weekend's French Film Festival.

Woman at the Door

Coffee Break Read Thu, Nov 19, 2015

Life’s pictures flicker around me as I linger outside the weather-beaten door. A crow perches on a branch of the skeleton ash on the lawn and a hearse stands in the lane. Bodies hide under a roof of umbrellas. I recognise some, even though years of humanity have battered them. It’s not peculiar that they don’t acknowledge me. They give their condolences to my sister, Margaret. I lost Jamie a long time ago. She’s only losing him now.

Two short operas about love and lies from OTC

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

OPERA THEATRE Company comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday November 23 at 8pm, with an exciting double bill of short works, Poulenc’s The Human Voice and Wolf Ferrari’s Susanna’s Secret.

Creative labs for Galway teens

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

FORÓIGE AND Galway Youth Theatre have joined forces to offer a creative lab to young people aged between 13 and 17.

Alban Berg’s opera Lulu at The Eye

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

LULU, ONE of opera's greatest and most dangerous femme fatales, will take audiences on a wild journey of love, obsession, and death when the eponymous opera by Alban Berg is screened in Galway.

Anderson - 'the real deal' plays the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

SOME PEOPLE are honest about their influences, and make no bones of where their inspirations lay. Take Dublin singer-songwriter Anderson and his most recent single 'Cecilia's Sister'.

ConTempo - classical music's Fab Four

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

THE CONTEMPO Quartet have firmly established themselves as a Galway institution and one of Ireland's most popular classical groups, and as 2015 comes to a close they play two shows and have a new album.

Big open mic for teens

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

GALWAY TEENS who would like to perform on the stage of the Róisín Dubh are being invited to take part in the Underage Open Mic at the Dominick Street venue on Sunday November 29 at 3pm.

New venue for Paintclub

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

PAINTCLUB, GALWAY'S popular monthly art class/social evening event takes place in 56 Central, Shop Street, on Friday November 27 from 7.45pm.

British and Irish metal at The Cellar

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

THE BRITISH invented heavy metal, and the genre begun by Black Sabbath and taken in myriad directions by later acts, will be represented by very different British and Irish bands in The Cellar this Saturday.

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