After the Revolution
Thu, Aug 05, 2010
GERRY GALVIN’S No Recipe, Where’s Katie by Elaine Feeney, Invitation To A Sacrifice by Dave Lordan, and In Other Words by Mary Madec are all evidence that the Irish poetic revolution of the last 20 years has now reached something like completion.
Read more ...Damo Suzuki - 21st cettury nomad
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
IT WAS a time when the world was opening up. Our World, the first satellite television production, broadcast The Beatles performing ‘All You Need Is Love’ to 400 million people across the globe in 1967.
Paris, Prague, Derry, West Berlin, and Mexico City were erupting, nearly simultaneously, in 1968 with young people demanding civil rights; and the space race between the US and the USSR was about to culminate in the 1969 Apollo moon landings.
Read more ...Strange Brew Summer Shindig 6
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
A FEAST of the finest indie/alternative Galway and Ireland have to offer will be on display for all to hear and enjoy at the major party that always is the Strange Brew Summer Shindig.
Read more ...Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs at Town Hall studio
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
PIG AND Runt are two 17-year-olds who share everything - birthdays, language, and a desire for destruction as they explode onto the disco scene of ‘Pork’ city.
Read more ...Tarry Flynn opens next week
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE TOWN Hall is a constant hive of activity this week as preparations gather pace for the epic staging of Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn which opens on Tuesday.
Read more ...For The Birds winging to New York
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
FOR THE Birds, a new play co-authored by Galway-based writer Siobhán Donnellan, is about to receive its premiere at the prestigious New York International Fringe Festival.
Read more ...Weekend summer painting workshops
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
IF YOU want to learn how to paint, or if you already can, but would like to improve your skills, then a new weekend painting course could be for you.
Read more ...Darwin Deez to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
INDIE IS the self-confessed home of all that is ‘quirky’ in pop and rock and in Darwin Deez the genre may have found a singer worthy to carry on its fine tradition of off-centre pop eccentricity.
New York based Darwin Deez has been confirmed to play the Róisín Dubh on Sunday November 7 at 9pm and tickets for the show go on sale tomorrow. So who is Darwin Deez and why all the fuss about him at the moment?
Read more ...A Scottish-Irish night @ The Crane
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE MUSIC of the Shetland Islands, mainland Scotland, and Ireland will come together when Catriona McKay and Chris Stout play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, this Sunday at 9pm.
Read more ...Race Week gigs at Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE CAMEMBERT Quartet are among the many and diverse acts who will be providing musical entertainment at Monroe’s Live during Race Week.
Tonight will see the Cunningham family continue their residency at the venue with their acclaimed Fuaim Chonamara show of sean nós dancing from 9pm. Later that night The Camembert Quartet, best known as The Late Late Show house band, and led by Galwayman Clint Velour, will take to the stage.
Read more ...Leading house DJ goes Deeper
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
CHARLES WEBSTER, one of the leading DJs on the house music scene, will play Deeper at The Cellar Bar this Bank Holiday Sunday.
Read more ...Arlo Guthrie heads west
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
The great American singer-songwriter (and raconteur) Arlo Guthrie will play the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Sunday August 8 at 7.30pm and the Róisín Dubh, Galway, on Tuesday August 10 at 9pm. Tickets for the Galway show are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago. Tickets for Castlebar are available from www.ticketmaster.ie and The Royal Box Office on 0818 300 000.
Read more ...Classical music festival for families
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE SUMMER Music in Galway International Festival of classical music, aimed at children and families as much as classical buffs, takes place from August 5 to 21 in NUI, Galway.
Read more ...Áras Éanna celebrates first decade with major exhibition
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE ÁRUS Éanna Arts Centre in Inis Oírr will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its founding with an exhibition of painting and photography.
Read more ...Poems on Israel-Palestine sought
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
POEMS ON Israel-Palestine are being sought for a special internet feature entitled Will Days Indeed Come: I Come From There.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I’ll get back to you once I’ve completed the equation.
Cinema review: Toy Story 3
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
Eleven years after Pixar’s second installment of the phenomenally successful Toy Story series, Woody, Buzz, Andy and the rest of the colourful gang are back for one more momentous outing.
Read more ...Comedy Comedy @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE BRILLIANT Robbie Bonham will headline the next Comedy Comedy night upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8.30pm.
Robbie’s cynical and witty observations on religion, relationships, and surviving life have earned him 98 FM’s Best Comedian Award and he has supported such high calibre acts as Reginald D Hunter, Jim Jeffries, Doug Stanhope, and Brendon Burns.
Read more ...Sunday BBQs @ the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE CARTOON Thieves play the Róisín Dubh main stage every Sunday from 9pm, but they also do a special slot in the upstairs bar.
Read more ...Little Cinema Short Film Club
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE LITTLE Cinema Short Film Club is accepting submissions for its next session of screenings upstairs in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Tuesday August 3.
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