Cherish The Ladies and Don Stiffe - new albums, Galway concert

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

GRAMMY-NOMINATED Irish American super-group Cherish The Ladies, and popular Galway folk singer-songwriter Don Stiffe, have new albums coming out and they will perform a major concert in Galway.

Join Barry Douglas on a journey via piano

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

TWO SONATAS by Schubert, and Tchaikovsky's 'The Seasons', will be performed in Galway by one of the finest classical musicians to ever come from Ireland - Belfast pianist Barry Douglas.

The Office Quiz with Ewen MacIntosh

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

THE OFFICE was first broadcast on BBC2 in 2001. Created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, it centred on the lives of employees at the fictional Wernham Hogg Paper Company, with Gervais playing central character David Brent.

Terry Alderton plays the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

PEEK INSIDE the technicolor mind of one of Britain’s finest comic talents, and you will find Terry Alderton desperately doing battle with 'The Voices', two unpredictable and hilarious voices inside the Englishman's head.

Wild Youth and Rofi James @ Monroe's

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

TWO OF Ireland's leading emerging bands, Wild Youth and Galway's Rofi James, play Monroe's on Thursday September 27 at 9pm at a show presented by the GMIT Students Union.

Trad titans to celebrate Mary McPartlan

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

FOLK SINGER Mary McPartlan has been a driving force in the cultural life of Galway city for many years, and she will be celebrated at the next Druid Sessions concert in The Mick Lally Theatre.

The Ultimate Eurovision Show comes to the Town Hall

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

IT SOLD out the National Concert Hall in Dublin two months in advance, and received a rapturous reception from the audience, including five standing ovations! This month it comes to Galway.

Midnight Riot to descend on Galway

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

MITCH PRESENTS X Midnight Riot, will see one of Galway's leading DJs, and an acclaimed record label, join forces to present Yam Who? and Jaegerrossa in the Electric Garden and Theatre on Saturday September 29 from 11pm.

Galway Jazz Festival jazz masterclasses

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

MASTERCLASSES FOR jazz musicians will be held as part of next month's Galway Jazz Festival, with pianists Liane Carroll and Huw Warren among the musicians taking part.

An autumn exhibition of new paintings

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

AS AUTUMN begins to take hold, what better time for an exhibition about the season of which George Eliot wrote: "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

Bingo with Bennett and Sharpe

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

THE BINGO! with Irish Comedian of The Year 2016 Steve Bennett and the flamboyant phenomenon that is Steven Sharpe, will see another night of madcap comedy bingo at the Róisín Dubh.

Trad on the Prom - 2018 run is coming to a close

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

TRAD ON The Prom, the acclaimed Irish music, song, and dance show, is about to conclude its 2018 run at Leisureland, Salthill. However there are a number of performances still to go before the curtain comes down.

Public lecture on Cumann na mBan at Galway City Museum

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

ANY GALWEGIANS possessing a Cumann na mBan badge from the revolutionary era are being asked to bring it to the Galway City Museum which is holding an illustrated talk on the group this weekend.

Have you got a story to share on Culture Night?

Wed, Sep 12, 2018

OVER THE Edge will hold two special Culture Night open-mics - one for fiction writers, the other for poets - with prizes for the best readers, at Kenny's Bookshop, Liosbán Retail Park, on Friday September 21.

Yeats inspired music and installation for Culture Night

Wed, Sep 12, 2018

A NEW work by the Irish sound artist and composer, Francis Heery, commissioned by the Galway County Council, will be performed in Yeats' Castle, Thoor Ballylee, Gort, on Friday September 21 for Culture Night.

Dead Horse Jive - Back To College Tour

Mon, Sep 10, 2018

DEAD HORSE Jive are sharp dressed men, possessed of "insatiable energy and musical talent" according to Lazer Guided Reporter, who have "seriously original songs and stories," says the Independent Music Review.

The Merry Wives of Windsor at The Eye

Thu, Sep 06, 2018

WRITTEN BY Shakespeare in about 1597, The Merry Wives of Windsor, the bard's comedy of middle-class English life, is set to receive a contemporary setting in a new performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Danny O'Brien - Prison, motorcycles, and to Australia and back

Thu, Sep 06, 2018

DANNY O’BRIEN has been in prison. No, he has not been incarcerated, nor has he committed any misdemeanours. The comedian was performing stand-up sets for in-mates of Mountjoy and Wheatfield gaols - an experience which has inspired his latest show, Lock-In.

Phil Jupitus - the Renaissance man of British comedy

Thu, Sep 06, 2018

IS PHILL Jupitus the Renaissance man of British comedy? He is a poet, stand-up comedian, improviser, actor, artist, radio presenter, TV stalwart, and DJ. He certainly is a man with many strings to his bow.

The pleasure and danger of chocolate

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 06, 2018

FOR THE Love Of Chocolate is an attempt at an entire history of chocolate across the 4,000 years since the Mokaya people, in what is now Mexico and Guatemala, began cultivating the cacao tree, the beans of which produce chocolate.

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