The Cyclist @ Electric

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

DERRY DJ Andrew Morrison, aka The Cyclist, plays the Bap to the Future night at The Electric Garden’s Factory, Abbeygate Street, this Saturday at 10.30pm.

Charlie McGettigan/ We Banjo 3 in concert

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

A DISTINGUISHED veteran of the Irish folk/singer-songwriter scene and a rising new force in Irish trad share the stage at The Forge, Moycullen, on Friday May 3.

Banjo virtuoso for Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

BANJO VIRTUOSO Dan Walsh has been described by BBC Radio’s Janice Long as “incredibly gifted - if anyone has the opportunity to see him they must”.

Thinguma*jigSaw ‘secret’ Galway show

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

THE ECCENTRIC, theatrical, surreal, and imaginative Norwegian folk duo Thinguma*jigSaw will play their final Irish gig in Galway.

Poems For Patience X launch

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

THE TENTH Poems For Patience initiative will be launched tomorrow at 11am on the Arts Corridor, off the main foyer, of University Hospital Galway.

The event, part of Cúirt, will see poet Matthew Sweeney introduce the 21 poems he has selected, which will be circulated throughout the waiting areas of UHG and Merlin Park University Hospital. For the duration of the festival, the poems will be on display on the Art Corridor.

Norman Villa Cúirt exhibition

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

LIES AND More Lies, the new exhibition by Philip Lindey, best known for his Galway Arts Festival posters of 2002 - 2004, is currently running as part of Cúirt.

Alan McMonagle’s Psychotic Episodes

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

ALAN MCMONAGLE, the Sligo born, Galway based, short story writer, will launch his new book Psychotic Episodes, as part of the Cúirt festival.

The stories feature a troubled boy who convinces himself he can fly; an elderly women who turns into a man; two adolescents’ unusual list of ideal women; and a childless couple given their nephew for the day.

Far From Literature We Were Reared

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

A NIGHT of short stories, music and song, spoken word, and literary craic will make up Far From Literature We Were Reared in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 8pm.

A score of Galway Stories from Doire Press

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

NEXT WEEK, with Galway hosting authors from all over the world as part of Cúirt, the city itself and its own writers are showcased in a fine new anthology from Doire Press, entitled Galway Stories, to be launched during the festival.

Laurent Binet - Heydrich, history, and me

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

AT ITS heart, HHhH, the debut work of French journalist Laurent Binet, is about Reinhard Heydrich – head of the Gestapo and criminal police in the Third Reich, deputy leader of the SS, and Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, administering the Nazi occupation of what is now the Czech Republic – and Operation Anthropoid, the British backed plot to assassinate him.

Wille and the Bandits @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

BRITISH ROOTS-rock band Wille and The Bandits have been hailed as “the new Seasick Steve,” by The Kaiser Chiefs and one of the UK’s “best live acts” by The Daily Telegraph.

The Cabin Collective play debut show for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

THE CABIN Collective, featuring The Saw Doctors’ Leo Moran and singer-songwriter Noelie McDonnell, play their debut gig at this month’s Cúirt festival.

Mephisto bring Grenades to Inis Oírr

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

NUALA KELLY is a nine-year-old living with her mother, brother, and grandfather in conflict torn Northern Ireland in 1979.

Music making from tree to note

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

WHAT GOES into the making of an instrument? What are the processes, skills, materials, and equipment necessary to make a violin, a flute, or a guitar?

Niall Connolly returns

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

SINGER-SONGWRITER Niall Connolly makes a welcome return to Galway city to play a show promoting his new album Sound.

Vinnie’s TV @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

LED BY New Jersey singer-songwriter Wade Lynch, Vinnie’s TV play folk/roots rock inspired by Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, and Nick Drake.

The Cork based band play Monroes Live on Saturday April 27 at 9pm. The music incorporates Americana rock with Irish trad. Lyrically, Lynch’s main influence is John Steinbeck and the songs deal with love, loss, displacement and heartache. Check out their debut EP St Ouen and the album The Grapes and Ghosts.

Innovative new drama from THEATREclub

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

“SO THEATRE is a safe, middle-class thing, and young people think it's boring? THEATREclub beg to disagree. They’re taking conventional notions of theatre and shoving them back in our faces.