Sex, guns, and break-ups

Tue, Feb 27, 2018

AFTER IT'S award-winning debut in last year’s Galway Fringe Festival, garnering the ‘Best Emerging Artists’ award, Eva’s Echo Theatre Company presented it's second production last week, The Way It Is, by American playwright Donna Hoke.

'We're where we want to be. We know who we are now'

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

FEW IRISH albums of recent years have been as genuinely deserving of the epitaph ‘long awaited’ as Wyvern Lingo’s debut. The anticipation began after the Wicklow trio’s Letter To Willow EP which saw them shift dramatically away from their original prog/folk leanings, and towards a sharp, modern, RnB/soul sound.

Tracy Bruen - new single, Galway shows

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

TRACY BRUEN, one of Galway's most outstanding singer-songwriters, recently released her new single, 'Fall Away', and will tour Ireland, Germany, and the Czech Republic over the coming weeks.

The Nualas - a Glam-Slam for May

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

BAM! POW! Biff! Shazam! The Nualas are getting ready to hit Galway with a Glam-Slam - their new show which they bring to the city in May.

Images of Kinvara craftspeople at work

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

A SERIES of striking photographic portraits, featuring craftspeople from Kinvara, and its surrounding region, at work, is about to go on exhibition in the south Galway village.

The Cripple of Inishmaan in Kinvara

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

IN 1934, on Inis Meáin in the Aran Islands, there is great excitement when news arrives that a Hollywood film is being made on the neighbouring island of Inis Mór.

Jason Byrne; balls, brains and chaos

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

ONE-MAN comic maelstrom Jason Byrne whirls into the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday March 10 at 7.30pm with his new show, The Man With Three Brains, which has been drawing rave reviews and sell-out crowds.

Show Me The Funny grand final 2018

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

AFTER FIVE exciting heats, the grand final of Show Me The Funny takes place this Monday, February 26, at The King's Head, High Street, with 12 finalists battling it out.

Ciaran Lavery - new album, Monroe's show

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

IN HIS five years as a solo artist, Ciaran Lavery has clocked up more than 80 million streams on Spotify, while in 2016 he won the Northern Ireland Music Prize for his album Let Bad In.

Peppa Pig’s Adventure comes to Galway

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

PEPPA PIG is on a big adventure, so big it's taking her all the way to the Black Box and it has also led to an extra performance being added due to public demand.

William Fitzgerald named new Galway Film Fleadh programmer

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

William Fitzgerald has been appointed as the new programmer for the Galway Film Fleadh, taking over from Gar O’Brien who has stepped down after seven years in the role.

La Bohème to be screened at The Eye

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

AT 95, veteran Italian film maker and opera producer Franco Zeffirelli shows no signs of slowing down, as he is staging Puccini's much loved La Bohème at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

Steven Sharpe and Tara Stacey - live

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

THE OUTRAGEOUSLY brilliant Steve Sharpe, and the quirkily wonderful Tara Stacey, will be in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh, for a double bill of great music and song.

John B Keane's Big Maggie in Loughrea

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

MAGGIE POLPIN is a mother, a widow, and a shop owner. Not only does she have these three roles to contend with, she must also battle against the expectations, morals, and judgments of her small town neighbours.

Redmond O'Toole - one day, two concerts

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

REDMOND O'TOOLE, described as "an important ambassador for the classical guitar in Ireland" by the Royal Irish Academy of Music, is coming to Galway next week to play a lunchtime concert.

Galway Rocks For Hospice

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

LEADING GALWAY covers band, such as Tightrope and Metallica tribute band Whiplash, will take to the stage of The King's Head for the Galway Rocks For Hospice charity night.

Creedence Clearwater revived

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

BETWEEN 1968 and 1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival released seven albums - a staggering three alone in 1969 - enjoying enormous artistic, commercial, and critical success in that period.

A night in memory of Dolores O’Riordan

Wed, Feb 21, 2018

DREAMING HER Dreams: A Night in Memory of Dolores O’Riordan, which takes place this weekend, will see some of Galway's finest singers and musicians perform songs by the late Limerick songwriter.

Joshua Burnside - a world of (unconventional) music

Tue, Feb 20, 2018

HIS MUSIC has been called "rumbling, brooding, powerful, magnetic" by The Irish Times, and "dynamic and wide ranging" by Chordblossom, while BBC Radio 1's Phil Taggart said "it makes you glad to have a pair of working ears".

A Russian take on Martin McDonagh's west of Ireland

Tue, Feb 20, 2018

LAST WEEKEND, An Taibhdhearc hosted one of Russia’s premier theatre companies, U Mosta, from Perm, which presented two plays - Nikolai Gogol’s Marriage and Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan.

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