A lusty line-up for Music For Galway

Wed, Sep 05, 2018

WANDERLUST - STRICTLY speaking it means a great desire to travel, although in the popular imagination, it can be equivalent to the saucy and licentious adventures of lusty trousered youth in the early 19th century.

The 'luminous, life affirming' songs of Padraig Stevens

Theatre Reviews Mon, Sep 03, 2018

ON SATURDAY evening I finally made it to one of the Ollie Jennings-run Druid Sessions in the Mick Lally Theatre which have been proving a big hit with gig-goers over the past few months. This was the fifth gig in the series and featured Padraig Stevens with Leo Moran.

Galway Designers Studio House - New reasons to love September!

Mon, Sep 03, 2018

September is the month to get the knowledge. Kids are back in school and college and even us grown-ups have time to actually get time to work on our own creativity.

Dylan Moran and Dr Cosmos

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

“SOME PEOPLE have told me I’m grumpy; it’s not something I’m aware of. It’s not like I walk around poking children in the eye...not very small ones anyway." So says Dylan Moran, about himself.

Launch of Ben Murphy poetry collection

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

FAIRHILL, THE Claddagh, the Spanish Arch, and Quay Street form the landscape and routes of On Nimmo's Pier, a collection of poetry by the late Ben Murphy, to be launched in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop, tomorrow at 6pm.

Galway Actors' Workshop to stage Medea

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

FIRST PRODUCED in 431BC, Euripides' Medea is one of the major works of western theatre, and it is about to receive a new production in the Town Hall Theatre from the Galway Actors' Workshop.

A French start to new Galway Film Society season

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

THE GALWAY Film Society's new season of screenings takes place in September, in the society's new home of the Pálás, with a new format and new start time.

Blues-rock guitarist Eamonn McCormack returns to Galway

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

THE INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed Irish blues-rock guitarist Eamonn McCormack will next month play his first Galway show in almost a decade, as part of his first Irish tour in more than five years.

Album review: Basement Revolver

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 30, 2018

THE SHOEGAZE revival has been continuing apace for most of this decade, but there is a key difference between its original late 80s/90s incarnation and its modern manifestation, namely the place of emotion.

Jimmy’s Hall - The Abbey’s rollicking 'céilí play'

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

A HIGHLIGHT of the Town Hall’s autumn programme is the September visit of the Abbey Theatre with its rollicking stage adaptation of Ken Loach's critically acclaimed film, Jimmy’s Hall.

Three chances to see Sean Lock

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

"I'M JUST organised. I always put a bit of butter on the knife before bed." That's how Sean Lock describes himself. The Times describes him as "gloriously intelligent, deliciously unlikely and hilariously funny".

Cinema review: BlacKkKlansman

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 30, 2018

BASED ON the true story of Ron Stallworth, the first black police officer in Colorado Springs and who managed to infiltrate the Klu Klux Klan, BlacKkKlansman feels like a spiritual successor to director Spike Lee’s Malcolm X and Do The Right Thing.

ConTempo's European lunchtime concerts

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

BREXIT HAS made Britain very unpopular. The EU's adherence to neo-liberal centrism has seen its reputation take a battering. The populist right is on the rise. Best take a break from our continent's awful politics, and concentrate on what it does best - culture.

IN LiMBO between traditional and modern

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

STRADDLING THE worlds of traditional and contemporary, IN LiMBO takes a journey where few have gone within Irish step dancing, as Galway will see when the show comes to the Town Hall Theatre.

'We’ve encoded our folk memory in language'

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

GLOBE-TROTTING Gaeilgeoir extraordinaire, Manchán Magan, brings two delightful interactive shows to the Town Hall Theatre next month, where he will invite audiences to explore and celebrate Irish language and culture.

Edwin Sammon to headline next Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

BETWEEN HIS stand-up sets and his TV roles as Fr Gabriel in Bridget and Eamon, and co-presenter on Republic Of Telly, Edwin Sammon has emerged as one of the most popular comedians in the country.

A new take on Strindberg’s Miss Julie at The Eye

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

JULIE, A re-imagining of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, from writer Polly Stenham, is being staged by Britain's National Theatre, and will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Victory for Galway's Testostertones choir

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

NUI GALWAY'S Testostertones won the National Male Choir Competition at the Cork International Choral Festival - the first college based choir, and the first Galway choir, to take this title.

Dylan Murphy releases new EP

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

DYLAN MURPHY, guitarist with Steven Sharpe & The Broke Straight Boys, makes a further step into solo territory with his new EP, Make Plans, his most confident and assured solo release to date.

Everything you ever wanted to know about designing video games

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

GALWEGIANS AGED from 10 to 12, who want to design video games, and learn what is involved in developing a game from concept to design, will have a chance to do so at a workshop in September.

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