Family entertainment guaranteed at gaming convention this weekend

Mon, Nov 06, 2017

Galway City is gearing up for the arrival of GamerFest 17 this weekend, expected to be the biggest gaming convention ever held in the west of Ireland. Taking place in the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, the event promises to be an awe-inspiring celebration of video games and entertainment for visitors of all ages and levels.

'I can still compete with anyone despite being around so long'

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

WHEN XTC’S Colin Moulding presented the band with ‘Making Plans For Nigel’, it immediately appealed to band leader Andy Partridge who felt the melody “reminded me of Gilbert O’Sullivan”.

Film of a family in crisis

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

ROMEO, MAGDA, and teenage daughter Eliza live in a neglected apartment in northwest Romania. When Eliza is assaulted just prior to taking her final exams, her scholarship to study psychology in the UK is put into jeopardy.

Alice returns to Wonderland at the Town Hall

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

SLIGO'S MUCH-vaunted Blue Raincoat Theatre Company come to the Town Hall next week with its imaginative staging of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, adapted for the stage by Jocelyn Clarke.

Denise Hogan to run new series of art workshops and classes

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

THE ARTISTS Denise Hogan and Gill Christie are hosting a range of morning and evening art classes, suitable for both beginners and experienced painters, in Roscam. Classes are strictly limited to 10 students per class and run in 10 week terms with the first class taking place on November 20.

Franz Ferdinand - tickets for Galway show on sale tomorrow

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

FRANZ FERDINAND play only two shows in Ireland in 2018 - and one of them is in Galway, with the Scottish quintet in concert in Leisureland, Salthill, the day after they release their new album Always Ascending.

Album review: Lankum

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 02, 2017

I RARELY get excited about Irish folk/trad albums, given most are either of the sickly slick super produced variety or else have that purist reductionism which renders trad as a kind of 'living dead' form where jibes that 'it all sounds the same' are not without foundation.

Family history research and genealogy event at Galway City Museum

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

The Western Family History Association will be in the Galway City Museum this Saturday to provide free family history and genealogy advice for members of the public starting or struggling with their research.

Artists work sought for Galway Arts Centre exhibition

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

THE GALWAY Arts Centre is inviting visual artists to submit up to three A5 artworks for the Dominick Street venue's A5 Art Fair which runs from December 1 to 3.

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

MARTIN HAYES and Dennis Cahill may be one of, if not the greatest, partnership in Irish trad. The duo, going strong since meeting in Chicago in the 1980s, return to Galway, to play the Róisín Dubh this month.

What Lenin has to teach us

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 02, 2017

LENIN FOR Today is neither a historical study nor a biography but an attempt by long time Socialist Workers Party member – and leading light in People Before Profit – John Molyneaux to make a case for Lenin’s ideas and organisational methods in the here and now.

Katie Kim returns to Galway

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

KATIE KIM, the slowcore, ethereal, ambient folk/pop singer-songwriter is coming to Galway to play the next FEAST night at the Róisín Dubh, performing songs from her new album, Salt.

Can't get enough of ConTempo?

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

SLY STONE urged us to "dance to the music" and the ConTempo Quartet is about to take audiences through their dance-paces, bringing them on a sonic journey from the formality of the Austrian courts to the wildness of the Romanian steppes.

Young Galway musicians to perform in Dublin

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

TWELVE YOUNG amateur musicians from Galway will perform in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, next month, as part of Dave Flynn's Irish Memory Orchestra.

Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon @ Bus King

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

AARON HURLEY, one half of the Galway indie-rock/avant-garde duo Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon, plays a solo acoustic show this weekend as part of the Bus King gig series.

Nathan Carter's brother to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

JAKE CARTER, the younger brother of Irish country music sensation Nathan Carter, has just released his new EP Three Things, and is coming to play Galway as part of his current Irish tour.

Big Tom and Johnny McEvoy for The Galway Sessions

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

COUNTRY AND Irish legends Big Tom and Margo, along with folk singer Johnny McEvoy, headline the Galway Sessions, hosted by Michael Commins, in The Salthill Hotel, on Sunday November 5 and Monday 6.

Nirvana tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

NEGATIVE CREEPS, the Nirvana tribute band who take their name from the final song on side one of Nirvana's 1989 debut album Bleach, are coming to Monroe's Live.

CarnEvil...the terror has just been extended

Wed, Nov 01, 2017

CARNEVIL, THAT dark maze into which you are plunged with nothing to guide you but your adrenaline and your fear of encountering those crazed, distrubed being who lurk in wait for you, scratching at the walls...

GB Shaw - a play and a lecture at NUIG

Wed, Nov 01, 2017

GEORGE BERNARD Shaw will be celebrated, examined, and performed at NUI Galway - with a production of his play The Millionairess, and a public discussion on his life and work, involving Fintan O'Toole.

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