Can The Watchmaker save time and the city?

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

THE CLOCK in the town's main square has been stolen, leading to confusion and panic among the citizens, especially when evil spirits arrive, causing mayhem, violence, and confusion.

Big names for Galway Jazz Festival 2017

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

MAJOR JAZZ names such as Arve Henriksen and the Haz'art Trio, among others, play the 2017 Galway Jazz Festival, which runs from Thursday October 5 to Sunday 8.

Irish and Indian poetry anthology

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

POETS FROM Ireland and India ponder questions of home, belonging, identity, exclusion and homogenisation, in a new anthology to be launched in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop.

The Fureys to play the Town Hall

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

IRISH FOLK music legends, The Fureys, best known for the songs ‘When You Were Sweet 16’, ‘The Green Fields Of France’, 'Red Rose Café’, ‘Leaving Nancy’, and ‘Steal Away’, return for their 14th visit to the Town Hall Theatre.

New play-reading group devoted to women playwrights

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

GALWAY SCRIPTS & Scribes is a new play-reading group which, starting next Monday evening at the Commercial Boat Club in Woodquay, will host weekly sessions exploring works by women playwrights.

William Orpen and The Great War

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

IN 1917, the Irish artist William Orpen was appointed an official war artist and sent to the Western Front with a strict brief from the British War Office as to who and what he was to paint.

Calling all Galway pubs, you are invited to take part in Galway’s first PUBLICAN’S PINT RACE!

Wed, Sep 27, 2017

WHAT IS INVOLVED?
1. Your pub fund raises for Western Alzheimers (we have a list of fundraising ideas if you need inspiration!).

Shrug Life - debut album, Strange Brew gig

Tue, Sep 26, 2017

"WRITER'S BLOCK and common cold, the pointless fear of growing old...wearing cheap synthetic fibres with unspoken Western guilt". Add to that a crap cup of coffee "with your name spelt wrong" and you have...'First World Problems'.

Bowie, Berlin, and the Kosmische Musik

Music Reviews Tue, Sep 26, 2017

AFTER ZIGGY Stardust, The Gouster soul boy, and The Thin White Duke, where could Bowie possibly go next? The answer lay, not so much in the mask of a character, rather it lay in a location, one where Bowie could feel free to be, perhaps, a little more himself.

Niall Connolly - new album, Róisín Dubh show

Mon, Sep 25, 2017

NIALL CONNOLLY, “among the most vibrant, poignant, and authentic indie folk artists in New York City", according to folk music magazine No Depression, has released his new album and is touring Ireland this month.

Over The Edge Open Reading at Galway City Library

Mon, Sep 25, 2017

THE WRITERS Oisín Fagan, Dara Ó Foghlu, and Paul Denby will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday September 28, from 6.30pm to 8pm.

Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

THEY'RE BACK! Basil, Sybil, and Manuel return to serve up more madcap mayhem, dinner, and a feast of comic delights - some familiar, some off the cuff - but guaranteed to keep diners laughing all the way to dessert.

Wouldn't it be good to see Nik Kershaw?

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

IF YOU HAVE been watching Top Of The Pops from 1984, Thursday and Friday nights on BBC4, you will have have seen Nik Kershaw all over those episodes, scoring big hits with 'Wouldn't It Be Good?' and 'I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me'.

The paintings of Canaletto @ The Eye

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

CANALETTO, THE 18th century Italian artist, celebrated for his paintings of Venice and London, will be the subject of the next Exhibition on Screen documentary to be screened at The Eye Cinema.

Art classes with Jennifer Cunningham

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

FOLLOWING THE success of her All That Surrounds Us solo show in the Royal Hibernian Academy, Galway artist Jennifer Cunningham is taking bookings for her Autumn term classes and one day workshops.

Footsbarn fly over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

YOU HAVE to go back to 1998 for Footsbarn Theatre Company’s last visit to Galway, so its long-overdue return to the city is a cause for much rejoicing. From Sunday October 1 to Wednesday 4 at The Black Box, Footsbarn will present its freewheeling, richly imaginative, interpretation of Ken Kesey’s classic novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

'Comedy rushed in as religion rushed out'

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

AMONG THE array of comic talent converging on Galway for next month’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival is Katy Brand, award-winning writer and performer of TV sketch series Katy Brand’s Big Ass, among many other credits. In Galway she will perform her hit Edinburgh Festival show I Was a Teenage Christian, an honest, fascinating and funny exploration of her teenage immersion in evangelical Christianity.

Shellac return to the Róísín Dubh

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

MORE LIKELY to play Reykjavik than Detroit, more likely to release songs on flexi-discs in Dutch comic books than provide MP3s on their website, Shellac have long operated outside typical mainstream practices.

Comedy at the Clubh for Culture Night

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

A LIMERICK doctor; a Nigerian immigrant; a Dingle bachelorette; an American, a bald guy from Belfast, and the Irish comedian of the year, will be on stage at the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow night.

Get sizzling with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

BETTY ROSE Royal will make her Irish debut at September Sizzle, this month's show from The Dirty Circus, and another top quality night of burlesque and cabaret sauce and sexiness is assured.

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