Galway African Film Festival 2017

Tue, May 23, 2017

THE FATHER of African film, Cape Verde's best loved LGBT woman, and the coming of age of an Afro hipster, these are just some of the stories and people to feature at the 10th annual Galway African Film Festival.

Reginald D Hunter - back in Galway in 2017

Tue, May 23, 2017

HE HAS often been controversial, he has often been provocative, he is always challenging. He is Reginald D Hunter, the comedian who, according to The Times, is always "going for broke, flying in the face of received opinion in a way that is simply exhilarating".

Paisiún Presents: "Letting Go"

Fri, May 19, 2017

We would be delighted if you could join us on June 4th @ the Árus na nGael courtyard to enjoy insightful talks, live music, local food, interactive art, honest conversation and dancing like nobody’s watching.

Tom Green’s European Road Trip hits Galway

Thu, May 18, 2017

TOM GREEN'S European Road Trip 2017 is heading to Ireland, and one of his stop offs in the country will be Galway, where the Canadian comic can be expected to share his wonderfully cracked view of the world.

Waves - paying homage to pioneering Australian women

Thu, May 18, 2017

AUSTRALIAN SWIMMER Elizabeth Moncello was the unofficial inventor of the butterfly stroke. She had a watertight reason for learning to swim and watching schools of fish, penguins, and other amphibian friends taught her how.

Discover the world of Vermeer

Thu, May 18, 2017

THE PAINTINGS of the 17th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, who depicted domestic interior scenes and is renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light, is the subject of a major new documentary.

Album review: The Charlatans

Music Reviews Thu, May 18, 2017

IT SAYS much for The Charlatans that, while other Manchester bands of their vintage who may have been bigger went and imploded long ago, Tim Burgess and friends have quietly been able to keep going.

Bruce Springsteen's right-hand man to play Galway

Thu, May 18, 2017

GARRY TALLENT, a long serving member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, is taking time out from those duties to go on a solo tour which will see him head to Ireland, and Galway, next month.

Crestfall - women on the edge

Thu, May 18, 2017

THREE WOMEN in one place, on one evening, under an unforgiving sky, find themselves on the precipice of catastrophe. This is Crestfall by Mark O’Rowe, which will be staged by Druid as part of the 2017 Galway International Arts Festival.

The Vikings are coming - to party, not to pillage

Thu, May 18, 2017

The Claddagh boatmen's Bádóirí an Chladaigh Regatta 2017 will not only showcase the finest Galway hookers and gleoiteogs in the West of Ireland, but brave an invasion of two Viking longships, thereby giving this year’s event a decidedly Nordic feel.

Sexy, outrageous, unclassifiable - Galway Burlesque Festival 2017

Thu, May 18, 2017

FROM THE sexy to the outrageous, from the traditional to the utterly unclassifiable, the 2017 Galway Burlesque Festival has it all, as burlesque performers from across the world will be strutting their fabulously wonderful stuff in the city next week.

Irish Times' Eileen Battersby to read at Over The Edge

Thu, May 18, 2017

EILEEN BATTERSBY, the chief literary critic of The Irish Times will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday May 25 at 6.30pm, along with Kathryn Guille and Chris Connolly.

Three Norn Iron comedians walk into a bar...

Thu, May 18, 2017

THREE TOP Northern Irish comedians - Micky Bartlett, Shane Todd, and Colin Geddis - will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow night for a first rate taste of Ulster comedy.

A FEAST of polyrhythmic heaviness

Thu, May 18, 2017

HIBAGON, THE heavy, polyrhythmic, duo from Bergamo, northern Italy, headline the next FEAST night this Saturday at 8.30pm in the Róísín Dubh's upstairs bar.

Actors sought for Crime & Punishment

Thu, May 18, 2017

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, 1861. A young man commits a violent murder in cold blood. He considers himself a Napoleon, acting for a higher purpose. Confronted with the seriousness of his crime, only the prostitute Sonja, offers redemption.

The saxophone and a mediaeval lover's journey

Thu, May 18, 2017

THE SAXOPHONE is an instrument indelibly associated with jazz, a musical form created by African-Americans in the early 20th century, so what is a saxophone doing at a concert at the Galway Early Music Festival?

Galway Actors Workshop summer course

Thu, May 18, 2017

GALWEGIANS INTERESTED in trying their hand at acting, picking up the basics of acting, and getting out of the house and meeting people, can try an eight-week course from the Galway Actors Workshop.

Chasing Abbey to play Monroe's Live

Thu, May 18, 2017

"YOU KNOW where you should be going for your hip-hop? Tullamore, County Offaly. This is Ro, Bee, and TeddyC, they're called Chasing Abbey," so said Today FM's Dermot & Dave.

Spiccato Junction revisited

Thu, May 18, 2017

IN THE mid-Noughties, the enthusiastic, energetic fusion of Irish trad and classical by the combined forces of the Máirtín O’Connor Band and the ConTempo Quartet, was a thrilling sight in concert.

Make Haste To The Wedding

Thu, May 18, 2017

YOUNG MUSICIANS and singers from the Athenry Music School Horizon Orchestra, the St Nicholas Choristers, Maoincheoil na Gaillimhe’s Adult String Orchestra, and Galway Early Music’s Red Earl’s Musicke join forces for the Galway Early Music Festival.

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