Elvis is alive and well in Monroe's

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

AUGUST 2017 will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of 'The King of Rock'n'Roll' - Elvis Presley, and in advance of that, a major Elvis tribute show is coming to Monroe's Live.

Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta to launch new album

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

AFTER A 17 year hiatus, Connemara melodeon player, Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta, returns with a new album, An Rithim Réidh, which he will launch at a show in Indreabhán next week.

Distortion final to take place at The Quays

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

CONMAN, DEAD Horse Jive, Foxy Boxxing, Patrick Conneely, and Tobi will fight to be the first winner of Distortion, the new music competition organised by NUI Galway Music Society.

Passenger to play Galway International Arts Festival in 2017

Wed, Mar 01, 2017

HE HAS amassed 1.3 billion views on YouTube for his hit single 'Let Her Go', won the Independent Music Award in 2013 and an Ivor Novello Award in 2014, and enjoyed a No 1 album with 2016's Young as the Morning Old as the Sea. This year he plays Galway.

Theatre review: Eternal Youth (Cáca Dána Theatre Company)

Theatre Reviews Tue, Feb 28, 2017

BRIGHT YOUNG things Cáca Dána Theatre Company, formed in Galway just last year, were in the Town Hall Studio recently with their second production; Niamh Ryan’s hugely impressive Eternal Youth.

Druid announces 2017 programme of plays

Mon, Feb 27, 2017

CRESTFALL, AN early play by Mark O'Rowe, best known for scripting the films Intermission and Perrier's Bounty, will be staged as part of the 2017 Galway International Arts Festival.

Kathy Ross's street scenes of Galway

Mon, Feb 27, 2017

SOME OF Galway's best known street scenes are depicted by Galway artist Kathy Ross in an exhibition currently running in the Leaf and Bean Café in Tuam.

Album review: WHY?

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 23, 2017

THERE ARE few more individual, yet conversely definitive, voices in American indie than WHY? founder/leader/singer Yoni Wolf, and his brilliance and ambition as a songwriter, indeed composer, is writ large on Moh Lhean.

Frankie Gavin and Liam Ó Maonlaí headline Éigse an Spidéil

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

FRANKIE GAVIN and Liam Ó Maonlaí will headline Éigse an Spidéil 2017, the village's annual arts festival, which has been running for more than 30 years, and which runs from Thursday March 2 to Sunday 5.

Tull MacAdoo needs your vote to be The Successful TD

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

VOTE FOR Tull MacAdoo and he will look after you. A vote for Tull is a seat for yourself. He fought in the 1916 Rising, brought 200 jobs to the region, and has arranged television licenses and free electricity grants for “constituents in need”.

‘The far right don’t get the subtleties of provocative humour’

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

THE SCOTTISH scourge of Trump supporters; exposer of the hypocrisy of Alt-Right 'free speech’ advocates; an inveterate Tweeter; a star of TV, Vine, and webcams; author of “daft wee stories”; a phenomenon - Limmy is a Renaissance man of modern Comedy.

Isabelle Huppert in Things To Come

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

FRENCH FILM Things To Come, winner of Best Director at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, and starring Isabelle Huppert will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre by the Galway Film Society.

The Black Gate Centre - Galway’s newest, hippest arts venue

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

GALWAY'S CULTURAL landscape has just acquired a lively and impressive addition in The Black Gate Centre, on St Francis Street. Catering for music, literature, art, film, dance, and learning, it aims to be a home for the artist and a haven for art lovers.

Remembering The Screamers for TULCA 2017

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

FROM ITS beginnings in a leftist London commune in the 1970s, to its becoming a controversial source of fascination in 1970s Ireland, 'The Screamers' were advocates of Arthur Janov primal therapy, and have inspired this year's TULCA festival.

Dinosaur - British jazz 'supergroup' to play Clifden

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

"IMAGINE THE impressionistic electric-jazz moodiness and glistening keyboard textures of Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way seamlessly wrapped around Celtic folk melodies." That was how The Guardian described jazz 'supergroup' Dinosaur.

Actors wanted for GMIT graduate films

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

ACTORS ARE sought for two lead roles in Stalls, an upcoming student graduate short film production in Galway. The final film will be screened in the Eye Cinema.

NUIG students to stage rarely seen play Machinal

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

NUI GALWAY'S O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance is about to stage its first production, the classic 1928 American expressionist drama Machinal, by Sophie Treadwell.

Cúirt labs - creative workshops for young people

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

THE CÚIRT The Labs, the education and youth strand of Galway's international festival of literature, aimed at schools and young people, returns from Monday April 24 to Saturday 29.

Benjamin Francis Leftwich to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

HE PLAYS "enchanting, fragile folk-pop" says The Independent. His music is "steeped in emotion” according to DIY, and he is "the real deal” declared Q. He is Benjamin Francis Leftwich.

Mick Lally Theatre available for hire

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

THE MICK Lally Theatre on Druid Lane, off Quay Street, home to renowned Galway theatre company, Druid, is a state of the art venue now available for hire for private and public events.

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