Uncover the real Renoir

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

RENOIR IS one of the best loved artists of all time, for his wonderful depictions of beautiful women and 19th century French life, but he is also one of arts most influential figures.

Rackhouse Pilfer return to Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

RACKHOUSE PILFER, acclaimed for their stomping alt.country, bluegrass, and Amerciana, as evidenced by their winning the Hotpress/Jaegermesier Live Band of the Year 2015 award, return to Galway.

Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

FOR THE first time in a quarter of a century, Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, about a servant girl impregnated by a royal, receives a full production in Galway.

A concert of Mozart wind serenades

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

MUSIC BY Mozart, as well as the Irish premiere of Jonathan Dove's 'Figures in the Garden', will be performed in Galway by eight leading national and international wind players

Bizarre love triangle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE FRENCH are masters when it comes to the bizarre love triangle, they are of course the inventors of the concept of the menage à trois, and a complicated love trio is at the heart of All About Them.

The Addams Family @ The Black Box

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE ADDAMS Family, the comedy musical about everyone's favourite dysfunctional ghoulish relatives, is currently running at The Black Box Theatre in a production by the Galway University Musical Society.

Earl Jeffers to DJ @ new TRIBE night

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

DJ EARL Jeffers who formerly released music under the moniker Chesus, will headline Tribe, a new club night in The Loft, at Seven, which takes place on Tuesday February 16 at 10pm.

Club Lonely for Valentine's dancing

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

CLUB LONELY, a night of serious disco, house, "love and plenty of dancing", takes place in The Blue Note this Sunday, with DJ sets from P.Disconaut, Mitch, Byron B Yeates, and Nuff' Said.

My Tribe Your Tribe - alt-rock and electro

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

MY TRIBE Your Tribe, whose music mixes alternative rock and electro, will play Monroe’s Live on Thursday March 3 at 10pm.

Soul man Buck Taylor to play Galway

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

AMERICAN SOUL singer Buck Taylor, and his band, will take to the stage of The Clybaun Hotel this Saturday, when the Kentucky born singer will present his Soul Fever Show.

Get funked up with The Good Hustle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

FUNK, SOUL, rock, and dance, will collide in floor-filling and exciting fashion when The Good Hustle play The Loft at Seven, Bridge Street, on Saturday February 20.

Valentine's Day at Biteclub

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

BITECLUB on Abbeygate Street will mark Valentine's Day this Sunday, with music, food, and drinks.

Solo show from Augustines' William McCarthy

Wed, Feb 10, 2016

WILLIAM MCCARTHY, the charismatic frontman of Brooklyn indie band Augustines,' plays a solo show at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 18 at 8pm.

The outspoken vicar who called Pearse a 'mincing floor-walker'

Mon, Feb 08, 2016

The Rev Richard Henebry was not shy about speaking his mind, particularly when it came to his great passion - the Irish language. Indeed he called Pádraig Pearse's Irish language stories, "the mincing of an underassistant floor-walker of a millinery shop".

Public lecture on the life and ideas of Eoin MacNeill

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

Eoin MacNeill is best known as the man who countermanded the order for the 1916 Rising to begin, and for representing the Government at the boundary commission which left the country still partitioned.

Páraic Breathnach - Straight Outta Connamara

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

NWA WERE Straight Outta Compton, but Galway's own Connemara bad boy raconteur, Páraic Breathnach, is comin' Straight Outta Connamara, in his new stand-up comedy show at the Róisín Dubh.

Druid announces 2016 programme

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

SAMUEL BECKETT'S Waiting For Godot, and Helen and I, a new work of Tuam playwright Meadhbh McHugh, will both be performed as part of Druid Theatre Company's programme of work for 2016.

Des Kelly - the quiet legend of Irish music

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

HE FOUNDED The Capitol Showband that scored a number of firsts for Irish bands at home and abroad. He discovered songwriting legend Phil Coulter, he set visionary trad band Planxty on the road to success, he is Des Kelly.

Album review: The Prettiots

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 04, 2016

IT COULD all be very twee, a light hearted look at love'n'life'n'boys by New York twentysomethings Kay Kasparhauser (vocals/ukulele), Lulu Prat (bass), and actor/musician Rachel Trachtenburg (drums), all very kooky, quirky, and indie.

Award winning Nordic film @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

TWO BROTHERS have lived side by side for 40 years, tending their sheep farms, but in all that time they have refused to speak to each other, communicating only via written messages delivered by a pet dog.

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