2016 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

THE 2016 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring readings by poets, and book launches, takes place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday February 12 at 6.30pm.

Get ready for a threesome with Little John Nee

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

LITTLE JOHN Nee presents his new show Talking Derry Boat, at the Town Hall Theatre studio tomorrow and Saturday, in what is the first of three shows at the venue, the others being The Church of Chill in March and Ribbons, a collaboration with Laura Sheeran, in April.

Taking a satirical scalpel to the body politic

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

"THE BEST satire has always been militantly about the present," declares Galway poet and critic Kevin Higgins, who turns his witty, devilishly humorous, eye and words upon Alan Kelly, Irish Water, Official Ireland, and Jeremy Corbyn’s enemies, in a new collection.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

JOHN COLLEARY, a star and co-writer of three times IFTA nominated The Savage Eye, and regarded as one of Ireland’s best comedic wits, plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh, tomorrow [Friday February 5] at 8.30pm.

The Whileaways to play Foróige Youth Café

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

THE ACCLAIMED Galway folk, roots, and Americana trio, The Whileaways, will play the first Show Up and Show Off, a new concert series at the Foróige Galway City Youth Café on The Fairgreen.

The other bomb plot to kill Hitler

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

THE JULY 1944 bomb plot to kill Hitler is widely known, but there was an earlier attempt on the Führer's life, a story explored in the film 13 Minutes, from Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel.

Leaving Cert art history and appreciation study day

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

The Galway Arts Centre will hold a study day for students taking art history and appreciation in the Leaving Cert on Friday March 11, from 9am to 3pm at the Nuns Island Theatre.

David O'Doherty returns to Town Hall in May

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

TO MISQUOTE Oscar Wilde, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at David O'Doherty. It is not so much a misquote, as the name of the new show by the great keyboard wielding comic.

Richard Hawley to play Black Box in February

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

RICHARD HAWLEY, one of Britain's finest contemporary songwriters, plays the Black Box Theatre on Friday February 26 at 8pm, as part of his British and Irish tour, supporting his latest album Hollow Meadows.

Lunchtime classical music concert

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

MUSIC BY Schubert, Boccherini and Dohnanyi will be heard when the ensemble Musici Ireland play the Hotel Meyrick’s Oyster Bar on Thursday February 11 at 1.05pm.

The Three Tenors return to the Town Hall

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

THE THREE Tenors make a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday February 13 at 8pm, for a show that will also feature violinist Maria Mason, Aimee Banks, and the Scoil Íde Choir.

Scottish singer-songwriter Colin Clyne @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

STRAIGHT UP melodic country-rock, with a twist of folk, and a dash of Americana is what Galway can expect when award winning Scottish singer-songwriter Colin Clyne plays Monroe's Live on Wednesday February 24.

Corrib Live concert to raise funds for COPE and AMP

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

IROCKS COMPETITION winners Rofi James and Galway trad-rock band Cúla Búla headline the Corrib Live charity music event in the Commercial Boat Club, Woodquay, on Friday February 12.

Road Wives and The Optimists @ The Loft

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

ROAD WIVES, the new electro-pop project from Jack Quinn, and Dublin pop/alternative band The Optimists, play The Loft at Seven, for separate shows over the coming days.

Huxley @ Electric

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

HUXLEY, THE English deep house/garage producer and DJ, best known for the hits 'Box Clever', 'I Want You', and 'Shower Scene', spins the decks at Electric on Thursday February 11.

Relive Grunge @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

GRUNGE BEGAN in Washington State in the 1980s, with bands like Green River - containing future members of Pearl Jam and Mudhoney - before going overground with Nirvana's Nevermind, and coming to an untimely end with Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994.

New music workshops for teens

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

A NEW music based workshop for those aged between 13 and 18, takes place on Fridays from 8pm to 9.30pm at the ARD Family Resource Centre in Doughiska, and admission is free and open to all.

Citóg to showcase leading Galway singer-songwriters

Wed, Feb 03, 2016

TWO OF Galway's finest singer-songwriters - Ultan Conlon and Eoin Dolan - will be among the headline acts at the Citóg nights taking place in the Róisín Dubh across February, which will also feature punk, indie, prog, and folk.

Public lecture on the man who wrote our national anthem

Tue, Feb 02, 2016

'Amhrán na bhFiann', the Irish national anthem, is by its very nature is one of the most performed songs in Ireland, and sometimes has controversy thrust upon it, becayuse of where it is, and is not, performed - but what of the man who wrote it?

Cinema review: Spotlight

Films Reviews Mon, Feb 01, 2016

THE SURPRISE of the year so far is Spotlight. Much like Room it is an uncomfortable topic that will be avoided by people but you should not avoid it (or Room for that matter). The film concentrates on the investigation run by the Boston Globe in 1999/2000, on the systematic abuse and ensuing cover-up by the Catholic church throughout the last century.

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