Musical Mayhem

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

MUSICAL MAYHEM, the Galway based gig series night will celebrate six years on the go with a major showcase in Monroe’s on Friday February 5 at 9pm, featuring The Clandestinos, This Side Up, Cula Bula, and the Gabriel G Band.

DeFeKT to DJ @ The Loft

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

DEFEKT'S USE use of analog drum machines and modular synths is a breath of fresh air in today’s laptop dominated scene, and it has won him admirers throughout the electronic music community.

Grace upon a time

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jan 14, 2016

He is sitting there, all alone, huddled in the chilly May dew upon a rock dressed in seaweed. His scruffy, woollen coat wrapped tightly around his frailing 84 year old body. The waves, roughly batter around his black, scuffed ankle boots as he licks on an icecream cone. A lonesome seagull is perched on the rock beside him trying to peck at the cornet. ‘Away with you,’ he flummoxed with his tar stained, crinkly hand. ‘Shoo.’ It has always baffled me as to where he can get an icecream cone for his breakfast. The town is a distance away and his feeble waddle would take him a good two hours to walk. I am convinced he lives in the icecream truck hiding behind the Burrishoole, Grace O’Malley castle, over towering beside us. I often hear the jingle of the icecream van but I can never see it.

We Banjo 3 - banjoing in the New Year at Monroe's

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

MONROE'S LIVE is the place to be next Thursday as We Banjo 3 and Four Men and a Dog team up to see in the New Year in high style with an epic night of scintillating music and song. It will be a rare chance for Galway audiences to catch We Banjo 3 live this year as they are in huge demand internationally.

Galway Film Society's winter/spring 2016 season

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

GRUMPY OLD men, bizarre love triangles, singers with stage fright, and American anti-capitalism will be the stuff of the cinema screen at The Galway Film Society's winter/spring 2016 season runs at the Town Hall Theatre from January 17 to March 20.

Public debate on WWI's ‘separation women’

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

Fighting for 'King and country' was never a great motivation for Irishmen to fight in The Great War, but there was motivation to be found in the form of the payment of separation allowances to the dependents of servicemen.

NoRopes return with The Open Couple

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

NOROPES PRODUCTION of The Open Couple returns to the Town Hall Studio on Friday January 15 and Saturday 16 at 8.30pm. A three-hander, its fast-paced, satirical style, perfectly suits the studio setting.

Jason Byrne - 20 Years A Clown

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

JASON BYRNE, 20 years in comedy, two decades of making Ireland and Britain laugh, and critical acclaim which has led The Times to declare him, "the outright king of live comedy". No wonder he is in a mood to celebrate.

A Sudanese exhibition in Kinvara

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

DESERT TO Doorus, is the title of a fascinating new art exhibition which is currently running in Kinvara, which features the work of Salah Ibrahim and Ahmed Hussein, from Darfur in the Sudan.

The Famine - Gaeilge's Armageddon?

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THERE IS a popular perception that “The Great Hunger” of 1845 to 1849 was a one-off affair, a unique event, and that there are two totally different Irelands - the one before and the one after The Famine.

Little Green Cars - new album and Seapoint concert

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

ONE OF the most anticipated Irish albums of the year, Little Green Cars's Ephemera, will be released on March 11 and ahead of that the band will play Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill on Saturday March 29.

Show Me The Funny - return of the New Year laughs

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THE JANUARY blues will be banished with laughter when Show Me The Funny, and annual competition to find Ireland's next emerging comedy star, returns to The Kings Head on Monday January 11.

Lindi Ortega - country/soul @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

LINDI ORTEGA calls herself a "crazy storm chasin', red lipstick, red boot wearin', guitar slinging, singer songwriter gal!" while The Guardian said her voice "bears comparison with country forebears Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn".

Amy director to speak in Galway

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

ASIF KAPADIA, the director of Amy, the critically and commercially successful documentary on the life of singer Amy Winehouse, will attend Talking Documentary, the Galway Film Centre’s annual Film and TV seminar.

New exhibition from Richard Hearns

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

RICHARD HEARNS, described by the Sunday Independent as "one of contemporary Irish art's best kept secrets" whose "star is in the ascendant" will exhibit his paintings in Anton’s Cafe, Fr Griffin Road.

Galway hospital's poetry competition

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THE GALWAY University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries again for annual poetry competition. Poems entered should be no more than 30 lines long and entries are being accepted up to Friday March 11.

Poems to disturb your peace

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THERE ARE people, those with the better variety of accent, and PhDs mostly purchased for them their parents, who will use the fact that James O’Toole’s debut poetry collection, The Street, is self-published to try and dismiss it.

Galway Sings Project Choir seeks new members

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THE GALWAY Sings Project Choir is seeking new members for the upcoming term and is open to those who want to sing in a group, sing in public, learn how to sing in harmony, or who want to try something different.

The Henry Girls @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THE HENRY Girls, who have won renown for what Songlines magazine calls their "graceful harmonies, charming vocals, and elegant musicianship", return to Monroe's Live on Wednesday January 20 at 8pm.

Highly Strung at Courthouse Square

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

FOR LITTLE John Nee and The Caledonia Highly Strung Orchestra, the boundaries between fiction and reality are a movable feast, it is hard to tell whether life imitates art or visa versa.

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