Imelda May - the rockabilly queen returns

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

IMELDA MAY returns to Galway this summer and for the second year in a row, headlines a concert at the Galway Arts Festival Big Top.

Launch of newly discovered Liam O’Flaherty satiric essay

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

LIAM O’FLAHERTY is celebrated as the author of such short stories as His First Flight, but there is another, often neglected side, to the Aran Islands writer.

Wordhaus - marathons, footie, and music

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

NORTH POLE marathons, underground Irish music, and poems about football will all feature in the third Wordhaus event on Wednesday April 23 at 6.45pm.

Jake & The Neverland Pirates

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

JAKE & THE Neverland Pirates are coming to Galway and will be landing in the Radisson Blu Hotel tomorrow.

This family show, from Five Star Entertainment, will not only feature Jake and his crew, but Doctor McStuffing, Sofia the First, Mike from Monsters Inc; Stuart, Gru and Agnes from Despicable Me; The Ninja Turtles; and superheros the Incredible Hulk, Ironman, Captain America, and Batman.

An Taibhdhearc wins a prestigious theatre award

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

AN TAIBHDHEARC’S production of Tom Murphy’s An Tíoránach Drogallach has won The BBC Northern Ireland Irish Language Drama Award.

Special screening of The Usual Suspects

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

THE USUAL Suspects, one of the all-time great crime thrillers, will be given a special screening in Galway by The Jameson Cult Film Club.

Viking exhibition to be screened at The Eye

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

FOLLOWING THE discovery of a Viking boat and weapons in Lough Corrib, Galwegians can discovery more about this Scandinavian culture at an event at The Eye Cinema.

Creative writing workshops

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

THE FICTION writer and poet Susan Millar DuMars will host daytime classes in the Galway Arts Centre, for beginner and continuing creative writing students.

The class, which is suitable for those working in poetry or fiction, takes place on Mondays from 2.30pm to 4pm, starting May 12, and running for eight weeks.

In Their Thousands @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

IN THEIR Thousands’ music sits somewhere between the folk-rock of Mumford and Sons and Devendra Banhart and the epic indie of Alt-J and Django Django.

Album review - The Pixies

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 17, 2014

WHEN THE Pixies reformed a number of years ago and started touring again, the welcome was warm and the verdict positive.

Silent Disco Street Party

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

THE SILENT Disco moves out from the Róisín Dubh live venue and onto Dominick Street for a massive street party this Easter weekend.

DJ Hunee @ Factory

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

GALWAY CLUB nights Alice and Epoch are joining forces this Easter Sunday to throw two parties - a boat party and after party in Factory.

Galway Baroque Singers in concert

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

MOZART’S REQUIEM and three works by Handel will be performed by the Galway Baroque Singers in Galway Cathedral on Friday April 25 at 7.30pm.

The GBS, with director Audrey Corbett, will be joined by the National Sinfonia Orchestra; soloists Colette Boushell (soprano), Stephen Wallace (counter tenor), Stuart Kinsella (tenor), Geoffrey Ledwidge (bass); and conductor Proinnsias O’Duinn,

TULCA announce curator for 2014 festival

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

AISLING PRIOR, a co-founder of the Galway Film Centre, has been appointed as curator of the 2014 TULCA Festival of Visual Art, which runs from November 7 to 23.

Lucite Fall and mineral processes

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

LUCITE FALL is the moment when crystal and acrylic bind. It is the name of a remote outcrop overlooking the Opinnagau River in Canada.

Róisín Dubh Art and Craft Market

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

THE RÓISÍN Dubh Art and Craft Market returns this Saturday from 1pm to 6pm and will feature 24 stalls over two floors.

Berlin Philharmonic - live @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

The Berlin Philharmonic, under conductor Sir Simon Rattle, will perform music by Elgar, Ligeti, and Wagner.

Karl Spain @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

KARL SPAIN will headline a night of leading and emerging Irish comedians at the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday at 8.30pm.

‘Befriending chickens and crushing cans’

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

A STORY of love, beauty, chicken-chasing, daisy chains, cat-killing, French singing, dress-wearing, en-suite bathrooms, and the day at the pond. These are the ingredients of Pondling, written and performed by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman.

Jon Kenny in The Matchmaker

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

ONE OF Ireland’s greatest comic talents, Jon Kenny, joins much-loved Irish actor Mary McEvoy in a new revival of Michael Scott’s iconic production of John B Keane’s The Matchmaker which comes to the Town Hall Theatre.

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