Hear some Home Truths from Gearóid Farrelly

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

"TO BE an audience member in Farrelly’s crowd is a joy. Each joke landed perfectly...impeccable comic timing," is how Broadway Baby described Gearóid Farrelly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Fujiya & Miyagi to play Strange Brew

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

IN LATE 2006 in Europe, and early 2007 in the US, Brighton electronic/dance/indie rock band Fujiya & Miyagi released their second album Transparent Things - and then saw critics fall over themselves to praise it.

The Nutcracker - a family favourite

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

THE NUTCRACKER is a family and Christmas favourite, and a special performance of this show, designed to sweep children into the fantasy world of Clara and Fritz, and their enemy the Mouse King, comes to the Town Hall Theatre.

Public lecture on Che Guevara next week

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

Fifty years on from his execution by Bolivian Special Forces and the CIA, Che Guevara remains an icon, and inspiration, and a contested and controversial figure, and he will be the subject of a public talk in Galway.

A Lilac Decline to play Bus King

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

A LILAC Decline, the Galway based, Swedish musician, whose music ranges from folk-pop to singer-songwriter to indie rock, plays the next Bus King gig.

A different view on the odes of John Keats

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

THE POETRY of John Keats is often discussed in terms of the poet's appreciation of beauty and sensuousness, but a new book by a Galway academic argues there is more to the man's work than that.

The Mad Craic Comedy Show

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

THE MAD Craic Comedy Show, The Stock Exchange Bar's comedy club, runs every Saturday, and this weekend will have stand-up from Donal Vaughan, with support from Conor Murray, John Kelly, and Ross McCarthy.

KATS comedy supper theatre

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

IN NEED of a good laugh? Let KATS supper theatre will provide the hilarity when the award winning theatre company perform Eleanor Fossey's Splitting Hairs and Michael J Ginelly's Pretend Sick.

Galway Arts Centre Christmas party

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

THE GALWAY Arts Centre will launch the festive season with a Christmas party on Thursday December 7, running from 8pm to midnight.

Wild Front to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

"WILD FRONT come on like The 1975 listening to their dad's funk records," according to the NME, while Its All Indie said, "If there's any band that could better defy expectations, it's Wild Front".

My Fellow Sponges - new single, Galway tour

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

GALWAY PROG-FOLK band My Fellow Sponges today [Thursday November 23] release their new single 'The Schlieffen Plan' and will promote it with gigs around Ireland, including three dates in County Galway.

Pearl Jam tribute @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

PEARL JEM, the Irish tribute band to Pearl Jam, the long running Seattle band who were among the pioneers of grunge, return to Galway this week.

Bitch Falcon to descend on Galway

Tue, Nov 21, 2017

ON FRIDAY November 24, Bitch Falcon release their new single 'Of Heart'. The day before, they play a FEAST night at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh as part of their current Irish tour.

'Poetry emulates what I like about music'

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

TOMORROW MARKS a significant milestone in Elaine Cosgrove’s career as a writer. While already a published poet - her work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Penny Dreadful, and The Bohemyth, and was selected for the Eyewear Publishing anthology Best New British & Irish Poets - Transmissions is her stepping onto a bigger stage.

Ballet Ireland’s 'fresh and modern' Romeo & Juliet

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

BALLET IRELAND is bringing its critically-acclaimed version of Romeo & Juliet, accompanied by Prokofiev's incredible music, and performed by a cast of world-class dancers, to the Town Hall Theatre for two nights only.

Birgit Lochmann exhibition

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

SIX MONTHS travelling across Asia has inspired a host of new works by the artist Birgit Lochmann, and she is exhibiting these sketches and paintings in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Brass Eye - behind the scenes with Michael Cumming

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

BRASS EYE was a British comedy series which parodied current affairs shows. It ran for seven episodes on Channel 4 between 1997 and 2001, and featured such writers as Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan, Charlie Brooker, and David Quantick.

Album review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 16, 2017

IF LIAM'S As You Were was about getting back to basics, Noel's album - arriving only weeks after Our Kid's - is all for defying expectations and pushing into previously unexplored territories.

The death penalty and The Exonerated

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

THE EXONERATED, hailed as “an artful and moving evening of documentary theatre” by Variety, in its examination of the lives and experiences of six people exonerated from death row, has its first staging in Galway this month.

Julie Felix - a folk legend comes to Galway

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

SHE TAUGHT Leonard Cohen the art of songwriting; featured The Kinks and Led Zeppelin's lead guitarist Jimmy Page on her BBC TV show in the 1960s; and despite being a Californian, The Times called her "Britain's First Lady of Folk".

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