Jim McKee @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

SINGER, SONGWRITER, artist, and man of many talents Jim McKee, plays Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 11pm.

Get Busy with Sam Binga

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

SAM BINGA is a emerging as a major name in underground dance music and he plays the Get Busy clubnight in The Victoria Hotel this Saturday at 10pm

Ocean Colour Scene man to play Monroe’s

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

STEVE CRADOCK, the guitarist and founder member of mod-rock/britpoppers Ocean Colour Scene, and a member of Paul Weller’s band, is coming to Galway.

Show Me The Funny returns for 2014

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

SHOW ME The Funny, the annual comedy event which searches for Irelands freshest, newest brightest comedy talent, returns next week.

Shuffle at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

Vinyl junkie Dave Barry returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow for his Shuffle DJ night

Samantha Mumba to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

AFTER A lengthy hiatus, singer, actress, and model Samantha Mumba returns to live music duties and will play Monroe’s Live next month.

Date announced for Liam O’Flaherty summer school

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE GREAT Aran Island writer Liam O’Flaherty will be commemorated, discussed, and celebrated at a summer school to be held in Galway in August.

Ken Bruen wins a ‘Stanny’

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

KEN BRUEN, the acclaimed and award winning Galway crime-fiction writer has won the Best Crime Novel 2013 title in the annual Stannies list.

Wordhaus - words, writing, digital, and ideas

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

PETER GRIFFIN likes to say “Roadhouse” at random moments, but in the Bierhaus on Henry Street, on Wednesday January 15, the key word will be ‘Wordhaus’.

Galway venues and festivals nominated for IMRO awards

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE GALWAY Arts Festival, the Róisín Dubh, and The Townhouse Bar have all been short-listed for the IMRO Music Festival of the Year Awards 2013.

Art and reiki workshop

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

A WORKSHOP exploring painting and the healing art of reiki will take place on Saturday January 25 and Sunday 26 with artist Denise Hogan and reiki master Arja Sweeney.

Books - personal landmarks on life’s landscape

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

“MY OWN books I packed up in cases and sat on them, or dined on them. Books in a colony play a different part in your existence from what they do in Europe; there is a whole part in your existence where they alone take charge of; and on this account, according to their quality, you feel more grateful, or more indignant with them, than you will ever do in civilised countries.”

Mass, porn, and Nazi Party meeting minutes

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

IT WOULD be difficult to find three Irish poets more different from each other than Athenry’s Elaine Feeney; Belfast born, Galway resident Fred Johnston; and Dubliner Alan Jude Moore.

Reading Feeney’s The Radio Was Gospel (Salmon Poetry), Johnston’s Alligator Days (Revival Press), and Moore’s Zinger (Salmon Poetry) one after the other, you are made confront the different things poetry can be.

More than a decade of ‘Over the Edge

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

This month marks the commencement of the 11th year of the Over The Edge series of monthly literary readings run by poets Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins. Founded as a platform for emergent writers, OTE has showcased the work of some 300 authors since its inception. An impressive statistic in itself, no less impressive is the fact that more than 40 of the OTE readers have gone on to have their work published in book form. The high quality and lively diversity of their writing is much to the fore in the recently published Over The Edge, the First Ten Years, An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry from Salmon Poetry.

Galway Arts Centre visual art programme for 2014

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

2014 promises to be an exciting year for Galway Arts Centre’s visual art programme. Despite funding cuts to the arts for five consecutive years, the Dominick Street gallery is still working with a superb mix of Irish and international artists in solo and group exhibitions. The visual art education programme is also reaching new levels with major projects for young people and older people in 2014.

Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days will feature as part of the Town Hall’s January to March programme

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

The Town Hall recently unveiled its programme for the early months of the new year and it contains some real gems for theatre-goers to look forward to. There are plays featuring Beckett, Joyce, Martin McDonagh, and Pat McCabe, the Rough Magic and Decadent Theatre Companies, to name but a few in a line-up combining classics with exciting new works.

Galway Film Society’s new season opens with Le Week-End

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

As the New Year approaches it is time for Galway to look ahead towards new resolutions and experiences. For those searching for something different on a Sunday evening, the Galway Film Society has announced its winter and spring schedule of screenings taking place in the Town Hall Theatre from January 19 to March 23.

Keane Brothers’ Christmas Time Concert

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

The Keane brothers (Citizens Keane) from Caherlistrane, Matt, Sean, Noel, and Pat, will play the Claregalway Hotel on Friday January 3, in what has become an annual event.

This is the sixth consecutive Christmas concert at the Claregalway venue, and has become one of the rare occasions when the brothers perform together. Sean Keane is taking a night off from his winter Irish tour, ‘Christmas by the Hearth’ promoting his new CD collection Never Alone, to join the family for this special event.

Andrew Maxwell announces new Irish tour

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Andrew Maxwell, will return to Ireland touring his new show Banana Kingdom. With this blissfully funny show, Andrew will cover most of Ireland taking in 27 venues across the country, and will visit Galway on Saturday March 15 at the Róisín Dubh.

Packed full of fearlessly intelligent topical observations, delivered in his animated and inclusive style, Banana Kingdom recently completed a sell-out run in one of the Edinburgh Fringe's biggest venues (playing to more than 10,000 people) and a hit run in London's Soho Theatre.

Fight Like Apes at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Ahead of their UK album release and tour, the nation's most intrepid sonic stevedores will be delivering their own brand of inimitable electro-punk at the Róisín on January 23.

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