The ‘bewitching’ Julie Hawk @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

GALWAY BORN, London based, singer-songwriter Julie Hawk will play a hometown show in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 9pm.

Julie is currently promoting her new EP The Value of Gold, released in February, and will perform songs from it on the night. The EP includes a cover of The Smiths’ ‘This Charming Man’.

Athenry Music School’s MEGA Concert

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

THE ATHENRY Music School’s fifth annual MEGA Concert will be held in the Galway Cathedral on Sunday April 14 at 3pm.

A European crossroads at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

WRITERS FROM the Vilenica International Literary Festival in Slovenia are coming to the Cúirt International Festival of Literature as part of the Crossroads of European Literature project.

Lick My Stereo @ HALO

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

LICK MY Stereo will bring their exciting and energetic sound to the stage upstairs at HALO Live tomorrow night.

Printmaking exhibition on the docks

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

SIXTEEN IRISH and international artists will display their work at a new exhibition, opening next week at The Shed, Middle Pier, Galway Harbour.

An artistic look at ‘my place’

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

MY PLACE, an art exhibition focusing on memories and everyday life, will be launched this Monday in the Foyer and Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway.

Cúirt Grand Slam deadline approaches

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

THE DEADLINE for submissions to take part in the Cúirt Grand Slam 2013 is this Monday, April 8.

The grand slam takes place on Saturday April 27 in the Róisín Dubh at 3pm. Entries should be sent typed in hard copy to Cúirt Grand Slam, Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street. Submissions should include your CV, contact details, and a poem/piece that will take a maximum of three minutes to perform.

An Inspired photography exhibition

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

INSPIRED IS the title of a new photography exhibition which opens in the Galway City Centre Library on Thursday April 11.

A spiritual odyssey

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

DURING THE late 1970s when we had a bookshop in Maynooth, there is a memory of a young student who was the wittiest, most cynical, and most laid back person I had ever met. He was the quintessential bohemian and seemed to be totally at ease with, and somewhat disdainful of, the world around him.

It became quickly evident though that Michael Harding was not the relaxed, confident, person he appeared to be. Behind the quick repartee, the easy way of the man about town who knew exactly who he was and where he was going, there was a restless spirit looking for a spiritual identity that was eluding him.

Sharon Olds: poems not afraid to get naked

Thu, Apr 04, 2013

THE GUARDIAN has described Sharon Olds as “America’s greatest living poet”. There are others who have claim to that title – Charles Simic, Gary Snyder, and John Ashbery spring to mind.

‘It’s that inability of men in particular to communicate…’

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

IT WAS the undoubted theatrical highlight of 2012 and it was named Best Production in The Irish Times Theatre Awards. Now DruidMurphy returns for a national tour commencing in Galway’s Town Hall Theatre.

The Waterboys to play Fisherman’s Blues in Leisureland

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

IN THE Mid 1980s, a band of Scottish musicians came to County Galway and between the city and An Spidéal they created the album many see as their masterpiece.

This was Fisherman’s Blues, released in 1988, and revealed how Waterboys’ leader Mike Scott had taken the band from the ‘big rock’ sound of This Is The Sea towards folk, Scottish and Irish roots, singer-songwriter, and trad. The title track and ‘A Bang On The Ear’ have since earned classic status.

Contemporary dance classes

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

THE GALWAY Dance Project will host contemporary dance classes with Katherine O’Malley in Galway Rowing Club, Woodquay, next month.

Beginning on April 8, the classes will run on Monday mornings throughout April with an advanced/professional class at 11am and a beginner/intermediate class at 2pm.

‘A situation only interests me when it becomes very fraught’

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

AMONG THE many exciting authors making their way to Galway for next month’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, is the much-praised American fiction writer Ben Marcus.

Good Vibrations - when Belfast was the heart of punk

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

IF IT was not for Terri Hooley there might never have been a punk scene in Ireland. Dublin was never convincing, Cork was virtually silent, and Tuam’s Blaze X ploughed a lone furrow west of the Shannon.

See new Irish film Pilgrim Hill in The Eye

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

PILGRIM HILL, the new Irish film directed by Gerard Barrett, winner of the Rising Star awards at this year’s IFTA, will be shown in The Eye Cinema next month.

Attack of the killer B-movies

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

MONSTER FLICKS, gory horrors, B-movies, and cult films will be the order of the day at the first NUI Galway Film Society film festival from Monday April 1 to Wednesday 3.

Tea & Choonage

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

TEA & CHOONAGE, the local electronic music collective/event at The Secret Garden tea shop, hosts its final gig this evening from 5pm to 11pm.

The line up for this evening is Dublin’s Bluefood, Miles Iwes, and Zyme alongside Galway’s Chris Crehan, Brian Concannon, Welfare, and Deletia. The tea shop is on William Street West, near The Small Crane and Massimo. Admission is free.