GAC(h) Duine music fest @ Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

SOME OF Galway’s best indie-rock and folk/roots bands will perform across three days in the Galway Arts Centre for the venue’s new music festival GAC(h) Duine.

One Night Love Affair @ Electric

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

LEADING EUROPEAN DJs San Soda and Mr Ties are coming to One Night Love Affair, a celebration of all things house and disco at the Electric Garden & Factory this Saturday.

This is a night for lovers of dancing under glittery disco-balls to real house music and decadent disco, with entry free before 10pm.

The Vincents @ Monroe’s

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

INSPIRED BY psychedelia, surf rock, and nineties alternative rock, The Vincents are part of a new indie wave in Cork.

Rudeboys v Soulboys this Saturday night in the Cellar

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

This Saturday night sees the return, in a brand new venue, of the Rudeboys v Soulboys clubnight. Expect to hear anything from Jamaican Ska, 60s R&B, Latin Boogalloo, Northern soul and more from some of the countries top vinyl DJs.

The Amazing Apples reach last five of Le Crunch contest

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

POPULAR GALWAY band The Amazing Apples have made it into the last five for the national final of the Le Crunch Apple of My Eye Song Contest.

Galway writers and workshops at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

GALWAY WRITERS will feature in this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature through readings, booklaunches, and The Cúirt Literary Brunch.

An Estonian/Irish fusion

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

LINKS BETWEEN Irish and Estonian traditional music will be explored at a concert in Johnston’s Hall, Kinvara, this Saturday at 9pm.

Lorg Printmakers night at the dogs

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

LORG PRINTMAKERS will hold a fundraising event at the Galway Greyhound Stadium, aka The Sporstgound, on College Road, tomorrow, Good Friday.

Lorg is a non-profit print workshop and artist resource organisation. All proceeds raised will go toward ‘Lorg Presents...’ an exhibition in The Shed, Galway Harbour, in April.

Clifden Traditional Music Festival

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

THE CLIFDEN Traditional Music Festival runs from Thursday April 4 to Sunday 7 throughout the town’s pub, hotels, and at a the stage in Market Square.

Savage Eye @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

DAVID MCSAVAGE, the man behind RTÉ’s Savage Eye and one of Ireland’s leading comedians, is coming to the Róisín Dubh on Friday April 5 at 8.30pm.

Food and funny business

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

COMEDY FANS and foodies are in for great laugh at two special lunchtime comedy shows in The Ruby Room of The King’s Head.

Synergy fundraising show @ Monroe’s

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

SYNERGY’S MEMBERS range in age from 20 to 68 and their upbeat music fuses reggae rhythms with folk and rock dynamics.

Susan Millar DuMars - searching for God in the everyday

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

WHERE IS God? Who is S/He? Does such a being even exist? What happens after we die? As long as people have walked the earth there have been and will continue to be these questions.

The American born, Galway based poet Susan Millar DuMars takes on these enormous themes in her new poetry collection The God Thing, but looks at them through the prism of the small things in life, the everyday events, and turbulent emotions produced by a loved one succumbing to illness, yet throughout there is compassion and humour.

Gort literature festival forges ahead

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE FORGE at Gort Literary Festival begins on Friday March 29 with a reception in the Gallery Café, Gort, at 5.30pm to which all are welcome.

Love Is All You Need screens tonight

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

PIERCE BROSNAN stars in Love Is All You Need, by the Oscar winning Danish director, Susanne Bier, which will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre this evening at 7.30pm.

Delicious O’Grady – finding comedy in The Great Hunger

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE IRISH Famine may seem like the last subject to write a comic play about but performer Colm O’Grady has pulled off this singular feat with his acclaimed one-man show Delicious O’Grady which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on April 4 at 8pm.

A glimpse into the heart of terrorism

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE 1970S was a decade defined, in some respects, by terrorism with the emergence of the Baader Meinhof and Brigate Rosse on the continent and the IRA and UVF in Ireland.

President Higgins celebrates Irish culture with Druid and Tom Murphy

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

DRUID THEATRE’S Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen, along with playwright Tom Murphy, were among those who joined Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D Higgins in Áras an Uachtaráin over St Patrick’s weekend.

Creative writing classes

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginner and intermediate levels will be held in the Galway Technical Institute in April.

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

CORK BORN slam poet Fergus Costello will bring his “God awful, bog standard, horrendous abuse of the English language to a Galway house for the first time.”

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