Art and healing workshop

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

GALWAY ARTIST and teacher Denise Hogan and Reiki teacher Arja Sweeney are hosting a weekend workshop, entitled The Art and Reiki, on January 26 and 27 from 10am to 5.30pm.

Comedian Dave Young @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

HE HAS been called “flat-out hilarious” by the Irish Independent, “thrilling to watch” by America Today, and he can count Billy Connolly among his fans.

Ó Riada’s Mass re-imagined

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

SEÁN Ó Riada’s Mass, in a new arrangement by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, will be performed in St Nicholas Church on Friday January 25 at 8pm.

The performers for the Mass, which includes the much loved ‘Ag Críost an Síol’, will be the newly formed EQ Singers, along with Zoë Conway (violin), Siobhan Armstrong (harp), and Robbie Harris (bodhrán), and conductor Eamonn Dougan, director of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.

‘Comedians are megalomaniacs!’

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

NEIL DELAMERE, one of the biggest names on the Irish comedy scene, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre this month with his acclaimed new show, Delamere Mortal.

Three months, ten films, and a world of cinema

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

FILM STARS Marion Cotillard and Gael Garcia Bernal; leading directors like Nadine Labaki and Jacques Audiard; settings ranging from French vineyards to Lebanese villages; and genres as diverse as thrillers and romances - all make up the new Galway Film Society season.

Family puppet shows at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

CLANN LIR, a re-imagining of the Irish folktale through music, puppetry, and storytelling, is in An Taibhdhearc this Saturday.

Branar Téatar do Pháistí will present Clann Lir at 11am and 1pm in what is the first of a season of monthly Saturday shows aimed at families at the theatre.

A Vibe For Philo @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

SONGWRITER, SINGER, poet, bass player, band leader, Black Irishman, icon - Phil Lynott is all of these things and Galway will pay tribute to the late master this week.

Des Keogh in The Love Hungry Farmer

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

THE INIMITABLE Des Keogh makes a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre next week with his much-feted one-man staging of John B Keane’s The Love Hungry Farmer.

Martin McDonagh play for Town Hall

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

MARTIN MCDONAGH is enjoying great success as a film-maker in recent years, most recently with his tour-de-force black comedy Seven Psychopaths.

However he first came to attention in the 1990s, with his series of plays The Leenane Trilogy, which also featured a motley crew of misfits and eccentrics creating and finding themselves in violent situations.

Thurston Moore to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

FOR THE past 30 years, as a member of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has been one of the key and iconic figures in alternative rock, and next week he plays Galway.

Uptight! is back @ Massimo

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

DJ Dave Barry will be lugging the crates of vinyl down to Massimo for his monthly outing of party funk, soul, boogaloo, Jamaican ska and more. Black music aimed at the feet is the order of the day but you could hear anything at an Uptight! night. Get there early to secure your patch on the dancefloor. Free as always and late bar.

Objekt to DJ @ Factory

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

BERLIN DJ Objekt will be spinning the decks at the next Bap To The Future Presents in Factory at The Electric Garden, this Saturday night.

Objekt came to wide attention in 2011 with his white label 12”s and remixes for Radiohead and SBTRKT. His convergence of techno, dubstep, house, and garage conventions are seen as bold and daring, opening up new avenues for forward-looking dance music.

Three months, ten films, and a world of cinema

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

FILM STARS Marion Cotillard and Gael Garcia Bernal; leading directors like Nadine Labaki and Jacques Audiard; settings ranging from French vineyards to Lebanese villages; and genres as diverse as thrillers and romances - all make up the new Galway Film Society season.

Des Keogh in The Love Hungry Farmer

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

THE INIMITABLE Des Keogh makes a welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre next week with his much-feted one-man staging of John B Keane’s The Love Hungry Farmer.

Public meeting on dance in Galway

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

THE GALWAY Dance Project is hosting a public forum regarding dance in the city, which will take place in the Druid Lane Theatre from 2pm to 5pm on Friday January 25.

Thurston Moore to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

FOR THE past 30 years, as a member of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has been one of the key and iconic figures in alternative rock, and next week he plays Galway.

And So I Watch You From Afar @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

ONE OF the finest bands to emerge from Northern Ireland in years, and one of the most intense and exciting live acts in the country is And So I Watch You From Afar.

Jennifer Cunningham’s art classes

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

ONE OF Galway’s finest young artists, the award winning Jennifer Cunningham, is taking bookings for her new term of art classes which start on Monday January 14.

Bell, book and Kindle

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

AS A bookseller, the perceived challenge posed by modern technology in general, and by the Kindle in particular, to the continued existence of the book is a matter of professional and personal concern.

“You have no control over where a poem comes from”

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

The word tilth can be defined as the condition of soil and its suitability for the planting of seeds. It is also the title of a new book of poems by west of Ireland poet Peggie Gallagher, recently published by Arlen House. Reading through the book one can readily see that Gallagher’s poetic soil is rich indeed and the poems therein flourish.

Interestingly, while Gallagher has chosen an agricultural word as her book’s title, it is the world of the sea and shoreline that provides a recurrent motif, in poems such as ‘Landfall’, ‘Peninsula’, ‘Ebb and Flow’ and ‘Sea Violet’. “That would be very much part of my life,” she tells me over a Monday afternoon phone call. “My refuge and my place of spirit is along the ocean and that would recur because it’s nearly my home. The sea always attracted me as long as I can remember, even though I was born in a small village in Mayo, on an inland farm, I’d feel more at home around the sea than I would ever have felt inland.”

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