Hot 8 Brass Band play Róisín Dubh tonight

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

THE SOUND of New Orleans, the sound of hip hop, the sound of Black America, the sound of great music - all these are embodied in The Hot 8 Brass Band.

Tradiohead to play Campbell’s Tavern

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

RADIOHEAD have always explored and experimented, journeying from the alternative rock of The Bands to the prog-rock of OK Computer, to more avant garde sounds more recently.

Jim McKee to play Monroe’s Backstage Bar

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

A VISUAL artist with an original and arresting style, a songwriter with a deep love of Irish folk and trad, County Tyrone’s Jim McKee is truly a renaissance man.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
If we knew that we could stop looking for it!

Baboró shows as Gaeilge

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

VERY YOUNG children will be kept entertained, engaged, amused, and be opened up to both theatre and the Irish language with a variety of shows at the Baboró festival.

New novel from Yvonne McEvaddy

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

SHADOWS OF The Dead, the second novel from Galway author Yvonne McEvaddy, has just been published, and she will be reading from it in Java’s, Abbeygate Street, this month.

Over The Edge reading

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

THE WRITERS Patrick Chapman, Aoibheann McCann, and Cormac Culkeen will read at the next Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 25 from 6.30pm to 8pm.

Dubliner Patrick Chapman has published a number of poetry collections, including Jazztown, The New Pornography, and A Shopping Mall On Mars; as well as the short story collection The Wow Signal. He is also a scriptwriter and has written episodes of the children’s animated television series Garth & Bev and a Doctor Who audio play, Fear Of The Daleks.

Take a journey on The Sky Road

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

“MY METHODOLOGY was to pinpoint a location on The Sky Road, travel to that point and gather material such as photographs, field recordings, colour samples, and measurements.”

Stand up comedy for kids

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

STAND-UP comedy is usually seen as something for adults, for late nights, and for bars and clubs, but won’t somebody please think of the children.

Scary Halloween party at the Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

DR VON Straabenglaus’s Trick Or Treatment Party, a world of flesh eating organ seekers, fiendish medical experiments, and surgery gone wrong is coming to Galway this Halloween.

Junior Film Fleadh to screen Bernadette Devlin documentary

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

BERNADETTE: NOTES on a political journey, Lelia Doolan’s documentary on Northern Irish politician and campaigner Bernadette Devlin McAliskey will be shown at the Junior Galway Film Fleadh.

The feature length documentary will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday November 8 at 2pm and will be introduced by the director.

The Plough and The Stars

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

IF YOU are in or near Limerick and are interested in theatre generally or Sean O’Casey in particular, then a new staging of The Plough and The Stars should be worth seeing.

A feast of Latin dance in November

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

AS THE dark winter months are rolling in, it is good to know that a celebration of Latin music and dance will brighten up a weekend in November.

Call for artists’ submissions

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

THE GALWAY University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking submissions for its 2013 exhibition programme.

Jason and The Argonauts set sail for Baboró

Thu, Oct 11, 2012

SCOTLAND’S INTERNATIONALLY-feted Visible Fictions Theatre Company are en route to Galway for the Baboró Festival to bring their ebullient staging of the epic adventures of Jason and the Argonauts.

The Faulty Towers Dining Experience

Thu, Oct 11, 2012

INTERNATIONAL COMEDY sensation, The Faulty Towers Dining Experience, is making a welcome return to Galway as part of the Bulmers Comedy Festival to unleash its trademark blend of comic mayhem on diners and theatre-goers.

The show was a huge hit at the comedy festival last year and looks sure to be one of the hottest tickets at this year’s event.

Set List – Irish premiere in Galway

Thu, Oct 11, 2012

THERE IS a treat and something of a coup in store for the Galway comedy audience at the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival this moth, when the Set List phenomenon comes to town.

From drag to trad

Thu, Oct 11, 2012

Kellys bar is the venue for a night of fun, frills, fizzy pop, frollicks, hair disaster, fantastic trad and to the most amazing musicians Galway has to offer on Saturday, 20 October. Of course, the outstandingly beautiful Drag-Queens of Galway will also be in attendance. The night is in support of St. Jame's HIV unit and is dedicated to raising much needed funds for the cause.

Bottle’s on the rampage in new Who Needs Enemies?

Thu, Oct 11, 2012

EOIN HANCOCK has the worst friends imaginable, who get him into scraps that are both illegal and near life threatening, and they are about to throw him into more mayhem.

The Star Wars trilogy - in one hour

Thu, Oct 11, 2012

EOIN HANCOCK has the worst friends imaginable, who get him into scraps that are both illegal and near life threatening, and they are about to throw him into more mayhem.

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