The Shoos @ Monroe’s Live

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

DUBLIN BAND The Shoos, who release their debut album Rescue Room next month, play Monroe’s Live on Saturday at 10.30pm.

Proust Questionnaire

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
‘The gang’ (family) enjoying my shepherd’s pie, that’s perfect happiness.

Canadian Theatre Company to make Irish debut in Galway

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

A CANADIAN Theatre Company is getting ready to make its Irish debut with a production of Enda Walsh’s Bedbound in Galway next month.

MacKenzieRo, the Irish Repertory Theatre Company of Canada, will stage Bedbound at the Druid Lane Theatre from March 30 to April 2 at 8pm.

Musical medics to hit the right note with debut performance

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

MUSIC AND medicine have come together at NUI, Galway to form a unique partnership that is a nationwide first for any university.

Oil and Water - it’s a family affair

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

OIL AND Water, an exhibition of new paintings by sister and brother Mary and James F Horan is currently on show in University Hospital Galway.

Enjoy a Celtic celebration tonight

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

AS PART of the St Patrick’s Day celebrations this year, Club Árus na nGael, 45 Dominick Street, is hosting a Celtic night tonight from 9pm.

North Beach Poetry Nights

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

THE NEXT North Beach Poetry Nights’ Slam takes place on Monday in The Crane Bar at 9pm, and the guest poet will be Dave Rock.

Dave’s performing style is highly physical and expressive and often very joyous, combining slam pieces with traditional poetry. He is also a storyteller, working with traditional and his own invented folktales. His chapbook, A Single Unstruck Match, was published in 2008.

Gulliver travels to the Town Hall

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

BRAY-BASED theatre company Wonderland Productions comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week with its acclaimed staging of Jonathan Swift’s classic of adventure and satire, Gulliver’s Travels,

As If I Am Not There @ The Eye

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

THE AWARD winning film As If I Am Not There will be screened at the Eye Cinema and its director Juanita Wilson will attend one of the screenings.

Miquel Barcelo mask workshop

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

MIQUEL BARCELO of The Gombeens will host a mask workshop in the Blue Teapot Theatre, Munster Avenue, on Saturday March 26 and Sunday 27 from 10am to 5pm.

This workshop is designed for actors to take them out of their comfort zone through constant theatrical provocations.

Opera live at The Eye

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

THE OPERA Lucia Di Lammermoor will be broadcast live from the Metropolitan Theatre in New York directly to the Eye Cinema this Saturday.

Show Me The Funny

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

THE THIRD heat of the Show Me The Funny competition takes place on Monday at The Kings Head.

All hail the O Emperor

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

O EMPEROR are on the crest of a wave. In less than two years they have become one of the highest profile alternative acts in the county, and one of the most acclaimed.

Dani Gill – injecting new energy into Cúirt

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

NEXT MONTH sees the 26th Cúirt International Literature Festival when writers and booklovers from far and wide will converge on Galway from April 12 to 17 , to enjoy this justly fêted celebration of the written word.

Paul Murray - Skippy Dies author for Cúirt

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

“THE 661 glorious pages of Skippy Dies,” said The Guardian’s Patrick Ness, “is one of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this young new year.”

The darkest corners of the mind

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

A MURDERER who has dismembered an elderly man insists he is innocent and had good reason, but yet still hears the victim’s heart beat beneath the floorboards. An aristocrat encounters his doppelgänger, an encounter which can only lead to a deadly end.

Gulliver’s Travels at the Town Hall

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS is one of the great achievements of Irish literature in which Jonathan Swift, using the full power of his imagination, created a savage and hilarious satire of humanity.