Jane Clarke - So much more than a pastoral poet

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 05, 2015

IN WHAT is probably the best poem in Jane Clarke’s debut collection, The River, published by Bloodaxe, the narrator asks “Who owns the field?//Is it the one who is named in the deeds/whose hands never touched the clay/or is it the one who gathers the sheaves//takes a scythe to the thistles, plants the beech?"

Keith Barry - Out Of Control

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

FRESH FROM the success of his hit ITV show with Phillip Schofield, Keith Barry is back with Out Of Control, which will be staged in The Black Box Theatre tomorrow and Saturday at 8pm.

Piaf - celebrating the little sparrow's centenary

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

EDITH PIAF was born 100 years ago this year in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris, and although she died more than half a century ago, her songs and her remarkable voice will never perish.

Inni-K's indie folk @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

INNI-K's music, as heard on her debut album The King Has Two Horse’s Ears, is "effervescent folk pop with big slabs of smile-inducing tracks," according to Nialler9.

A new way to get involved in theatre

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

GALWAY YOUTH Theatre and the Galway Arts Centre are seeking members for the new Galway Youth and Community Theatre Network, open to all ages interested in theatre, performance, or a desire to try something new.

Puccini, Mozart, and the Galway Baroque Singers

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

MORE THAN 180 voices, the combined talents of The Galway Baroque Singers, Our Lady’s Choral Society, internationally-renowned soloists, and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, will sing works by Puccini and Mozart tomorrow.

Grounds For Invasion @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

GALWAY INDIE-electro band Grounds For Invasion unleash their new live show upstairs in the Róisín on Thursday November 12 at 9pm.

Queer feminist migrant synth wave

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THEY CALL themselves Prison. They describe themselves as "queer feminist migrant synth wave". They come from Denmark, and they play Galway this weekend.

Christy Moore returns to Galway

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THE GREAT Christy Moore will "finish year 49 of the never ending tour", as he calls it, with a concert in the Galway Bay Hotel next month.

Metallica and AC/DC tribute @ Seven

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

WHIPLASH, the Galway based Metallica tribute act, and IE/DC, the Kildare tribure to Australia's finest, will bring the rock and metal thunder to The Loft at Seven this Saturday at 9pm.

Twenty years of the Black Magic Big Band

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THE BLACK Magic Big Band celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and to mark the occasion the band will be in concert in An Taibhdhearc this evening at 8pm.

Classical and sacred music in St Nicholas'

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

ST NICHOLAS Schola Cantorum will host a series of concerts and performances throughout November, with the shows billed as 'Remembrance, Contemplation, Reflection, Fun, Anticipation'.

'A first class ticket to Americana'

Wed, Nov 04, 2015

THE GRAHAMS music is like "a train ride through the Americana musical landscape - with a first class ticket”. So said music magazine Turnstyled Junkpiled, of the husband and wife duo who are coming to Galway.

Get intimate with The Whileaways

Wed, Nov 04, 2015

ACCLAIMED GALWAY folk/Americana trio The Whileaways, whose new album Saltwater Kisses is the RTÉ Radio 1 Album of the Week, will play in the Kai Café + Restaurant, Sea Road.

Citóg - Indie, folk jazz - and everything inbetween

Tue, Nov 03, 2015

ONE OF Galway's finest singer-songwriters, Ultan Conlon, the fascinating talents of Maja Elliot, and Hanahazukashi, as well as alternative folk, and indie, will be seen and heard at the next series of Citóg nights in the Róisín Dubh.

An Spidéal writer wins Irish-language Book of the Year Award

Mon, Nov 02, 2015

TADHG MACDONNAGÁIN, the An Spidéal-based author, publisher, broadcaster, and singer-songwriter has won the Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin Award, the premier prize for writing as Gaeilge, for his biography of the itinerant poet Raiftearaí.

Lasting impressions with Oliver Callan

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

HAVING KICKED off his latest Irish tour off with a packed Olympia Theatre gig recently, award-winning impressionist Oliver Callan is currently bringing his live music, satire, and comedy across the country sending up the top names in politics, sport, and entertainment. The Callan bus pulls into the Black Box Theatre on Friday November 27 at 8pm for what promises to be a laughter-packed evening.

London Classic Theatre and a Godot ‘light on its feet’

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

A COUNTRY road. A tree. Evening. Vladimir and Estragon meet as dusk approaches. Estragon tries to remove his boot. Vladimir examines his hat. A conversation begins, a joke is interrupted. A carrot is eaten. They quarrel, then embrace. A pair of eccentric travellers arrive - seemingly master and servant - one stands weighed down at the end of a long rope, the other carries a whip.

Middle Eastern film to start November

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

NOVEMBER BEGINS for Galway film enthusiasts with Theeb, which offers a very different take on the Arab revolt against the Ottomans from those normally seen by Western audiences.

Strange Brew 666th Night

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

THE BOOK Of Revelations 13:18 declares: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."

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