Over the Edge Open Reading is back 

Thu, Aug 20, 2015

The first Over The Edge Open Reading after the summer break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday August 27, from 6.30pm to 8.00pm. The featured readers are Jessica Traynor, Matt Flesk, and Aoife Reilly. 

Call for entries to Junior Film Fleadh

Thu, Aug 20, 2015

The Junior Film Fleadh, taking place from November 11 to 14, is looking for entries from filmmakers between the ages of seven and 18 for its future filmmakers short film programmes.

NUI Galway conference on Irish Parliamentary Party to commemorate the Decade of Centenaries

Thu, Aug 20, 2015

What was Home Rule? How did John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party operate and how was it viewed throughout the country prior to 1916? How popular was Redmond’s decision to call on Irishmen to fight in World War I? 

Art classes with the award winning Denise Hogan

Thu, Aug 20, 2015

Denise Hogan’s popular art classes for adults in oils, watercolours, and acrylics will begin again this September. Morning and evening classes will run in 10-week terms with a maximum of 10 students accepted per class, making pre booking essential. Due to popular demand, there will be a new morning class starting on Tuesday September 8.

'I wanted to go back to that raw, acoustic, element'

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

RYAN SHERIDAN releases his new album, Here and Now, on Friday August 28. Recorded in Ireland and Germany, it is the follow-up to his Irish platinum selling debut The Day You Live Forever, and as part of his upcoming tour he plays Tuam’s Sugarbeat Festival next weekend and the Róisín Dubh in September.

Events added to Galway Pride Festival

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

THE GALWAY Pride Festival begins today, ushering in a weekend of music, dance, fancy dress, family fun, talks, youth events, and the annual parade, and in addition to the announced programme more events have been added.

Ryley Walker - 'prodigious talent' for Strange Brew

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

"Walker is a prodigious talent. He possesses the light touch of Bert Jansch, the unbottled energy of Peter Walker, and the musical erudition of John Fahey...Walker is versatile, too, with a chameleonic quality that allows him to slip into ragged electric blues and bucolic acoustic reveries with equal ease. Of all the songwriters trying their hand at this revivalist approach...Walker is the most natural and enviable."

NoRopes debuts with The Open Couple

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

NEW GALWAY theatre company NoRopes presents its debut production in the Town Hall Studio on Friday August 21 and Saturday 22, with The Open Couple, a three-hander whose fast-paced satirical style perfectly suits the studio setting.

An 'immersive' exhibition @ 126

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

A PERSON can be immersed in water, an idea, or a situation, be obsessed, overwhelmed, or have 'taken the plunge' into something new. Likewise with transformation, it can happen to the body, the mind, or be about a state leading to the ultimate transformation - transcendence.

Album review: Yo La Tengo

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 13, 2015

THIS IS not the first Yo La Tengo covers album, that was 2006's Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics, featuring their take on artists as diverse as Yes and The Stooges. Stuff Like That There is a different, though equally eccentric, beast.

That’s So Gay! - public talk on gender and sexual stereotyping

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

THAT'S SO Gay! is the provocative title of a public talk about the history and evolution of gender and sexual stereotyping, which will be given by Tonie Walsh of the Irish Queer Archive in Electric this weekend.

Fregoli's Pleasure Ground at Town Hall

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

GALWAY THEATRE company Fregoli makes it debut on the Town Hall Theatre mainstage with Pleasure Ground, written by Jarlath Tivnan, who also features in the cast, and directed by Maria Tivnan.

Giveamanakick - reunion tour/Róísín Dubh show

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

THEIR LIVE shows were among the most incendiary and thrilling delivered by any Irish band in the noughties. At times it was hard to believe their furious, visceral mix of punk, hardcore, and metal, was the work of just two guys.

Watch out for the Cúirt Poetry Walls

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

ARTISTIC INTERPRETATIONS of work by Irvine Welsh, Philip Larkin, Dermot Healy, and Nikola Madzirov can be seen on Hertridge's Butchers, Lombard Street; the sides of buildings on Bowling Green; and in Newtownsmith carpark.

Clifden Arts Festival returns in September

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

MORE THAN 200 events, featuring international, national, and local artists will take place over the 11 days of the 38th Clifden Arts Festival which runs from September 17 to 27.

Peter Hodgins exhibition @ Renzo Café

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

GALWAY based graphic artist and designer Peter Hodgins is exhibiting his latest works in the Renzo Café on Eyre Street. The exhibition opened this week and runs until Sunday September 6.

Athru - exciting young trad band @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

THEY ARE only together for a year, but in that time Belfast trad band Athru have won Derry's An Re Nua 2014 Competition, recorded their debut EP, and been winning critical acclaim.

Goldfish Syndrome @ Monroe’s Backstage Bar

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

GOLDFISH SYNDROME have been making a name for themselves across Europe, the USA, and South Africa, and Galway will soon to get a taste of what the Cork indie-rock band is about.

Public lecture on Colm Ó Gaora's revolutionary, Republican life

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

COLM Ó Gaora may not be as well known as other figures from that extraordinary period of Irish history between the foundation of the IRB and the creation of the Irish Free State, but he was an important figure nonetheless.

Steven and Katie's Big Gay Pride Gig

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

STEVEN SHARPE and Katie O'Connor, two of Galway’s most prolific and established gay musicians, will host their Big Gay Pride Gig upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm.

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