Rackhouse Pilfer @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

RACKHOUSE PILFER, the stompin’ alt country, bluegrass band from Sligo, who have impressed American roots audiences as much as Irish music fans, return to Monroe's Live at midnight Friday July 17.

Sci-fi novels inspire environmentally themed exhibition

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

THE BEST science-fiction writers do not just write about fantastical worlds in far flung galaxies, their work, be it that of HG Wells, Philip K Dick, or Arthur C Clarke, reflects on the contemporary world, and looks deeply at how technology and society may develop in the future.

Galway's Shir Madness in Miss Burlesque Ireland final

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

SHIR MADNESS, the Galway based burlesque performer, who describes herself as a "curvy, fiery circus freak who likes to tease", will be a finalist at Miss Burlesque Ireland, which takes place in Dublin on July 18.

Peter and The Wolf - from Wolf's point of view

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

DAVID BOWIE did it. Dudley Moore did it, Sir John Gielgud did it. They have all been narrators for the magical Peter and The Wolf, Prokofiev's story designed to introduce children to classical music and the instruments of the orchestra.

Stewart Lee and Patrick Kielty for Vodafone Comedy Carnival, Galway

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

STEWART LEE will bring his new show, A Room With A Stew to the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway in October, while Northern Irish comedian Patrick Kielty will also stage his show during the festival.

A song, a laugh, and some beards

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

THE GINGERBEARD FAMILY, the Galway musical and comedy collective, featuring Stephen Sharpe and others, take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 10 at 9pm.

Cinema review: Minions

Films Reviews Mon, Jun 29, 2015

SEQUELS TO hit childrens movies rarely go well. There are a lot more Madagascar 2s than Toy Story 3s. The fact that, rather than going down the traditional path of a third Despicable Me, a spin off of the film's most popualr characters, the minions, was planned, this reviewer was surprised but pleased.

The Priests to perform in Galway Cathedral

Mon, Jun 29, 2015

THE PRIESTS, the classical music vocal trio of Roman Catholic priests from Northern Ireland, will perform a concert in the Galway Cathedral to mark the cathedral's jubilee celebrations.

‘Beckett was the first who spoke to my interior landscape’

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

OLWEN FOUÉRÉ returns to the Galway International Arts Festival with Samuel Beckett’s evocative short prose work, Lessness, fresh from a sold out run at the Barbican’s International Beckett Season.

Panti Bliss - High Heels in Low Places

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

PANTI BLISS, activist, entertainer, drag queen, personality, and bona fide National Treasure, is bringing her show High Heels In Low Places to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday July 4 at 8pm.

Up producer and director to attend Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

Disney Pixar’s Pete Docter, the man who directed Up, and Jonas Rivera, the man who produced that already classic, animated film, will attend the Galway Film Fleadh to screen their new movie Inside/Out.

Polish your heels for the In Your Face Drag Race

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

GALWAY'S DRAG queens will display all their fabulousness, finery, and flamboyance when they hit the stage for the In Your Face Drag Race on Thursday July 2 from 8pm at Monroe's Live.

Luck Just Kissed You Hello

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

“IT'S HARD to explain. You thought the outside of me was me, but it wasn’t. My outside never matched my inside.” This is Mark speaking, but it comes as a shock to his family, for he used to be their sister Laura.

Glenn Gibson exhibiting at Town Hall

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

GALWAY SCULPTOR Glenn Gibson is the latest artist to grace the exhibition space of the Town Hall Theatre bar with a show which opens there this Friday, June 26, at 6pm.

Album review: The Selecter

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 25, 2015

LEGENDARY 2-TONE artists, The Selecter, have always been my 2-Tone band of choice so I was eagerly anticipating this album. The title, Subculture, lends itself well to the original ethos of 2-Tone which encouraged the mixing of genres and youth cultures - mods, punks, and rude boys all skanking to the same punky reggae beat.

Denis Mockler - EP launch and Róisín Dubh gig

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

SINGER-SONGWRITER Denis Mockler will launch his debut EP, Open Doors, at a gig in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh on Thursday July 2 at 8pm.

A Room With No View

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND ignorance about mental illness in Irish society, and the long term effects its has on its sufferers, is at the heart of A Room With No View, which returns to the Town Hall Theatre studio.

Johnny Graham - Headcase With A Suitcase

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

GALWAY COMEDIAN Johnny Graham will present his new show, Headcase With A Suitcase, throughout July at Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club upstairs at The Dew Drop Inn.

Anna's Anchor to tour the islands

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

A LIMERICK singer-songwriter is currently on a tour of Ireland's islands, entitled The Islands, with a plan to record a song on each leg of the journey, to amass eight songs, in eight venues, over eight weeks.

Traidphicnic 2015

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

LIAM Ó MAOINLAÍ and his new band Ré, will headline Thraidphicnic, the annual weekend of Irish traditional music and workshops, in An Spidéal, from Friday July 3 to Sunday 5.

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