The Coronas return to Galway for Big Top Arts Festival gig

Thu, May 07, 2015

ONE OF Ireland’s best loved bands, The Coronas, will play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top party on Saturday July 25 it was announced this morning.

Mark O’Rowe - Getting Shakespeare in the bag for Druid

Thu, May 07, 2015

NEXT WEEK sees the unveiling of Druid’s latest epic undertaking, DruidShakespeare, which condenses the four action-packed plays of the Henriad – Richard II, Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and Henry V – into one thrilling drama played out across six hours, as adapted by one of Ireland’s finest contemporary playwrights, Mark O’Rowe.

Album review: And So I Watch You From Afar

Music Reviews Thu, May 07, 2015

HAVING BROKEN new ground, not only for themselves, but also for the post-rock genre with 2013’s All Hail Bright Futures, Antrim’s ASIWYFA could hardly be expected to reinvent the wheel yet again.

Galway Early Music Festival 2015

Thu, May 07, 2015

A FEAST of fools, ticking clocks, apocalyptic visions, and a time warp - time is of the essence at the 20th Galway Early Music Festival which runs from Thursday May 14 to Sunday 17.

The lives of the Brontës - on stage

Thu, May 07, 2015

HOW IS it possible that three women, living in isolation on the Yorkshire moors, could have written some of the most powerful and passionate fiction of all time?

David O’Doherty on the quest for happiness

Thu, May 07, 2015

THE EVER-wonderful comedian David O'Doherty returns for two special shows at the Róisín Dubh tomorrow and Saturday, and he promises to have checked everything in his new show, David O’Doherty Has Checked Everything.

A theatre show in support of YesEquality

Thu, May 07, 2015

A YOUNG woman finds herself at an unexpected, yet strangely inevitable, crossroads, and in this situation, she has an odd proposal to put to an audience.

The Hard Ground @ The Loft

Thu, May 07, 2015

IRISH ALT-POP band The Hard Ground have been winning the praises of Nialler9, The Last Mixed Tape, and GoldenPlec, and Galway will see what the fuss is about next week.

Dr Sketchy’s take on A Clockwork Orange

Thu, May 07, 2015

STANLEY KUBRICK’S extraordinary, still controversial film version of Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange, is the inspiration for the next Dr Sketchy’s event.

The Way Back Home

Thu, May 07, 2015

A BOY discovers a single-propeller aeroplane in his closet, which amazingly allows him fly into space, where he meets an alien who needs a friend and some help.

Roesy to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 07, 2015

THE AUSTRALIAN based Irish singer-songwriter Roesy returns home thIS month for a nationwide tour, promoting his new album, Wolf Counsel.

Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

Thu, May 07, 2015

IRISH WRITERS Paul Perry, Anne Irwin, Rachael Hegarty, James O’Toole, and Australian poet Ross Donlon will read at the next Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering.

Women buried alive in a tomb

Thu, May 07, 2015

CONDEMNED TO die with their emperor in his tomb, the concubines who have not produced any male children ponder their fate. This is the setting for Bryony Lavery’s play More Light.

At Home With Yeats in Thoor Ballylee

Thu, May 07, 2015

GALWAY POETS and musicians will gather in Thoor Ballylee in south Galway, the one-time home of WB Yeats, for an evening of poetry, song, and story when The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society presents At Home With Yeats, on Poetry Ireland Day this eveing at 8pm

A cello concert in Brigit’s Garden

Thu, May 07, 2015

‘UP TO My F Holes’ is not the kind of title you expect for a piece of classical music, but this composition by Judith Ring will be among those performed at the next Music For Galway concert.

Concert in aid of MADRA and the Thai Animal Sanctuary

Thu, May 07, 2015

SINGER-SONGWRITER and artist Jim McKee, along with Ray O’Brien, Joyce Redmond, and James Gallagher will give in concert in aid of MADRA and the Thai Animal Sanctuary.

Keb Darge to DJ @ SHUFFLE!

Thu, May 07, 2015

GALWAY’S PREMIER soul, funk, r’n’b, and ska night SHUFFLE! in the Róisín Dubh, will play host of one of the great Northern Soul DJs when Keb Darge hits the decks.

The Berlin Philharmonic - live via The Eye

Thu, May 07, 2015

THE BERLIN Philharmonic, declared “the world’s greatest symphony orchestra” by The Guardian, will be in concert from the German capital this Sunday.

The Kilkennys - live @ OMG

Thu, May 07, 2015

FOLK BALLADEERS The Kilkennys will perform a live set at OMG Zhivago, Shop Street, on Friday May 15 at 12 noon.

Neev Kennedy launches new album

Thu, May 07, 2015

LOUGHREA SINGER-SONGWRITER Neev Kennedy has released her debut album From The Depths, which sees her returning to her folk roots after a number of years working in dance music.

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