NoRopes to stage Dario Fo play

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE OPEN Couple by Italian writer Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame, will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio by new Galway theatre company NoRopes.

Vinyl night in aid of Marriage Equality

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

DJS, MUSICIANS, and music journalists will spin favourite 7” vinyl records in the Róisín Dubh next week in support of gay marriage and in aid of the YesEquality campaign.

How artists see the west of Ireland and her people

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE WAYS in which artists, both Irish and foreign, have depicted the country’s Atlantic seaboard and people will be the subject of a public talk.

The Still Tide - new EP and Monroe’s Live gig

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

AMERICAN INDIE-rock band The Still Tide play Monroe’s Live on Thursday May 7 at 9pm as part of their international tour supporting their Half Empty Rooms EP.

Helena Hauff to DJ @ Factory

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

HELENA HAUFF, one of the most exciting emerging techno and electro DJs, makes her Galway debut at Factory, Abbeygate Street, this Sunday at 11pm.

SHAKE! is back - and coming to HALO

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

SHAKE! ONE of Galway’s most influential and best loved clubnights returns this Bank Holiday Weekend, when DJs Ray and Aran spin the decks in HALO this Saturday from 11pm.

Comedian Terry Alderton to play Róisín Dubh

Wed, Apr 29, 2015

TERRY ALDERTON, the astonishingly original British comedian with seemingly multiple personalities, and an off-beat brain that unleashed lets loose comedy gold every time, is coming back to Galway.

The things Galway makes young artists think of

Wed, Apr 29, 2015

ARTWORKS MIMICKING 12” vinyl on a record player, a man with an ever growing beard, a giraffe crossing the Salmon Weir bridge - all of these can be seen in a new exhibition in the Galway Arts Centre.

Lucy Spraggan to play Róisín Dubh

Wed, Apr 29, 2015

LUCY SPRAGGAN may describe her music as ‘A-Flop’, but that self-deprecation is really another way of saying her songs fuse acoustic, folk, and hip hop.

Neil Young tribute @ Monroe’s Live

Mon, Apr 27, 2015

PSYCHEDELIC PILL, the acclaimed tribute band to Neil Young, are coming to Monroe’s Live this week, to perform a set by the great Canadian singer-songwriter that concentrates mostly on his classic period between 1968 and 1975.

‘I wasn’t ever going to write a novel along familiar lines’

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

GALWAY WRITER Claire-Louise Bennett will launch her debut collection of short stories, Pond, this Saturday at the Hotel Meyrick, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Far From Literature We Were Reared

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

FAR FROM Literature We Were Reared the annual hooley of prose, poetry, music, and craic by Galway writers and performers, returns to the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 8pm.

Two nights with David O’Doherty

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

ONE OF Ireland’s greatest comedians David O’Doherty, makes a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh next month, with his new show David O’Doherty Has Checked Everything.

Oscar-winner Walter Murch is coming to Galway

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

OSCAR WINNING film editor and sound designer Walter Murch, who has worked on The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is coming to Galway next month.

Le Galaxie to launch new album in Galway

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

LE GALAXIE, the Dublin quartet, who have thrilled Galway dancefloors with their mix of exhilarating disco, funk, and indie-electro, launch their new album in the Róisín Dubh.

Lorraine Fletcher to exhibit at Renzo Café

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

A NEW exhibition, featuring “vintage style females, vibrant colours, and hats”, by Galway artist Lorraine Fletcher, opens at the Renzo Café Gallery, Eyre Street, this Saturday.

An all day and night theatre experience

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

A NEW theatre show, which takes place over the course of 24 hours, runs at the Nuns Island Theatre as part of the Galway Theatre Festival 2015.

Staging George Orwell at the Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

GEORGE ORWELL’S first full-length book was Down and Out in Paris and London, his classic account of living on the breadline in France and England in the 1920s. More than 80 years after its publication in 1933, the book’s vivid portrayal of people struggling to survive from one day to the next has lost none of its power. Indeed, with homelessness again a headline-making issue, the book has gained fresh topicality.

Walpurgis Night IV - unleash the metal

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

WALPURGIS NIGHT was a May Day’s eve festival when witches met and held revels with their gods to stir up trouble before the spring came. Sounds like a good night to hold a metal gig.

Booker listed Joseph O’Neill returns to Cúirt

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

IRISH AUTHOR Joseph O’Neill, who has previously been long listed for the Booker, will take part in a public interview for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

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