Le Galaxie - new album and Róisín Dubh show

Tue, Feb 24, 2015

LE GALAXIE, one of the greatest live bands in Ireland, make a welcome return to Galway on Friday May 1 as part of their Irish tour to support their new album Le Club.

Cinema review: Cake

Films Reviews Mon, Feb 23, 2015

EVERY OSCAR season there are a few awkward films - often war movies or about mental or physical illness - that have clearly been produced and planned as a vehicle for an actor who feel s/he is due an award.

‘I like to be in America!’

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

ON THE mean streets of New York’s Upper West Side, where rival gangs jostle for territory, and will fight dirty for it, where newly arrived immigrants compete among themselves - and against other ethnicities - to survive in a society hostile to them, two young people fall in love.

Fregoli unveil Mary, Mary, Mary

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

FREGOLI THEATRE Company gets 2015 off to a strong start next week at the Town Hall Theatre studio with the premiere of artistic director Maria Tivnan’s Mary, Mary, Mary.

A girl caught in the middle of extremes

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

MARIA IS a 14-year-old caught between the extremes of a strict Catholic community and secular classmates who bully her for remaining religious.

Tedfest 2015

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

TEDFEST 2015, the annual celebration of all things Father Ted returns to Galway this month with a table quiz and Toilet Duck Awards taking place in the city’s West End.

Duke Special plays Róisín Dubh next week

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

DUKE SPECIAL will preview music from his new album Look Out Machines! when he plays the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 27 at 8pm.

Julian Gough to read @ Over The Edge

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

JULIAN GOUGH, the award winning novelist and former lead singer of the great Irish indie band Toasted Heretic, reads at this month’s Over The Edge.

Reg Gordon - new exhibition, new website

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

ONE OF Galway’s leading photographers, Reg Gordon, launches his new website and new exhibition in the Town Hall Theatre gallery this Saturday at 3pm.

Album review: Rural Savage

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 19, 2015

WITH AN album cover and title that references the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks and all manner of Jamie Reid inspired multiple typeface, Rural Savage leave entrants to their second album in no doubt that their feet are firmly placed within the punk camp.

Rediscovering Maud Gonne

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE LIFE, times, and personality of Maud Gonne will be vividly evoked in a new stage presentation by local theatre-makers Caroline Lynch and Sarah O’Toole, of Mephisto and Anam Theatre companies respectively. The show, which could be described as a dramatised lecture, takes place on Thursday February 26 at 1pm in NUI Galway’s Cube Theatre and admission is free.

Show Me The Funny - The Final

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

AFTER SIX hotly contested heats, 54 would-be comedy stars have been whittled down to the last 12 to do battle in the Show Me The Funny grand final.

Charlie Adley’s Craft of Writing Course

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

GALWAY WRITER Charlie Adley’s popular Craft of Writing Course returns to the Galway Arts Centre. The course is for those who would like to improve their writing skills, from beginners to published writers.

Karen Egan to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

KAREN EGAN, a former barrister-at law and former member of comedy trio The Nualas, now a musician, songwriter, and theatre-maker, is about to tour Ireland.

Film on the trial of Adolf Eichmann

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE TRIAL of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, is the subject of the film The Specialist, which will be screened in NUI Galway’s Huston School of Film & Digital Media on Monday February 23 at 6.30pm,

Córus Galway seeks new voices

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE CÓRUS Galway choir starts its new term on Thursday February 26 at 7.30pm in NUI Galway’s Arts Millennium Building, in room AM107.

NUI Galway Theatre Week 2015

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE NUI Galway Theatre Week 2015 runs form Monday February 23 to Friday 27, showcasing student, college society, and alumni talent through theatre, literature, and film.

Old-school ska @ Kelly’s

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

INTERSKALACTIC, hailed as “the future of ska in Ireland” by The Late Late Show’s Ryan Tubridy, bring their old-school Jamaican style ska to Kelly’s this Saturday at 9.30pm.

Michigan choir’s Galway charity concert

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE SKYLINE High School Choir from Ann Arbor, Michigan, will give a concert in St Nicholas Collegiate Church this Saturday at 1pm to raise funds for Jigsaw.

Kinvara Mardi Gras 2015

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

SKA BAND Big Jelly, inspired by The Skatalites, Prince Buster, and Toots & the Maytals, play the ninth annual Kinvara Mardi Gras in the Kinvara Community Centre this Saturday at 8pm.

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