Pete Kennedy @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

NASHVILLE BASED country singer-songwriter Pete Kennedy plays Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 8pm as part of his I Am The One world tour.

We Banjo 3 to record new album in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

GALWAY FANS of the great We Banjo 3, who want to cheer on the band and have themselves recorded while doing so, should get down to the Róisín Dubh next weekend.

Saturday is classical music day

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FEBRUARY’S REMAINING Saturdays will, through a new series of concerts, hear the variety of instruments and musical styles that make up the broad world of classical music.

Tchaikovsky and Bluebeard @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FIRST LOVE and erotic, violent, love are the stuff of the operas Iolanta and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, which will be screened at The Eye for Valentine’s Day this Saturday.

Beethoven’s piano sonatas - live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

REGARDED AS one of the finest interpreters of Beethoven’s music, French pianist François-Frédéric Guy will be in concert in Galway next week.

Alt folk at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

ALT-FOLK band The Longtails play Monroe’s Live on Friday February 20 at 10pm in support of their recently released debut EP Lindsay Road.

A nineties styled Valentine’s @ HALO

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

VALENTINE’S WEEKEND at HALO will be a mix of 1990s fun and nostalgia and the intriguing pairing of a DJ and a saxophonist.

Queen tribute at Town Hall

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FLASH HARRY, one of the world’s leading Queen tribute bands, are coming to Galway, playing the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 8pm.

Get Boogie!

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

GET BOOGIE! is back tomorrow night in Factory, Abbeygate Street, for a collaborative gig weekend with east coast crew Drank.

From city to wasteland in one animation

Wed, Feb 11, 2015

JOURNEY THROUGH a series of modernist buildings on your way to a construction site intended for people who will be alive thousands of years in the future, but will not understand any languages we speak today.

Gaelgáirí - comedy as Gaeilge

Wed, Feb 11, 2015

TÁ GAELGÁIRÍ, an t-aon chlub grinn Gaeilge sa tír ag teacht go Gaillimh den chéad uair ar Satharn an 7ú Márta mar chuid den fhéile Seachtain na Gaeilge.

American Sniper to kick-start subtitled screenings at IMC

Tue, Feb 10, 2015

AMERICAN SNIPER, the new film starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood, will be screened with subtitles this Thursday at 6.30pm in the IMC Galway.

One Book One Galway 2015

Mon, Feb 09, 2015

MORE THAN 500 schoolchildren across Galway city will take part in One Book One Galway - an initiative to encourage children to read one specific book - which will be launched this Thursday [February 12] at 11.30am.

Guinness Amplify Live Stages - in Galway

Mon, Feb 09, 2015

THE GUINNESS AMPLIFY Live Stages gigs come to Galway on Thursday February 26 with the Róisín Dubh and Monroe’s Live announced as the venues where the shows will take place. Each venue will host three bands on the night.

‘It is all about stories’

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THERE IS no doubt that one of this year’s hottest tickets in Irish theatre is Decadent Theatre Company’s imminent production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, which opens in the Town Hall Theatre later this month. So despite what you hear on the radio, Galway, not Dublin, gets to see the Irish premiere.

Stockings, sex, and the Nazi threat

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

CABARET, THE classic musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin, and immortalised on screen in the 1973 film starring Liza Minelli, will be staged by NUIG’s Galway University Musical Society in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday February 10 to Saturday 14 at 8pm.

Charlie’s Country - a look at Aboriginal life

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE HARSH lives and prejudices faced by Australian Aboriginies is captured in Charlie’s Country, to be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday [February 8] at 8pm.

Amelia Curran at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

AMELIA CURRAN, the Juno Award winning singer-songwriter has been described as “a bit like Leonard Cohen being channelled in a dusty saloon by Patsy Cline.”

PLASTIK Festival

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE INAUGURAL PLASTIK Festival of artists moving images and experimental film, which will run across three weekends in February, opens in An Taibhdhearc this Saturday.

Michael Murphy to read at Town Hall

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

MICHAEL MURPHY, the former RTÉ newscaster and more recently best-selling author, brings his show, Stories, Poetry, and Dreams, to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday February 14.

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