Art at UHG

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

EXCURSION, AN exhibition of paintings by Pat Byrne is currently on show in the Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway.

Take a Lecherous Gaze at ‘rock-punk heavy jams’

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

LECHEROUS GAZE’S music fits somewhere between garage and stoner rock, but they prefer to describe themselves as playing “psycho-delic shred-tastic ultra-hyphened rock-punk heavy jams.”

Fiction Slam - read your story aloud

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE ANNUAL Fiction Slam returns for it’s six year in The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum on Friday October 17 at 8pm.

Macbeth - opera at The Eye

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

GIUSEPPI VERDI’S operatic version of Shakespeare’s dark drama of murder, violence, and lust for power, Macbeth, will be screened at The Eye.

From fishing boats to Shakespeare

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

JAMES DE Vita was a young fisherman searching for a new career and then he discovered the greatest playwright of all time - William Shakespeare.

Bulletproof Ideas - creative writing for teens

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

BULLETPROOF IDEAS is a creative writing course for young people aged between 14-and 17, which starts next month.

Naomi Berrill - jazz album launch in Galway

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

“NAOMI BERRILL is leading a generation of new cello players that re-invent the approach to the instrument in order to show its many possibilities.”

Galway teens sought for classical music competition

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

YOUNG GALWAY musicians are tuning up to win a €3,000 prize to develop their musical talent as the Fr Frank Maher Classical Music Awards seeks entries for 2014.

Major Irish singer-songwriters in concert for Gaza

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

DECLAN O’ROURKE, Paddy Casey, and Brian Kennedy play the Kinvara Community Centre in a special concert to raise funds the children of Gaza.

A night of Bach’s cantatas and arias

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

GERMAN SOPRANO Anja Pöche-Lipfert and the internationally acclaimed baroque ensemble Camerata Kilkenny are touring Ireland this month, taking in Galway next week.

Galway Percy French Society journal launch

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE GALWAY Percy French Society will launch its journal To The West, featuring prose, poetry, local history, folklore, traditions, reflections, and humour.

Irvine and Lunny on stage with Mozaik

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

IRISH FOLK legends Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny will bring their band Mozaik to the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8pm.

Wallis Bird @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE VIGOUR and energy Wallis Bird brings to her live shows has the power to “kick start an entire economy”, according to The Irish Times.

Emmet Scanlan - two Galway gigs

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

EMMET SCANLAN and his band What the Good Thought are coming home to play two gigs in Galway city this month.

Feast for reggae fans @ Áras na nGael tomorrow night

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

Fans of Jamaican music are in for a treat tomorrow night at Áras na nGael. The mighty Revelation Soundsystem make their Galway debut hot on the heels of their packed session at the Electric Picnic. Add to this another Electric Picnic performer Dave Barry on deck duty 'inna di yard' and this has the makings of an unforgettable night. Doors at 9pm. Admission is free until 10:30pm @4 after

SubVersion Seisiún @ Áras na nGael

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

TONIGHT FROM 9pm, the third SubVersion Seisiún at Áras na nGael takes place with Welfare and Destitute at the controls of their heavyweight sound system.

Theatre review: Defender Of The Faith

Theatre Reviews Wed, Oct 08, 2014

DECADENT THEATRE Company could hardly have timed its new staging of Stuart Carolan’s Defender Of The Faith any better, with its opening coming the night after the premiere of the latest series of Love/Hate, the TV show which Carolan created.

Girl Band - long songs, short songs, and a Galway gig

Wed, Oct 08, 2014

GIRL BAND despite their name, have no female members. Musically, these avant/noise-punks are very much a case of 'take risks but take no prisoners' with a sound that is as uncomprimising as it is aggressive. Galway audiences will be left in no doubt of any of this when they play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tomorrow (October 9) at 9pm.

New York jazz guitarists play Galway tomorrow

Tue, Oct 07, 2014

NEW YORK jazz guitar duo, Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo, perform the opening concert of the Galway Jazz Festival tomorrow at 8pm in the Nuns Island Theatre.

Win tickets to Love, Rosie special screening

Tue, Oct 07, 2014

LOVE, ROSIE, the film version of Cecelia Ahern’s novel, Where Rainbows End, will have a special preview screening at The Eye Cinema on Tuesday October 14 at 7pm.

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