Fringe Festival reading for Galway author Ní Chonchúir

Fri, Jul 25, 2014

Ballinasloe-based author Nuala Ní Chonchúir will read from her second novel, The Closet of Savage Mementos, tomorrow at 2pm at the Bridge Mills as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.

Strange Brew Summer Shindig 10

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE FESTIVALS may be about to come to a close but July will go out with a bang as the 10th Strange Brew Summer Shindig brings the cream of Irish indie to the Róisín Dubh stage.

Paul Heaton announces Galway concert

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

PAUL HEATON, the man behind The Housemartins and the Beautiful South, has announced a Galway date as part of his upcoming Irish tour.

Milton Jones - the wild (haired) side of life

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

MILTON JONES specialises in wild hairstyles and one-liners involving puns delivered in a deadpan and slightly neurotic style.

Paul Byrne plays Galway Fringe Festival on Friday

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

PAUL BYRNE, the former drummer and songwriter with 1980s Irish band In Tua Nua plays the Galway Fringe Festival this week, while his new album is free to download.

The West Cork Ukulele Orchestra

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THEY SPAN the decades of music, the cross its genres, they pay no heed to what is ‘cool’ or un-hip’, and they do it all with ukuleles.

Felix Da Housecat to play Electric’s birthday weekend

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE ELECTRIC Garden and Theatre celebrates its second birthday with a weekend of international, cutting edge, electronica, and a DJ set from no less than Felix Da Housecat.

Fia Rua - launch gig for new album

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

FIA RUA, the Galway folk-rock singer-songwriter launches his new album The Sky Went Low And The Sea Went High with a Galway Fringe Festival concert.

The whole opera is enthralling

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

OPERA GETS its turn at the Galway International Arts Festival tonight and tomorrow at 8pm when Atalante and Resurgam combine to present Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo at St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church.

Declan O’Rourke to return next month

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

FOLLOWING HIS sold-out arts festival show, where he was accompanied by a string quartet, Declan O’Rourke will return in August.

Chapatti, iD, Star of the Sea, Midsummer

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

CHRISTIAN O’REILLY’S Chapatti, jointly produced by Northlight Theatre Company and GIAF, is a real crowd-pleaser of a play.

Basswax returns to The Cellar

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE BASSWAX clubnight returns to The Cellar on Friday August 1 with special guests Mecca and Bellows alongside.

Closing date looms for writers’ competition

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6 is the closing date for the 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition.

Orion Walsh - songs of a Nebraskan wanderer

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

NEBRASKA IS the state “where the west begins”, a region dominated by The Great Plains, and a place subject to thunderstorms and tornadoes.

Fringe festival exhibitions

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE GALWAY Fringe continues into this weekend so there is still time to check out a number of the visual arts exhibitions taking place as part of the festival.

Exploring the hidden world of infant bereavement

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE TRAGIC and painful loss of an infant will be explored in a new exhibition, The Amulet, by artist Marie Brett and a number of bereaved parents, which launches in Galway.

Bag of Weirdos tonight in Busker Brownes

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

TONIGHT SEES the final performance of comedy improve troupe The Leg Breakers’ The Bag of Weirdos, upstairs in Busker Brownes.

The art of anaesthetics

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

SOME YEARS ago, the artist Karen Conway received a present of an anaesthetic textbook by Minnitt and Gillies from 1948, and she found in it a source of inspiration.

Seattle folk-punk band play Galway shows

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE BOG Hoppers, the Seattle folk punk band, are in Galway next week to play two shows in the city - the Róisín Dubh on Monday July 28 and Monroe’s BackStage Bar on Tuesday 29.