Tribal Chamber Choir auditions

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE TRIBAL Chamber Choir, directed by Mark Keane, is holding auditions for new members and beginning rehearsals for a performance of Mozart’s Mass in C minor.

Galway Actors Workshop New Year classes

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE GALWAY ACTORS Workshop will host a series of classes for the New Year, with all courses starting on Monday January 20 in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill.

Power Performance Academy now enrolling

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE POWER Performance Academy is enrolling for its new term with classes in drama, dance, singing, and other disciplines, for those aged between four and 17.

Acting classes with Pete Mullineaux

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

PETE MULLINEAUX’S long-running and popular acting classes return to the Galway Arts Centre on January 23 and run for eight weeks.

65daysofstatic to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

ALTHOUGH IT may not get the same attention as London, Manchester, Birmingham, or Glasgow, Sheffield has proven to be a productive and intriguing city for British rock.

Vibe For Phil Lynott 2014

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE GALWAY ‘A Vibe for Phil Lynott’ takes place in Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 10pm, marking the 28th anniversary of the death of the legendary songwriter, singer, and Thin Lizzy leader.

Playing on the night are Remembering Lizzy, who played their first show in 1991 to mark Phil’s fifth anniversary and they have been keeping his memory and music alive since. Drummer Frank Mulveen was an acquaintance of Lynott and his band Skull supported Lizzy in the Hangar Ballroom, Salthill, in 1973.

Jim McKee @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

SINGER, SONGWRITER, artist, and man of many talents Jim McKee, plays Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 11pm.

Get Busy with Sam Binga

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

SAM BINGA is a emerging as a major name in underground dance music and he plays the Get Busy clubnight in The Victoria Hotel this Saturday at 10pm

Ocean Colour Scene man to play Monroe’s

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

STEVE CRADOCK, the guitarist and founder member of mod-rock/britpoppers Ocean Colour Scene, and a member of Paul Weller’s band, is coming to Galway.

Show Me The Funny returns for 2014

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

SHOW ME The Funny, the annual comedy event which searches for Irelands freshest, newest brightest comedy talent, returns next week.

Shuffle at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

Vinyl junkie Dave Barry returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow for his Shuffle DJ night

Samantha Mumba to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

AFTER A lengthy hiatus, singer, actress, and model Samantha Mumba returns to live music duties and will play Monroe’s Live next month.

Date announced for Liam O’Flaherty summer school

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE GREAT Aran Island writer Liam O’Flaherty will be commemorated, discussed, and celebrated at a summer school to be held in Galway in August.

Ken Bruen wins a ‘Stanny’

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

KEN BRUEN, the acclaimed and award winning Galway crime-fiction writer has won the Best Crime Novel 2013 title in the annual Stannies list.

Wordhaus - words, writing, digital, and ideas

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

PETER GRIFFIN likes to say “Roadhouse” at random moments, but in the Bierhaus on Henry Street, on Wednesday January 15, the key word will be ‘Wordhaus’.

Galway venues and festivals nominated for IMRO awards

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE GALWAY Arts Festival, the Róisín Dubh, and The Townhouse Bar have all been short-listed for the IMRO Music Festival of the Year Awards 2013.

Art and reiki workshop

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

A WORKSHOP exploring painting and the healing art of reiki will take place on Saturday January 25 and Sunday 26 with artist Denise Hogan and reiki master Arja Sweeney.

Books - personal landmarks on life’s landscape

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

“MY OWN books I packed up in cases and sat on them, or dined on them. Books in a colony play a different part in your existence from what they do in Europe; there is a whole part in your existence where they alone take charge of; and on this account, according to their quality, you feel more grateful, or more indignant with them, than you will ever do in civilised countries.”

Mass, porn, and Nazi Party meeting minutes

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

IT WOULD be difficult to find three Irish poets more different from each other than Athenry’s Elaine Feeney; Belfast born, Galway resident Fred Johnston; and Dubliner Alan Jude Moore.

Reading Feeney’s The Radio Was Gospel (Salmon Poetry), Johnston’s Alligator Days (Revival Press), and Moore’s Zinger (Salmon Poetry) one after the other, you are made confront the different things poetry can be.

More than a decade of ‘Over the Edge

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

This month marks the commencement of the 11th year of the Over The Edge series of monthly literary readings run by poets Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins. Founded as a platform for emergent writers, OTE has showcased the work of some 300 authors since its inception. An impressive statistic in itself, no less impressive is the fact that more than 40 of the OTE readers have gone on to have their work published in book form. The high quality and lively diversity of their writing is much to the fore in the recently published Over The Edge, the First Ten Years, An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry from Salmon Poetry.

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