Twas The Night Before Christmas
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
IN a small village in 1940s Ireland, before most homes had electricity, there is an air of expectation. Santa Claus is on his way and it is almost Christmas Day.
Read more ...All rise for The High Kings
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THE HIGH Kings, whose members grew up in households soaked in Irish trad, return to Galway to play the Town Hall Theatre on Friday December 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Christmas with Frank Naughton
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THE GREAT Galway tenor Frank Naughton takes to the Town Hall Theatre stage on Thursday December 19 at 8pm for his annual Christmas concert.
Read more ...A political panto as Gaeilge
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
IT IS a cruel world and chieftain Enda Lofta makes people’s lives a misery, but all is about to change, with a hell of a lot of laughs along the way.
Read more ...A Gaelic Blazing Saddles?
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
TEXAS, THE 1800s. A young man from the east has come to the Wild West in search of adventure and ‘something a bit different’.
Read more ...Falstaff - live from New York
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
VERDI’S FALSTAFF will be broadcast to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, live via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera in New York this Saturday at 6pm.
Read more ...Stay golden with ASIWYFA
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
AND SO I Watch You From Afar, the ground-breaking Antrim post-rock quartet will curate two nights of music at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Fred to play last Galway show
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
AFTER 15 years, four albums, critical acclaim, and awards and nominations, Cork indie-pop band Fred are calling it a day.
Read more ...Rap and alien pop
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
NANU NANU, the ‘alien pop’ duo, and US West Coast rapper Steve Liriks, take to the stage of Monroe’s Live tomorrow from 10pm.
Read more ...Declan O’Rourke @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
PAUL WELLER declared Declan O’Rourke’s ‘Galileo’ as the one song he wished he had written, while Chris Rea, John Prine, and Paul Brady have sung O’Rourke’s praises.
Read more ...Exhibitions - from Berlin to Galway
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
IRISH ARTISTS living in Berlin, a host of major names in the Irish art world, and numerous emerging young talent are exhibiting across Galway city.
Read more ...Spirit of Voice Festival 2013
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THE 10TH Spirit of Voice Festival which celebrates the human voice through folk singing, sean-nós, spoken word, poetry, and rap, takes place in The Townhouse Bar on Friday December 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Over The Edge reading
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THREE POETS and a short story writer will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday December 19 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Tommy Fleming to play Galway in January
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
TOMMY FLEMING is coming to Galway in the New Year where he and his band will take to the stage of the Radisson Blu Hotel on Friday January 31.
Read more ...Funk & Soul @ Massimos
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
VINYL junkie Dave Barry will be spinning funk, soul, reggae, latin boogaloo, disco and more tomorrow night in Massimo Bar, Williams Street. Admission as always is free.
Read more ...A Galway Christmas book hamper
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
AT THE risk of milking a cliché to death, rumours of the demise of the book are greatly exaggerated if the amount of books published in Galway over the last 12 months is any indication.
Read more ...A Galway guide to living foolishly
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THE SCUM Gentry Guide To Living Foolishly: Essays, Arts & Fiction From The Depths Of Jesuits’ Hell, is the outrageous title of a new book being launched this evening.
Read more ...Creative writing workshops
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
CREATIVE WRITING workshops, with the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars, take place in the New Year in the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...A double helping of dance
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
TWO OF Galway’s foremost dance companies - Corrib Dance Academy and Youth Ballet West -- take to the Town Hall Theatre stage in the coming weeks with exciting end-of-year shows.
Read more ...Kamal Ibrahim and the magic of Aladdin
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
SINCE THE 1700s, when a Syrian storyteller told the tale of Aladdin and His Magic Lamp to French writer Antoine Galland, the story has enchanted and delighted generations the world over.
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