Tosca - live at The Eye
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
PUCCINI’S GREAT opera Tosca will be will be broadcast live via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera to The Eye Cinema this Saturday at 6pm.
Read more ...Hotpress Jägermeister Freezer Sessions
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
O EMPEROR will headline the Hotpress Jägermeister Freezer Sessions at Monroe’s Live on Friday November 29.
Read more ...Return of the Coyote Factor
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
HE COYOTE Factor singing competition returns tonight for its sixth year and will take place in Coyote’s new venue on Shop Street.
Read more ...The Minutes @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
THE MINUTES have been hailed as “the greatest rock’n’roll band in Dublin” by influential UK magazine Artrocker.
Read more ...Lucy Spraggan to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
LUCY SPRAGGAN, the English singer-songwriter, whose catchy folk-pop songs have seen her new album Join The Club go Top 10 in Britain, is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Neil O’Connor releases debut album
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
TODAY MARKS the release of Loose Ends, the debut solo album of Galway singer, musician, and songwriter Neil O’Connor.
Read more ...Metallers Electric Taurus @ The Cellar
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
HEAVY METAL/blues/stoner rock band Electric Taurus are an Irishman, an Italian, and an Argentinean, and they play The Cellar Bar tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Sandra Coffey @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
GALWAY SINGER Sandra Coffey, described as having “an evocative and distinctive voice”, along with her band, plays Monroe’s Live on Friday November 15.
Read more ...Rising star of classical piano to play Galway
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
THE MUSIC of Albéniz, Beethoven, and Schubert, and the world première of a new piece by Jane O’Lear,y will be performed by Ah Ruem Ahm in Galway next week.
Read more ...Three poets, one book launch
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
HE POETS Elaine Feeney, Stephen Murray, and Alan Jude Moore will launch their new collections in De Burgo’s this Saturday at 4pm.
Read more ...Two Galway gigs from Louis Stewart
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
LOUIS STEWART, Ireland’s jazz guitar genius, will play two shows in County Galway this weekend, in the company of Honor Heffernan and Jim Doherty.
Read more ...New book from Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
COUNTY GALWAY’S Nuala Ní Chonchúir will launch her new chapbook of flash fiction Of Dublin and Other Fictions this weekend.
Read more ...Launch of new guide to Irish stone circles
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
A NEW book on stone circles in Ireland will be launched this evening at 6pm, by filmmaker, writer, and photographer Bob Quinn, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street.
Read more ...10,000 waiting for a home in Galway city
Thu, Nov 07, 2013
Some 10,000 men, women, and children are waiting for a home in Galway city, with some families enduring waits of up to 11 or 12 years for a two bed-roomed house.
Read more ...TULCA 2013 - journeys to the Golden Mountain and beyond
Thu, Oct 31, 2013
TULCA 2013, Galway’s international festival of visual art opens next week, and for 14 days will host a diverse range of artistic expression and practice throughout numerous galleries and venues across the city.
TULCA, now in its 11th year, will be officially launched on Friday November 8 in the Galway Arts Centre at 7.30pm, followed by a launch party in the Róisín Dubh from 9pm. The festival itself runs until November 24.
Read more ...North Cape’s songs of the sea
Thu, Oct 31, 2013
THIS SUNDAY afternoon, the Town Hall Theatre will play host to the acclaimed Polish a cappella group North Cape, who are making their first visit to Ireland.
Read more ...‘There is a revival of interest in the short story’
Thu, Oct 31, 2013
“I THINK I was always drawn to the short story,” Aileen Armstrong declares at the start of our interview to talk about her debut volume, End of Days, published by Doire Press.
Read more ...Dott to release debut album next week
Thu, Oct 31, 2013
SWOON, THE debut album from Galway indie band Dott will be launched at a gig in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday November 9 at 9pm.
Read more ...Christy Moore announces Galway shows
Thu, Oct 31, 2013
CHRISTY MOORE is coming back to Galway in the New Year and has announced that he will play Leisureland, Salthill, on Friday May 16 2014.
Read more ...Street theatre on the pier
Thu, Oct 31, 2013
GIANT RATS and other swamp characters will out in force along Nimmo’s Pier next week, but fear not, it’s all in the name of fun.
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