Poetry reading in Gort
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
THE POET and publisher Noel King will read from his new collection of poetry in The Café Gallery, Gort, this evening at 8pm.
Mr King’s new collection is entitled Prophesying The Past and is published by Salmon Poetry. There will also be poetry and music from Clare Sawtell and Mary O’Sullivan. The reading is organised by the Western Writers’ Centre. Admission is free.
Read more ...Exciting new trad band Guidewires @ Kelly’s
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
MUSIC FROM the Celtic nations and the Middle East will fill Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, when Guidewires play there on Sunday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...June writers’ gathering at Sheridan’s Wine Bar
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
SHERIDAN’S WINE Bar will host an Over The Edge reading by the poets Denise Blake and Quincy Lehr and fiction writers, Aidan Hynes and Ger Burke on Friday June 18 at 8pm.
Quincy Lehr’s first collection of poems, Across The Grid of Streets, was described by The Irish Times as showing “much energy and narrative talent.” Lehr’s poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous journals in the US, Britain, Ireland, Australia, and the Czech Republic. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Read more ...Choral concert to span languages and the centuries
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
A CHORAL concert, spanning four centuries and four different languages, takes place in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, tomorrow.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Meeting where heaven and earth concur.
RSAG get ready to be right
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
HE WAS born Jeremy Hickey, goes under the name Rarely Seen Above Ground, which is abbreviated to RSAG, and he takes the notion of ‘the one man band’ to extreme places.
Read more ...Stellar line up to back Dutch singer-songwriter in Kelly’s
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
HE USED to sing on Shop Street, but on Thursday June 17, he returns to play Galway, not on the streets, but upstairs in Kelly’s Bar at 8pm.
Read more ...Mudhoney to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
“NIRVANA MAY have put an entire generation in flannel, and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden both sold a lot more records, but Mudhoney were truly the band that made the ‘90s grunge rock movement possible.”
Read more ...IN-FEST ‘10 - a weekend of ruthless punk
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
IN-FEST ‘10, the new alternative music festival in Galway, will see 18 bands from across Ireland and Britain descend on our city for a weekend of ruthless punk and thrilling live music.
Read more ...Rab C Nesbitt takes on the role of Molière’s The Miser
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
AN HILARIOUS new adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy The Miser, produced by Belfast’s Lyric Theatre Company, arrives at the Town Hall next week.
Read more ...DUÆL - when the US army sought German intelligence
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
IT IS July 1945. Germany lies in ruins. For the second time in less than 30 years it has been vanquished by the other European powers and is occupied by the British, French, US, and Russian armies.
Read more ...Julie Feeney to appear at AIDS West charity concert
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
JULIE FEENEY, the Athenry born, award winning, vocalist and composer, will be the special guest at a charity concert for AIDS West in Monroe’s Live.
Read more ...Enda Walsh - from the Odyssey to Penelope
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
HOMER’S ODYSSEY has proved an unending source of inspiration to countless artists down the ages since it was first composed, sometime around the 8th century BC.
Read more ...Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 (and The Human League) on his electric dreams
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
SHEFFIELD WAS an important hub of steel and coal production during The Industrial Revolution of the 1800s and was nicknamed ‘The Steel City,’ but in the 1970s and 1980s international competition and the anti-union stance of Margaret Thatcher meant industry in the area collapsed.
Read more ...New music festival to explore the common roots of the Scots and the Irish
Thu, Jun 03, 2010
THE CONNECTIONS between Ireland and Scotland run deep, deeper than is often realised. Many are aware there is a similarity between Irish and Scots Gaidhlig, our traditional musics, and the distilling of whiskey, but there is more to it than that.
Read more ...Gráda’s natural angle on American folk
Thu, Jun 03, 2010
THE SCOTS and the Irish emigrated in droves to the United States throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, bringing their music, customs, and whiskey distilling techniques with them.
Read more ...Influential trad group Shaskeen celebrate ruby anniversary
Thu, Jun 03, 2010
ACCOMPLISHED MUSICIAN and band leader Tom Cussen grew up in the Broadford/Newcastle west area of Co Limerick – known locally as ‘the gateway to the south west of Ireland’ – in the early 1960s.
Read more ...Setanta Murphy - ‘enchanting’ play about age and fellowship
Thu, Jun 03, 2010
ONE MAN shuffles towards a certain death and the other shuffles uncertainly through life. The question Garret Keogh’s new play, Setanta Murphy raises - how to confront death – shines light on another: how to live a life.
Read more ...Magic and mirth in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thu, Jun 03, 2010
A FEAST of comedy, magic, farce, imagination, and poetry, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is deservedly one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be performed by the Blue Teapot Theatre Company at its venue on Munster Avenue from Friday June 18 to Saturday 26.
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