Spend Christmas with The Saw Doctors
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
ON SAINT Stephen’s Day, TG4 will broadcast Steven Lock’s 1991 TV documentary on The Saw Doctors - Sing A Powerful Song - just after the Connacht versus Ulster rugby match.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus’ January Bang Bang
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
THE DIRTY Circus will be starting the New Year with a serious ‘bang’ as it brings all things ‘saucy and naught but nice’ to the Róisín Dubh at 5pm on Saturday January 1.
Read more ...Junior Brother to play Róisín Dubh
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
IDIOSYNCRATIC KERRY singer-songwriter, Junior Brother is admired by Lankum, Lisa O’Neill, and Pillow Queens, and will close at 2021 at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Mandy Maher
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Family, love, and health.
Celebrate Stanford in 2022
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
THE MUSIC Of Charles Villiers Stanford is “dramatically significant, as well as beautiful in itself. It has, moreover, that quality so rare among modern composers – style.”
Read more ...Aoife Welby exhibition
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
CONNEMARA, and the wild Atlantic coastline, are the inspirations behind the works in a new exhibition from the Galway artist, Aoife Welby.
Read more ...Bernadette Divilly to showcase work from year as Galway Dance Artist in Residence
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
GALWAY DANCE Artist in Residence 2020-2021, Bernadette Divilly, will showcase the culmination of her work from her residency at a show next week.
Read more ...BEST ALBUMS OF 2021
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 16, 2021
1. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu (Parlophone)
Forty-one years after their debut, Maiden are still operating at the highest level. Few bands of their vintage can still create masterpieces, but with this sombre meditation on war and its consequences, Maiden deliver yet another masterwork in a discography with few equals.
Cousin Tablet release new single
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
GALWAY BAND Cousin Tablet have released their second single, ‘Lost At Sea’, which finds the quartet joined by members of The Raines and The Waterboys.
Read more ...Bolshoi Ballet’s Nutcracker at The Eye
Thu, Dec 16, 2021
THE NUTCRACKER, the much loved Christmas ballet, will be performed by the Bolshoi Ballet and shown at The Eye Cinema, this Sunday, December 19, at 3pm.
Read more ...‘I’m sitting on two years worth of jokes’
Wed, Dec 15, 2021
WITH 2022 on the horizon, Reginald D Hunter is not necessarily looking towards the future with hope, more with a sense of caution bred from hard lessons learned.
Read more ...The best films of 2021
Films Reviews Wed, Dec 15, 2021
10. Censor: Terrific horror movie about a film censor who must sit through endless violent films for her job. One day she thinks she sees her missing sister in a film and sets out to find her. Electric performance from Irish actress Niamh Algar. Not available to stream yet.
Read more ...Tommy Tiernan - more Galway shows for 2022
Tue, Dec 14, 2021
IF YOU did not get tickets to Tommy Tiernan’s Róisín Dubh shows in January or Leisureland shows in February, fear not, there will be a chance to see him at the Galway Comedy Festival.
Read more ...Cois Cladaigh - a streamed concert for Christmas
Tue, Dec 14, 2021
THIS SATURDAY, December 18, at 8pm, Cois Cladaigh Choir Galway will live stream its first concert in two years from St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.
Read more ...Darragh O’Dea - live in Tuam
Mon, Dec 13, 2021
DARRAGH O’DEA, the Tuam singer-songwriter, will celebrate the launch of his debut album, Tilly And The Postmaster, with a concert in his hometown.
Read more ...‘West For Christmas’ – new Galway seasonal single
Mon, Dec 13, 2021
‘WEST FOR Christmas’ is the new seasonal single, out now, from award-winning Galway songwriters, Niall Teague and Padraic Joyce.
Read more ...Final Over The Edge of 2021
Thu, Dec 09, 2021
TWO LOCAL writers - Denise Commins and Ódhrán Reidy - and an American writer - Sue Pace - will read at the Final Over The Edge of 2021.
Read more ...Red Bird Youth Collective seeks new members
Thu, Dec 09, 2021
RED BIRD Youth Collective, the Galway youth-led visual art collective, is seeking new members, aged between 15 and 24.
Read more ...‘Christmas In Galway’ - a new, local, seasonal, song
Thu, Dec 09, 2021
‘CHRISTMAS IN Galway’, a new, upbeat, seasonal song, encapsulating the festive spirit of the city, is out now.
Read more ...Anna Mullarkey and Contempo at 3 Kinds of Music
Thu, Dec 09, 2021
ANNA MULLARKEY, the exciting Galway indie-electro vocalist/composer, and The ConTempo Quartet, will be among the performers at the next 3 Kinds of Music concerts.
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