A feast of music in Clifden
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
CLIFDEN, THE capital of Connemara, will resound to the sound of classical music, folk, rock, Irish trad during the 34th Clifden Arts Week Festival from Thursday September 15 to Sunday 25.
Read more ...Rugby fever @ Kenny’s
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
THE RUGBY World Cup starts this weekend and fingers are crossed that Ireland’s display will be vastly improved from the 2007 tournament.
Read more ...Rising rap star to play Central Park
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
AMERICAN rapper Mann, whose hit singles ‘Buzzin’ and ‘The Mack’ have made him the exciting new face of hip-hop, plays Galway’s Central Park this Saturday at 11pm.
Read more ...GTI creative writing classes
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
CREATIVE WRITING classes will be held in GTI, starting this month, and bookings are now being taken.
Creative writing for beginners with the poet Kevin Higgins starts on Monday September 19 and will take place on Mondays from 7pm to 9.30pm, running for eight weeks.
Read more ...Cinema Review - Fright Night
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
WITH THE original 1985 film being so iconic and attracting a huge cult following it was a big task to produce a film that would live up to the name of Fright Night, and although there have been mixed reactions, the directing and of course the casting of yummy Colin Farrell helped to make a remake which is a great watch and I will certainly be getting the DVD when it is released.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.
Read more ...Late Night Gimp Fight @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
LATE NIGHT Gimp Fight will bring their unapologetically English style of saucy humour, outrageous silliness, and hilarious sketches and routines to the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...The book auction
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
FOR SOME unknown reason, I have only ever attended two book auctions and did not bid at either, so when an important customer asked me over a fortnight ago to attend one in Kells and to bid on his behalf I felt as though I was going out on my first date. The prospect was as fascinating as it was terrifying.
Read more ...Blues, wit and haiku
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
THERE ARE those who say there are too many women poets nowadays. For these reactionary critics all was well in the garden of poetry until it was ruined by feminism and the advent of poetry workshops, which have conspired together to encourage many more women to write poetry. And most of it, shock horror, does not even rhyme.
Read more ...The Wilde family saga
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE STORY of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family is a remarkable one. Oscar’s sensational triumphs and terrible downfall are incredibly moving but his parents, the brilliant Sir William Wilde and the flamboyant Lady Jane Wilde, also led amazing lives and experienced triumph and tragedy.
Read more ...Keegan Theatre and Town Hall combine for The Crucible
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
ARTHUR MILLER’S classic parable of mass hysteria, The Crucible, will be presented by the Keegan Theatre Company from Washington DC at the Town Hall Theatre this month.
Read more ...Emmet O’Malley to launch debut album @ Monroe’s
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
EMMET O’MALLEY, the Galway based singer-songwriter, will launch his debut album Playtime, with a gig in Monroe's Backstage Bar on Friday September 9.
Read more ...Theatre review: Faith Healer
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE WAY in which memory shapes our identities and the way in which we in turn shape our memories, selecting this detail and altering that, have been recurrent themes in the work of Brian Friel and nowhere more so than in his great play Faith Healer, currently running at the Town Hall.
Read more ...The struggle of two sisters
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
DOLORES, A one-act play by American playwright Edward Allan Baker will run at the Nuns’ Island Theatre from Wednesday September 7 to Saturday 10.
Read more ...Renmore Pantomine holding auditions for Aladdin
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE RENMORE Pantomime is this year doing the popular show Aladdin in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, from December 30 to January 15.
Read more ...Olaf Tyaransen for Electric Picnic
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
GALWAY WRITER and journalist Olaf Tyaransen will be performing and interviewing live at Electric Picnic in Stradbally this weekend.
Read more ...Truewest Theatre call for auditions
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
TRUEWEST THEATRE is looking for men in their forties and fifties for its next production taking place in October and November.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.
Read more ...The Driftwood Manor @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
PSYCHEDELIC FOLK band The Driftwood Manor will perform songs from their new album The Same Figure (Leaving) upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday September 8 at 9pm.
Read more ...Roots/Americana gig @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
MONROE’S LIVE will host a night of roots rock and Americana this Sunday when singer-songwriters Tony McLoughlin and Ben Reel take to the stage.
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