Politically charged punk @ Cuba*

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

Politically charged melodic hardcore punk band Strike Anywhere play Cuba*, Eyre Square, on Monday at 7.30pm.

Flamenco classes start soon

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

FLAMENCO DANCER Fatima Lucia will begin a new term of flamenco dance classes on Tuesday in Árus na nGael, 45 Dominick Street, from 7pm to 10pm.

Flamenco is an old tradition from the south of Spain which fused forms of Islamic, Jewish, Gipsy, and Iberian forms of dance and music - during a time when diverse groups lived in a state of toleration and co-operation in Muslim Spain.

Vestis virum reddit @ CPs

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

“VESTIS VIRUM reddit” - clothes make the man - as Roman rhetorician Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, once famously said, and CPs will put his maxim into practice tonight.

Galway will be asked to do its best Julius Caesar impersonations by donning that most Roman of garments - the toga - for CPs’ A Roman Affair! toga party.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Total contentment.

The Lunatick, The Lover and the Poet - Music For Galway’s Shakespearean lute-songs

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

A QUOTE from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream - “The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact” - inspires the programming of the Music for Galway concert in NUIG’s Aula Maxima next Tuesday at 8pm.

Creative writing course at NUIG

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

WRITER AND critic Fred Johnston begins a new creative writing course at NUI, Galway starting Thursday October 9.

Book launches at Galway City Museum

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

THE CRITIC Gerald Dawe and the poet Michael Heffernan will launch their new books at the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 2pm.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

In an era of romantic chick flicks and frat boy comedies it is not often that you find a film that can be described as heartbreakingly beautiful. Until now. Based on the hugely successful young-adult novel by Dubliner John Boyne, which has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, centres around eight-year-old Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant who is uprooted from his posh home in Berlin to the bleak countryside on the grounds of Auschwitz. Bored and anxious, the young boy who loves to explore, eventually finds a way to sneak out into the back gardens where he strikes up a forbidden friendship with Schmuel, a young Jewish boy of the same age, who is imprisoned on the other side of an electrical barbed wire fence.

Be a judge at the Manhattan Short Film Festival

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

GALWAY CINEMA buffs, along with movie connoisseurs from 114 other cities across four continents will unite to view and judge the next generation of filmmakers at the 11th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival.

Stranger Than Fiction festival @ The Eye

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

THE EYE Cinema, Wellpark, is to take part in Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Film Festival, next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Lisa Hannigan - the sea, sewing, and Freddie Mercury

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

FRIENDSHIPS AND the sea dominate the songs of Lisa Hannigan. Her musical ambitions were brought to life by her mother, Freddie Mercury, and Maria Callas. She has emerged from the Damien Rice era strong and excited by the future. She could also prove a heroine to those who cherish the physical album.

O’Death - wild and good time American folk

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

“I DON’T think of our band as a folk band - many of the other members would disagree with me - I think we’re a punk rock band,” O’Death bassist Jesse Newman, tells me over the phone from New York. “We know how to have a good time on stage and off.”

Songs for Leo - a tribute to the late Leo Healy

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

THE PASSING of Leo Healy was widely and deeply mourned by trad musicians in Ireland and by Galway trad musicians in particular. Now many of them are coming together for a special tribute concert.

Family feuds, papal toilets, and high wire daring

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

SOUTH AMERICAN, French, Italian, and German films dominate the Galway Film Society’s autumn/winter season, with 11 films to be screened in the Town Hall Theatre from September 28 to December 7.

Jane Eyre to be staged at the Town Hall

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

JANE EYRE, Charlotte Bronte’s much loved novel, will be brought to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre in a new, vivid adaptation by Michael McCafferty.

Renmore panto auditions

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

THE MUCH loved story of Beauty and The Beast will be staged by the Renmore Pantomime from December 30 to January 18 in the Town Hall Theatre.

The show is based on a new script by the award winning writer Peter Kennedy. Auditions will be held in the Scout Hall, near the Kingfisher, Renmore, next week.

David Kitt and Damien Dempsey to play Campbell’s

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

DAVID KITT, Damien Dempsey, and Erin McKeown are just three of the acts coming to Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, as its re-states its claim as a leading live music venue in the west of Ireland.

Things kick off on Saturday with accordion player Gary Quinn, who has been hailed by the great Máirtín O’Connor as a man who will “keep the spirit of joyful music alive”. As well as Irish trad, Quinn’s music draws on a number of influences including Cajun and Eastern European folk.

NIN + QOTSA = Jubilee

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

WHEN MEMBERS of Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, and Wires On Fire came together, they formed Jubilee and they are heading to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh on Saturday September 27 at 8pm.

The quiet brilliance of Bowerbirds

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

“ONLY ONCE every 10 years or so does one hear a new band this good, this bursting with ideas, this audibly in love with music... It is beyond stunning. This band is the complete package.”

Peadar King to launch debut album at Cuba*

Thu, Sep 18, 2008

THE INISHBOFIN singer-songwriter Peadar King will perform songs from his debut album The Nature Of Flaws, in Cuba*, Eyre Square, this Saturday at 8pm.

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