De Danann Christmas concert in Clonbur

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

DE DANANN, led by founder members Alec Finn and Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh, will give a Christmas concert on Sunday December 30 in the Fairhill House Hotel, Clonbur.

Young people sought for arts group in Galway

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

YOUNG PEOPLE aged between 15 and 24, who have a keen interest in the arts, are being sought by the Galway Arts Centre to take part in its Red Bird Youth Collective.

Red Bird Youth Collective is a visual art group for young people living in Galway city and county. Its mission statement is to be a youth group run by youths that endeavours to encourage and support creativity for young people in the surrounding community.

Exhibition at UHG

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Galway staff will show the public their artistic talents through the Art@Work exhibition.

Forge at Gort literary festival

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

THE ANNUAL Forge at Gort Literature festival, organised by the Western Writers’ Centre, returns to south Galway in March next year.

The aim of the festival is to highlight the links between that town and the Irish Literary Renaissance and the writers who come to Gort and Lady August Gregory’s Coole Park home, through readings, talks, lectures, and music.

Creative writing courses with Fred Johnston

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre will hold an eight week creative writing class in January to assist beginner writers.

New year poetry workshops

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

THE GALWAY Arts Centre will host poetry workshops with the acclaimed Galway poet Kevin Higgins in January.

New course to help writers at work

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

HAVE YOU got pages of a story, novel, play, poetry in a drawer you have been wanting to show someone, and get some solid advice and feedback on?

Karma’s charity Christmas party

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

KARMA NIGHT CLUB will hold its ‘Big Massive Christmas Fancy Dress Party’ in aid of Cancer Care West on St Stephen’s Night.

New books from Galway medics

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

A POETRY collection from a retired member of staff and a children’s book from a current staff member were launched this week in University Hospital Galway.

Say farewell to Turn @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

IT MAY have taken them six years to get around to doing it but Irish indie pop-punk trio Turn are finally playing their long promised farewell tour.

Have yourself a funky funky Christmas @ Massimo

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

This Sunday Massimo Bar will host a special Christmas Sunday service. The same chilled music policy will apply only this week with a festive twist. This will be Christmas from the ghetto, winter from trenchtown and Nollaig from Harlem. As always there will be great food served from the Eat restaurant and why not have one of their great coffees or even a mulled wine or two.

The Wilful @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

THE WILFUL have a commitment to entertain and if that means playing AC/DC next to ABBA songs they will do so.

Books on my table

Thu, Dec 20, 2012

Despite Liam Mellows and his men answering the call to arms, and for five days to have caused mayhem in the Oranmore and Athenry areas, Galway was slow to realise that the Easter Rising 1916 was to be a permanent affair. The town was known as a ‘showneen town’, that is a town with a close allegiance to the British way of doing things. This was mainly because of the status of having a major army barracks on its doorstep. The army was an important purchaser of supplies from the town merchants; and many local people were soldiers, or had husbands or boyfriends who were in the army.

One of the turning points in public opinion was the hunger strike by five IRA prisoners in Galway jail in April 1920. Two of the men were from Galway - Thomas Redington (from the town), and Thomas Duggan (Oranmore).

The Stunning to perform Paradise In The Picturehouse at Seapoint

Thu, Dec 13, 2012

IT BEGAN life in a rented farmhouse; the first to hear its songs were people going to concerts in Salthill in the late eighties and early nineties; and almost quarter of a century later it remained one of the best loved Irish albums.

Alice’s adventures in clubland

Thu, Dec 13, 2012

ALICE IS not your usual clubnight. It does not take place in a specific venue, rather it is a multimedia experience - clubnight, web page, radio show - and a constantly evolving one at that.

Frank Naughton’s Christmas Carols

Thu, Dec 13, 2012

GALWAY TENOR Frank Naughton is bringing his seasonal show, Christmas Carols, to the Town Hall Theatre, on Thursday, December 20 at 8pm.

Aoife Kilbane - Renmore’s Snow White

Thu, Dec 13, 2012

WHILE THE ongoing recession and latest bruising Budget may put a dampener on folk’s Yuletide mood, at least the Renmore Pantomime can be relied upon to spread a generous helping of festive cheer when it takes over the Town Hall Theatre.

Who Needs Enemies – A Christmas Tale

Thu, Dec 13, 2012

THE HILARIOUS Who Needs Enemies? series returns to the Town Hall Theatre stage for it’s seasonal instalment, A Christmas Tale, next week.

Follow Alice Underground

Thu, Dec 13, 2012

WHEN ALICE spotted the White Rabbit and followed him down a hole, she had no idea of the adventures, and troubles, she would get into.

Little Cinema Christmas screening

Thu, Dec 13, 2012

THE LITTLE Cinema Club will hold its Christmas screening on Tuesday December 18 at 9pm in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.

There will be screenings of locally made short Christmas films. People are encouraged to wear Christmas jumpers, and the best jumper will win a prize.

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