FMC Tour comes to Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
THREE OF the most exciting Irish indie bands - Squarehead, We Cut Corners, and The Lost Brothers, play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday November 1.
Read more ...Acclaimed New York singer Ari Heist @ Campbell’s
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
NEW YORK singer-songwriter Ari Heist is coming to Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, near Headford, as part of the venue’s Americana Music & Arts Month.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Slouched in the dark corner of a proper pub about three minutes after a spur-of-the-moment decision to have cheeky afternoon pints.
Amiri Baraka to read at NUIG
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
AMIRI BARAKA, the award-winning American poet, writer and political activist will be reading at 5pm today in the O’Flaherty Theatre in the NUI Galway main concourse.
Read more ...TULCA returns next month
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
TULCA, GALWAY’S festival of visual arts returns from November 9 to 23 bringing 41 Irish and international artists together for exhibitions, talks, tours, and workshops in the city and county.
Read more ...ConTempo to play St Nicholas’
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
THE GREAT ConTempo Quartet will perform a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...Ceramics exhibition at Norman Villa Gallery
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
THE CERAMICISTS Sonja Landweer and Katherine West will host an exhibition of their work at the Norman Villa Gallery in Lower Salthill.
Read more ...Set List line-up revealed
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
RICH HALL, Andrew Maxwell, Phill Jupitus, and Colin Murphy are all confirmed to take part in Set List at the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival, and more names will be announced.
Read more ...Launch of debut poetry book
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
THE ART Of Non-Fishing, the debut poetry collection from Moycullen writer Kevin O’Shea will be launched this Saturday at 1pm.
Read more ...Bridget Christie - at war for the donkeys and ants
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
EVER NOTICED how men who are comedians will just be called comedians, but women who are comics will almost always be referred to as ‘female comedians’, as if their gender requires them to be labelled as a separate and distinct category?
Read more ...Tim Key - the Masterslut performance poet
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
AWARD-WINNING comic performance poet Tim Key brings his unique brand of hilarious deadpan versifying to Galway for the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival with his current show, Masterslut in An Taibhdhearc.
Read more ...Leading Irish singer-songwriters for Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
BRIAN KENNEDY and Paddy Casey, two of Ireland’s most popular singer-songwriters, will both play Monroe’s Live in November.
Read more ...Whiskey galore with Alan Anderson at comedy fest
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
SCOTTISH STAND-UP Alan Anderson seems sure to be one of the most popular acts at this year’s Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival with his show, Whiskey Fir Dafties, which includes free samples of fine single malts for lucky audience members.
Read more ...Gun Metal Grey returns
Theatre Reviews Thu, Oct 18, 2012
NEXT WEEK in the Town Hall sees the welcome return of Mick Donnellan’s Gun Metal Grey from the tireless Truman Town Theatre.
First staged at last year’s Galway Theatre Festival and now considerably revised for this new production, Gun Metal Grey is the best production yet from writer Donnellan and Truman.
Read more ...Wilde’s The Happy Prince @ Town Hall
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
THE HAPPY Prince, Oscar Wilde’s classic story of love, selflessness, and generosity, will receive a special reading/performance as part of the Baboró children’s festival.
Little John Nee will read Wilde’s story, backed by a musical score composed by Vincent Kennedy. The score will be performed by the Donegal Youth Orchestra & Choir, conducted by Mr Kennedy.
Read more ...One-Man Star Wars Trilogy @ Black Box
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
Canadian actor Charles Ross (pictured) will thrill and delight Galway Star Wars fans when he single-handedly plays all the characters, sings the music, flies the ships, fights the battles, and condenses the plots of the original three Star Wars films into just 60 minutes at the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777 and www.tht.ie
Read more ...Moxegen @ HALO
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
MOXEGEN ARE a tribute band with a difference - they do not perform the songs of a particular group, but instead they re-create festival concert set lists.
The musicians perform the best songs from each Oxegen headliner and condense them into one show as Galway will see when they play HALO tomorrow at 11pm. Expect songs from The Black Eyed Peas, Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, The Script, Coldplay, etc.
Read more ...Vote for Strange Boats
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
TUAM BAND Strange Boats have been shortlisted for The Guinness Arthur’s Day – Play on The Day competition, and the Galway public can vote for the band to progress to the regional finals.
Read more ...Litir ó Mháirtín Jaimsí sa seanscoil
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
THE ACTOR and broadcaster Máirtín Jaimsie Ó Flaithearta will be the subject of a new documentary to be screened in Indreabhan next week.
Litir ó Mháirtín Jaimsie, made by Aodh Ó Coileáin, will be screened by Club Scannán Sailearna in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán, starting ag 8.15pm next Wednesday evening. All are welcome.
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