Tom Rhodes @ Laughter Lounge

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

TOM RHODES started comedy while in the 11th grade in school in the US and used a fake ID to gain entrance into clubs. He’s come a long way since.

A feast of literary films at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

FILM MAKER Pat Collins, who spent a number of years in Galway, will be celebrated at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, with screenings of some of his acclaimed documentary films on Irish writers.

John McGahern: A Private World (2005) will be screened on Thursday April 23 at 4pm. This film - which was made just before the late writer published his memoirs - won Best Documentary at the Irish Film and Television Award 2005 and Best Arts Documentary at the Celtic Film Festival 2006.

SiSi and much more @ Deeper in The Cellar

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

SISI make a welcome return this weekend to kick start a series of Bank Holiday 110th Street parties at Deeper in The Cellar Bar - just one of a number of shows at the Eglinton Street venue.

Win tickets to see Brian Kennedy

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

BRIAN KENNEDY will perform a special concert in the Radisson SAS Hotel on Sunday April 26 at 8.30pm to mark the 25 years of the Galway Rape Crisis Centre.

Madness, Guy De Maupassant, and Co Mayo

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THERE IS a personal memory of a delightful spring Parisian Saturday morning in 1971 drinking an espresso on the terrace of a café along the Boulevard St Germain and reading a short story by Seán Ó Faoláin entitled The Talking Trees.

The Velvet Underground of Italian Renaissance painting

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THE ‘GIORGIONE’ in the title of Tracking Giorgione (Brandon), the ambitious novel by Hungarian born writer Thomas Kabdebo, is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, an Italian Renaissance painter and contemporary of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Inside the Maze

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

WITH A fresh inquiry under way into the murder of loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright in the Maze prison in 1997, a book by William McKee sheds some light on the murder from the inside of the prison, as well as life in the infamous Maze throughout the Troubles.

William McKee was the prison governor in charge of the Maze on the day Wright was shot dead by INLA members, and much of his book, Governor — Inside the Maze, seeks to clarify his role on the day. McKee found himself living behind bullet proof glass and constantly on the run from a vengeful LVF following claims he had order that a key observational tower be stood down on the day of the murder, a claim he staunchly denies.

Tommy Tiernan and his marathon Easter testimony

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

TOMMY TIERNAN is about to undertake his greatest challenge yet. In the Nuns Island Theatre during the Easter weekend, he will attempt to perform 36 hours of non-stop stand up comedy in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book Of Records. What can we expect? “Imagine the Sex Pistols doing an album of ballads!” he says.

Bank robbers, children, and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

OWEN ASHWORTH, the man behind the lo-fi electro-indie project Casiotone For The Painfully Alone admits he feels a certain amount of anxiety about the possibility of starting a family.

The art of comedy with Colin Murphy

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

IN 1991 Colin Murphy was asked to join an improvisation group at the Irish Student Drama Awards. A life on stage was not something he had really planned and on the day in question he was just filling in for a friend who had to withdraw due to illness.

Get ready to hear The Cunningham Sound

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

THE CUNNINGHAM family from Cashel, Connemara, have played their part in the revival sean nós dancing has enjoyed these last number of years.

New Electric Ballroom returns to Town Hall

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

DRUID THEATRE Company’s award-winning production of Enda Walsh’s blistering New Electric Ballroom comes to the Town Hall shortly for a brief run as part of a national tour.

Jinx Lennon’s trauma themes and idiot times

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

WHEN DUNDALK agit-folk singer David ‘Jinx’ Lennon arrived on the Irish music scene in the 1990s his spoken word diatribes poked at the back of what he called the Septic Tiger.

Bahh Band Galway gigs

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

THE BAHH Band are one of the more unusual acts on the Irish music scene today in that their sound is a mixture of the blues, psychedelica, and Indian classical music.

Paul O’Reilly album launch @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

GALWAY BASED singer-songwriter Paul O’Reilly is set to release an album with The Hollows’ Greg O’Brien in the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

Ships Leaving is a split album featuring separate songs from both artists. There are five tracks from O’Reilly and five from O’Brien (who goes under the name At Last An Atlas when solo).

Chrysalis Dance premieres new show this month

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

“One truly has to admire Sibley and her company of dancers for their ambition, their commitment, their creative energy and their drive in creating a successful full length evening work.”

Harriet Leander exhibition at Galway

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

HARRIET LEANDER will have an exhibition in the Galway City Museum this month featuring photography and paintings.

Choral concert at Salthill Church

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

THE TRIBAL Chamber Choir, under director Mark Keane, will host A Musical Journey Through Holy Week, in Christ The King church, Salthill on Sunday at 8pm.

A barrister and a golf fan to open Cúirt readings

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

IRISH BORN Joseph O’Neill works as a barrister in New York while the Irish-American Timothy O’Grady has a passion for golf. Both men area also acclaimed writers and will give the opening reading at Cúirt.

Joseph O’Neill and Timothy O’Grady will read for Cúirt at the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday April 21 at 8.30pm. Both are highly admired for the prose, and in their recent books both men have explored the experience of living in modern America.

Cinema Review - Knowing

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

It’s so annoying when a film starts off quite interesting, leads into a dramatic action packed edge-of-the-seat middle, and then just fails miserably fobbing you off with an ending which is just ridiculous. It could have been so much more.

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