Banned book to be relaunched in Galway

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

THE FIRST book to be banned by the Irish Free State was written by a County Galwayman who was also one of the finest Irish writers of the 20th century.

By Kernan Andrews

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

GALWAY TEENS who love writing and telling stories should take note of Fighting Words, a new writing session taking place in Galway city this month.

Summer art courses for teens

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

YOUNG PEOPLE who enjoy painting and drawing and who would like to enhance their skills should check out the Art as Expression classes.

Award winning Galway artist and designer Denise Hogan is running the classes which will cover basic drawing skills, painting, abstract art, and a section entitled ‘Personal Journal – Writing and Art’.

Robert Ballagh and daughter at Kenny’s

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

ONE OF Ireland’s finest and most distinctive artists Robert Ballagh, and his daughter Rachel, will hold their new exhibition in The Kenny Gallery.

John O’Connell to Dig @ Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

THE GALWAY Arts Centre is set to be transformed into a “dreamlike, intimate environment” by artist John O’Connell, for his debut solo exhibition Dig.

John is a multimedia and multi-discipline artist from Dublin. His work encompasses drawing, installation, sculpture, sound, and space. His installations seek to evoke extinct ages and post-apocalyptic wastelands, straddling the line between reality and fiction.

Words, words, words....and more words

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

WHEN MY granduncle Paddy, a farmer with a small holding about five miles outside of Mohill, County Leitrim, on the Ballinamore Road, heard something he thought was extraordinary or unusual, he would slap his knee simultaneously stamping his foot on the ground with great glee and exclaim “By the hokey, that bates Banagher!”

Safe houses and wardrobe doors

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

THE MINING Road is Leanne O’Sullivan’s third poetry collection, published by Bloodaxe, and an achievement given she is just 30.

O’Sullivan is the sort of poet who excites middle aged failures, and not always in a good way. A real poet, we are told, should be crotchety and bitter and able to bore for Ireland on the origins of the pantoum which, since you ask, is a type of poem and not, as I thought when I first heard the word, an item of women’s underwear.

The rite stuff

Thu, May 30, 2013

ON MAY 29, 1913, at Théatre des-Champs Élyseés in Paris, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes presented the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, with choreography by Nijinsky and design and costumes by Nicolas Roerich.

Amazing Apples to headline Monroe’s tomorrow

Thu, May 30, 2013

THE AMAZING Apples, Rackhouse Pilfer, and Voice of Ireland stars John Gaughan and Conor Quinn kick start the June Bank Holiday weekend at Monroe’s Live.

Mary Byrne in concert

Thu, May 30, 2013

MARY BYRNE, the Tesco supermarket checkout worker who reached the semi-final of Britain biggest TV talent show, The X Factor, is coming to Galway.

Adapt Galway fundraiser

Thu, May 30, 2013

THE ADAPT Galway group, consisting of arts groups and organisations in the city, will hold a fundraising event in The Harbour Hotel on Thursday June 6 at 9pm.

Adapt Galway is made up of members from Engage Art Studios, 126 Artist-Run Gallery, The Loft, Lorg Fine Art Printmakers, Artspace, The Forge Studios, The Kitchen Table Collective, Expanded Draught, Angry Hammers, and the TULCA Festival of Visual Art.

Pride’s Voice @ G Bar

Thu, May 30, 2013

Every Thursday night at 8pm The G Bar host The Voice night..

Margaret Clayton exhibition

Thu, May 30, 2013

FROM THE vivid colours of Provence in southern France to the west of Ireland coast, Margaret Clayton’s new exhibition features an array of landscapes.

The Galway Sessions Festival 2013

Thu, May 30, 2013

THE GALWAY Sessions Festival, celebrating Irish folk and traditional music and the music Irish emigrants brought with them across the world, returns from Sunday June 16 to Sunday 23.

Inspired by James Joyce

Thu, May 30, 2013

THE TITLE of a new exhibition opening at the Norman Villa Gallery, Salthill, this evening at 8pm is: Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!

Natty Wailer @ Monroe’s tonight

Thu, May 30, 2013

NATTY WAILER, the Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, along with his band The Reggae Vibes, plays Monroe’s Live tonight from 11pm.

Silent Disco Street Party

Thu, May 30, 2013

THE SILENT Disco Street Party, hosted by the Róisín Dubh, takes place on Dominick Street this Sunday from 9pm as part of the Galway Sea Festival 2013.

Penny Wentworth @ Monroe’s

Thu, May 30, 2013

THERE IS an old expression which goes, “every penny that went towards it was worth it” and it is the source of the name of Nenagh band Penny Wentworth.