GAC creative writing classes

Thu, May 02, 2013

THE GALWAY Arts Centre will host creative writing classes with two of Galway’s leading writers - Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars.

Daytime creative writing classes with Susan Millar Du Mars, starts on May 13 and runs for eight weeks, each Monday from 2pm to 3.30pm. The classes are suitable for beginners and continuing creative writing students in poetry or fiction.

Jaime Nanci - singin’ the Nina Simone blues

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

SHE CROONED confidently how ‘My baby just cares for me’; raged against racism and killings of African-Americans in ‘Mississippi Goddamn’, turned a song from a musical, ‘Ain’t Got No, I Got Life’ into a cry of black pride, and penned her own civil rights anthem in ‘To Be Young Gifted, and Black’.

Oliver Reed - Wild Thing

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

THE HELLRAISING life and times of Oliver Reed are vividly brought to life in acclaimed Oliver Reed – Wild Thing which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday May 2 at 8pm.

Romance and villainy at Galway Early Music Festival

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

MONSTERS AND fairies, poets and singers, heroes and villains will all be part and parcel of the Galway Early Music Festival, which runs from May 9 to 12.

The festival will celebrate medieval renaissance and baroque vocal and instrumental music, with a special emphasis on 17th century Italian music, early Irish poetry, and the darker side of fairytales.

The long and the short of the short story

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

Acclaimed short story writer Claire Keegan will read at Cúirt this Saturday alongside poet and author Ron Nash.

A Fig For A Kiss in Town Hall

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

AFTER ENJOYING a successful run last September with the play The Three Deaths of Eddie, local company Wolf Meets World return to the Town Hall Studio with its latest offering, A Fig For A Kiss.

Written and directed by Adrian Lavelle, the play brings together Michael, a vengeful, enigmatic, gambler, and Jezabelle, an alluring hooker, and watches them embark on a drug-fuelled spiral that brings their dark pasts to light. This tale of drugs, sex, violence, and rock’n’roll also touches on religion, atheism, rock, and the arts.

Charlie Byrne’s Cúirt Bookshop @ Town Hall

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

CHARLIE BYRNE’S Cúirt Bookshop is open at the Town Hall Theatre during the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Acting for TV and film course

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

THE IFTA winning Irish actor Martin McCann, who has appeared in Killing Bono, Shadow Dancer, and Clash of the Titans, is coming to Galway for the acting for TV and film course.

Robert Newman @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

COMEDIAN AND author Robert Newman hits town this Saturday at the Róisín Dubh, as part of the Cúirt festival, for two shows - one a reading from his new novel, the other his latest stand -up show.

Robert will be reading from his novel The Trade Secret in the Róisín’s upstairs bar at 4pm and at 8.30pm he will be on the main stage to perform his latest stand-up show Robert Newman’s New Theory of Evolution.

Mary Gauthier @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

MARY GAUTHIER, one of the leading Americana singer-songwriters, is coming to Monroe’s Live on Friday May 3 at 8.30pm.

The Cyclist @ Electric

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

DERRY DJ Andrew Morrison, aka The Cyclist, plays the Bap to the Future night at The Electric Garden’s Factory, Abbeygate Street, this Saturday at 10.30pm.

Charlie McGettigan/ We Banjo 3 in concert

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

A DISTINGUISHED veteran of the Irish folk/singer-songwriter scene and a rising new force in Irish trad share the stage at The Forge, Moycullen, on Friday May 3.

Banjo virtuoso for Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

BANJO VIRTUOSO Dan Walsh has been described by BBC Radio’s Janice Long as “incredibly gifted - if anyone has the opportunity to see him they must”.

Thinguma*jigSaw ‘secret’ Galway show

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

THE ECCENTRIC, theatrical, surreal, and imaginative Norwegian folk duo Thinguma*jigSaw will play their final Irish gig in Galway.

Poems For Patience X launch

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

THE TENTH Poems For Patience initiative will be launched tomorrow at 11am on the Arts Corridor, off the main foyer, of University Hospital Galway.

The event, part of Cúirt, will see poet Matthew Sweeney introduce the 21 poems he has selected, which will be circulated throughout the waiting areas of UHG and Merlin Park University Hospital. For the duration of the festival, the poems will be on display on the Art Corridor.

Norman Villa Cúirt exhibition

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

LIES AND More Lies, the new exhibition by Philip Lindey, best known for his Galway Arts Festival posters of 2002 - 2004, is currently running as part of Cúirt.

Alan McMonagle’s Psychotic Episodes

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

ALAN MCMONAGLE, the Sligo born, Galway based, short story writer, will launch his new book Psychotic Episodes, as part of the Cúirt festival.

The stories feature a troubled boy who convinces himself he can fly; an elderly women who turns into a man; two adolescents’ unusual list of ideal women; and a childless couple given their nephew for the day.

Far From Literature We Were Reared

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

A NIGHT of short stories, music and song, spoken word, and literary craic will make up Far From Literature We Were Reared in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 8pm.

A score of Galway Stories from Doire Press

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

NEXT WEEK, with Galway hosting authors from all over the world as part of Cúirt, the city itself and its own writers are showcased in a fine new anthology from Doire Press, entitled Galway Stories, to be launched during the festival.

Laurent Binet - Heydrich, history, and me

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

AT ITS heart, HHhH, the debut work of French journalist Laurent Binet, is about Reinhard Heydrich – head of the Gestapo and criminal police in the Third Reich, deputy leader of the SS, and Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, administering the Nazi occupation of what is now the Czech Republic – and Operation Anthropoid, the British backed plot to assassinate him.

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