Galway writers and workshops at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

GALWAY WRITERS will feature in this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature through readings, booklaunches, and The Cúirt Literary Brunch.

Two of the Galway based writers featured this year are Mike McCormick and Mary Costello, who will take part in a public interview with editor and publisher of The Stinging Fly, Declan Meade, in An Taibhdhearc, on Sunday April 28 at 2pm.

An Estonian/Irish fusion

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

LINKS BETWEEN Irish and Estonian traditional music will be explored at a concert in Johnston’s Hall, Kinvara, this Saturday at 9pm.

Lorg Printmakers night at the dogs

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

LORG PRINTMAKERS will hold a fundraising event at the Galway Greyhound Stadium, aka The Sporstgound, on College Road, tomorrow, Good Friday.

Clifden Traditional Music Festival

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

THE CLIFDEN Traditional Music Festival runs from Thursday April 4 to Sunday 7 throughout the town’s pub, hotels, and at a the stage in Market Square.

Savage Eye @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

DAVID MCSAVAGE, the man behind RTÉ’s Savage Eye and one of Ireland’s leading comedians, is coming to the Róisín Dubh on Friday April 5 at 8.30pm.

Food and funny business

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

COMEDY FANS and foodies are in for great laugh at two special lunchtime comedy shows in The Ruby Room of The King’s Head.

Synergy fundraising show @ Monroe’s

Thu, Mar 28, 2013

SYNERGY’S MEMBERS range in age from 20 to 68 and their upbeat music fuses reggae rhythms with folk and rock dynamics.

Susan Millar DuMars - searching for God in the everyday

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

WHERE IS God? Who is S/He? Does such a being even exist? What happens after we die? As long as people have walked the earth there have been and will continue to be these questions.

Gort literature festival forges ahead

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE FORGE at Gort Literary Festival begins on Friday March 29 with a reception in the Gallery Café, Gort, at 5.30pm to which all are welcome.

Love Is All You Need screens tonight

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

PIERCE BROSNAN stars in Love Is All You Need, by the Oscar winning Danish director, Susanne Bier, which will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre this evening at 7.30pm.

Delicious O’Grady – finding comedy in The Great Hunger

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE IRISH Famine may seem like the last subject to write a comic play about but performer Colm O’Grady has pulled off this singular feat with his acclaimed one-man show Delicious O’Grady which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on April 4 at 8pm.

A glimpse into the heart of terrorism

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE 1970S was a decade defined, in some respects, by terrorism with the emergence of the Baader Meinhof and Brigate Rosse on the continent and the IRA and UVF in Ireland.

A new play by community theatre group ALâ, Days of Darkness, takes a look at that time and inside the heart and mind of a terrorist group. The play will be staged in An Taibhdhearc on Wednesday April 3, Thursday 4, and Friday 5 at 8pm.

President Higgins celebrates Irish culture with Druid and Tom Murphy

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

DRUID THEATRE’S Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen, along with playwright Tom Murphy, were among those who joined Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D Higgins in Áras an Uachtaráin over St Patrick’s weekend.

Creative writing classes

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginner and intermediate levels will be held in the Galway Technical Institute in April.

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

CORK BORN slam poet Fergus Costello will bring his “God awful, bog standard, horrendous abuse of the English language to a Galway house for the first time.”

Get down to northern soul and ska

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE BEST, and some of the hardest to find, singles in northern soul, early reggae, Latin Boogaloo, Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and 1960s r’n’b will be spun in Galway next weekend.

‘Midnight at the Oasis’ singer to play Galway

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

MOST SINGERS are lucky to make it beyond a handful of gigs, a few more are lucky to get something recorded. Only a handful get to sing a song that becomes a classic.

In 1974 Maria Muldaur scored a Top 10 US hit with ‘Midnight at the Oasis’. It went on to receive several Grammy nominations and has rarely been out of public earshot, featuring on the soundtracks to Lost In Translation, American Pie, Gilmore Girls, and The Wire.

Donal Dineen @ Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

DJ, BROADCASTER, photographer, and artist, Donal Dineen has been the renaissance man off the indie/altertnative scene in Ireland for some two decades.

Protobaby to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

PROTOBABY PLAY “clever, epic rocktronica” according to Hot Press and are “the best thing to happen to Limerick music in a long time” say State Of Affairs.

Make your own documentary

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE GALWAY Film Centre is seeking Galway county and city community, social and voluntary groups to take part in a project enabling them make a documentary.

The ID Film Project aims to facilitate groups to take an active part in the filmmaking process and develop and create a short documentary. The project is funded principally by The Arts Council, Galway City Council, and Galway County Council.

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