Gael Garcia Bernal says No

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

MEXICAN FILM star Gael Garcia Bernal takes the lead role in Chilean movie No, to be shown in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Dermot Healy - a man for all seasons

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

TURNING LEFT just after Drumcliffe Church in County Sligo, there is a long twisting road, wending its way to a rocky shore. At the end is a low lying bungalow.

Galway Baroque Singers in concert

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers and the ConTempo Quartet will perform Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ in the Augustinian Church, Middle Street.

Choral concert in Salthill

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

CHOIRS FROM Alabama and Galway gather in Christ the King church, Salthill, this Sunday at 8pm for a concert embracing all forms of song.

The University of North Alabama Chamber Choir are an elite group of 27 choristers chosen from the UNA Collegiate Singers, directed by Ian Leoppky. Their repertoire will include Rheinberger, Gjeilo, Bach, Holst, Mills, Makaroff, Leoppky, and Lennon/McCartney.

Over The Edge readings

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

TWO FICTION writers and a poet will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday March 28 at 6.30pm.

Colm Keegan has performed his poetry at the Flat Lakes Festival, Electric Picnic, and the Festival of World Cultures. He was All Ireland Slam Poetry Champion in 2010.

Ballet gala marks twenty-five years of Regina Rogers school

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

THE REGINA Rogers School of Ballet has long been a valued presence on Galway’s cultural landscape and next weekend it celebrates its silver jubilee with three gala dance performances in the Town Hall Theatre.

Conducting the sounds of sacred song

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

A MEDITATION on Christ’s final words on the Cross and a homage to the patron saint of music, St Cecilia, will form part of a pre-Easter concert of sacred contemporary music in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

Three chances to see Reginald D

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

REGINALD D HUNTER, a man in “the top rank of stand-up comedians working today,” according to The Times, plays three dates in Galway over the Easter Weekend.

The Fantasist – charting bipolar’s highs and lows

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

AFTER SELL-OUT runs in London and Edinburgh and numerous rave reviews, Theatre Témoin brings its astonishing show, The Fantasist, to the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday March 20 at 8pm.

An Taibhdhearc’s Seoda Phádraig concert

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

SEODA PHÁDRAIG 2013, the annual St Patrick’s Festival of Music and Song of the Nation, takes place in An Taibhdhearc, Middle Street, tomorrow at 8pm.

Dancing to the Pageant of life

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

WALKING A tightrope, jumping through hoops, bending over backwards to please, or dressing in a certain way, there is pageantry in everything we do.

Acting for film and TV course

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

JOHN DAWSON, the highly respected acting teacher is coming to Galway to give an acting for camera workshops.

Pat Shortt - I Am The Band

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

IRELAND’S DANCEHALL and showband days will be relived in the hilarious new show, I Am The Band, by one of Ireland’s best loved comedians, Pat Shortt.

Galway Film Centre script clinic

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

THE GALWAY Film Centre is running a four-day writing course in April, aimed at those with an idea for, or who are working on, a feature script.

The course takes place from April 18 to 21 (9am-5pm) in Cluain Mhuire, Wellpark Road. The tutor is Mark McIlrath, a professional script editor with more than 20 years experience.

Beth Orton to play Strange Brew

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

BETH ORTON has embraced and eschewed the ‘singer-songwriter’ tag throughout her career, never opting solely for the one guitar, three chords, and the truth approach.

Wingnut Records night @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

PRIVATE UNDERGROUND Residence have been compared to Battles, Fugazi, Slint, and The Melvins, and they play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm.

A feast of DJs for Electric Garden

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

THE INNOVATIVE Detroit DJ Dabyre is coming to Galway to play the Bap To The Future night at the Electric Garden this Saturday.

Art exhibitions

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

FROM DIFFERENT views of Galway, to Icelandic landscapes, to the work of GMIT students, a host of exhibitions in Galway city and county open, or have just opened, this week.

Classical and trad concert for Coláiste Iognáid

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

THE JES Choir and the NUI Galway Medical School Orchestra join forces with Frankie Gavin and Cora and Breda Smyth for a major concert on the university campus.

The day Munster beat the All Blacks

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

IT IS one of the legendary days in Irish rugby. In Thomond Park, Limerick, on Tuesday October 31 1978, Munster took on one of the greatest New Zealand sides of all time - and beat them, 12 - 0. Afterwards All Blacks wing Stu Wilson said : “We were lucky to get nil.”

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