Galway Musical Society to stage Jekyll & Hyde
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE MUSICAL of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic tale, Jekyll & Hyde, will be performed by the Galway Musical Society, in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday March 19 to Saturday 23 at 8pm.
Read more ...Be the first to see Our Children
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWEGIANS WILL be among the first in Ireland to see the multi-award winning Belgian/French film Our Children at a special screening in the city this weekend.
Read more ...Theatre workshop
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
A WORKSHOP exploring the Chekhov and Lecoq techniques for actors, directors, and teachers, takes place from March 25 to 29.
Read more ...Run For Your Wife
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE HILARIOUS comedy Run For Your Wife will be staged in the Turloughmore Social Centre tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...The Three Tenors St Patrick’s Eve concert
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE THREE Tenors, “the most delicious box of chocolates your ears could ever have,” according to The New York Times, are coming back to Galway.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre March Poetry Slam
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THIS MONTH’S Galway Arts Centre Poetry Slam takes place on Tuesday March 19 at 7pm at the centre on Dominick Street.
Read more ...KNOTS @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DUBLIN TRIO KNOTS, an abbreviation for King’s Now On The Stage, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night at 10pm.
Read more ...Belfast punks for Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
BELFAST ALT-PUNK band Empty Lungs play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Tuesday at 9pm as part of a tour promoting their new EP.
Read more ...Doom metallers to launch debut album @ The Cellar
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWAY DOOM metal trio Weed Priest will launch their eponymous debut album with a gig in The Cellar Bar tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...Apartment Records @ Bierhaus and Factory
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DJ KENNY Hanlon, the owner and operator of Apartment Records, is coming to Galway as part of a night featuring three of the label’s acts.
The Epoch clubnight takes place in the Bierhaus and The Electric Garden’s Factory this Saturday. Hanlon will play a four hour set in the Bierhaus from 9pm and Mark Forshaw and TR-One continuing proceedings in Factory.
Read more ...Don Stiffe’s Garvey’s residency
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DON STIFFE, one of Galway’s best loved folk singers can be heard and enjoyed at his residency in Garvey’s Bar, Eyre Square each Sunday from 9.30pm to 11.30pm.
Originally from Bohermore, over the last seven years Don has established himself as a popular singer-songwriter in the folk genre. He released his debut album Start Of A Dream in 2006 and it featured contributions from Frankie Gavin, Sharon Shannon, Arty McGlynn, and Cathal Hayden.
Read more ...Glen Hansard to play the Big Top
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE GALWAY Arts Festival Big Top line up is looking to be among the best in years with Grizzly Bear, Josh Ritter, and Glen Hansard confirmed.
Read more ...Fundraising concert for Pieta HouseFundraising concert for Pieta House
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
A FUNDRASIING concert for Pieta House takes place in Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday March 15 from 10pm.
Read more ...Get down to Motown @ HALO
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
SOUL FANS can look forward to Ireland’s leading Motown big band experience, The Papa Zitas, upstairs at HALO Live tomorrow night from 11pm.
Read more ...Youth exhibition on city architecture
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
ARTWORKS, SOUND pieces, photographs, and poetry inspired by the architecture of Galway city’s west end forms the basis of a new, youth led, exhibition.
Read more ...Two exhibitions open this weekend
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
TWO EXHIBITIONS open this weekend, one in the Galway Arts Centre, featuring short films, the other in The Shed at the docks, featuring large-scale works.
Read more ...Poetry reading at city museum
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DESPITE BEING one of the key movers and shakers in the west of Ireland poetry scene, Kevin Higgins has not given a major public reading in Galway since 2007.
That changes tomorrow evening at 8pm in The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum at the March Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering, which will be a showcase reading for Skylight 47, the new poetry publication.
Read more ...The silent heroes
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
OVER THE last three years or so, there has been a continuous growth in the number of books published inside and outside Ireland relating to the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War, and Irish involvement in the First World War.
Read more ...The spirit of literary free enterprise
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE NEWBIE writers of Galway are an enterprising lot. Not for them the hours we spent gazing into tepid cappuccinos and complaining about what Cúirt or Poetry Ireland were not doing for us.
Read more ...Epic poem on Gibraltar killings re-published
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
AN EPIC poem, written by a man who spent many years living in Galway, about the killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar in 1988 has been published in a new edition.
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