Samuel Beckett short plays at Galway Theatre Festival
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
FIVE SHORT plays by Samuel Beckett, including one translated into Gaeilge, will be staged as part of the Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...Colin Flack exhibition in Clifden
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
AN EXHIBITION of new works by the artist Colin Flack, will be officially opened tomorrow at 7.30pm in the Zetland Country House Hotel, Clifden.
Read more ...In the company of Haydn
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
PIANO SONATAS and flute quartets by the great Austrian composer Jospeh Haydn, a friend and teacher to both Beethoven and Mozart, will be performed in NUI Galway’s Aula Maxima.
The piano sonatas in G major, D major, and E-flat major, along with the flute quartets in D major and G major will be performed by flautist Madeleine Staunton, pianist Peter Tuite, and The ConTempo Quartet on Tuesday October 2 at 8pm.
Read more ...Moonfish’s Tromluí Phinocchio
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
FOLLOWING ITS successful run at the ABSOLUT Dublin Fringe, Tromluí Phinocchio/Pinocchio – A Nightmare by Moonfish theatre company is coming back to Galway.
Read more ...Vagabond double bill at Galway Theatre Festival
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
VAGABOND THEATRE will premiere two one-act plays from local writers during the Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...Wheelchair On My Face
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
FRESH FROM winning a Fringe First Award at Edinburgh, Sonya Kelly’s acclaimed one-woman show, The Wheelchair on My Face, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week for one night only.
Part memoir, part theatre, part stand-up comedy, The Wheelchair on My Face relates the hilarious and poignant story of Kelly’s myopic childhood.
Read more ...Michael Faherty to launch new poetry collection
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
POEMS, THE debut collection of Michael Faherty, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday October 5 at 6pm, by the Galway city arts officer James Harrold.
Read more ...Strange Brew’s 500th Night
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
STRANGE BREW, the Róisín Dubh’s celebration of all things indie, Irish, and up and coming, will celebrate its 500th night with a line up of some of the finest emerging bands in Ireland.
Read more ...David Kitt to perform Small Moments
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
DAVID KITT will perform his 2000 debut album Small Moments in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday October 4 at 8pm.
Read more ...Rachel Sermanni @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
SHE IS just 19. She comes from a village in the Scottish Highlands called Carrbridge, and the Herald Scotland has compare her vocals to Joni Mitchell.
Read more ...Garrett Phillipps Ros na Rún
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Driving, listening to the small people singing in the back.
The seductive enigma of jazz
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
TRYING TO write about jazz is a bit like trying to paint Connemara. The subjects are so elusive that to describe it conclusively is nigh near impossible and the writer or artist is reduced to focusing on an individual moment that most responds to or echoes their personal or artistic talent.
Read more ...Galway Jazz Festival returns for eighth year
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
THE GALWAY Jazz Festival returns from Tuesday October 9 to Sunday 14 for its eighth year, with an expanded programme which includes Irish-French trio Pinto.
Read more ...Sandra Coffey to release debut single
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
GALWAY SINGER Sandra Coffey releases her debut single ‘Mascara Girl’ on iTunes from tomorrow, in anticipation of her forthcoming album.
Read more ...Algerian actress Adila Bendimerad to visit Galway
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
ALGERIAN ACTRESS Adila Bendimerad will be in Galway this weekend to attend a screening of the film The Repentant in which she plays a leading role.
Read more ...Game of Thrones scriptwriter is coming to Galway
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
BRYAN COGMAN, the writer and executive story editor on hit series Game of Thrones is coming to Galway to take part in a seminar focused on writing drama for television.
Read more ...What Richard Did @ The Eye cinema
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
WHAT RICHARD Did, described by Hot Press’s Tara Brady as “the most important Irish film of this century”, will receive a special screening in The Eye on Tuesday October 2 at 7pm.
Read more ...Terry Alderton at the Galway Comedy Festival
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
TERRY ALDERTON and his hilariously unpredictable alter egos take to the stage of Monroe’s Live next month as part of the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival.
Read more ...The Rusted Rail mini-tour
Thu, Sep 27, 2012
GALWAY-BASED record label Rusted Rail will host a mini-tour of some of the acts on its roster, taking in gigs in Galway city and Tuam.
Read more ...Freedom fighters, travelogs, scholars, and lovers
Thu, Sep 13, 2012
NORTH AFRICAN and French films will feature strongly in the new Galway Film Society autumn/winter season programme, which runs from September 23 to December 9 at the Town Hall Theatre.
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