One man show on Karl Marx at Town Hall
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
KARL MARX, author of Das Kapital, co-author of The Communist Manifesto, and the revolutionary thinker, whose ideas on class, economics, and capitalism, remain challenging to this day, will be the subject of a play at the Town Hall Theatre studio.
Marx In Soho, written by historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of America, will be staged on Thursday August 23. The show will be performed by Jerry Levy.
Read more ...Tom Portman Trio @ Monroe’s
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
TOM PORTMAN, the gifted guitarist, and his band, will take to the stage of Monroe’s Backstage Bar next Wednesday at 10pm.
Read more ...‘Play it again, Sam’... Casablanca @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
CASABLANCA, THE much loved 1942 film, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, will be screened in the Róisín Dubh on Monday August 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Velvet Revolution comes to Campbell’s Tavern
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE TIRELESS Truman Town Theatre are in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloghanover, Headford, this weekend for two performances of their latest hit play, Velvet Revolution, written and directed by Mick Donnellan.
Read more ...Win tickets to the Jameson Cult Film Club screening of Snatch
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
SNATCH, THE cult gangster classic starring Brad Pitt and Vinnie Jones, will be screened at the exclusive Jameson Cult Film Club, which is coming to Galway for the first time on August 23.
The Jameson Cult Film Club is all about watching your favourite cult films at spectacular screenings staged to transport the audience right into the world of the movie. These free events are not just your typical screening, as characters from the movie, live theatre and special effects timed perfectly with on-screen action help to create an electric atmosphere throughout the screening.
Read more ...Jedward competition
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE WINNER of a pair of tickets to see Jedward at the Summer Pop concert in Galway later this month is Chloe Cooke from Oughterard.
Read more ...Create bars at Electric Picnic
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
HEINEKEN IS calling on music fans to create their own Electric Picnic ‘memory’ bar at this year’s festival.
Read more ...Fight blindness @ Carbon
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE CARBON night-club will host a blind date night in aid of Fighting Blindness Ireland on Friday August 24.
Read more ...Little Cinema to screen new films
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE LITTLE Cinema club will screen three, new, short films by Galway film makers in Kelly’s Bar, on Tuesday August 21.
This month’s event will be a little different from the club’s normal nights where films under 10 minutes in length are shown. The three films to be screened will be longer than 10 minutes and are: The Body, directed by Darren Hinchy; Impetuous by Dave Thorpe; and Unheard by Carla Maria Tighe.
Read more ...Autumn/winter at the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
FOLK, INDIE, pop-punk, prog-rock, singer-songwriter, and electro acts ranging from The Cast Of Cheers to Pierre Bensusan, will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh over the coming months.
Read more ...Duke Special to play Inishbofin
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
COUNTY ANTRIM singer-songwriter Duke Special will be heading west to play the Dolphin Hotel on Inishbofin, this Tuesday.
Read more ...Noel Gallagher’s brother @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
PAUL GALLAGHER, who has recently completed a DJ tour with his brother Noel Gallagher and his band ‘High Flying Birds’, is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Them Martyrs release new EP
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
GALWAY HARDCORE band Them Martyrs will launch their new EP Wretched, with a gig in Sally Longs tomorrow night.
Read more ...The Four of Us @ HALO
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
LONG RUNNING County Down band The Four Of Us return to Galway to play Upstairs @ HALO tomorrow at 11pm.
Read more ...Hijackers @ Carbon
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
HIJACKERS - duo Richie Burke and Sean Hayden - best known for the singles ‘Stronger’, ‘Lose Your Mind’, ‘Sparks’, and ‘Piece Of Me’, play Carbon, Eglinton Street, tonight.
Hijackers’ debut album Negotiations spawned several hits and enjoyed rotation on radio and in the clubs, as well as topping the iTunes dance chart in Ireland. The duo’s music combines big room house and electro anthems.
Read more ...Tuam Arts Festival takes place this weekend
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE 10TH Tuam Arts Festival opens tonight and runs each day up to and including Monday, with storytelling, music, theatre, and the legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke.
Read more ...Cregg Castle artists’ exhibition
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
A GROUP exhibition by the resident artists of Cregg Castle Arts Venue opens in the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 6pm.
Read more ...A concert fit for a king
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
CEOL DON Rí/Music Fit For A King is the title of a concert which takes place this evening at 8pm in the Nuns Island Theatre.
Read more ...Paintings of Irish life in Britain
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
THE EXPERIENCES of Irish people in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s haunts the Irish imagination, whether in songs, the plays of Tom Murphy, or in films such as Kings.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, Aug 16, 2012
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.
The show is open to the public and comedians, and admission is free. Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.
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