The Galway Early Music Festival returns this month
Thu, May 03, 2012
BAGPIPES AND harps, France, Spain, and Scotland, the mediaeval world to the 18th century, all will be explored and celebrated for the 2012 Galway Early Music Festival.
Read more ...Cúirt articles
Thu, May 03, 2012
Last week’s article on the poet Sarah Clancy was written by Kevin Higgins, while the March 22 article on Paul Durcan, Monsieur Durcan poete, Je te salue was penned by Des Kenny. They were not written by Kernan Andrews as was stated in the by-line.
Read more ...Citóg @ The Cellar
Thu, May 03, 2012
VICKERS VIMY, The Little Smoke, and Emma O’Reilly will play Citóg in The Cellar Bar tonight from 9pm.
Vickers Vimy are a Galway quintet formed by Ed Drea and Fintan Hanley. They take their name from the aeroplane that made the 1919 cross-Atlantic flight from New Foundland to Clifden.
Read more ...Bronagh Gallagher @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 03, 2012
BRONAGH GALLAGHER, the actress, singer, and songwriter is about to release her new album, simply entitled Bronagh Gallagher, and this month will see her on tour across Ireland.
Read more ...Swedish house duo @ Central Park
Thu, May 03, 2012
THE SWEDISH electro-house duo Dada Life will make their Galway debut this Bank Holiday Sunday when they play a gig at Central Park Nightclub on Abbeygate Street.
Read more ...The Japanese Popstars DJ set
Thu, May 03, 2012
DERRY ELECTRONIC band The Japanese Popstars will perform a special DJ set at Carbon, nightclub this Bank Holiday Sunday, from 11pm.
Read more ...Curfew @ The Cellar
Thu, May 03, 2012
THE CURFEW DJ night will throw another massive party downstairs in The Cellar Bar this Saturday.
DJs Fuz and Yoseph will be spinning a concoction of dance, disco, house, and funk. Admission is free and there will be drinks promotions.
Read more ...The Dictator – advanced screenings at The Eye
Thu, May 03, 2012
SACHA BARON Cohen’s new film The Dictator will receive its world premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Thursday May 10 and Galway audiences will be able to see it.
Read more ...Red Bird to give a SAMPLE of youth creativity
Thu, May 03, 2012
RED BIRD, an up and coming youth-led arts organisation, will hold SAMPLE, an exhibition of its works, which opens in the Galway Arts Centre tomorrow at 6pm.
Red Bird members are aged between 15 and 22 and their interests range from fashion to creative writing, from journalism to acting, and from film to visual art. The group has been working with Galway artist Louise Manifold since September 2011, who has assisted and guided the group in its creative work.
Read more ...Book launches at Over The Edge
Thu, May 03, 2012
GALWAY AUTHORS Yvonne McEvaddy and Rejini Samuel will launch their new novels at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering at The Kitchen, Galway City Museum, on Wednesday May 9 at 8pm.
Read more ...Gerry Hanberry to read at The Ardilaun
Thu, May 03, 2012
GALWAY AUTHOR and poet Gerry Hanberry will next week deliver a lecture on how themes of love and laughter reoccur in the works of Irish writers and musicians.
Read more ...Josh Ritter to read at Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 03, 2012
THE AMERICAN singer-songwriter Josh Ritter will make a welcome return to Galway this summer for a public reading from his debut novel.
Read more ...Win tickets to American Pie: The Reunion @ Galway Omniplex
Thu, May 03, 2012
AMERICAN PIE: The Reunion, sees the American Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago return to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, May 03, 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.
Read more ...World music @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 03, 2012
LATIN AMERICAN, Malaysian, African, and Balkan styles of music will be the order of the day at The Havana Way night in Monroe’s Live on Friday May 11 at 9pm.
Performing on the night will be Baque Soul who play Brazilian soul-funk and samba, Latin grooves, and hip-hop. They are fronted by Mexican vocalist Susana Garcia and Brazilian street poet Juliana Duraes. The intensity of their live shows has earned them a reputation as a must see band.
Read more ...Sunday Service @ Massimos with a Pig-On-A-Spit
Thu, May 03, 2012
Massimos will be hosting Sunday Service as usual but with a delicious pig-on-a-spit this week for the long weekend. Come down and sample the wonderful menu and enjoy the chilled out tunes provided on vinyl by the Sunday Service DJ from around 4pm-6pm.
Read more ...Moments of quiet desperation
Thu, May 03, 2012
WALTER MACKEN, probably the author most associated with Galway city, would have been 97 today. What is not generally realised is that he had strong east Galway connections, his mother hailing from Cappatagle near Ballinasloe.
Read more ...The heart stopping sentences of Rejini Samuel
Thu, May 03, 2012
I FIRST became aware of Rejini Samuel’s work a couple of years ago when she began attending creative writing classes at GTI and, as a result, came along and read some poems and extracts from stories at an Over The Edge open-mic.
Read more ...Romeo and Juliet
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
BALLET IRELAND, The National Ballet of Ireland, comes to the Town Hall next week with its hugely successful production of Romeo & Juliet, set to Sergei Prokofiev’s thrilling score.
Read more ...Sarah Clancy: It’s poetry, Jim, but not as we know it
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
SARAH CLANCY began writing poetry just three years ago. Her first published poem, ‘Hippy Get A Job’, appeared on the Over The Edge website in August 2009.
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