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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gerry will give the lecture, entitled Themes of Love and Laughter - the Legacy and Literary Treasures of celebrated Irish Writers Past and Present in The Ardilaun Hotel on Friday May 11. The talk will cover Percy French, James Joyce, WB Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, and Johnny Duhan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most of Macken’s claim to be Ireland’s finest popular novelist of the 20th century stems from his books Rain On The Wind and Seek The Fair Land.

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.

Even in those early efforts, it was obvious that she understood that good writing is not defined so much by the story that is being told as it is by the linguistic nuts and bolts of how it is told: the new metaphors and similes that surprise us along the way and make any story or poem its own new thing, rather than a derivative rehash of something that went before.

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.

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.

Ray Davies to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

RAY DAVIES, one of England’s greatest songwriters and the leader of the legendary band The Kinks will play his first gig in Galway in more than a decade this summer.

Ray Davies will play an intimate show in the Róisín Dubh on Friday June 22 at 8pm, ahead of his appearance at the Westport Festival of Music & Arts.