The book collector
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
BOOK COLLECTORS tend to be strange animals who will resort to any device in order to acquire their prey.
Read more ...New writers breaking out in all directions
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
BICYCLES WITH Umbrellas, is a new professionally produced anthology showcasing poetry, fiction, and memoir by students who completed the MA in writing at NUI Galway in 2010.
Read more ...‘A modern character in an antique play’
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
AS SHAKESPEARE’S most complex, enigmatic, and ambiguous creation, Hamlet has inspired countless interpretations and commentaries, both within the field of theatre itself and in diverse areas of literature and scholarship.
Read more ...Reg Gordon - documenting Galway’s contemporary tribe
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
EVERY TOWN and city has its movers and shakers, its characters, people everyone knows, people who are judged to contribute to local social and cultural life, and help give the place a special character all of its own.
Tribe - a portrait of Galway, a magnificent new publication by Galway based photographer Reg Gordon, is a work which celebrates people the photographer feels meet this criteria and make Galway a unique place to live, through 90 imaginative and striking full-colour portraits.
Read more ...Movember night @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
MOUSTACHES AND music will be the order of the day with the Movember Galway gig night in the Róisín Dubh this Monday from 8pm.
Read more ...‘Shylock as Keyser Soze’ - Croi8’s radical Merchant of Venice
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
NEXT WEEK in the Town Hall studio, Galway’s Croi8 Productions present a radical new adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
Read more ...Dramasoc perform Tom Murphy
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
NUI GALWAY’S Dramsoc perform Tom Murphy’s The Morning After Optimism in the Druid Lane Theatre tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...Christmas crooning at the Town Hall
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
CHRISTMAS CROONERS, a concert featuring favourite Christmas songs by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Renmore gearing up for Aladdin
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
REHEARSALS HAVE stepped up for this year’s Renmore pantomime, an updated and hilarious version of Aladdin scripted by Peter Kennedy.
Read more ...Jennifer Cunningham art class Christmas party
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
ARTIST JENNIFER Cunningham will host a Christmas party at her Art School in Newcastle.
There will be mullled wine, light refreshments, music, a raffle, and an exhibition of work by Jennifer and her students. Bookings will be taken on the night for the January term. All are welcome.
Read more ...Competition winners
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
THE WINNERS of copies of Tommy Tiernan’s new DVD Crooked Man are: Clare O’Regan, Bearna; Maureen Devaney, Lettermore; Stephanie Flaherty-Klapp, Oranmore; Michael Johnson, Tuam; Trevor Lenihan, Galway.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
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 ...Freezer Sessions @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
THE JÄGERMEISTER Freezer Sessions return to the Róisín Dubh on Thursday December 1 with The Frank and Walters, The Depravations, Elaine Mai, and Ram’s Pocket Radio.
Read more ...Keywest @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
THERE IS a real buzz around Keywest right now and so anticipation of their gig in Monroe’s Live on Friday December 2 at 8.30pm is high.
Read more ...Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters @ Citóg
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
FOX JAW Bounty Hunters, the Limerick indie-rock quartet, who this year released their debut album The Devil In Music, play Citóg in The Cellar Bar tomorrow.
Read more ...Scott Ferguson to DJ @ Bierhaus
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
DETROIT’S SCOTT Ferguson will make his Galway debut this Saturday when he drops into the Bierhaus to perform a DJ set from 9pm.
Read more ...East 17 @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
EAST 17, the boyband who scored 18 Top 20 hits throughout the 1990s have returned and will play Monroe’s Live on Thursday December 1 at 9pm.
Read more ...Galway Record & CD Fair at Kelly’s
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
THE GALWAY Record & CD Fair returns to upstairs at Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, this Saturday.
The upcoming fair will have a huge range of vinyl records spanning almost every era and every genre - from the 1950s right up to the present day - from blues to metal, rap to alternative, punk to funk, to post-rock, Irish and indie. A massive selection of hard-to-find CDs and DVDs will also be on sale on the day.
Read more ...Eleanor Shanley in Moycullen
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
ELEANOR SHANLEY makes a welcome return to Galway to play The Forge in Moycullen this Saturday.
Read more ...Hootenanny @ Campbell’s
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
THE AMERICANA Music & Arts Month at Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, will end on a high note with shows from Mr William’s Goodtime String Band and The Midnight Cowboys.
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