Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, Sep 01, 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 10pm.
Read more ...The Driftwood Manor @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
PSYCHEDELIC FOLK band The Driftwood Manor will perform songs from their new album The Same Figure (Leaving) upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday September 8 at 9pm.
Read more ...Roots/Americana gig @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
MONROE’S LIVE will host a night of roots rock and Americana this Sunday when singer-songwriters Tony McLoughlin and Ben Reel take to the stage.
Read more ...Student season at Carbon Nightclub
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
TODAY IS September 1 and Galway is about to become a student city once again and Carbon nightclub on Eglinton Street has a host of great nights and events lined up.
Read more ...Strange Brew @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
IRISH/CANADIAN band Nightbox and Dublin/US band Favourite Sons play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight from 10pm.
Read more ...Rita Ann Higgins to launch new poetry collection
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
RITA ANN Higgins’s latest collection of poetry, entitled Ireland Is Changing Mother, will be launched in Galway on Friday September 16.
Read more ...Chatham Saxophone Quartet free debut concert
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE CHATHAM Saxophone Quartet will perform its debut Galway concert in the Town Hall Theatre Studio on Tuesday September 6 at 1.10pm.
Read more ...GMIT graduates exhibit @ 126
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THREE GRADUATES of the GMIT and Limerick School of Art and Design will hold an exhibition of their work entitled Sensory Threshold in the 126 gallery on Queen Street.
Read more ...Galway Youth Orchestra auditions
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE GALWAY Youth Orchestra will hold a registration day in the GTI, Fr Griffin Road, this Saturday from 11am to 12.30pm.
Read more ...Stagecoach Galway theatre and dance classes
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
STAGECOACH GALWAY is running a new series of classes in dance, drama, and singing for those aged from four to 17 in St Mary’s College, starting Saturday September 10.
Read more ...Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
AMERICAN, IRISH, and British poets will read from their work at the September Over The Edge Writers Gathering in The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum on Friday September 9 at 8pm.
Read more ...Galway writers to read at Sheridan’s Wine Bar
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
FOUR GALWAY fiction writers will read stories which have been shortlisted in the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story Competition at Sheridan’s Wine Bar this Monday at 8pm.
Read more ...Win tickets to Friends With Benefits @ Omniplex
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
MILA KUNIS and Justin Timberlake star as Jamie and Dylan, two friends who think that adding sex into the mix will not cause any problems.
Read more ...Scrubs stars to bring the laughs to Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
FANS OF the US hospital set comedy Scrubs are in for a treat later this year when The Blanks, better known to Scrubs fans as Ted’s Band or The Worthless Peons, play Monroe’s Live.
Read more ...Rubberbandits return
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
The mighty Rubberbandits return to the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday September 28 at 8.30pm for a night of brilliant hip-hop comedy mayhem. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and www.roisindubh.net
Read more ...Galway Film Centre events and courses
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
FOR MANY filmmakers, the journey is just beginning when they have their finished DVDs in their hands. Next step is to get that film out there and into film festivals.
Read more ...Cancer Care West comedy fundraiser
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
DES BISHOP will host a comedy charity fundraising night for Cancer Care West in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday, starting at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Pete Mullineaux acting classes
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
GALWAY BASED actor, poet, and singer-songwriter Pete Mullineaux will again be holding his popular acting classes in the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...The book auction
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
FOR SOME unknown reason, I have only ever attended two book auctions and did not bid at either, so when an important customer asked me over a fortnight ago to attend one in Kells and to bid on his behalf I felt as though I was going out on my first date. The prospect was as fascinating as it was terrifying.
Read more ...Blues, wit and haiku
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THERE ARE those who say there are too many women poets nowadays. For these reactionary critics all was well in the garden of poetry until it was ruined by feminism and the advent of poetry workshops, which have conspired together to encourage many more women to write poetry. And most of it, shock horror, does not even rhyme.
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