Last places for Core Theatre College course

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

CORE THEATRE College has filled all but two places for the performance course, starting on September 19.

The Guard competition winner

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

THE WINNER of a pair of tickets to the gala première screening of The Guard in The Eye this week is Fergus MacSweeney of Barna.

Garvey’s comedy open mic night

Thu, Jul 07, 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.

Percy French Summer School

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

THE PERCY French Summer School will take place at Castlecoote House, Castlecoote, Co Roscommon, from Wednesday July 13 to Friday 15.

Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft, the ever popular series of lunchtime comedy shows in The Ruby Room, The King’s Head, return this month.

The Vaselines - indie legends to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

WHAT IS it about Scotland and indie music? This is the nation which has given the genre many of its defining bands - Belle and Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, Camera Obscura, and of course The Vaselines.

Mick Hanly and Arty McGlynn @ The Forge

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

TWO OF the giants of Irish folk - Mick Hanly and Arty McGlynn - along with Nollaig Casey, play The Forge in Moycullen this Saturday at 9pm.

Driftwood Manor album launch @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

GALWAY AVANT-folk band The Driftwood Manor will launch their new album with a show upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 15 at 9pm.

The album, The Same Figure (Leaving), is a joint release between independent Galway label Rusted Rail and independent Dublin label Slow Loris.

Track Dogs @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

TRACK DOGS, the new band name for the Garrett Wall Band, are coming back to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Sunday at 10.30pm.

Philomena Lynott to sign My Boy in Easons

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

Philomena Lynott, the mother of Thin Lizzy leader and rock icon Phil Lynott, will be in Galway next weekend to sign copies of her book My Boy.

Ms Lynott will be in Easons on Shop Street, from 12 noon on Saturday July 16 to sign copies of the book and meet and greet Lizzy fans.

Schubert’s Octet to be performed in Tuam

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

LONDON’S CALLINO Quartet will perform Schubert’s masterpiece, the Octet in F major D803, at St Mary’s Church of Ireland Cathedral in Tuam as part of this year’s Galway Arts Festival.

American and Irish poets to read at city museum

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

AMERICAN AND Galway writers will come together to read their work at the Over The Edge July Writers’ Gathering at The Kitchen in the Galway City Museum.

Contempo to begin Galway Cathedral Recitals

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

THE GALWAY Cathedral Recitals series of summer recitals returns with the opening concert, featuring the ConTempo Quartet and David Grealy, taking place this evening at 8pm.

See the art unfold at 126

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

Nine artists over nine consecutive days will create, destroy, and re-arrange artworks in 126, and the public will be able to see it unfold on-line and in the gallery.

THE NUDE in Western art can be either be a study of the form, contours, and idiosyncrasies of the human body (eg, Gwen John, Lucien Freud), or be unashamed erotica (Ingres, Delveaux, Allen Jones) - it just depends on who is painting them.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
The pursuit of it is as good as it gets.

Icelandic films @ the fleadh

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

ICELAND’S ECONOMY imploded in 2008 devastating the nation, but through courage, unorthodox ingenuity, and zero tolerance for politicians’ excuses, the nation is getting back on its feet.