Villagers - stripping down and spreading wings

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

THERE IS an endearing group of musicians doing the circuit at the moment. All wonderfully talented, creative, and in love with what they do. Watching them perform is always a pleasure.

Cinema Review - State Of Play

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

Murder, government conspiracies, love triangles, and oh so many twisting plots, all in a day’s work for brash newspaper reporter Cal McAffrey who uncovers it all; if only the life of an everyday hack was this thrilling. This film is certainly intriguing to watch as the suspense is well paced keeping the audience enthralled throughout.

The film which is directed by Kevin MacDonald (Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland) and written by Tony Gilroy, Matthew Michael Carnahan, and Bill Ray, is a Hollywood adaptation of a six-part BBC series that first broadcast in 2003. It begins with a petty thief being gunned down in a dirty allyway by a very creepy and highly skilled assasin (Michael Berresse). The suspence continues with a congressman’s assistant/lover falling in front of a subway train. Is it really suicide? Are these deaths linked in some way and if so, why?

Amit Mediratta’s new website

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

GALWAY BASED artist Amit Mediratta has launched a new website www.amit-mediratta.com.

An Taobh Tuathail to celebrate tenth birthday in the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

SINCE IT began broadcasting on Raidió na Gaeltachta in May 1999, An Taobh Tuathail has become essential listening if you want to keep abreast of innovative trends in rock, dance, electronic, and world music.

Olaf Tyaransen to read at Sheridan’s

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

THE JOURNALIST, author, and poet Olaf Tyaransen will read from his work, at an Over The Edge event, at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street, on Friday May 8 at 8pm.

Celebrating music in Headford

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

THE HEADFORD region will come alive to the sound of rock, folk, and classical music this weekend when Campbell’s Tavern and the Music Department of the Presentation College, Headford, host a series of shows this May Bank Holiday Weekend.

Dave Phelan Lost Chord

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Censored.

Galway Artists’ Exhibition call for submissions

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

A MAJOR exhibition of Galway city and county based artists work - Ealaíon At Lúnasa - will take please over three venues from July 30.

Ealaíon At Lúnasa is being directed by the Galway City Museum, Galway Arts Centre, and Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust and the organisers are calling on Galway based artists to submit work for the exhibition.

Artists’ professional development and training workshops

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

SOME PLACES are still available on the four professional development and training workshops for artists, which are being hosted by the Galway Arts Centre, the Galway County Council, and Visual Artists Ireland, in May and June.

Peer Critique - Lens Based Media with Heli Rekula takes place on Saturday May 2. There are six places left and the cost is €88/80. Peer Critique - Sculpture & Installation with Conor McFeely takes place on Monday May 11. There are six places left and the cost is €70/65.

Free Comic Book Day

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

COMIC BOOK fans of all ages in Galway will be looking forward to Free Comic Book Day which takes place this Saturday.

The foreign adventures of Louis de Bernières

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

CÚIRT 2009 is now in full swing and one of the highlights still to look forward to is the reading, this Saturday in the Town Hall Theatre at 1pm, by Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Adrian Crowley’s musical season sparks into life with new album

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

“MUSIC WAS always there in some form but only gradually asserted itself on me.” So says Galway born singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley as he prepares to release his fifth album Season Of The Sparks and plays a homecoming concert at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh tonight at 9pm.

Leaving his Barna home in the early 1990s, Crowley moved to Dublin and worked for an eccentric art dealer with a penchant for Bonaparte memorabilia. Slowly but surely music began to play a larger role in his life and just over a decade ago he recorded his debut album A Strange Kind in a small Rathmines bedsit.

The crossroads leading Máirtín O’Connor to the Town Hall

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

MÁIRTÍN O’CONNOR, one of Ireland’s finest accordion players and one of Irish trad’s most fertile and creative minds, will play the Town Hall on Monday May 4 at 8pm.

Juan Carlos Mestre - poetry is freedom

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

Where did the ancestors of the Irish come from? It is a question that has occupied the minds of historians and generated numerous myths and folktales. The most famous of these is that we are the descendants of the Milesians who originally sailed for Ireland from northwest Spain.

Singin’ In The Rain at the Town Hall

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

GET OUT your umbrella and your dancing shoes as the much loved musical Singin’ In The Rain will be performed by the Galway Musical Society in the Town Hall Theatre.

Atlantis Collective surface for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

MURDER, DRINK, pornography, and dodgy footwear - just some of the elements which make up Town Of Fiction, the debut collection of short stories by the Galway-based Atlantis Collective.

Town Of Fiction will be launched in Massimo, William Street West, tomorrow at 7.30pm as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. The Atlantis Collective is Conor Montague, Aideen Henry, Dara Ó Foghlu, Patricia Byrne, Paul MacMahon, Colm Brady, Maire Robinson, Alan Caden, Bob Whelan, and guest editor, John Kenny.

Matt Keane in concert

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

THE SINGER Matt Keane will headline a concert of traditional Irish music in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Saturday at 9pm.

Joining Matt on the night will be The Keaney Dancers, Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh, Nam Tom Teaimín, Tommy Keane, Jerry Mulvihill, Mary Staunton, Johnny Giles, Jacqueline McCarthy, Marion McCarthy, Mick Conneely, Bernadette Conneely, Ailish O’Connor, Tommy McCarthy, Liz Hanrahan, and Paddy Kerr.

Master guitarist Pierre Bensusan returns

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

WHENEVER THE name ‘Pierre Bensusan’ is mentioned to a guitarist, guitar fan, or anyone seriously into music, their response is always one of awe, reverence, and enchanted bewilderment at the man’s unparalleled dexterity and creativity on acoustic guitar.

Party the Croatian way with the Disconauts

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

THE AIRBOUND music festival in Croatia takes place from July 31 to August 2 and Irish promoters Bodytonic and Nightflight will be presenting a host of Irish acts during that weekend.

Cinema Review - I Love You, Man

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

How can a man be the perfect boyfriend and hang out with the guys or be in tune with his feminine side without being a complete wimp? That’s the question that Peter Klaven, a lovely but socially inept, real estate agent desperately needs to find answers to. With plenty of laughs, cringy moments, and even a few revelations, this is one of the best comedies about male friendship to come to the screens in a while.

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