Tulca festival to be opened tomorrow

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

TULCA, GALWAY’S visual arts festival, will be officially launched tomorrow at No 1 Merchants Road, the former Instore/McDonagh building.

Junior Film Fleadh to preview Galway produced animated film

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

NIKO & The Way To The Stars an award winning new CGI animated film, will receive a special preview screening as part of the Junior Galway Film Fleadh - ahead of its nationwide release on November 28.

Bríd Ní Neachtain - putting her stamp on Juno

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

SEAN O’CASEY’S timeless classic Juno and the Paycock arrives at the Town Hall next week in a much-praised new production featuring Galway actress Bríd Ní Neachtain in the title role of Juno.

A native of Rosmuc, Ní Neachtain’s theatrical career began at the Abbey where she enrolled as a trainee assistant stage manager before graduating to become part of the acting company.

Galway Jazz Festival returns this month

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

JAZZ MUSICIANS from Holland, Japan, the USA, and Scandinavia, will be converging on this city for the Galway Jazz Festival 2008 which runs from Thursday November 20 to Sunday 23.

Which is the best? NUIG or GMIT

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

OVER THE next four months NUI, Galway and GMIT will battle it out in a series of contests for Head2Head 08/09, with the aim of winning the coveted title of Galway’s Best College!

Squeeze frontman Glenn Tilbrook is heading west

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

GLENN TILBROOK was one half of one of the greatest English songwriting teams of the last 30 years, when he wrote classic after classic with Chris Difford in Squeeze.

Sinnerboy @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

THE SPIRIT and the extraordinary music of the late, great, and much missed Rory Gallagher will be heard loud and clear when Sinnerboy play the Róisín Dubh.

Sinnerboy, the renowned Rory Gallagher tribute band, return to the Róisín on Sunday November 16 at 9pm.

Without George to launch debut album in Campbell’s

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

WITHOUT GEORGE, the Galway based hard rock, blues, funk, and country band, will launch their eponymous debut album at a show in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, this Saturday at 9.30pm.

DJ Eddie Halliwell to play Leisureland

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

GALWAY IS in for a ‘trancetastic’ clubbing experience as Planetlove presents Fire It Up with leading DJ Eddie Halliwell and DJ Preach in Leisureland this Saturday.

Moya Brennan concert cancelled

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

MOYA BRENNAN’S show and workshop has been cancelled due to slow ticket sales. The show was to take place in the Menlo Park Hotel tomorrow and the workshop on Saturday.

Moya Brennan ticket holders can receive a full ticket refund by contacting the ticket line on 091 - 509960. For further information on Spirit of Voice 2008 go to www.spiritofvoice.com.

Clifden to host major sean nós dance show

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

SEAN NÓS dancing has enjoyed a revival these last few years and more people than ever are looking to learn, watch, and/or find out about this looser, freer, form of Irish dance.

Travelog to the gas station

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

IN 1968, several teams of people were sent around Madison, New Jersey, in cars, stopping at various gas stations and asking the attendants to swap the tyres around on the car.

New York Polyphony to sing in St Nicholas

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

NEW YORK Polyphony - the most exciting and dynamic vocal ensemble of this generation - will perform in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Sunday November 16 at 8pm.

Trad music show for children

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

A CONCERT to get children excited about Irish trad will take place on this Sunday when leading trad fiddlers Liz Kane and Tóla Custy play St Patrick’s Band Hall.

Hunger is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

Watching grown men smear walls with faeces with their bare hands, hardly elicits thoughts of beauty, and yet, somehow you walk away from Steve McQueen’s Hunger feeling just that.

Blond Bond is back

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

JAMES BOND returns more cynical than ever in Quantum Of Solace, the second film in the franchise to star Daniel Craig. Somewhat unusually for a Bond movie, Quantum of Solace is a direct sequel, beginning almost immediately after the events of Casino Royale.

Do you have an idea for a short film?

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

HOW MANY people have an idea for a short film? How many of them actually put pen to paper to realise their idea?

The darkest hour is before the dawn

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

JOHNNY DUHAN’S book To The Light – Johnny Duhan Unsung, is curiously indefinable and this sole fact is perhaps the essence of its charm and powerful effect.

Portrait of a young poet at Moon’s Corner

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

IN A very real sense Gerald Dawe and Salmon Poetry’ Jessie Lendennie - the publisher of Dawe’s new book Catching the Light: Views & Interviews by Gerald Dawe - were the pioneers locally who showed us that literature is born in the here and now rather than in some misty idealised past.

Poems are written by living breathing people who need a meaningful context in which to operate. Poets need inspiration and to learn their craft, absolutely. They also need to find a way of getting their poems heard and into print.

Sex, song, and liberated women - Sean Tyrrell on The Midnight Court

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

WHILE OUT for a walk, a poet is accosted by a giant hag and hauled before the court of Queen Aoibheal, where he is condemned for being unmarried and Irish men and priests are given the thumbs down not satisfying the sexual needs of the women of Ireland.

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