Mick Foley - tickets available for wrestlers's Monday show

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

MICK FOLEY comes to the Róisín Dubh next week to perform his one-man spoken word show, Tales From Wrestling Past. The Tuesday November 10 show is sold out, but tickets are still available for the Monday 9 performance.

John Behan: the people’s sculptor

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 05, 2015

STARTING IN the early seventies and continuing for about 20 years, there was a continuous migration into Galway of extraordinary “blow ins” whose genius and drive transfigured the cultural life of the city.

Otherkin - new EP and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

OTHERKIN MATCH "feral grunge riffs to uproarious, hugely infectious songwriting" (Clashmusic.com), "play bratty Britpop" (NME), and are "reminiscent of The Strokes, with their blend of pop hooks, brash licks, and impassioned vocals" (Culture Collide).

KATS to perform The Perfect Murder

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THE KNOCKNACARRA Amateur Theatre Society stage The Perfect Murder in An Taibhdhearc Theatre, Middle Street, from Wednesday November 11 to Saturday 14 at 8pm.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

FOLLOWING THE success of its four night run at the recent Vodafone Comedy Carnival, the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh continues on Friday November 6 at 8.30pm with a headline set from Danny O’ Brien.

Jane Clarke - So much more than a pastoral poet

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 05, 2015

IN WHAT is probably the best poem in Jane Clarke’s debut collection, The River, published by Bloodaxe, the narrator asks “Who owns the field?//Is it the one who is named in the deeds/whose hands never touched the clay/or is it the one who gathers the sheaves//takes a scythe to the thistles, plants the beech?"

Keith Barry - Out Of Control

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

FRESH FROM the success of his hit ITV show with Phillip Schofield, Keith Barry is back with Out Of Control, which will be staged in The Black Box Theatre tomorrow and Saturday at 8pm.

Piaf - celebrating the little sparrow's centenary

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

EDITH PIAF was born 100 years ago this year in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris, and although she died more than half a century ago, her songs and her remarkable voice will never perish.

Inni-K's indie folk @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

INNI-K's music, as heard on her debut album The King Has Two Horse’s Ears, is "effervescent folk pop with big slabs of smile-inducing tracks," according to Nialler9.

A new way to get involved in theatre

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

GALWAY YOUTH Theatre and the Galway Arts Centre are seeking members for the new Galway Youth and Community Theatre Network, open to all ages interested in theatre, performance, or a desire to try something new.

Puccini, Mozart, and the Galway Baroque Singers

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

MORE THAN 180 voices, the combined talents of The Galway Baroque Singers, Our Lady’s Choral Society, internationally-renowned soloists, and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, will sing works by Puccini and Mozart tomorrow.

Grounds For Invasion @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

GALWAY INDIE-electro band Grounds For Invasion unleash their new live show upstairs in the Róisín on Thursday November 12 at 9pm.

Queer feminist migrant synth wave

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THEY CALL themselves Prison. They describe themselves as "queer feminist migrant synth wave". They come from Denmark, and they play Galway this weekend.

Christy Moore returns to Galway

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THE GREAT Christy Moore will "finish year 49 of the never ending tour", as he calls it, with a concert in the Galway Bay Hotel next month.

Metallica and AC/DC tribute @ Seven

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

WHIPLASH, the Galway based Metallica tribute act, and IE/DC, the Kildare tribure to Australia's finest, will bring the rock and metal thunder to The Loft at Seven this Saturday at 9pm.

Twenty years of the Black Magic Big Band

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THE BLACK Magic Big Band celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and to mark the occasion the band will be in concert in An Taibhdhearc this evening at 8pm.

Classical and sacred music in St Nicholas'

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

ST NICHOLAS Schola Cantorum will host a series of concerts and performances throughout November, with the shows billed as 'Remembrance, Contemplation, Reflection, Fun, Anticipation'.

'A first class ticket to Americana'

Wed, Nov 04, 2015

THE GRAHAMS music is like "a train ride through the Americana musical landscape - with a first class ticket”. So said music magazine Turnstyled Junkpiled, of the husband and wife duo who are coming to Galway.

Get intimate with The Whileaways

Wed, Nov 04, 2015

ACCLAIMED GALWAY folk/Americana trio The Whileaways, whose new album Saltwater Kisses is the RTÉ Radio 1 Album of the Week, will play in the Kai Café + Restaurant, Sea Road.

Citóg - Indie, folk jazz - and everything inbetween

Tue, Nov 03, 2015

ONE OF Galway's finest singer-songwriters, Ultan Conlon, the fascinating talents of Maja Elliot, and Hanahazukashi, as well as alternative folk, and indie, will be seen and heard at the next series of Citóg nights in the Róisín Dubh.

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