Baroque singers in Franciscan Church

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers, with their musical director Audrey Corbett, will present their annual Christmas concerts in a new venue, the Franciscan Church (The Abbey), Francis Street.

Get some Gift Grub in Castlebar

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

THE BEST, most hilarious, and pointed satire of politicians, celebrities, sportspeople and their foibles, egotism, and absurdity is Mario Rosentocks’s Gift Grub.

Having joined the team at the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show on Today FM 10 years ago, Gift Grub has become essential listening across Ireland every weekday morning. Now Mario is taking the show on the road and will stage Gift Grub - Live on the stage of the Royal Theatre Castlebar on Friday April 9 2010.

Celtic Earth Show to raise funds for flood victims

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

THE CELTIC Earth Show, a feast of the finest traditional and Celtic music, returns to the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday December 15 at 8pm.

A Day In The Life Of An Asylum Seeker

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

A DAY In The Life Of An Asylum Seeker, an interactive theatre performance piece, will be staged in the Town Hall Studio tonight and tomorrow at 8.30pm.

Dawn Landes to play Love Music Hate Racism launch gig

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

LOVE MUSIC Hate Racism Ireland will host its Galway launch with a concert in the Róisín Dubh featuring Irish, American, and African acts on Tuesday at 8pm.

Thrilling post-rock for Kelly’s

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

ONCE THE music starts, a tall, thin man in a red wool balaclava from which he cannot see, leaps from the stage and runs, dances, and stumbles maniacally around, before slinging on his bass guitar.

Joe Steve Ó Neachtain to launch new book of short stories

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

SALANN GARBH, a new collection of short stories from the writer and actor Joe Steve Ó Neachtain will be launched this evening at 8.30pm in the Park Lodge Hotel in An Spidéal.

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

RAVEN, THE Californian poet who has shared the stage with Saul Williams, is the guest poet at the North Beach Poetry Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

Conor Mark Kavanagh goes Over The Edge

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

RTÉ NEWS reporter Conor Mark Kavanagh will read a selection of his poetry at the December Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday December 17 at 6.30pm.

Cinema Review - Law Abiding Citizen

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

FOLLOWING THE brutal rape and murder of his wife and daughter a man who is let down by the so-called justice system takes matters into his own hands by exacting lethal revenge on all who hurt or failed him.

Win Des Bishop’s new DVD

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

DESFUNCTIONAL IS the new DVD from Des Bishop, which he recorded live in the Róisín Dubh and we have five copies to give away.

Croi Actors’ Agency meeting

Thu, Dec 10, 2009

GALWAY’S CROI Actors’ Agency, established this year, will holding its first actors’ meeting on Saturday December 19 at 3pm upstairs in Busker Browns.

The xx - London boys and girls

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

“THERE ARE admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me’.”

Two exhibitions - one venue - tonight

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

SWIMMING IN Blackrock is a Galway tradition. No matter what time of year, no matter how cold (and it can be very cold), no matter the tide, no matter how rough the sea, it is something some of us must do.

Desi Wilkinson unleashes a Buffalo In The Castle in The Crane

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

BELFAST FLUTE player Desi Wilkinson has been one of Irish trad’s leading exponents for more than three decades. Wilkinson was raised in the shadow of The Troubles in the 1970s and was drawn to music as a means of release from the horrors of war.

Ulster has produced many fine flute players over the years and Desi learned his craft directly from the masters of the tradition such as Tom Gunn and James McMahon.

Festive fare at the Town Hall

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

CHRISTMAS IS fast approaching and there are a number of attractive seasonal shows taking place in the Town Hall Theatre in the coming weeks.

Deacon Blue play Castlebar

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

THEY TOOK their name from one of Steely Dan’s greatest songs and throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s enjoyed numerous chart hits. Since re-forming, they continue to entertain the concert crowds.

The old De Dannan play charity gig

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

FORMER MEMBERS of the Irish trad supergroup De Dannan are joining forces once again for a charity concert in the Radisson Hotel on Thursday December 17 at 8pm.

The concert will feature Alec Finn, Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh, Eleanor Shanley, Jackie Daly, Andrew Murray, Derek Hickey, Mick Conneelly, John Carty, Brian McGrath, John Faulkner, Colm Murray, and Aidan Coffey.

Loughrea to go Wilde for Oscar

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

OSCAR WILDE’S comic masterpiece, The Importance Of Being Earnest, will be performed by The Seamas O’Kelly Players in the Temperance Hall, Loughrea, today, Saturday, and Sunday at 8.30pm.

Set in Victorian England, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is directed by John Boland.

Strike Anywhere to bring the Iron Front to Galway

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

STRIKE ANYWHERE, one of the most highly regarded melodic hardcore bands of all time, will being their Leftist charged, politically driven music to Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 7.30pm.

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