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The pirates of the late 1600s, early 1700s, conjures images of bloodthirsty bandits and violent criminals, but in some respects their outlook and ethos was an early form of the most ruthless kind of capitalism.

SKA BAND Big Jelly, inspired by The Skatalites, Prince Buster, and Toots & the Maytals, play the ninth annual Kinvara Mardi Gras in the Kinvara Community Centre this Saturday at 8pm.

MY DARLING Clementine are not American, but they rival any American act when it comes to creating classy, down home, country’n’western.

The Mardi Gras celebrations before the start of Lent may be most associated with New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, and Quebec City, but Kinvara will be throwing its own Mardi Gras party as well.

THE FIRST Lady of the Wild West, Calamity Jane, will be celebrated in Galway next month when The Patrician Musical Society stage Calamity Jane in the Town Hall Theatre.

KARNIVAL, ALSO known as a festival, celebration, or Mardi Gras, is coming to Karma Club Galway, on Saturday September 18.