Search Results for 'Entertainment_Culture'

IRELAND'S NEXT generation of stand-up stars, including Donal Vaughan, Áine Gallagher, Gary Lynch, Martin Angolo, Danny Ryan, and Stephen Ryan will play Ireland's Smallest Comedy Festival.

THE CONGO 1961. Some 150 Irish soldiers were surrounded by more than 3,000 soldiers of the Katanga insurgency, heavily armed with artillery, heavy machine guns, and a fighter bomber.

OKLAHOMA WAS recently voted the manliest state in the USA, prompting radio talk show host Joe Cristiano to investigate if the manliest men, in the manliest state in the Union, were willing to discuss their mothers live on air.

TWO LADS cycle 160km on stolen bikes, pursued by gardaí, desperate to find a missing bale of cocaine worth €7 million. This is The Young Offenders, “the best Irish film I’ve seen in years," according to Ryan Tubridy.

FÍS NA Fuiseoige, the Galway film which won Best Cinematography at the San Francisco Earth Day Film Festival, will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, tomorrow at 11.30am in the Town Hall Studio.

EMMA ELIZA Regan, the Galway actor and UNESCO Ambassador for The City Of Film, appears in two films at this week's Galway Film Fleadh, while next year she will star in The Calling opposite Dominique Swaine.

GALWAY'S CITÓG Records, and Dublin's Popical Island, two of Ireland's most exciting, diverse, and creative independent record labels, will go head to head in musical battle, at the Galway International Arts Festival.

PLEASURE BEACH'S music has been described as "melding indie-pop hooks, alternative-folk tinged vocal harmonies and post-rock inflected grandeur", by The Last Mixed Tape, while Pure M said the band were "years ahead in their knowledge of music".

OPTIMO - the DJ duo of Twitch and Johnny Wilkes - who play everything from obscure post-punk to floor-filling house music, will spin the decks at Electric on Friday July 15 as part of Galway International Arts Festival.

ATHENRY, PORTUMNA, and Claregalway castles will be the setting for a series of concerts from the ConTempo Quartet, all of which take place this weekend.