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ANDREW MAXWELL, one of Ireland’s leading comedians and a double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, comes to the Róisín Dubh this Saturday.

Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Andrew Maxwell, will return to Ireland touring his new show Banana Kingdom. With this blissfully funny show, Andrew will cover most of Ireland taking in 27 venues across the country, and will visit Galway on Saturday March 15 at the Róisín Dubh.

Earlier this year Galway Diary discussed the evictions implemented by Marcella Netterville and John Gerrard on their 7,000 acre estate at Ballinlass, near Mount Bellew Co Galway. In 1846 more that 400 families were heartlessly thrown out on the road, without any compensation. The land was being cleared to fatten cattle, which would have been far more profitable than tenants; many of whom, as the Great Famine tightened its terrible grip, were unable to pay their way. The Times of London famously commented that the Ballinlass evictions showed ‘the sublime indifference to social considerations of which no one but an Irish landowner is capable.’

COMEDIANS MARK Thomas, Sean Hughes, and Jason Byrne are confirmed to play the Róisín Dubh and ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ shows in 2014.

ANDREW MAXWELL will undertake his most extensive Irish tour to date in 2014, taking in 27 venues across six weeks.

STEVE HUGHES, the Australian heavy metal drummer turned hit comedian is coming to Galway with his new show While It’s Still Legal.

“THE MOST wasted of all days is one without laughter,” said the poet e e cummings, so don’t let the October Bank Holiday Weekend go to waste, as there are seven days of laughter to be had at the Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival.

“THE MOST wasted of all days is one without laughter,” said the poet e e cummings, so don’t let the October Bank Holiday Weekend go to waste, as there are seven days of laughter to be had at the Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival.

World, European, and Irish premieres in theatre and dance, leading international rock bands, the best in Irish comedy, and an array of international street theatre will all feature in this year’s Galway Arts Festival which takes place from Monday July 15 to Sunday 28.

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, an extremely controversial ballet in its day, but appreciated now as a pioneering classic, will be staged at this year’s Galway Arts Festival.