Leading Irish singer-songwriters for Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
BRIAN KENNEDY and Paddy Casey, two of Ireland’s most popular singer-songwriters, will both play Monroe’s Live in November.
Read more ...Whiskey galore with Alan Anderson at comedy fest
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
SCOTTISH STAND-UP Alan Anderson seems sure to be one of the most popular acts at this year’s Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival with his show, Whiskey Fir Dafties, which includes free samples of fine single malts for lucky audience members.
Read more ...Gun Metal Grey returns
Theatre Reviews Thu, Oct 18, 2012
NEXT WEEK in the Town Hall sees the welcome return of Mick Donnellan’s Gun Metal Grey from the tireless Truman Town Theatre.
Read more ...Wilde’s The Happy Prince @ Town Hall
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
THE HAPPY Prince, Oscar Wilde’s classic story of love, selflessness, and generosity, will receive a special reading/performance as part of the Baboró children’s festival.
Read more ...One-Man Star Wars Trilogy @ Black Box
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
Canadian actor Charles Ross (pictured) will thrill and delight Galway Star Wars fans when he single-handedly plays all the characters, sings the music, flies the ships, fights the battles, and condenses the plots of the original three Star Wars films into just 60 minutes at the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777 and www.tht.ie
Read more ...Moxegen @ HALO
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
MOXEGEN ARE a tribute band with a difference - they do not perform the songs of a particular group, but instead they re-create festival concert set lists.
The musicians perform the best songs from each Oxegen headliner and condense them into one show as Galway will see when they play HALO tomorrow at 11pm. Expect songs from The Black Eyed Peas, Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, The Script, Coldplay, etc.
Read more ...Vote for Strange Boats
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
TUAM BAND Strange Boats have been shortlisted for The Guinness Arthur’s Day – Play on The Day competition, and the Galway public can vote for the band to progress to the regional finals.
Read more ...Litir ó Mháirtín Jaimsí sa seanscoil
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
THE ACTOR and broadcaster Máirtín Jaimsie Ó Flaithearta will be the subject of a new documentary to be screened in Indreabhan next week.
Litir ó Mháirtín Jaimsie, made by Aodh Ó Coileáin, will be screened by Club Scannán Sailearna in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán, starting ag 8.15pm next Wednesday evening. All are welcome.
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Hot 8 Brass Band play Róisín Dubh tonight
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
THE SOUND of New Orleans, the sound of hip hop, the sound of Black America, the sound of great music - all these are embodied in The Hot 8 Brass Band.
Read more ...Tradiohead to play Campbell’s Tavern
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
RADIOHEAD have always explored and experimented, journeying from the alternative rock of The Bands to the prog-rock of OK Computer, to more avant garde sounds more recently.
Read more ...Jim McKee to play Monroe’s Backstage Bar
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
A VISUAL artist with an original and arresting style, a songwriter with a deep love of Irish folk and trad, County Tyrone’s Jim McKee is truly a renaissance man.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
If we knew that we could stop looking for it!
Baboró shows as Gaeilge
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
VERY YOUNG children will be kept entertained, engaged, amused, and be opened up to both theatre and the Irish language with a variety of shows at the Baboró festival.
Read more ...New novel from Yvonne McEvaddy
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
SHADOWS OF The Dead, the second novel from Galway author Yvonne McEvaddy, has just been published, and she will be reading from it in Java’s, Abbeygate Street, this month.
Read more ...Over The Edge reading
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
THE WRITERS Patrick Chapman, Aoibheann McCann, and Cormac Culkeen will read at the next Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 25 from 6.30pm to 8pm.
Dubliner Patrick Chapman has published a number of poetry collections, including Jazztown, The New Pornography, and A Shopping Mall On Mars; as well as the short story collection The Wow Signal. He is also a scriptwriter and has written episodes of the children’s animated television series Garth & Bev and a Doctor Who audio play, Fear Of The Daleks.
Read more ...Take a journey on The Sky Road
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
“MY METHODOLOGY was to pinpoint a location on The Sky Road, travel to that point and gather material such as photographs, field recordings, colour samples, and measurements.”
Read more ...Stand up comedy for kids
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
STAND-UP comedy is usually seen as something for adults, for late nights, and for bars and clubs, but won’t somebody please think of the children.
Read more ...Scary Halloween party at the Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
DR VON Straabenglaus’s Trick Or Treatment Party, a world of flesh eating organ seekers, fiendish medical experiments, and surgery gone wrong is coming to Galway this Halloween.
Read more ...Junior Film Fleadh to screen Bernadette Devlin documentary
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
BERNADETTE: NOTES on a political journey, Lelia Doolan’s documentary on Northern Irish politician and campaigner Bernadette Devlin McAliskey will be shown at the Junior Galway Film Fleadh.
The feature length documentary will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday November 8 at 2pm and will be introduced by the director.
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