Give Danny Dowling a spanking

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

ESTABLISHED AND up and coming comedians will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh in August for the venue’s Brand Spanking New nights.

Pervish - the bawdy side of Irish music

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

LIMERICK FOLK-band Pervish, who delight in the tradition of bawdy, lewd, and suggestive Irish folk songs play Galway this weekend.

Over The Edge New Writer competition

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

THE DEADLINE is approaching for the 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, with the closing date for entries Wednesday August 8.

The competition is open to poets and fiction writers. The best fiction entry and poetry entry will each win €300. One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2012.

Lunchtime laughs @ The Laughter Loft

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft in The Ruby Room of The King’s Head continues throughout the remaining days of the Galway Arts Festival.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.

‘Oh I do like to be beside the seaside’

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

ALL-YEAR-round swimming is a passion for Galwegians, but there are even more who never set foot in the sea, even on the hottest days - a fact made all the stranger given Galway is a coastal city.

‘How’s it going everybody?’

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

HIS FIRST time in Galway was in 1962 as a teen folk singing ‘wannabe’. A decade later he was back as part of Irish trad’s first ‘supergroup’. Ten years later he was a controversial supporter of the Hunger Strikers. And tomorrow he headlines the Galway Arts Festival Big Top.

Readings at Galway Fringe

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

GALWAY-BASED writers Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Fred Johnston will be in The Bridge Mills this weekend, reading from their work as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.

Novelist, poet, critic, and songwriter Fred Johnston will read tomorrow at 3pm. He will be joined by Mary Dempsey, who will also read, and there will be music is by guitarist Paul Mulligan. Fred’s most recent book is the short story collection, Dancing In The Asylum (Parthian).

Theatre reviews: Galway Arts Festival

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

JULIAN GOUGH’S The Great Goat Bubble first saw the light of day as an article for The Financial Times in 2003.

When you find yourself in New York

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

JACK AND Tommy are on their annual St Patrick’s Week jaunt in New York and planning to hit the bars of The Big Apple with a vengeance.

Trad music @ The Cellar

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

FIDDLER BRENDA Diviney and guitarist Pat Coyne will give a concert of Irish traditional music at The Cellar this Sunday at 9.30pm.

Ben Reel @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

COUNTY ARMAGH singer-songwriter Ben Reel plays Monroe’s Live tonight at 9pm.

Mr Whippy Soundsystem's summer market block party

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

Mr Whippy Soundsystem's Summer Market Block Party returns to the Galway market on Sunday 22nd July 2012, from mid-day to sun-set, sunshine funtime on the original pop-up outdoor dancefloor! Ever since Project 06, Mr Whippy Soundsystem's annual free afternoon at St Nicholas's market on a Sunday in July has become a much-loved regular 'fringe' event during Galway's festival season. Joining the soundsystem on the day will be Dave Barry (The Nitty Gritty - Massimos Bar), Ben O’Faoláin (Club Áras na nGael) and Dr Herringbone Dread. Followed by a late night after-party at Massimo's (also free!).

Gretchen Peters to play Kelly’s

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

GRETCHEN PETERS, the Nashville based singer-songwriter plays Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Monday July 23 at 8pm as part of the Galway Arts Festival.

On the night she will perform songs from her most recent album, Hello Cruel World, (“An affecting, beautifully measured, grown-up affair,” said Q) as well as songs from across her 25 year career.

A Night For Celia @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

TUAM POET and singer-songwriter Seamus Ruttledge, and friends, will play the A Night For Celia concert, upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday July 26 at 9pm.

The event is a charity concert with proceeds going towards the Galway Famine Ship Memorial and the Celia Griffin Children’s Park at Grattan Road beach.

Good Vibrations scoops Film Fleadh award

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

GOOD VIBRATIONS, the magnificent biopic of Terri Hooley, the Belfast man who was the key figure in the city’s punk music scene in the late 1970s won The Best Irish Feature Award at the Galway Film Fleadh.

Keywest @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

KEYWEST ARE coming back to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Saturday July 28 at 9pm as part of the Galway Arts Festival.

Art exhibitions

Thu, Jul 19, 2012

ON SHOP windows in the city centre; in The Shed at the Docks, in 126, and at the Norman Villa Gallery in Salthill, is are a feast of art exhibitions to see this month.