Götterdämmerung @ The Eye
Thu, Feb 09, 2012
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, THE climax of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle operas, will be broadcast live from The Metropolitan Opera, New York, to the Eye Cinema.
Read more ...Galway Omniplex Valentine’s competition
Thu, Feb 09, 2012
THE GALWAY Omniplex in association with McSwiggan’s Restaurant and Bar is offering one lucky couple the chance to win a romantic night out this Valentine’s Day.
Read more ...Win The Woman In Black goodie bags
Thu, Feb 09, 2012
THE CLASSIC gothic horror tale The Woman In Black is coming to cinemas tomorrow and we have three film tie-in goodie bags to give away.
Read more ...Paul Roe and Contempo in concert
Thu, Feb 09, 2012
PAUL ROE, the distinguished clarinettist, will join the ConTempo Quartet for a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Friday February 17 at 8pm.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny
Thu, Feb 09, 2012
THE COMPETITION is intense, the array of talent spectacular, and the pints are flowing. It has to be the next heat of the hugely popular Show Me The Funny.
Read more ...Renzo Café art exhibition
Thu, Feb 09, 2012
ANNAGHDOWN BASED artists Susanna Lambeck and Colm MacSuibhne are currently holding an exhibition of paintings in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.
Read more ...Here come the girls
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
DESCRIBED AS a cross between Mamma Mia and Desperate Housewives, the smash-hit show Girls Night: The Musical is coming to the Black Box from Monday February 13 to Saturday 18.
Read more ...Zeitgeist - looking afresh at the Holocaust
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
LAST WEEKEND saw worldwide ceremonies observing International Holocaust Memorial Day, including a commemoration at Dublin’s Mansion House, attended by President Michael D Higgins.
The Memorial Day was officially designated in 2005 by the United Nations and marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, on January 27 1945, by soldiers of the Red Army.
Read more ...A sixties take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, fairy folk playing pranks, romance, and mischief, and on this occasion, hippies and free love, all combine in Shakespeare’s wonderful A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Read more ...Galway to host Irish premier of A Tale of Two Cities
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
TO MARK the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Galway Musical Society will present the Irish premiere of the Broadway musical A Tale of Two Cities.
The Irish premiere night will be Wednesday March 21 at 8pm and there will be a wine and food reception from 7pm. The play will run until Saturday March 24.
Read more ...SBB Ina Shuí is back
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
EARLY EVENING on Irish TV in the early 1980s. A shot of a bus rolling down a road in Connemara soundtracked by Horslips’ ‘Sword Of Light’. SBB Ina Shuí was starting.
Cut from the opening credits to the studio and there was Sean Bán Breathnach with a shock of electrified sandy hair - looking like a skinny Mick Hucknall - sitting among the audience, ag caint as Gaelige about what would be coming up on his show that evening, and, if he could get away with it, throwing in the odd risqué - for the time - joke as well.
Read more ...Duo Vocis - Naughton and Costello are back
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
DUO VOCIS, the popular vocal team of Seán Costello and Frank Naughton, bring their show, From Broadway to La Scala, back to the Town Hall Theatre for one night only.
Read more ...Patrician Musical Society reaches the big sixty
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
THE PATRICIAN Musical Society will celebrate its 60th anniversary this year with a staging of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s much loved Showboat.
Read more ...New Irish film The Pier to be screened @ The Eye
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
THE PIER, a new Irish film, which has already won praise at film festivals in the Czech Republic, Israel, Greece, and Georgia, will be shown at The Eye this week.
Read more ...Movie table quiz @ Kelly’s
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
GALWAY MOVIE buffs take note - Kelly’s Official Movie Table Quiz takes place next Monday at 8pm.
Read more ...Curfew @ The Cellar
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
CURFEW, THE new DJ night in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, returns this Saturday with DJs Yoseph and Fuz on the decks.
Read more ...Gemma Hayes to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
TIPPERARY SINGER-songwriter Gemma Hayes is coming to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday at 8pm as part of her Acoustic Tour of Ireland.
Read more ...Squarehead for Strange Brew
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
WHEN DUBLIN trio Squarehead released their debut album Yeah Nothing on Richter Collective last autumn, it was the announcement that something special had arrived.
Read more ...Earlier slot An Taobh Tuathail
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
AN TAOBH Tuathail, the underground music programme presented by Cian Ó Ciobháin on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, has moved to a new earlier time slot of 9pm.
Read more ...Cork indie @ Citóg
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
TWO CORK bands, Daphne In The Attic and Agitate The Gravel, and Galway’s Trampoline Scene will take to the stage at Citóg in The Cellar Bar tomorrow from 10pm.
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