Galway Film Society returns for new season

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

THE GALWAY Film Society’s winter/spring season starts this month with a screening of the French film The Well Digger’s Daughter.

New Year laughs with Brendan Grace

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

BEAT THE January blues and start the month off with a smile and a laugh with possibly Ireland’s favourite comedian, Brendan Grace.

Actors sought for short-film

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

THE ACTOR Séamus Moran, best known for his roles in Fair City and Ros na Rún, is looking for young actors in the west.

The Certain Three 2012 Tour

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

THE CERTAIN Three 2012 Tour, featuring Katie Kim, The Lost Brothers, and Puzzle Muteson, comes to the Róisín Dubh on Thursday January 26.

Vibe for Phil Lynott @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

The Galway Vibe for Phil Lynott will take place in Monroe’s Live on Friday January 13 at 10pm. This Lizzy tribute band Remembering Lizzy will play a selection of classic Lynott songs. Admission is €15. Tickets are available on the door or through [email protected] and 091 - 583397.

Young Kodiaks to play The Cellar

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

GALWAY BAND Young Kodiaks will play Citóg at the Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, tomorrow night from 10pm.

CURFEW @ The Cellar

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

CURFEW, THE new DJ night at The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, returns for 2012 this Saturday with doors at 10pm.

The Afterlife according to Harrigan

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

EAMONN HARRIGAN’S dedication to getting the right words down in the best possible order is a noticeable feature of Where the Dead Go (Solstice Publishing), his debut novel.

Le “Jazz Bar Aerobleu”.....Mon Oeil

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

“SATURDAY MARCH 15 (1947) Jean Pierre is yelling: ‘Merde Reb! An Ovaltine Martini, what the hell is that?’ ‘Bombay gin and Campari mixed with a dash of Ovaltine,’ I said. ‘Three shots and you sleep like a baby!’ which is true.”

This is the first entry in a bizarre, tongue-in-cheek, but fascinating journal which the nephew found in the first of a 40 pallet book consignment just received from a US dealer. Knowing my growing interest in jazz and particularly in the Parisian jazz scene from the 1930s to the 1960s, he duly passed it on to me.

Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

THE GALWAY Arts Centre will this month host daytime creative writing classes for beginners and continuing creative writing students interested in either poetry or fiction.

Matt Keane’s January concert

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

TRAD/FOLK singer Matt Keane will host his Christmas concert in the Claregalway Hotel tomorrow at 9pm.

Seamus Ruttledge @ Campbell’s

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

TUAM POET and singer-songwriter Seamus Ruttledge will play Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, this Saturday at 10pm.

Learn sean-nós dancing for 2012

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

IF YOU are keen to learn a style of dancing, make new friends, and get in some exercise, why not try Conradh na Gaeilge's popular sean-nós dancing classes?

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Jan 05, 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.

Last week to enter Doire Press writing competition

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

GALWEGIANS INTERESTED in entering the Doire Press 2012 International Poetry & Fiction Chapbook Competition have until Monday January 9 to do so.

The competition is accepting one short story of 4,000 words or four to six poems (10 pages maximum. Entries must include a cover page with full contact information, the title of the story or first poem. The entrant’s name must not appear on the manuscript.

Reviving Religious Knowledge

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

EIGHTEEN YEARS after it was first performed, Eamonn Kelly’s uproarious comedy Religious Knowledge is returning to The King’s Head for two reunion performances featuring the original cast of Gerry Conneely, Tommy Tiernan, Gary McSweeney, and Phillip Sweeny, directed, as before, by Fiona Kelly.

Coming to the Town Hall in 2012

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

THE TOWN Hall Theatre will continue its high standards in presenting quality theatre, comedy, and music events to the public as a strong line-up of events has already been planned for the opening months of 2012.

Music, art, and dance - Music For Galway’s Intimate Voices

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

INTIMATE VOICES, Music For Galway’s annual January festival, will not only appeal to chamber music fans, but enthusiasts of the visual artists, dance, and jazz.

Theatre highlights of 2011

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

AND SO another year winds down and, over a seasonal mince pie and mulled wine, we can reflect on the past 12 months of Galway play-going.

Coming to Róisín Dubh next month

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

JANUARY IS often a dull month, given that Christmas is over, we are in the bleak mid-winter, and spring is some weeks away, but there is plenty happening in the Róisín Dubh to keep you entertained and keep your spirits up.

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