New albums for 2012

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

WE ARE only days away from the start of 2012 but already there is some potentially good music in store with new albums from Delorentos, Mark Lanegan, and First Aid Kit on the way.

Derek Warfield @ Monroe’s tonight

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

WOLFE TONES’ founding member Derek Warfield and his band The Young Wolfe Tones will play Monroe’s Live tonight at 11pm.

PLAY IRISH over Christmas

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

OVER THE Christmas, Jon Richard’s Galway Bay FM show will be playing songs by many of the artists featured in the PLAY IRISH initiative.

Tom Russell plays Kelly’s in January

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

THE GREAT American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has described Americana singer-songwriter Tom Russell as “Johnny Cash, Jim Harrison and Charles Bukowski rolled into one”.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

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.

Enjoy a Gilbert & Sullivan start to the New Year

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

“I AM the very model of a modern Major-General/I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral/I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical/From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.”

Pete Mullineaux’s acting classes

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

PETE MULLINEAUX’S popular acting classes return to the Galway Arts Centre for the New Year and are open to all, including beginners.

New Year creative writing classes

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

IF ONE of your goals for the New Year is to put pen to paper and write that novel, memoir, or poems that have been in your head for ages, then you are in luck.

Galway Arts Centre poetry workshops

Thu, Dec 29, 2011

IN JANUARY, the Galway Arts Centre will host a choice of three poetry workshops, facilitated by the acclaimed poet Kevin Higgins.

There will be classes on Tuesdays, from 7pm to 8.30pm, starting January 17 and on Fridays from 2pm to 3.30pm, starting January 20. Both are open to both complete beginners as well as those who have been writing for some time.

New Year laughs with Brendan Grace

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

RIGHT NOW we are all enjoying the festive season and looking forward to Christmas Day. Inevitably though comes January and the post-Christmas slump.

Neil Delamere is coming to the Town Hall

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

NEIL DELAMERE will perform his new stand-up show Restructuring in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday January 19 at 8pm.

Poetry and short story writing competition

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

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.

New Year creative writing classes

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

IF ONE of your goals for the New Year is to put pen to paper and write that novel, memoir, or poems that have been in your head for ages, then you are in luck.

Galway Arts Centre poetry workshops

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

IN JANUARY, the Galway Arts Centre will host a choice of three poetry workshops, facilitated by the acclaimed poet Kevin Higgins.

Lunchtime poetry reading

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre presents a lunchtime reading by poets Fiona Clark Echlin and Mary Ellen Fean this afternoon at 1pm at the Galway City Museum.

Fiona Clark Echlin has recently published a collection of sonnets and villanelles, entitled From The Rib (Revival Press). Mary Ellen Fean has published work in The SHOp and Revival.

Go bird spotting at Kai Café

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

FIRST FLIGHT, an exhibition of colourfully taxidermied exotic birds, set into vibrant, kitsch backdrops, is launched at Kai Cafe and restaurant, Sea Road today.