Celebrate the music of Franz Liszt
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
THE 200TH anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt, one of the great masters of romantic music both as composer and pianist, will be marked by a concert in Galway.
Read more ...Hear Handel’s Messiah in St Nicholas’
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
ST NICHOLAS’ Collegiate Church will resound to the sound of Handel’s Messiah, when the celebrated work is performed there on Saturday December 10 at 7.30pm.
Read more ...Concert of sacred songs at St Augustine’s
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
GAUDETE, A concert of sacred songs and arias with a hint of Christmas, will take place in the Augustinian Priory, St Augustine Street, this Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire Senator Lorraine Higgins
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Peace of mind.
Galway Film Society December films
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
POPULAR FRENCH actress Audrey Tautou and a classic film from Frank Capra will be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday.
Read more ...Galway Omniplex Christmas toy drive
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
THE GALWAY Omniplex, in conjunction with the Saint Vincent dePaul, is hosting a ‘Toy drive’ on Saturday December 10 and 11 at the Omniplex on the Headford Road.
The toy drive will take place between 12 noon and 4pm. The cinema is asking children to go and donate a toy to the appeal. It can be an old toy in good condition or a new toy. At the end of the appeal all toys donated will be boxed up and collected by SVP.
Read more ...Little Cinema charity Christmas special
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
THE LITTLE Cinema Club will hold its Christmas Special on Tuesday December 13 at 9pm upstairs in Kelly’s Bar. The event is in association with Galway Hospice.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, Dec 01, 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.
Read more ...The Pajama Men @ Róisín Dubh Comedy
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
WHEN ON stage, The Pajama Men create “a cartoon of the mind – a shape-shifting world in which anything seems not just possible, but imminent”.
Read more ...Win The Guard DVDs and soundtracks
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
THE GUARD, the smash-hit Irish comedy/crime film starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle is released on DVD tomorrow.
Read more ...The book collector
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
BOOK COLLECTORS tend to be strange animals who will resort to any device in order to acquire their prey.
Read more ...New writers breaking out in all directions
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
BICYCLES WITH Umbrellas, is a new professionally produced anthology showcasing poetry, fiction, and memoir by students who completed the MA in writing at NUI Galway in 2010.
Read more ...‘A modern character in an antique play’
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
AS SHAKESPEARE’S most complex, enigmatic, and ambiguous creation, Hamlet has inspired countless interpretations and commentaries, both within the field of theatre itself and in diverse areas of literature and scholarship.
Read more ...Reg Gordon - documenting Galway’s contemporary tribe
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
EVERY TOWN and city has its movers and shakers, its characters, people everyone knows, people who are judged to contribute to local social and cultural life, and help give the place a special character all of its own.
Tribe - a portrait of Galway, a magnificent new publication by Galway based photographer Reg Gordon, is a work which celebrates people the photographer feels meet this criteria and make Galway a unique place to live, through 90 imaginative and striking full-colour portraits.
Read more ...Movember night @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
MOUSTACHES AND music will be the order of the day with the Movember Galway gig night in the Róisín Dubh this Monday from 8pm.
Read more ...‘Shylock as Keyser Soze’ - Croi8’s radical Merchant of Venice
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
NEXT WEEK in the Town Hall studio, Galway’s Croi8 Productions present a radical new adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
Read more ...Dramasoc perform Tom Murphy
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
NUI GALWAY’S Dramsoc perform Tom Murphy’s The Morning After Optimism in the Druid Lane Theatre tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...Christmas crooning at the Town Hall
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
CHRISTMAS CROONERS, a concert featuring favourite Christmas songs by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Renmore gearing up for Aladdin
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
REHEARSALS HAVE stepped up for this year’s Renmore pantomime, an updated and hilarious version of Aladdin scripted by Peter Kennedy.
Read more ...Jennifer Cunningham art class Christmas party
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
ARTIST JENNIFER Cunningham will host a Christmas party at her Art School in Newcastle.
There will be mullled wine, light refreshments, music, a raffle, and an exhibition of work by Jennifer and her students. Bookings will be taken on the night for the January term. All are welcome.
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