Mark Ryan: from Adam Ant guitarist to award-winning playwright

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

WELSH THEATRE group, Company of Sirens, visit the Town Hall studio next week with Mark Ryan’s bold and accomplished play Sean Tyrone. Although his name may not be familiar to Irish audiences, Ryan – who died earlier this year – had a remarkable career as a musician, composer, and playwright.

Ryan, whose parents originally came from Limerick, was born in London in 1959. After leaving school at 16 he worked in a variety of factory jobs before the arrival of punk and his own innate musical talents opened up a new world to him.

Music For Dead Birds release new album

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

JIMMY MONAGHAN, the highly talented Irish-American singer-songwriter, will be performing in the Acoustic Room, Áras na Mac Léinn, NUI Galway, today at 1pm.

The Lost Circus - a place where time was forgotten

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

ON FRIDAY November 25 and Saturday 26 at 7.30pm in the Black Box Theatre, Galway Community Circus and Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre presents their new show, The Lost Circus.

Everybody get Footloose

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

KEVIN BACON had the moves and Kenny Loggins had the song, but Performing Arts School Galway will also “kick off the Sunday shoes” when they stage Footloose: the Musical.

A collection of various playwrights

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

BRIAN FRIEL, Martin McDonagh, Oscar Wilde, and Tom Murphy are just some of the playwrights to feature in a new show from The Séamus O’Kelly Players.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Nov 17, 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.

The show is open to the public and comedians, and admission is free. Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set. There will also be a comedy caption contest with the winner getting a prize at the end of the show.

Scottish comic for Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

THE COMEDY of Scotland’s Phil Kay has been described as “hysterical in every sense of the word” and the man himself has been called a “mesmerizing...genius”.

New exhibition at Norman Villa

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

GALWAY BASED artists Ruth McHugh and Lisa Sweeney will hold a joint exhibition in the Norman Villa Gallery which opens tomorrow at 6pm.

Martina Flaherty @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

SINGER-SONGWRITER Martina Flaherty, whose music encompasses folk, blues, rock, soul, and funk plays Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

Award winning Danish songwriter for Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

AGNES OBEL, the acclaimed Danish singer-songwriter, is coming to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh on Friday December 9 at 8pm.

The Followers Of Otis @ Citóg

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

THE FOLLOWERS Of Otis will headline a night of folk-rock music at Citóg in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, tomorrow night.

Scroobius Pip solo show in Galway

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

RAPPER AND spoken word artist Scroobius Pip will be performing in the Róisín Dubh on Sunday November 20 at 8pm.

Belgian hardcore band @ The Cellar

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

BELGIAN HARDCORE band Link will play downstairs at The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, this Sunday night.

Cathal McConnell and Gerry O’Connor @ The Crane

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

THE CRANE Bar will host the launch of 123 Songs, a DVD and CD archive collection of Irish song, tomorrow from 9pm.

The launch will also feature a gig with Fermanagh musician, singer, raconteur, and Boys of the Lough member Cathal McConnell, fiddler Gerry O’Connor, and accordionist Martin Quinn.

Vox Merus - classical brass

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

VOX MERUS, Ireland’s new professional brass chamber group, will celebrate and perform classical music for brass instruments at their Galway concert next week.

Vox Merus, which translates as ‘pure voice’, will perform a concert entitled Vox Merus – Introduction to Brass at the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Thursday November 24 at 8pm.

Challenging notions of creation

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

IF YOU have ever made a meal or even a mess, then you are a creator. This is the idea behind Void:Volume, the new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre.

Meet the artists at TULCA open day

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

THE TULCA festival of visual art ends on Sunday, but before then there are plenty of events taking place over the weekend to explore.

New poetry from Nuala Ní Chonchúir

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

NUALA NÍ Chonchúir will launch her third poetry collection at the inaugural Ballinasloe Literary Day in Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe, this Saturday at 2pm.

November Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

WRITERS ERIN Buttner, Stephen Byrne, and Donna Potts will read at the next Over The Edge in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday November 24 at 6.30pm.

New Yorker Erin Buttner is a writer and broadcaster living in Kinvara. Her poetry has been published in Chronogram, Three Times Daily, and Ropes. She is currently writing a memoir on her time in the US military.

Druid’s Big Maggie completely sold out

Thu, Nov 17, 2011

THIS WEEK’S run of Druid’s production of John B Keane’s Big Maggie sold-out before the actors even took to the stage for the first performance last Friday night.

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