Driftwood Manor album launch @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
GALWAY AVANT-folk band The Driftwood Manor will launch their new album with a show upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 15 at 9pm.
The album, The Same Figure (Leaving), is a joint release between independent Galway label Rusted Rail and independent Dublin label Slow Loris.
Read more ...Track Dogs @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
TRACK DOGS, the new band name for the Garrett Wall Band, are coming back to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Sunday at 10.30pm.
Read more ...Philomena Lynott to sign My Boy in Easons
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
Philomena Lynott, the mother of Thin Lizzy leader and rock icon Phil Lynott, will be in Galway next weekend to sign copies of her book My Boy.
Read more ...Schubert’s Octet to be performed in Tuam
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
LONDON’S CALLINO Quartet will perform Schubert’s masterpiece, the Octet in F major D803, at St Mary’s Church of Ireland Cathedral in Tuam as part of this year’s Galway Arts Festival.
Read more ...American and Irish poets to read at city museum
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
AMERICAN AND Galway writers will come together to read their work at the Over The Edge July Writers’ Gathering at The Kitchen in the Galway City Museum.
Read more ...Contempo to begin Galway Cathedral Recitals
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
THE GALWAY Cathedral Recitals series of summer recitals returns with the opening concert, featuring the ConTempo Quartet and David Grealy, taking place this evening at 8pm.
Read more ...See the art unfold at 126
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
Nine artists over nine consecutive days will create, destroy, and re-arrange artworks in 126, and the public will be able to see it unfold on-line and in the gallery.
Read more ...Nudes from a new perspective
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
THE NUDE in Western art can be either be a study of the form, contours, and idiosyncrasies of the human body (eg, Gwen John, Lucien Freud), or be unashamed erotica (Ingres, Delveaux, Allen Jones) - it just depends on who is painting them.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
The pursuit of it is as good as it gets.
The pursuit of it is as good as it gets.
Read more ...Icelandic films @ the fleadh
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
ICELAND’S ECONOMY imploded in 2008 devastating the nation, but through courage, unorthodox ingenuity, and zero tolerance for politicians’ excuses, the nation is getting back on its feet.
Read more ...Sundance Festival hit to be shown at Fleadh
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
AMERICAN INDIE FILM Bellflower, a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh this weekend.
Read more ...See all the Harry Potter films @ The Eye
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
THE EYE Cinema will celebrate the final instalment of the Harry Potter series by screening all the films in epic saga.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (12A), the last of the Harry Potter movies, will be screened in cinemas from Friday July 15.
Read more ...Win tickets to The Guard @ Omniplex
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
THE GUARD is the new Irish comedy starring the great Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle, a small-town Irish policeman.
http://youtu.be/nRsMLuCP8a0
Read more ...A literary gem in the arts festival crown
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
NO MORE than the Galway Races and the Galway Oyster Festival, not to mention Cúirt and the Galway Film Fleadh, the Galway Arts Festival has become a major event in the Irish festival calendar.
Read more ...Rockabilly - the second American revolution
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
ELVIS PRESLEY and his friends Scotty Moore and Bill Black were in Sun Studios in July 1954 recording some tracks. During some down time they started “goofing around” with a tune called ‘That’s All Right (Mama)’.
Read more ...Request Programme’s ‘wordless sauce’
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
CORK’S MUCH-feted Corcadorca Theatre Company celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and mark the occasion with a national tour of Franz Xaver Kroetz’s remarkable one-woman play Request Programme, featuring Eileen Walsh, which promises to be one of the must-see events at this year’s Galway Arts Festival.
Read more ...Filmvorführung - German movies at the Fleadh
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
FRANCE’S LUMIÈRE brothers may have gone down in history as the pioneers of cinema when they stunned Parisenne audiences by screening their films in 1895.
Read more ...Fleadh to show first American films made in Ireland
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
IN 1910 New York’s Kalem Film Company made history by sending its leading filmmakers - director Sidney Olcott and screenwriter/actress Gene Gauntier - to County Kerry.
Read more ...Two shows from Galway Youth Theatre
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
GALWAY YOUTH Theatre will stage Brian Friel’s play Loves: Winners and Losers and Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money in the Nuns Island Theatre this July.
Read more ...Hear the Songs of Ireland at the Town Hall
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
SONGS OF Ireland, a concert of music and song of the nation, will take place in the Town Hall Theatre this Saturday at 8pm.
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