Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Having worked in the garden all day then drink a very satisfying beer.

Von Shakes @ SU Sessions

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

Dublin Quartet Von Shakes (pictured) play The SU Sessions on Tuesday at 6pm in An Bialann, NUI Galway. The band have just released their debut album The Routine. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Trad tribute to Clive Collins

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

A WEEKEND trad session will take place in Gort to remember musician Clive Collins who passed away five years ago.

Cúirt double bill from Galway Youth Theatre

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

GALWAY YOUTH Theatre grace this year’s Cúirt with a strong double-bill of works from America’s Neil LaBute (Autobahn) and Germany’s Marius Von Mayenburg (The Ugly One).

Paddy Casey @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

SINGER-SONGWRITER Paddy Casey returns to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Friday April 15 at 9pm.

Paddy began his musical career busking on the streets of Galway, eventually releasing his debut album Amen (So Be It) in 1999. His second release Living became the biggest seller in Ireland in 2003, and its follow up Addicted to Company (Part One) won Best Male at the Meteor Awards. Paddy is currently working on material for his fourth album.

Folk superstars to play Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

JOHN SPILLANE, Eleanor Shanley, Frankie Lane, Mick Hanly, and Paul Kelly are coming together for a major night of folk’n’trad entitled Folk The Recession.

21 Outs to launch debut album in Kelly's

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

21 OUTS will launch their debut album Maybe I’ll Have Yours upstairs at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Saturday at 9pm.

Friendly Fires - Pala (XL Recordings)

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

WHEN I first heard Friendly Fires’ self titled album a couple of years ago I instantly fell in love with it. Their sound was energetic, upbeat, funky, and generally a bit fun.

Jinx Lennon @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

SPOKEN WORD artist, social commentator, and agit-folk singer-songwriter Jinx Lennon plays upstairs at the Róisín Dubh on Friday April 15 at 9pm.

Limitless competition winners

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

THE WINNERS of copies of the novel The Dark Fields by Irish author Alan Glynn, on which the new Bradley Cooper film Limitless is based, were: Grainne Traynor, Athenry; David Molloy, Claregalway, Deirdre Kearney, Galway; Carl Dennis, Tuam; and Sana Khan, Galway.

Joyces’ Ulysses in graphics and sculpture

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

SCENES FROM James Joyce’s Ulysses have been imagined, depicted, and interpreted by two Irish artists for an exhibition as part of this year’s Cúirt festival.

Elif Batuman - to Russia with love

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

AMONG THE notable international visitors jetting in for Cúirt is Elif Batuman, author of the hugely enjoyable The Possessed; Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them.

The book charts Batuman’s abiding love of Russian literature and her often hilarious adventures amid the world of academia or on her travels as a student to regions of the former Soviet Union.

Sean Tyrrell, discovering Who Killed James Joyce

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

IN WHAT promises to be one of the highlights of this year’s Cúirt, singer-songwriter Sean Tyrrell will premiere his new show Who Killed James Joyce, inspired by the poems and life-stories of some of Ireland’s foremost poets, both past and present.

Grenades returns for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

NUALA KELLY loves Thin Lizzy and The Undertones, but she loves her older brother Oran even more. In fact she idolises him.

The Unthanks - it’s a family affair

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

RACHEL UNTHANK admits to being “very excited” and it’s not surprising. She and her husband Adrian McNally are expecting their first child.

Mr McTell got the blues

Thu, Apr 07, 2011

MICHAEL GRAY is best known as the author of the celebrated books on Bob Dylan, Song and Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan and The Bob Dylan Encyclopaedia, and it was after hearing Dylan sing about an obscure American bluesman which prompted Gray to go in search of Blind Willie McTell.

Football Crazy

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

SURVIVING A withering glare from Diego Maradona; partying with French and Spanish football supporters on a train from Hanover to Berlin; and sitting in a Canadian bar, experiencing agony and ecstasy while following the Irish soccer team - it’s all in a day’s work for John Doyle.

Gerbrand Bakker - The Twin author to read at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

AMONG THE literary luminaries gracing this year’s Cúirt festival is Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker, winner of last year’s IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Twin.

Emmet O’Malley to launch debut solo EP

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

GALWAY BASED singer-songwriter and filmmaker Emmet O’Malley, under the stage name of Mali Junior, will release his debut EP The Smell Of Bees, this weekend.

Go back to the fifties with All Shook Up

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

GREASE YOUR hair, quiff it, and don a leather jacket if you are a guy, or put on a poodle skirt and bobby socks if you’re a girl, and get ready to be All Shook Up.

All Shook Up, the rock’n’roll musical comedy, featuring the greatest hits of Elvis Presley will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre by the Galway Musical Society from Monday April 4 to Saturday 9 at 8pm.

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