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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...Alternative hip hop for Cúirt
Thu, Mar 31, 2011
WHAT GOES through your mind when the words rap or hip hop are mentioned? Images of guns, scantily clad women, and lyrics boasting about wealth and sexual prowess?
Read more ...NUIG students stage At The Black Pig’s Dyke
Thu, Mar 31, 2011
NUI Galway students are performing Vincent Woods’ At The Black Pig’s Dyke in the Nuns Island Theatre today, tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...Galway Actors Workshop summer term
Thu, Mar 31, 2011
THE GALWAY Actors Workshop will begin its summer term of classes for adults next month in the Anno Santo Hotel in Salthill.
Read more ...The Deans @ The Crane
Thu, Mar 31, 2011
COUNTY GALWAY roots rockers The Deans play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, tomorrow and it may be your last chance to see them in Galway for a while.
Read more ...Go Bump with Dave Barry
Thu, Mar 31, 2011
GALWAY’S SOUL brother Number 1, Dave Barry, will be DJing at Bump in The Office Bar, Salthill, this Saturday. This is a one off event due to popular demand following some floor filled nights in the Office Bar.
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