By Kernan Andrews
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
MAIRTÍN O’CONNOR is one of the greats of the accordion and of Irish trad and he is about to launch a new book of transcriptions of his music.
Read more ...Lost Chord release new EP
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
THE LATEST instalment of the Lost Chord adventure comes in the form of a new three track EP entitled Canada which is available as a free download.
Read more ...Cúirt - literary festival gets a new look
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
READINGS IN kitchens, books left in cafés waiting to be browsed, musicians performing poems and prose, and street performers at a literary festival - this is, as Spock might say, “Cúirt Jim, but not as we know it.”
Read more ...Eleven intimations of genius
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
IT IS extraordinarily difficult nowadays to understand the bombshell caused by the publication of Edna O’Brien’s first novel The Country Girls in 1960.
Read more ...Fíbín returns with An Triail
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
FÍBÍN IS bringing its acclaimed stage adaptation of An Triail to the Black Box Theatre on Monday and Tuesday at 10.30am and 1.30pm.
Read more ...Seoda Phádraig at Galway City Museum
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
SEODA PHÁDRAIG, the Annual St Patrick’s Festival Concert of ‘Music and Song of the Nation’ takes place in the Galway City Museum on Sunday at 8pm.
Presented by An Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, in association with composer and pianist Tom Cullivan, the concert will feature Connemara singer Seosamh Ó Flaithearta performing classics of Gaelic song; Galway bass Cormac Corcoran will sing works by Moore, Balfe, and French.
Read more ...GMIT creative writing classes
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will host creative writing classes for beginners at the GMIT.
Susan will give support, instruction, and feedback to students who are interested in writing short stories, novels, or poetry. The course takes place on Wednesdays from 7pm to 9pm, starting on April 20. The course runs for seven weeks and advance booking is essential.
Read more ...The sound garden
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
ANYONE WHO caught the band’s mesmerising winter acoustic tour would be already familiar with some of the new material featured on Bloodless Coup.
Read more ...Steve Mason to play Róisín Dubh
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
HE WAS an essential part of King Biscuit Time and before that The Beta Band, but he is now a solo artist about to release a new single and undertake a headline British-Irish tour.
Edinburgh’s Steve Mason plays the Róisín Dubh on Sunday April 17 at 9pm and his new single, ‘All Come Down’ will be released through Double Six on Monday April 25.
Read more ...Fight Like Apes return to Strange Brew
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
FIGHT LIKE Apes are back on the road and as part of their upcoming Irish tour, they play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday April 14 at 9pm.
Read more ...Emmet Scanlan’s charity concert for Haiti
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
EMMET SCANLAN & What the Good Thought will play a charity gig in the Druid Theatre this Sunday at 7pm with the proceeds going to the Haven Partnership, which is building homes in Haiti.
Read more ...The Crane to celebrate tenth birthday
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
MICK CREHAN has been at the helm of The Crane Bar on Sea Road for a decade and to celebrate this milestone, the venue will host a party running from Thursday to Sunday.
Read more ...Track Dogs @ Monroe’s Live
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
TRACK DOGS, formerly known as the Garrett Wall Band, are coming to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Thursday March 24.
Read more ...The Shoos @ Monroe’s Live
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
DUBLIN BAND The Shoos, who release their debut album Rescue Room next month, play Monroe’s Live on Saturday at 10.30pm.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
‘The gang’ (family) enjoying my shepherd’s pie, that’s perfect happiness.
Canadian Theatre Company to make Irish debut in Galway
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
A CANADIAN Theatre Company is getting ready to make its Irish debut with a production of Enda Walsh’s Bedbound in Galway next month.
MacKenzieRo, the Irish Repertory Theatre Company of Canada, will stage Bedbound at the Druid Lane Theatre from March 30 to April 2 at 8pm.
Read more ...Musical medics to hit the right note with debut performance
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
MUSIC AND medicine have come together at NUI, Galway to form a unique partnership that is a nationwide first for any university.
Read more ...Oil and Water - it’s a family affair
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
OIL AND Water, an exhibition of new paintings by sister and brother Mary and James F Horan is currently on show in University Hospital Galway.
Born in Galway, James and Mary have both exhibited extensively and have artwork in many collections throughout the world.
Read more ...Enjoy a Celtic celebration tonight
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
AS PART of the St Patrick’s Day celebrations this year, Club Árus na nGael, 45 Dominick Street, is hosting a Celtic night tonight from 9pm.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
THE NEXT North Beach Poetry Nights’ Slam takes place on Monday in The Crane Bar at 9pm, and the guest poet will be Dave Rock.
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