Remember Phil Lynott @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
PHIL LYNOTT - Thin Lizzy leader, songwriter, black Irishman, and rock legend, passed away on January 4 1986, at the tragically young age of 36.
Read more ...Luka Bloom to ‘debut’ at The Crane
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
ALTHOUGH HE is no stranger to Galway, having played the city many times over the past four decades, Luka Bloom has never played The Crane Bar.
Read more ...January events @ GAC
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
THE GALWAY Arts Centre will host two very different events in January - an exhibition from Majella Dowdican and a multi-media performance entitled DAS SPLINTER.
Read more ...126 to hold annual members show
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
OUT OF A Box is the title of this year’s 126 gallery Annual Members Show which opens on this evening at 7pm and features work by 11 artists.
The members were asked to respond to the theme ‘Out of a Box’, a term believed to derive from a puzzle created by early 20th century British mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney.
Read more ...Build a fort at the Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
WOULD YOU like to have the chance to turn the Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street into a fort? If so, then go along to Fort Building with the Knee Jerk collective.
Read more ...Bananas, cream, and Nina Amazing
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
THE SECRET Is In The Banana Cream Cheese Icing is the wonderfully titled new exhibition from the Galway artist with the equally wonderful name of Nina Amazing.
Read more ...New Year poetry workshops
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
IF YOU have been itching to put pen to paper and compose some verse, but are unsure about how to go about it, then check out the new classes at the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Cinema Review
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
HOW WAS 2010 for you? Filmwise? What were the films that excelled, the films that were just a waste of time, and those which failed to live up to all the trailer hype?
Read more ...The first Spaghetti Western live from New York to Galway
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
LA FANCIULLA Del West, Puccini’s 1910 opera set in the American Wild West, will be staged by The New York Metropolitan Opera and broadcast live to Galway this week.
Read more ...New season of world cinema for Indreabhán
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
CLUB SCANNÁN Sailearna will host a new season of world cinema in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán.
The season starts on Wednesday January 12 at 8.15pm with The Girl Who Played With Fire, the Swedish film based on the second of the best-selling crime series by Stieg Larsson.
Read more ...Have a laugh in 2011 at The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
“LAUGHTER IS by definition healthy,” said the author Doris Lessing, while Lord Byron advised: “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
Read more ...Ex-Oasis drummer Tony McCarroll on life inside Britpop
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
IN THE early 1990s boy band and girl band acts dominated the British and Irish charts. Take That, The Spice Girls, East 17, and Boyzone sold millions of singles and were constantly on television.
Read more ...Women with dark glasses and boyos with big ideas
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
DESPITE IT’S rich tradition, which stretches from Frank O’Connor to Claire Keegan, the short story is currently Ireland’s most neglected literary genre.
It is notoriously difficult to find a publisher willing to risk publishing a collection of them. A poet with any talent at all will eventually achieve publication, as long as he or she occasionally leaves the house to send poems out.
Read more ...Nothing to lose
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
IT WAS a quiet midday morning in Bohermore when Galway writer Ken Bruen received the call that would change his life forever. However, he was somewhat unprepared for the moment.
Read more ...Cinderella at The Black Box
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
A REAL seasonal treat is in store for all the family when the boys and girls of the Performing Arts School Galway take to the stage of the Black Box Theatre, from January 1 to 8 with their panto version of Cinderella.
Read more ...Panto fun with Renmore’s Sleeping Beauty
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
THE MUCH loved fairytale Sleeping Beauty will be brought to the Galway stage by the Renmore pantomime, starting tonight and running until Sunday January 16.
Read more ...Coming to the Town Hall in 2011
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
PIANIST BARRY Douglas, illusionist Keith Barry, comedian Des Bishop, singer Johnny McEvoy, and classic plays by Tennessee Williams, Brian Friel, and Shakespeare all feature in the Town Hall’s programme over the coming months.
Read more ...The Scots are coming
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
SCOTLAND HAS been producing some of the greatest and most influential indie/alternative bands there has ever been.
Think about it - The Vaselines, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Josef K, Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, Arab Strap, Frightened Rabbit, Cocteau Twins, Franz Ferdinand, and The Pastels.
Read more ...The Nitty Gritty New Year’s party set to rock Salthill
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
THE NITTY Gritty Galway’s only club night to cater for Rockabilly, Soul, 60s Ska, Swing, 50s Rock n’ Roll and the rest, is back.
Read more ...Ring in 2011 with Ireland’s most exciting new bands
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
“THE ONLY way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”
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