Singers and Their Songs @ The Crane
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
SINGERS AND Their Songs is an annual series of live sessions in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, promoting Galway based singer-songwriters, acoustic groups, and roots bands.
Read more ...An impressive step forward for The Mighty Stef
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
THE MIGHTY Stef is something of a character on the Irish music scene with his larger than life personality and that huge, rough hewn, and unapologetically, Dublin voice.
Read more ...Folk-rock double bill @ Kelly’s
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
TWO OF Galway’s leading folk-rock acts - Niall Teague and The Fast Company and singer-songwriter Fia Rua - play Kelly’s this Monday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Wingnut Records in Bell, Book and Candle
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
WINGNUT RECORDS is a new independent music retailer located in Bell, Book and Candle, at The Small Crane.
Read more ...The Nitty Gritty New Year’s party
Thu, Dec 16, 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 ...Susan Millar DuMars to launch new short story collection
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
SUSAN MILLAR DuMars, the Galway based writer, poet, and creative writing teacher, will launch her new short story collection, Lights In The Distance, this weekend.
Read more ...Get creative in 2011 with the Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
THE GALWAY Arts Centre’s winter classes programme in January are an opportunity for those who want to try something new for the New Year.
Read more ...Social surrealism at the Galway City Museum
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
CHRIS ORR, Social Surrealist, is the title of a new exhibition which is currently on show in the Galway City Museum.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Eating a roll with spicy chicken, cheese, mayonnaise, and lettuce. And world peace.
Galway Arts Centre Poetry Slam
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
THE NEXT Galway Arts Centre Poetry Slam with MC Pete Mullineaux takes place on Tuesday at 7pm.
Read more ...Galway duo release new album
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
THE MAQUISARDS, the Galway duo of Adrian Martyn and Julie Hough, have released their debut album Nine Songs.
Read more ...cinema reviews: The Tourist
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
This spy ‘mistaken-identity’ thriller was entertaining but it could have been so much more, with big guns such as Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in the lead roles, given a plot that could have been promising.
Read more ...Win Andrew Maxwell’s new DVD
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
THE BRILLIANT Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell has released his new DVD, One Inch Punch: Live at Vicar Street and we have three copies to give away.
Read more ...Galway actor to appear on Sky One Christmas film
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
CHRIS O’DOWD, best known for playing Roy Trenneman in The IT Crowd, and his brother John O’Dowd, a Galway based actor, will both appear on Sky One this Christmas.
Read more ...Hector at Mad Hatter’s Christmas Party
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
THE WILD MAN of the Irish language, broadcasting, and TV travel documentaries Hector Ó hEochagáin, headlines the Mad Hatters Christmas Party in the Róisín Dubh next week.
Read more ...Win the book The Long Walk
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
THE WAY Back, the new film starring Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris, along with Irish actors Colin Farrell and Saoirse Ronan, comes to cinemas on St Stephen’s Day.
Read more ...On The Record Christmas party @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
THE IRISH Times music column On The Record holds its Christmas Party at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh tonight from 8pm.
Read more ...Get a touch of Shakespeare - reduced
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
ALL 37 plays by William Shakespeare, nothing less than the compete works of the Bard of Avon, will be performed in Galway - in 90 minutes.
Read more ...Galway Youth Orchestra and Regina Rogers School of Ballet join forces for Christmas concert
Thu, Dec 09, 2010
LOVERS OF classical music and ballet are in for a treat next week at Leisureland in Salthill when the Galway Youth Orchestra and the Regina Rogers School of Ballet come together for a special Christmas concert on Saturday December 18.
Read more ...Olaf Tyaransen - probing the depths
Thu, Dec 09, 2010
RECEIVING LONG, strange, phone calls from Courtney Love and making Lady Ga Ga cry are just two of the many unforgettable experiences Olaf Tyaransen has had in his career as one of Ireland’s leading journalists and interviewers.
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