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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scotland’s rising comedy start to play Galway this month

Thu, Dec 09, 2010

KEVIN BRIDGES, the Scottish comedian who is one of the star’s of Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and BBC One’s Live at the Apollo series is coming to Galway.

Ruth Cadden’s Seductive Mythology

Thu, Dec 09, 2010

LAST FRIDAY at the Town Hall saw the opening of a striking new exhibition by artist Ruth Cadden entitled Seductive Mythology.

A night of sacred and festive song with Eimear Quinn

Thu, Dec 09, 2010

EIMEAR QUINN was originally best known for the Eurovision winning song ‘The Voice’, but more recently she has been celebrated for her rendition of ‘O Holy Night’.