Win Twilight Saga goodie bags

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

ECLIPSE, THE latest instalment of the film version of The Twilight Saga, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, is released on DVD and Blu-ray on Saturday December 4.

The DVD contains more than three hours of extras including two commentaries, the first from Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, and the second from Stephenie Meyer and producer Wyck Godfrey. There are also deleted and extended scenes with audio commentary from director David Slade, a making of documentary, photo gallery, Edward Fast Forward, Jacob Fast Forward, and music videos from Muse and Metric.

Galway Film Society Christmas screenings

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

CHRISTMAS IS coming and it is a time to enjoy and indulge and have a laugh, and take a little break from the misery that our failed and incompetent Government has heaped on us.

Charity gig for Help Them Hope

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

THE SUMBRELLAS, the Galway Gospel Choir, Keith Mullins, Leon, and Paddy Gunning will play a charity concert at the Galway City Museum tomorrow at 8pm.

Christmas family concert

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

ST PATRICK’S Intermediate Brass Band will give a family Christmas concert in St Patrick’s Band Hall, next to the train station, on Sunday at 2pm.

Heavyweight dub @ Kelly’s

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

REGGAE AND techno will collide when The Dub Doctors Soundsystem and Revelation Soundsystem play Kelly’s Bar this Sunday at 8pm.

The Dub Doctors Soundsystem was born in 2008 when Donal Finn and Val O’Brien hosted a reggae night in An Pucan. As time went by they acquired more members, such as Polish rapper MC Sunchild, British vocalist Lady Ragz, Donegal multi instrumentalist Skank Man Dave, and sound operator from London EQFX.

Tales of times not so past

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

WHEN THE current recession first loomed just over two years ago, the general consensus by those of a certain age was that it was nothing compared to the dark days of the 1970s and 1980s.

The fighting footballers of WWI

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

THE OLD rivalry and enmity between the amateur and professional football codes in England may have led to a battalion of footballers being raised for the British army in WWI.

Sarah Clancy to launch debut poetry collection

Thu, Dec 02, 2010

STACEY AND The Mechanical Bull, the debut poetry collection by Galway’s Sarah Clancy, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday December 10 at 6pm.

Stacey and The Mechanical Bull is published by Lapwing Press and the guest speaker at the event will be the poet Kevin Higgins.

Fintan O’Toole - pointing the way towards a new republic

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

ONE OF our most esteemed political commentators, Fintan O’Toole, is appearing at the Town Hall Theatre next week in a reading/discussion centred around his provocative new book Enough Is Enough; How to Build a New Republic.

In Enough Is Enough, O’Toole detonates the five myths that govern Irish life – from the notion that politicians properly represent their constituents and ‘get things done’ to the dangerous idea that Ireland in the early 21st century became one of the richest countries in the world.

Villagers - Conor O’Brien cruises into pole position with Villagers

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

CONOR J O’BRIEN first came to national attention with The Immediate. The avant-garde quartet became the toast of the Irish music scene with their debut album In Towers and Clouds in 2006 which was nominated for the Choice Music Prize.

The Bahh Band to launch debut album

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

GALWAY GROUP The Bahh Band, whose music fuses Indian classic, Irish trad, and American blues, launch their debut album in Monroe’s Tavern tomorrow at 8.30pm.

Woody Allen’s Writer’s Block to receive Irish premiere in Town Hall

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

“I LIKE writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It’s therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints,” so said film maker, writer, actor, and playwright Woody Allen in a 2005 interview.

Allen is best known for his many classic films, but there are many strings to the gifted New Yorkers bow and it is often overlooked that he has also enjoyed success as a playwright with the Broadway plays Don’t Drink the Water (1966) and Play It Again, Sam (1969), as well as with several one-act plays, including Writer’s Block.

Frank Naughton concerts at St Nicholas’

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

TENOR FRANK Naughton is promising to dispel some of the doom and gloom pervading the country these days with two seasonal concerts at St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church on Friday December 3 and Saturday 4.

Dream folk singer Marissa Nadler @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

MARISSA NADLER is something of a Renaissance woman. She is a singer, songwriter, illustrator, and painter, who plays the Róisín Dubh on Friday December 3 at 9pm.

Damien Dempsey’s charity PREDA concert

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

DAMIEN DEMPSEY has never been shy to voice his opinions on life, politics, and society in his music, but he is also a man who practices what he preaches.

The impassioned Dublin singer-songwriter will be returning to Galway next month to play Monroe’s Live on Thursday December 16 at 9pm for the ‘PREDA concert for Justice for Children at Risk in the Philippines’.

The Guts to launch debut album in Kelly’s

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

GALWAY BAND The Guts will launch their debut album RAT with a concert upstairs in Kelly’s next Wednesday at 8.30pm.

Funk v rock @ the Silent Disco

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

THE SILENT Disco in the Róisín Dubh takes a new twist with a themed night this Saturday of ‘Funk’n’Soul v Rock’n’Roll’.

Lucia Evans’ vocal studio concert

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

VOCAL STUDENTS of Galway soul singer Lucia Evans will perform in the Salthill Hotel this Sunday at 6.30pm.

Leading young Chinese pianist to play NUIG

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

THE ONLY piano recital in this year’s Music For Galway season takes place on Tuesday at 8pm in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, with the great Chinese pianist Jue Wang.

Art Essence gallery holds fine art sale

Thu, Nov 25, 2010

FINE ART is normally an expensive purchase, and a painting could set you back enough to lead you to enduring beans on toast for your Christmas dinner.

Thankfully in Galway, you do not have to endure penury to acquire some wonderful art works. The Art Essence Gallery in the Liosbán estate, is holding the Fabulous Fifty and Heavenly Hundred Fine Art and Crystal Sale from this Sunday at 2.30pm until Thursday December 23.

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