Dick Donaghue to launch new novel tomorrow

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

DANCE OF The Mocking Birds, the new novel by Dick Donaghue, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow at 6pm.

Native American storyteller at city museum

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

MARTÍN PRETCHEL, the artist, musician, storyteller, and teacher will be telling traditional stories in the Galway City Museum on Thursday November 11 at 7pm.

Fred Johnston en Français

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

THE BRETON publisher Terre de Brume has just published a collection of short stories by the Galway based poet and critic Fred Johnston.

Enjoy operatic favourites in the Franciscan Abbey

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

THE DURHAM Voice Studio’s Autumn Voice Recital takes place in the Franciscan Abbey, St Francis Street, this Sunday at 7pm.

Soprano Maeve Cairney, along with John Kennedy, Aurélie Boulos, Veronica Nube, Fiona Flanagan, and Tara Broderick, will perform works by Schubert, Mozart, Faure, and Delibes. They will be accompanied by Morgan Cooke on piano. There will also be a special performance by The Gombeens’ Miquel Barceló.

Calling all aspiring actors

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

THE LIR, the new National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin, is coming to Galway this Saturday where it will host a public Q&A event.

Cinema Review - Easy A

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

Easy A is not like your average high school comedy as the heroine is no sweetheart, in fact she goes all out to go bad, well, to pretend to be by letting the rumour mill spread the word, very quickly, that she has lost her virginity and is now selling certain favours.

See Princess Lillifee at Junior Film Fleadh

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

PRINCESS LILLIFEE lives in a world that is so pink it’s called Pinkovia and she rules her principality with a kindly magic hand.

However on a tour of the realm with her best friend Pupsi the pig, the princess finds that not all Pinkovians are happy. The rivalry between the fairies Snowflake, Flicker, and Mistral is becoming destructive and if things do not change the pixies, elves, and mermaids are threatening to leave the principality.

Enjoy a piece of Japan here in Galway

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

THE JAPANESE Film Festival takes place in Galway this weekend and as well as great films, Galwegians will also be able to enjoy many different aspects of Japanese culture.

Get the rap attack @ Kelly’s

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

THE ENGLISH rapper, poet, and spoken word artist, poet, Kate Tempest & The Sound Of Rum play upstairs in Kelly’s on Friday November 12.

A triple bill treat in November

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

JAPE, FIONN Regan, and And So I Watch You From Afar, will play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday November 11.

Indian classical music concert

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

THE GALWAY City Museum will host an evening of Indian classical music in the museum’s Café 8 this Sunday at 7pm.

This month's event will feature the renowned sarodist Sougata Roy Choudhury, accompanied by Ciro Montanari on tabla. Sougata is a world class performer and teacher of North Indian classical music and has been coming to Ireland every year since 2006 for concerts and workshops. Ciro is a member of Galway group, The Bahh Band.

The ballad of Shell and Rossport

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

TO SAY that the Shell gas pipeline and terminal in north Mayo has been the subject of controversy would be to understate seriously.

Darwin Deez

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

ALL AROUND us are influences. Everywhere we turn are inspirations and challenges that can affect our behaviour and thoughts. Are we ever truly free then if all these things affect us consciously and unconsciously?

From Galway to Mexico with TULCA

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

TULCA, GALWAY’S Festival of Visual Arts 2010, returns from November 6 to 21 and will present work by more than 40 national and international artists across eight venues and public spaces in Galway city.

The title and theme of this year’s event is Living on the Edge: People, Place & Possibility, and while the participating artists hail from as far as Latin America, the 2010 programme will explore many issues relevant to contemporary Ireland.

New play on 9/11 for Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

A NEW play, which opens tonight as part of the Galway Theatre Festival, will depict the women who chose to leap from the twin towers on 9/11 rather than be consumed by flames.

TYGER Theatre will present Freefall: Heroes, written by Colm Byrne and directed by Jessica Curtis, in the Druid Lane Theatre tonight at 10pm and tomorrow at 6pm.

Circus Of Horrors at Black Box

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

FIFTEEN YEARS since it first trampled the bloody boards at Glastonbury and went on to achieve cult status with tours around the world, the fangtastic, rockin’ and shockin’ Circus Of Horrors arrives at the Black Box Theatre on Thursday November 4 at 8pm.

The Mackrealaytors: music, mayhem, and mackerel

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

WAKING UP in a flat on Dominick Street searching for the memory of the night before and the music that’s lost in half-baked notions is the scenario for The Mackrealaytors.

See new stage adaptation of Eugene Onegin

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

GALWAY’S ANAM Theatre company will bring another classic of Russian literature to the theatre stage with Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin as part of the Galway Theatre Festival.

At least year’s festival Anam performed Brian Friel’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s story The Yalta Game. This time the company has produced a stage adaptation of Pushkin’s verse novel, which was published in series form between 1825 and 1837.

Pierre Bensusan - guitar master

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

MASTER GUITARIST Pierre Bensusan, described by the LA Times as “one of the most unique and brilliant” acoustic guitarists in the world, plays Galway next month.

This great French-Algerian guitarist plays the Róisín Dubh on Monday November 8 at 9pm as part of his Irish tour to promote his new album Vividly.