The Grunts to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
CORK BAND The Grunts have just released their new album Reflection In My Mirrorshades and they play a free show in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Theatre review: The Silver Tassie
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
DRUID HAVE taken on some challenging productions in recent years, with works like the epic DruidSynge cycle and Eugene O’Neill’s searing classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Sean O’Casey’s seldom-performed The Silver Tassie is another play which makes great demands of the company’s creative and technical resources.
Read more ...Go back to the fifties with All Shook Up
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
GREASE YOUR hair, quiff it, and don a leather jacket if you are a guy, or put on a poodle skirt and bobby socks if you’re a girl, and get ready to be All Shook Up.
Read more ...Shakin’ all the way west
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
HE WAS the quiffed, denim clad’, jerky leg rock’n’roll revivalist who was behind the ‘Green Door’, in ‘This Ol’ House’, and a major pop star of the 1980s.
Read more ...Fiddler On The Roof auditions
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
THE PATRICIAN Musical Society will hold auditions for its production of Fiddler On The Roof later this month.
Read more ...Theatre auditions
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
CROI8 PRODUCTIONS will next week hold auditions for a stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere.
The auditions will be held on Tuesday September 7 in Busker Brownes at 7pm.
Read more ...Fearghal McKee and Los Langeros @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
WHIPPING BOY frontman Fearghal McKee and Cork’s Los Langeros will join forces for a double headline show at the Róisín Dubh on Friday September 10 at 9pm.
Read more ...New EP from Evil Uncle
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
IF YOU happen to find Songs For The Road, the new five-track EP from Galway musician/songwriter Evil Uncle, you can keep it, you don’t have to pay for it.
Songs For The Road will be released on Monday and will feature songs from Evil Uncle’s forthcoming debut album Two Lights Not Broken, which is due out in November.
Read more ...Beatles, reggae, and country @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
ALL KINDS of music will be heard in Monroe’s Live over the next month from 1960s pop, to country, reggae, and rock.
Read more ...Only Fumes & Corpses @ Kelly’s
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
ONLY FUMES & Corpses, Galway’s leading hardcore punk band, play upstairs at Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Friday September 10.
Read more ...Galway poets @ Electric Picnic
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
AS WELL as boasting a terrific line-up of music, Electric Picnic will also play host to art exhibits, writers, talks, and poetry readings.
Read more ...A feast of exhibitions at Clifden
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
IF YOU are in Clifden later this month, you will discover that almost everywhere you go in the town there will be an art exhibition on display.
Clifden Arts Week 2010 takes place from September 16 to 26 and during that time leading and emerging Irish artists will be showing their works in the ‘capital’ of Connemara.
Read more ...Poetry reading in An Spidéal
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
GALWAY POETS John Walsh and Gerry Galvin will read in the Spiddal Library at a free event next Wednesday at 7.30pm.
Read more ...Explore your magnetism at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
SELF HELP books have become like secular bibles for many people over the last 10/15 years, but one of the very earliest such books has inspired a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Letting yourself do what you love, without fear and without doubt.
Cinema Review : Salt
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
Angelina Jolie is back in top gun-toting ass-kicking form in this action packed spy movie which is fast-paced edge of seat stuff, but unfortunately it gets a little lost in the chaos leaving many unanswered questions, but hey, maybe I’m just being picky.
Read more ...Colin Murphy for Laughter Lounge
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
NORTHERN IRISH comic Colin Murphy, best known from The Panel and The Blame Game, plays The Laughter Lounge at the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday.
Read more ...Win tickets to The Temple House festival
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
THE TEMPLE House Festival takes place in Co Sligo from Friday September 10 to Sunday 12.
Read more ...Let the mocking bird sing
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
INSIDE THE cover of a 2006 paperback edition of the book the blurb reads: “Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, a village that is still her home. She attended local schools and the University of Alabama.
Read more ...Arriving poets from Alaska and Galway
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
MARY MULLEN was born in Anchorage, Alaska but has lived in Ballinderreen, Co Galway, for more than a decade. She has read her work at the Cúirt Over The Edge showcase and is a graduate of the MA in writing at NUIG.
I was familiar with Mary’s poetry before I opened her new collection Zephyr (Salmon Poetry) and began to read. Her poems are full of everyday things. Her native Alaska features in the fine coming of age poem ‘Alaskan Summer Rite, 1969’.
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