Weekend summer painting workshops
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
IF YOU want to learn how to paint, or if you already can, but would like to improve your skills, then a new weekend painting course could be for you.
Read more ...Darwin Deez to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
INDIE IS the self-confessed home of all that is ‘quirky’ in pop and rock and in Darwin Deez the genre may have found a singer worthy to carry on its fine tradition of off-centre pop eccentricity.
New York based Darwin Deez has been confirmed to play the Róisín Dubh on Sunday November 7 at 9pm and tickets for the show go on sale tomorrow. So who is Darwin Deez and why all the fuss about him at the moment?
Read more ...A Scottish-Irish night @ The Crane
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE MUSIC of the Shetland Islands, mainland Scotland, and Ireland will come together when Catriona McKay and Chris Stout play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, this Sunday at 9pm.
Read more ...Race Week gigs at Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE CAMEMBERT Quartet are among the many and diverse acts who will be providing musical entertainment at Monroe’s Live during Race Week.
Tonight will see the Cunningham family continue their residency at the venue with their acclaimed Fuaim Chonamara show of sean nós dancing from 9pm. Later that night The Camembert Quartet, best known as The Late Late Show house band, and led by Galwayman Clint Velour, will take to the stage.
Read more ...Leading house DJ goes Deeper
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
CHARLES WEBSTER, one of the leading DJs on the house music scene, will play Deeper at The Cellar Bar this Bank Holiday Sunday.
Read more ...Arlo Guthrie heads west
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
The great American singer-songwriter (and raconteur) Arlo Guthrie will play the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Sunday August 8 at 7.30pm and the Róisín Dubh, Galway, on Tuesday August 10 at 9pm. Tickets for the Galway show are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago. Tickets for Castlebar are available from www.ticketmaster.ie and The Royal Box Office on 0818 300 000.
Read more ...Classical music festival for families
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE SUMMER Music in Galway International Festival of classical music, aimed at children and families as much as classical buffs, takes place from August 5 to 21 in NUI, Galway.
Read more ...Áras Éanna celebrates first decade with major exhibition
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE ÁRUS Éanna Arts Centre in Inis Oírr will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its founding with an exhibition of painting and photography.
Read more ...Poems on Israel-Palestine sought
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
POEMS ON Israel-Palestine are being sought for a special internet feature entitled Will Days Indeed Come: I Come From There.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I’ll get back to you once I’ve completed the equation.
Cinema review: Toy Story 3
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
Eleven years after Pixar’s second installment of the phenomenally successful Toy Story series, Woody, Buzz, Andy and the rest of the colourful gang are back for one more momentous outing.
Read more ...Comedy Comedy @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE BRILLIANT Robbie Bonham will headline the next Comedy Comedy night upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8.30pm.
Robbie’s cynical and witty observations on religion, relationships, and surviving life have earned him 98 FM’s Best Comedian Award and he has supported such high calibre acts as Reginald D Hunter, Jim Jeffries, Doug Stanhope, and Brendon Burns.
Read more ...Sunday BBQs @ the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE CARTOON Thieves play the Róisín Dubh main stage every Sunday from 9pm, but they also do a special slot in the upstairs bar.
Read more ...Little Cinema Short Film Club
Thu, Jul 29, 2010
THE LITTLE Cinema Short Film Club is accepting submissions for its next session of screenings upstairs in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Tuesday August 3.
Read more ...Tarry Flynn’s ‘energy of the imagination’
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
REHEARSALS ARE currently well advanced for a new production of Conal Morrison’s award-winning adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s classic novel, Tarry Flynn, which will be staged at the Town Hall Theatre from Tuesday August 3 to Sunday 8.
The play is a moving evocation of 1930s’ rural Irish life - a time when life and the land went hand in hand but told with the wry observation and acerbic wit of Ireland’s best loved poet.
Read more ...Emmet Scanlan’s date with The Wickerman
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
“THEY BUILD effigies of great size interwoven with twigs, the limbs of which are filled up with living people which are set on fire from below, and the people are deprived of life surrounded by flames.”
Read more ...The Paul McLoone Show @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
TODAY FM’S The Paul McLoone Show is heading west and on Thursday July 29 he will be broadcasting his show live from the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Arts festival theatre reviews
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
UNCLE VANYA - Among the highlights of this year’s Galway Arts Festival so far was the visit of Bristol Old Vic and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory with their wonderful co-production of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya.
Read more ...A new take on Why Men Cheat
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
IN ANCIENT Rome, Julius Caesar was a well known ‘ladies man’. Such was the great general’s inability to stay away from other men’s wives that he was nicknamed ‘the bald adulterer’.
Read more ...Bell X1 to play Galway in November
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
BELL X1 will mark the 10th anniversary of the release of their debut album, Neither Am I, with a special tour in November.
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