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.
The feature is being organised by the Galway literary events organisation Over The Edge for publication on http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com.
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.
I’ll get back to you once I’ve completed the equation.
Read more ...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.
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.
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.
For the event, Paul has chosen three of his favourite up and coming Irish bands - O Emperor, The Ambience Affair, and The Minutes - to perform exclusive sets during the three hour broadcast.
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.
Read more ...The Handsome Family to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
RENNIE SPARKS likes Irish audiences. “You sing one chorus for them and you’re good to go. That’s really sweet,” she told me when I interviewed her last year.
Read more ...Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - merciless and great
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
BONNIE PRINCE Charlie was the leader of the oft-romanticised, but in truth deeply tragic Jacobite Rising in Scotland in 1745-6.
It’s a period of history that has inspired songs, poems, novels, art, films, and libraries of historical writing, so much indeed that there seems to be no end to the amount of works ‘The ‘45’ can inspire.
Read more ...Music For Dead Birds release new EP
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
GALWAY ALTERNATIVE/folk-rock duo Music For Dead Birds have released their new EP Black Tides Falling.
Read more ...UNKLE’s James Lavelle to DJ @ Kelly’s
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
JAMES LAVELLE, the man behind UNKLE, will be DJing upstairs at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, tomorrow from 10pm.
Read more ...Submissions sought for TULCA 2010
Thu, Jul 22, 2010
CO GALWAY’S coastline and coastal sites are the inspiration and starting point for the programme for this year’s TULCA festival of visual art.
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