Katalin Varga

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

KATALIN VARGA lives in the rural wilderness of the Carpathian Mountains in a Hungarian speaking region of Romania with her husband Zsigmond and son Orbán, but she has been hiding a troubling secret - Orbán is not Zsigmond’s son.

When he discovers this, an angry and heartbroken Zsigmond banishes Katalin (Hilda Péter) from the village in which they live. Rejected by the man she loves and the place she calls home, Katalin takes Orbán with her, on the pretext of going to stay with her mother.

Dublin comic Robbie Bonham will play Comedy@Kellys

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

The brilliant Dublin comic Robbie Bonham (pictured) will play Comedy@Kellys upstairs on Sunday March 7. Support is from Kieran Lawless and Giles Brody. The MC will be Bob Hennigan. Doors are at 9pm. Admission is €7.

Polish film Katyn will be screened in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán tonight.

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Polish film Katyn will be screened in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán tonight. The film is based on a horrific incident in 1940, when Stalin ordered thousands of Polish army officers to be murdered by Soviet troops. The massacre was discovered by the Germans, but the Soviets denied they carried it out. Katyn looks at this horrific incident, through the eyes of a Polish general’s wife.

German film White Ribbon will be screened by the Galway Film Society this Sunday

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

German film White Ribbon, directed by Michael Haneke, will be screened by the Galway Film Society this Sunday at 8.15pm. In a small farming village in Germany on the eve of the Great War there is a murder and a kidnapping, yet the community will not admit what’s going on. White Ribbon won the Palm D’Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. For tickets contact 091 - 569777.

Poetry in the city at Airneán sa Chathair

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

CLUB ÁRUS na nGael will host a night of poetry as Gaeilge, featuring Máire Holmes, Colette Nic Aodha, and Seosamh Ó Guairim, on Tuesday at 8.15pm as part of Seachtain na Gaeilge.

Music at Seachtain na Gaeilge

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

IT JUST would not be Seachtain na Gaeilge without plenty of Irish trad music gigs and sessions due to take place in Club Áras na nGael on Dominick Street.

Seachtain na Gaeilge runs from March 5 to 17 and musicwise it all kicks off on Saturday at 9pm with Seosamh Ó Fatharta, Sadbh Ní Fhatharta, Mike Ó hÉanaigh and friends performing at their weekly An Satharn sa Chlub session.

An Englishman’s view of Ireland

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

IRISH SKETCHBOOK, a new exhibition by the English artist Barry Herniman, will open in The Kenny Bookshop and Gallery in Liosbán this Saturday at 2pm.

Louise Manifold to hold debut hometown solo exhibition

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

UNNATURAL ESOTERIC, the new exhibition by Galway artist Louise Manifold opens in the Galway Arts Centre tomorrow at 6pm and it will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in her hometown.

Over The Edge

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

ORLA HIGGINS, winner of the Over the Edge New Fiction Writer Competition in 2009, will read at the next Over The Edge reading in Sheridan’s Wine Bar on Friday March 12 at 8pm.

The Coronas play College Week

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

THE CORONAS, winners of Best Irish Album at the recent Meteor Music Awards, play the Radisson Live Lounge on Wednesday March 10 for College Week.

NUI Galway Students’ Union has secured top class entertainment for its upcoming “College Week”. College Week aims to raise money for four charities including Galway’s “COPE” and NUI Galway’s “Habitat for Humanity”.

A question of human rights

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

DURING THE last couple of months, I have witnessed two incidents where different individuals were in no doubt of the fact that they knew their rights - one at a supermarket checkout and the other in a local post office.

Private thoughts of a Jesuit poet

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

THE POEMS Gerard Manley Hopkins left us when he died in 1889, have a stylish gloom which makes him strangely representative of the more thoughtful type of Roman Catholic.

Fionn Regan - Out from the shadows of empires and pressures

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

POLITICS IS a word Fionn Regan admits he “can’t relate to” but his first album was named after a provocative book by a right-wing American political commentator, while his new album contains references to colonial and industrial exploitation.

This is the life of Two Door Cinema Club

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

IT HAS been one hell of year for Co Down’s Two Door Cinema Club. In just 12 months they have gone from being unknowns into a band about to release their debut album and on the cusp of big things.

Dinosaur Jr to play Galway in May

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

DINOSAUR JR, the definitive US alternative rock band, will be making their third journey to Galway to play a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concert at The Black Box Theatre on Monday May 10.

Tyger takes wing with The Dove and The Crow

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

LOCAL ENSEMBLE Tyger Theatre Company take to the stage in the Town Hall studio next week with the premiere of Philip Doherty’s comic and stirring new play, The Dove and The Crow.

The ultimate girls’ night out

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

IT HAS been a smash hit with audiences from America to Australia, Italy to Israel, South Africa to South Korea, and at its first Irish run broke box office records two years ago.

Now Menopause the Musical returns for a second Irish tour which plays in the Town Hall from Monday March 1 to Saturday 6.

The Breakfast Club @ NUIG Theatre Festival

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

NUI GALWAY’S first theatre festival runs from March 1 to 5 and will be an ambitious affair with 21 10 minute ‘theatrebites’, 11 one act plays, six radio plays, six theatre productions, two forum theatre pieces, a cardboard war, and a parade!

The angry sound of Tom McRae

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

TOM MCRAE, the Mercury Prize and a Brit Award nominated English vocalist and songwriter, plays Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday March 11 at 9pm.

Fergal Walsh memorial gig

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

THE UNTIMELY passing last month of the much loved and respected Galway based Mayo musician, Fergal Walsh, comes as a great shock to many musicians, colleagues, family, and friends here in Galway and throughout the country.

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