Jarlath Regan @ Laughter Lounge

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

THE POPULAR Jarlath Regan returns to The Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday April 7 at 8.30pm.

Memories of the first Cúirt

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

IT WAS at a meeting at 11am, on what seems like an age ago in Chris Williams’s restaurant The Brasserie in William Street that the idea of Cúirt, Fred Johnston’s brainchild, was first floated.

Present at that meeting were Fred Johnston, Dick Donaghue, the Galway Advertiser’s Ronnie O’Gorman, and myself. Johnston had just come to work for a six-month stint in the Galway Arts Centre with a vague literary brief.

Cúirt to celebrate its jubilee year in April

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

IAN RANKIN, JOYCE Carol Oates, Colum McCarthy, and The New Yorker’s Deborah Treisman, will take part in this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, which returns from Tuesday April 20 to Sunday 25.

To the waters and the wild with Stornoway

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

WHEN THE English folk-pop/indie band Stornoway play the Róisín Dubh on Saturday April 17 at 8pm, it will be akin to a homecoming for vocalist Brian Briggs, who spent childhood summers with his grandfather in the lakes and mountains of Connemara.

Communist consumerism @ 126

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

CHINA IS the rising global, economic, power, one of the world’s largest economies. It is a country on the rise and this phenomenon is examined in a new exhibition in Galway.

Kevin Doherty’s Telegraph - The Show at Druid

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

DONEGAL BORN singer-songwriter Kevin Doherty, of Four Men and a Dog fame, has just released his third solo album, Telegraph, to wide acclaim.

Town Hall spring season

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

DRUID, DINOSAUR JR, Après Match, Cúirt, Tom Murphy, Peter Green, and Mozart are among the many highlights in the Town Hall’s programme for the coming months, details of which have just been published.

Galway Actors’ Workshop

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

THE GALWAY Actors Workshop will hold a new series of classes for adults aimed at for beginners and those with some level of experience.

Classes will be held in the Anno Santo Hotel on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 7pm to 9pm, starting the week of April 5 and running for eight weeks.

The Spirit Of Pink Floyd

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

THE SPIRIT Of Pink Floyd Show, a major celebration of the music of the legendary British band, is coming to the Black Box Theatre on Friday April 9 at 8pm.

Máirtín O’Connor @ Campbell’s

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

MÁIRTÍN O’CONNOR, Garry O’Brian, and Seamie O’Dowd will celebrate their birthdays with a charity gig in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, this Sunday at 8pm.

Proceeds from the Triple Birthday Benefit Bash will go towards the Kidane Meheret Children’s Home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Also performing with Máirtín and friends on the night will be Cathal Hayden, Jim Higgins, Mary McPartlan, Aoife McNamara, Don Stiffe, Joe Naughton, and some sean nós dancers.

The ‘smart, confident, and interesting’ Identity Parade at Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

IDENTITY PARADE, the indie rock five-piece, described by Stiff Records founder Dave Robinson - who discovered Elvis Costello and Ian Dury - as having “a very impressive sound”, play Gigantic at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Saturday April 10 at 9pm.

Without George move upstairs to Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

FROM SUPPORTING Blondie at the Galway Arts Festival to wowing audiences at the Volvo Ocean Race, Without George are no strangers to playing the big stages.

Paul McLoone @ Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

PAUL MCLOONE, vocalist with the Undertones and Today FM presenter, will be coming to Gigantic at Kelly’s Bridge Street this Saturday at 11pm.

Jessie Lendennie at Over The Edge

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

JESSIE LENDENNIE, the co-founder and managing director of Salmon Poetry, will read at the next Over The Edge in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, this evening at 6.30pm.

Lendennie’s poetry has been anthologised in Unveiling Treasures: The Attic Guide To The Published Works of Irish Women Literary Writers and The White Page/An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets, among others.

Tell your story at Loose Lips

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

LOOSE LIPS, the new ‘story slam’ night in the Róisín Dubh hosted by Tommy Tiernan and Mags Treanor returns on Wednesday.

Everyone has a story to tell, and Loose Lips offers a stage and a microphone to members of the audience who can tell their story, provided it is true, unscripted, and doesn’t take longer than five minutes.

A classical harpsichord concert for COPE

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

THE MUSIC of two of the great 18th century composers for harpsichord, François Couperin and Domenico Scarlatti, will be performed in Galway at a charity convert for COPE.

Resurgam to perform Jeremiah’s Lamentations

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

THE LAMENTATIONS Of Jeremiah, recording the destruction of Jerusalem, form some of the most emotional passages in the Bible, and inspired one of classical music’s great sacred works.

Hear The Crucifixion on Passion Sunday

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

THE ENGLISH composer John Stainer was described by Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame, as “a genius”, and Co Galway will get to experience his music on Passion Sunday.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A still day with a fly rod in my hand and fish on the prowl.

Cinema Review - Shutter Island

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

This psychological thriller from Martin Scorsese had so much potential, with its twists and turns, blurring the lines between sanity and insanity, and almost cruelly pushing the protagonist on further in his quest to find out the truth, but the film just took too long to get to the point and felt rushed at the end, leaving us feeling disappointed to have gone on the journey in the first place.

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