New Irish comedy film to be released in cinemas next week

Thu, Mar 11, 2010

IF YOU found a man resplendent in a shiny red space suit and helmet, passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet, would you believe he was an alien from outer space?

Win copies of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Thu, Mar 11, 2010

THE GIRL With the Dragon Tattoo by the late Steig Larsson has become the publishing phenomena of recent years, selling millions of copies around the globe.

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist to solve a family disappearance. Aided by the mysterious and troubled computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, the two uncover a darker world of brutality, deception, and ritualistic murder.

The Mikado

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

THE PATRICIAN Musical Society’s 2010 production sees it take on one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s finest pieces, The Mikado. Fittingly it sees the society take on this show during its 125th anniversary since it was first performed in 1885.

What’s in a name when you’re Sweet Jane

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

WITH A name like Sweet Jane and a singer called Lydia Des Dolles, you could be forgiven for thinking this Dublin trio took their moniker from one of The Velvet Underground’s best loved songs and were in thrall to a kind of decadent New York 1970s glamour.

Crooked Still and an Irish-American music fusion

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

CROOKED STILL play music inspired by American folk’n’trad, with traditional instruments such as banjo, fiddle, and double bass, but with the unusual addition of a cello.

Getting into The Head of Red O’Brien

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

OVER THE past few years, actor/author Mark O’Halloran has proven himself one of Ireland’s most gifted dramatists with his justly-acclaimed scripts for the films Adam & Paul and Garage.

Lunchtime Theatre in Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

LUNCHTIME THEATRE is making a welcome comeback to Galway this spring, with a host of Galway companies and performers showing new and exciting work in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street.

Dancing at Lughnasa in Oranmore

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

BRIAN FRIEL’S much loved Dancing at Lughnasa will be performed by the fifth year students in Calasanctius College, Oranmore.

NUI Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Blood Cherry (cast pictured), a new play by Shane Daly Hughes, will be performed in the NUI Galway Theatre Festival One Act Play series which takes place tomorrow at 5pm in the Bank Of Ireland Theatre on campus. The play will be competing for the Jerome Hynes Memorial Trophy.

Galway’s Jasango Theatre

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Galway’s Jasango Theatre will perform Bombshells, starring Angela Ryan and Jasmin Finn (pictured), at the NUI Galway Theatre Festival in The Cube, Aras na Mac Leinn, NUIG, today at 6.30pm. Tickets are €6/4. Bombshells will also be performed in Halla Ronain, Inis Mór, Aran Islands, on Thursday March 18 at 8pm (087 - 2749979) and at Aras Eanna, Inis Óirr, on Friday 19 at 8pm (099 - 751500).

Charlie Byrne’s Kids’ Club

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

CHARLIE BYRNE’S Bookshop will host a new Saturday morning Kids Club storytime in its children’s section, starting this Saturday.

The berry vest of Gilbert O’Sullivan at the Town Hall

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

IT IS more than 40 years since Irish composer Gilbert O’Sullivan first topped the music charts and began his journey towards pop stardom. During a hugely success period in the early 1970s the man born Raymond Edward O’Sullivan in Waterford sold in excess of 10 million records worldwide and became one of the biggest names of the decade.

Declan Sinnott to play The Crane

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

THE CRANE Bar on Sea Road has a feast of great gigs coming up over the next week with performances from Niall Connolly, Danny Meehan, John Carty, and Declan Sinnott.

Ultan Conlon plays the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Co Galway singer-songwriter Ultan Conlon (pictured) plays the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm. Check out his new single ‘The Universe Tune’ and album Bless Your Heart. Support is from James Vincent McMorrow. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.

The Redneck Manifesto

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

The Redneck Manifesto (pictured), one of the greatest post-rock groups anywhere, play the Róisín Dubh on Friday March 19 at 8pm. The band’s new album Friendship will be released on Richter Collective on March 26. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.

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.

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