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.

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.

Unnatural Esoteric draws on mythical tales of shape-shifting and metamorphosis alongside published research on clinical lycanthropy, a rare psychiatric illness in which the subject is convinced that he/she is turning into an animal. These ideas are explored through video, photography, and sculptural installation.

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.

Silent disco @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

THE SILENT Disco returns to the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 10.30pm with DJs Gugai and Graham Dolan going head to head.

Pick up your headphones on the way in and switch between the two DJs to see who is playing the songs you most want to dance to. If you need a break, take the headphones off and marvel at the bizarre spectacle of a room full of people dancing and singing different songs, even though no music is to be heard.

The sound garden

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

YOU KNOW that super catchy song from the Discover Northern Ireland ads, ‘Long May You Reign?’ Well it’s part of a pretty nice collection of songs by John, Shelly and The Creatures.

We Hate DJs @ Massimo

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

WE HATE DJs return to Massimo tomorrow from 10pm until late, with the 515 Tripod resident DJ Michael Kelly as the special guest.

We Hate DJs will performing a new set with full live drums, percussion, funky guitar riffs, and DJ XL-R8 delivering a tight mix of tech/house/breaks and leftfield style beats with the odd remixed classic thrown in for good measure.

The Ralphs play Cuba

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Tuam indie-rockers The Ralphs (pictured) play Cuba*Live tomorrow at 11pm. The band have featured in the IMRO Showcase Tour and were nominated for the 2010 ‘most promising’ Meteor Award. Expect a debut EP later this year. Support is from 21 Outs and Wokajo. Admission is €5.