Mick Lally boards Last Train from Holyhead
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
MICK LALLY, one of Galway’s most celebrated theatrical sons, makes a welcome return to the city next week when he steps onto the Town Hall studio stage in a revival of Bernard Fields’ suspenseful drama, Last Train From Holyhead.
Read more ...Manhattan Short Film Festival returns to Galway
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
GALWAY FILMGOERS will unite with audiences in 172 cities across five continents to view and judge the next generation of filmmakers when the 12th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival screens at the Town Hall on Sunday September 27 at 3pm.
Read more ...Keegan return with Of Mice and Men
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
WASHINGTON’S VAUNTED Keegan Theatre Company make their annual visit to Galway next week when they bring the John Steinbeck classic Of Mice and Men to the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Boxty Band to play GPO
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
THE BOXTY Band will play the GPO on Sunday and audiences can expect to hear everything from Pink Floyd to Lynard Skynard.
Read more ...Sign up for tickets for Peter Doherty Galway gig
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
REGISTRATION FOR free tickets to Peter Doherty’s Heineken Green Spheres gig in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 15 is now open.
Read more ...Galway rock, folk, and indie is Free By The Sea
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
IN THE 1980s and early 1990s Salthill hosted free, live, rock concerts each summer and those days look set to return with the Free By The Sea event as part of the Salthill Community Arts Festival.
Read more ...Ger Wolfe to play The Crane
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
GER WOLFE, the Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane has described as “the poetic soul of Ireland” and who the Irish Examiner called a “unique creative talent” is playing Galway.
Read more ...Manuela Riedo Foundation concert
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
SHARON SHANNON, Marc Robedrts, and Mary McPartlan are among some of the acts that will play the Night Of Music concert in aid of the Manuela Riedo Foundation.
Read more ...Cinema Review - 500 days of summer
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
This film is not just another run-of-the-mill romantic comedy where boy meets girl, boy loses girl and then spends the whole film moaning about it. Well OK there is some of this but it’s done in such a quirky and fresh way that you don’t mind, in fact you are enthralled.
Read more ...Galway Film Society returns
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
THE Galway Film Society returns for its autumn/winter season, screening a range of international films from September 27 to December 6.
Read more ...Win Dorian Gray goodies
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
OSCAR WILDE’S classical novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray has been made into a new film and the Galway Advertiser has five Dorian Gray goodie bags to give away.
Read more ...Get connected to new UHG exhibition
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
CONNECTION, AN exhibition of paintings donated to the Oncology Department at University Hospital Galway by artists from the Paint Box Studios, opens tomorrow.
Read more ...Enjoy a Purely Piano concert
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
“UNLIKE MANY virtuosos, Haefliger is a musician first and pianist second...Andreas Haefliger is a pianist to watch. More importantly, he is a pianist to listen to.”
Read more ...Clifden to chime to the sounds of trad and classical
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
CLIFDEN WILL host a series of classical and Irish trad concerts featuring acclaimed acts like Cherish the Ladies, Anúna, Scullion, and Christian Benda and Finghin Collins, during Clifden Community Arts Week.
Read more ...Creative writing classes
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
THE WRITER, poet, and critic Fred Johnston will hold creative writing classes in NUI, Galway, starting on Thursday October 1.
Read more ...Over The Edge
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
BRIGHTON POET Bernadette Cremin will be the main reader at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday September 24 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Funny citizen on patrol as Police Academy’s Michael Winslow comes to Galway
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
ONE OF the most successful comedy film franchises during the 1980s was Police Academy. In 1984 Messrs Mahoney, Hightower, Tackleberry and Jones were a group of misfits who unwittingly found themselves recruited as trainee US police officers.
Read more ...Baboró 2009 programme unveiled
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
DETAILS OF this year’s Baboró International Arts Festival for Children were unveiled at a reception on Monday afternoon and, as ever, a whole host of exciting events feature on what is a packed programme.
This year’s Baboró boasts one of its most exciting line-ups ever - 13 companies and 13 venues to celebrate the festival’s 13th birthday!
Read more ...Kinky Friedman is coming to Kelly’s
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
OUTRAGEOUS AND irreverent, but always thought-provoking, Kinky Friedman, the crime novelist, songwriter, and ‘Frank Zappa of country music’ is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Get Clamped at the Town Hall
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
DON’T PANIC! The above headline is not a warning to motorists that parking near the Town Hall has become particularly hazardous.
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