Galway Artists’ Exhibition call for submissions

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

A MAJOR exhibition of Galway city and county based artists work - Ealaíon At Lúnasa - will take please over three venues from July 30.

Artists’ professional development and training workshops

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

SOME PLACES are still available on the four professional development and training workshops for artists, which are being hosted by the Galway Arts Centre, the Galway County Council, and Visual Artists Ireland, in May and June.

Free Comic Book Day

Thu, Apr 30, 2009

COMIC BOOK fans of all ages in Galway will be looking forward to Free Comic Book Day which takes place this Saturday.

The foreign adventures of Louis de Bernières

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

CÚIRT 2009 is now in full swing and one of the highlights still to look forward to is the reading, this Saturday in the Town Hall Theatre at 1pm, by Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Adrian Crowley’s musical season sparks into life with new album

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

“MUSIC WAS always there in some form but only gradually asserted itself on me.” So says Galway born singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley as he prepares to release his fifth album Season Of The Sparks and plays a homecoming concert at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh tonight at 9pm.

Leaving his Barna home in the early 1990s, Crowley moved to Dublin and worked for an eccentric art dealer with a penchant for Bonaparte memorabilia. Slowly but surely music began to play a larger role in his life and just over a decade ago he recorded his debut album A Strange Kind in a small Rathmines bedsit.

The crossroads leading Máirtín O’Connor to the Town Hall

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

MÁIRTÍN O’CONNOR, one of Ireland’s finest accordion players and one of Irish trad’s most fertile and creative minds, will play the Town Hall on Monday May 4 at 8pm.

Juan Carlos Mestre - poetry is freedom

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

Where did the ancestors of the Irish come from? It is a question that has occupied the minds of historians and generated numerous myths and folktales. The most famous of these is that we are the descendants of the Milesians who originally sailed for Ireland from northwest Spain.

Singin’ In The Rain at the Town Hall

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

GET OUT your umbrella and your dancing shoes as the much loved musical Singin’ In The Rain will be performed by the Galway Musical Society in the Town Hall Theatre.

Atlantis Collective surface for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

MURDER, DRINK, pornography, and dodgy footwear - just some of the elements which make up Town Of Fiction, the debut collection of short stories by the Galway-based Atlantis Collective.

Matt Keane in concert

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

THE SINGER Matt Keane will headline a concert of traditional Irish music in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Saturday at 9pm.

Master guitarist Pierre Bensusan returns

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

WHENEVER THE name ‘Pierre Bensusan’ is mentioned to a guitarist, guitar fan, or anyone seriously into music, their response is always one of awe, reverence, and enchanted bewilderment at the man’s unparalleled dexterity and creativity on acoustic guitar.

Party the Croatian way with the Disconauts

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

THE AIRBOUND music festival in Croatia takes place from July 31 to August 2 and Irish promoters Bodytonic and Nightflight will be presenting a host of Irish acts during that weekend.

Cinema Review - I Love You, Man

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

How can a man be the perfect boyfriend and hang out with the guys or be in tune with his feminine side without being a complete wimp? That’s the question that Peter Klaven, a lovely but socially inept, real estate agent desperately needs to find answers to. With plenty of laughs, cringy moments, and even a few revelations, this is one of the best comedies about male friendship to come to the screens in a while.

Joe Rooney for the Laughter Lounge

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

JOE ROONEY, who recently appeared in the Town Hall Theatre at Whose Line Is It Anyway? sporting a dapper moustache any 19th century gentlemen would have been proud of, is returning to Galway.

Auditions for Cripil Inis Meáin

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

AN TAIBHDHEARC will hold auditions for an Irish-language version of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, today and tomorrow.

Book now for ConTempo’s spring school

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

THE CONTEMPO spring masterclasses will take place on May 2 and 3 in NUI Galway and will be open to string players of grade four and over.

Take a voyage into mediaeval music this May

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

TAKE A voyage from Ireland to Cyprus, through waters alive with mermaids, sirens, sailors, and romance, as part of the 14th Galway Early Music Festival from Friday May 15 to Sunday 17.

The festival, along with its new website, will be launched today at 1pm in Sheridan’s On The Docks. The theme for this year is Islands and the Waters Between and performers include Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort, Ensemble Unicorn, and Malcolm Proud.

A trilogy of views on Galway

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

“THERE ARE always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” So said American landscape photographer Ansel Adams, and this idea forms the backdrop to a new exhibition which opens this week.

Take a musical trip to Venice

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

IF YOU are not planning to, or cannot, go to Venice for your holidays this year, then do the next best thing by taking in a concert by the Quartetto di Venezia and Italian pianist Roberto Nosè.

Proust Questionnaire Sean

Thu, Apr 23, 2009

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting on the settee reading, with my partner, and the cat and dog.

Sitting on the settee reading, with my partner, and the cat and dog.

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