Eugene Donegan @ The Crane
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
DECLAN O’ROURKE thinks very highly of Navan born songwriter Eugene Donegan, so much so that O’Rourke has produced his debut album and is taking him on tour.
Read more ...Many hands make light work
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
A TOTAL of 32 strings, 16 hands, and eight musicians will combine to perform the music of Mendelssohn when ConTempo and the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet play The Hotel Meyrick on Monday April 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Moments Of Beauty in the Galway City Museum.
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
MOMENTS OF Beauty, a series of creative experiential workshops, designed to explore perceptions of beauty through the eight senses, is currently taking place in the Galway City Museum.
The workshops are held on Saturdays from 1.30pm to 4.30pm and are facilitated by dance movement therapist Bernadette Divilly.
Read more ...Major New York poet to read in Galway
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
BURT KIMMELMANN, the poet, editor, and professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology, will read in The Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, on Tuesday April 14 at 8pm.
Read more ...Tom Rhodes @ Laughter Lounge
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
TOM RHODES started comedy while in the 11th grade in school in the US and used a fake ID to gain entrance into clubs. He’s come a long way since.
Read more ...A feast of literary films at Cúirt
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
FILM MAKER Pat Collins, who spent a number of years in Galway, will be celebrated at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, with screenings of some of his acclaimed documentary films on Irish writers.
John McGahern: A Private World (2005) will be screened on Thursday April 23 at 4pm. This film - which was made just before the late writer published his memoirs - won Best Documentary at the Irish Film and Television Award 2005 and Best Arts Documentary at the Celtic Film Festival 2006.
Read more ...SiSi and much more @ Deeper in The Cellar
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
SISI make a welcome return this weekend to kick start a series of Bank Holiday 110th Street parties at Deeper in The Cellar Bar - just one of a number of shows at the Eglinton Street venue.
Read more ...Win tickets to see Brian Kennedy
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
BRIAN KENNEDY will perform a special concert in the Radisson SAS Hotel on Sunday April 26 at 8.30pm to mark the 25 years of the Galway Rape Crisis Centre.
Read more ...Madness, Guy De Maupassant, and Co Mayo
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
THERE IS a personal memory of a delightful spring Parisian Saturday morning in 1971 drinking an espresso on the terrace of a café along the Boulevard St Germain and reading a short story by Seán Ó Faoláin entitled The Talking Trees.
Read more ...The Velvet Underground of Italian Renaissance painting
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
THE ‘GIORGIONE’ in the title of Tracking Giorgione (Brandon), the ambitious novel by Hungarian born writer Thomas Kabdebo, is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, an Italian Renaissance painter and contemporary of Leonardo Da Vinci.
Read more ...Inside the Maze
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
WITH A fresh inquiry under way into the murder of loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright in the Maze prison in 1997, a book by William McKee sheds some light on the murder from the inside of the prison, as well as life in the infamous Maze throughout the Troubles.
William McKee was the prison governor in charge of the Maze on the day Wright was shot dead by INLA members, and much of his book, Governor — Inside the Maze, seeks to clarify his role on the day. McKee found himself living behind bullet proof glass and constantly on the run from a vengeful LVF following claims he had order that a key observational tower be stood down on the day of the murder, a claim he staunchly denies.
Read more ...Tommy Tiernan and his marathon Easter testimony
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
TOMMY TIERNAN is about to undertake his greatest challenge yet. In the Nuns Island Theatre during the Easter weekend, he will attempt to perform 36 hours of non-stop stand up comedy in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book Of Records. What can we expect? “Imagine the Sex Pistols doing an album of ballads!” he says.
Read more ...Bank robbers, children, and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
OWEN ASHWORTH, the man behind the lo-fi electro-indie project Casiotone For The Painfully Alone admits he feels a certain amount of anxiety about the possibility of starting a family.
Read more ...The art of comedy with Colin Murphy
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
IN 1991 Colin Murphy was asked to join an improvisation group at the Irish Student Drama Awards. A life on stage was not something he had really planned and on the day in question he was just filling in for a friend who had to withdraw due to illness.
Read more ...Get ready to hear The Cunningham Sound
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
THE CUNNINGHAM family from Cashel, Connemara, have played their part in the revival sean nós dancing has enjoyed these last number of years.
Read more ...New Electric Ballroom returns to Town Hall
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
DRUID THEATRE Company’s award-winning production of Enda Walsh’s blistering New Electric Ballroom comes to the Town Hall shortly for a brief run as part of a national tour.
Read more ...Jinx Lennon’s trauma themes and idiot times
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
WHEN DUNDALK agit-folk singer David ‘Jinx’ Lennon arrived on the Irish music scene in the 1990s his spoken word diatribes poked at the back of what he called the Septic Tiger.
Read more ...Bahh Band Galway gigs
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
THE BAHH Band are one of the more unusual acts on the Irish music scene today in that their sound is a mixture of the blues, psychedelica, and Indian classical music.
Read more ...Paul O’Reilly album launch @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
GALWAY BASED singer-songwriter Paul O’Reilly is set to release an album with The Hollows’ Greg O’Brien in the Róisín Dubh this weekend.
Ships Leaving is a split album featuring separate songs from both artists. There are five tracks from O’Reilly and five from O’Brien (who goes under the name At Last An Atlas when solo).
Read more ...Chrysalis Dance premieres new show this month
Thu, Apr 02, 2009
“One truly has to admire Sibley and her company of dancers for their ambition, their commitment, their creative energy and their drive in creating a successful full length evening work.”
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