Harriet Leander exhibition at Galway

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

HARRIET LEANDER will have an exhibition in the Galway City Museum this month featuring photography and paintings.

Choral concert at Salthill Church

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

THE TRIBAL Chamber Choir, under director Mark Keane, will host A Musical Journey Through Holy Week, in Christ The King church, Salthill on Sunday at 8pm.

A barrister and a golf fan to open Cúirt readings

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

IRISH BORN Joseph O’Neill works as a barrister in New York while the Irish-American Timothy O’Grady has a passion for golf. Both men area also acclaimed writers and will give the opening reading at Cúirt.

Joseph O’Neill and Timothy O’Grady will read for Cúirt at the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday April 21 at 8.30pm. Both are highly admired for the prose, and in their recent books both men have explored the experience of living in modern America.

Cinema Review - Knowing

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

It’s so annoying when a film starts off quite interesting, leads into a dramatic action packed edge-of-the-seat middle, and then just fails miserably fobbing you off with an ending which is just ridiculous. It could have been so much more.

Comedy and film screening at the Laughter Lounge

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

BEFORE COMEDIAN Jim Tavare takes to the stage of the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday April 8, two short films made by local producers Ant Entertainment will be screened.

Trad music at PJ Flaherty's

Thu, Apr 02, 2009

PJ FLAHERTY’S in Lower Salthill was established in 1872 and as is fitting for a venue which sees itself as a traditional pub, there are trad sessions every Saturday night.

The bar also shows all major sporting events on four screens, hosts regular poker nights, and caters for parties (with a complimentary bottle of champagne). Food is catered for by head chef Mark Rowat.

David Kitt - beating a retreat to his true self

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

IT IS almost a decade since David Kitt released his debut album Small Moments in 2000 and he is fast approaching 10 years on the go - a milestone in anyone’s career.

Town Hall unveils April-June programme

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

CHRISTY MOORE, Liam Clancy, Virginia Kerr, Druid Theatre Company, and Opera UK are among the highlights in Town Hall Theatre’s programme for the coming months.

Easter improv laughs with Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

YOU HAVE to admire the audacity and foolhardiness of a group of comedians who perform a show with only a skeleton idea of what they will do, little in the way preparation, and relying on the goodwill and creativity of the audience.

It’s mad, but that’s what comedy improv is all about and as Galway audiences know so well, it’s what the Whose Line Is It Anyway? team do so brilliantly.

The Irishman who invented the submarine

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

IT IS a fact, but an often overlooked one, that an Irishman invented the submarine. John Philip Holland, from Co Clare, was a noviciate Christian Brother who, while in Dundalk, came up with the idea of the submergible craft.

Druid to reopen Chapel Lane theatre with The Gigli Concert

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

THIS YEAR will finally see the reopening of the Druid theatre following an extensive refurbishment, while the company itself is set to give 335 performances in 26 venues in Ireland, Britain, the USA, Canada, and Australia.

‘MUR’ grupy Pink Floyd w Galway

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

GRUPA TEATRALNA Genesis serdecznie zaprasza polska publicznosc na musical Sciana Pink Floyd.

Mala cegielka w tym przedstawieniu jest Natalia, ktora niezmiernie cieszy sie z tej mozliwosci bycia czescia naszego widowiska i dlatego tez bardzo goraco w imieniu grupy zaprasza wszystkich rodakow na arcydzielo Rogera Watersa, zrezyserowane przez Elaine Enright ( tutaj w Galway).

Fregoli Theatre Co present three New Works

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

FREGOLI THEATRE Company are in Nuns Island theatre from tonight to Saturday with New Works, a trilogy of short plays from upcoming Galway-based writers.

Rare chance for Galway fans to see classic play Johnny Belinda

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

Compántas Lir bring their awardwinning production of the classic play Johnny Belinda to the Town Hall Theatre at the end of next week.

Community Skratch Games 2009 takes place next month

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

THE COMMUNITY Skratch Games 2009 takes place in Galway from April 8 to 12, bringing together DJs from all around Ireland and Europe for a free festival of turntable manipulation.

Community Skratch is a non-profit group of DJs and producers dedicated to promoting the arts of hip hop and DJ culture through workshops/seminars, concerts and music releases.

Orbital’s Phil Hartnoll @ GPO

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

PHIL HARTNOLL, one half of Orbital alongside his brother Paul, will be spinning the decks at the GPO, Eglinton Street, tonight at 11pm.

Xklima @ Nuns Island

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

XKLIMA, THE Galway based electronica project of Mark Long and Ivan Murray, play the Nuns Island Theatre on Saturday April 4 at 8pm.

Fishgodeep at The Cellar

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

FISHGODEEP, THE Irish house godfathers, have announced a new residency at Deeper in The Cellar Bar and the first show is this weekend.

Fishgodeep’s Shane Johnson will join The Disconauts for their first Deeper show of 2009 this Saturday at 10.30pm. The Cork DJ/production partnership play to full houses no matter where they go and they have released music on all the world’s top house labels including Defected, i Records, Brique Rouge, and their own Go Deep imprint.

Skulduggery Pleasant and other treats at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

GALWAY CHILDREN and youth will be handsomely catered for at this year’s Cúirt Festival Of Literature from April 21 to 26, with a packed programme of events aimed at them.

The Skulduggery Pleasant books of Derek Landy, featuring the adventures of a skeleton detective and his young sidekick, are proving a hit with young readers and the critics. On Tuesday April 21 at 11am in the Town Hall Theatre, Derek Landy will read from his latest book Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones.

Arden and D’Arcy to read at the Forge At Gort festival

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

JOHN ARDEN and Margaretta D’Arcy will treat theatre lovers to a ‘skeleton version’ of Arden’s 1960 play The Happy Haven, as part of the Forge At Gort Literary festival.

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