Blake Morrison on football and Irishness

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

AMONG THE host of outstanding writers converging on Galway for this year’s Cúirt festival is the English poet, novelist, and memoirist Blake Morrison.

Cúirt Over The Edge showcase reading

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

FIVE WRITERS will read at this year’s Cúirt Festival Over The Edge showcase reading in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday April 23 at 11am.

The featured authors are Orla Higgins, Noelle Lynskey, Noel Harrington, Jenny McCudden, and Val Nolan.

ALâ seeks volunteers

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

ALÂ COMMUNITY Theatre is seeking volunteers to help with it’s upcoming performances of The Stinky Cheeseman in the Town Hall and for the Volvo Ocean Race.

To celebrate the company’s fifth anniversary, ALâ will stage The Stinky Cheeseman in the Town Hall from May 27 to 30. It will also be performed on the streets of Galway on May 30 as part of Volvo Ocean Race and in Waterford on June 6.

Disconnect 4 and Lost Chord to play IMRO Showcase

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

DISCONNECT 4 and Lost Chord are just two of the five acts that will be taking to the stage of the Róisín Dubh on Saturday at 8pm for 2009 IMRO Showcase Tour.

Líadan to play The Crane

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

LÍADAN, THE all-female Irish trad group will play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Thursday April 23 at 9pm as part of their tour to promote their new album Casadh Na Taoide.

The Enemy @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

WHEN THE Enemy released their debut album We’ll Live And Die In These Towns in 2007, it went straight to Number 1 in the British albums chart.

Phil Nichol @ The Laughter Lounge

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

GERRY MALLON and the Róisín Dubh have joined forces to present a very special night of comedy with the Scottish born, Canadian based Phil Nichol on Sunday at 8.30pm.

Song for Mickey Finn on YouTube

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

JOHNNY FINN has written a song about his brother, the late fiddle legend Mickey Finn, and put it on YouTube.

Monsters vs Aliens

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

When aliens attack, monsters fight back, and boy do they! A giant woman, a mad insect scientist, a blobby thing, the missing link, and of course a gigantic Japanese-style monster make up this motley crew which is tasked with saving the world. The action, the jibes, and the 3D make for fun-filled entertainment for all the family.

Harriet Leander - finding beauty in waste

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

“I’M NOT a photographer really, I’m more of a painter,” Harriet Leander declares as she shows me round the photographs which comprise the greater portion of her new exhibition, Waste Beauty, at the Galway City Museum.

Horslips’ drummer for North Beach Nights

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

EAMON CARR, the music journalist, poet, and former Horslips drummer, will read at the North Beach Poetry Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

Brian Kennedy to play The Radisson

Thu, Apr 16, 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.

Public talk on photojournalism

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

PHOTOJOURNALISM - The History Of The Gun and The Camera is the title of a public talk which will take place next week.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Knowing that my family are happy and safe.

Art Exhibitions

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

Sculpture Only @ Norman Villa Gallery

Ollie Cole @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

Ollie Cole of Turn will perform a solo show at Deeper in The Cellar Bar on Sunday at 8.30pm, playing material from this forthcoming album. Support on the night is from Travega. Admission is free. Also watch out for another Release Party tomorrow with DJs Shane D and Lenny.

Music For Dead Birds to release debut mini-album

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

RUSTED RAIL, the independent Galway record label, will release And Then It Rained For Seven Days by Music For Dead Birds, the folk/alternative duo led by Irish-American songwriter Jimmy Monaghan.

Bateman on writing, film, and his Anfield dream

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

In a career spanning more than 20 years Colin Bateman has proven himself to be one of Ireland’s most prolific and entertaining writers.

Prior to becoming a novelist Bateman served his apprenticeship as a journalist with The County Down Spectator and his witty weekly columns became the stuff of local legend. When his debut novel Divorcing Jack was published in 1994 it won the Betty Trask Award for best first novel. Four years later it was adapted into a film starring David Thewlis and Rachel Weisz, with Bateman writing the screenplay.

Final Fantasy to play the Black Box in May

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

OWEN PALLETT is many things - composer, violinist, winner of the inaugural Polaris Music Prize, and co-writer of the string arrangements for the Arcade Fire’s Funeral. However he is best known as Final Fantasy.

Theatre at Cúirt and at home with the Gombeens

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

FROM SHAKESPEARE to history’s forgotten women, and from Gombeens to Brian Friel, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature promises Galway a feast of theatre from Tuesday April 21 to Sunday 26.

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