Ulick O’Connor and Siobhán Armstrong for the Forge at Gort festival

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

THE WRITER Ulick O’Connor and the internationally-acclaimed harpist Siobhán Armstrong will headline the second Forge at Gort literature festival, on March 27 and 28.

Kíla - soundtracking the timeless places

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

BONO GETS a lot of slagging about a lot of things, but sometimes he is right, like when he described Kíla as creating music that comes from “a timeless place”.

Poetry My Arse

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

POETRY MY Arse, an eclectic mix of poetry and satirical song, designed to touch on raw nerves, slaughter sacred cows, and make you laugh, is coming to Galway.

Irish classical music for St Patrick’s Day

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

COIRMCHEOIL PHÁDRAIG, the traditional St Patrick’s Day concert of Irish music and song, takes place in the St Patrick’s Band Hall, Fairgreen, on March 17 at 8pm.

The concert will feature the acclaimed Irish composer and pianist Tom Cullivan, singer Michael Hannon, The Oirbsen Chamber Trio - Joanne Carter (flute), Michael Dooley (bassoon), John Roe (piano), and Pat Jones (horn).

St Patrick’s night céilí

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

THE ST Patrick’s Night Céilí/Fest Noz will take place in the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday at 9pm.

There will be Breton, Scottish, and Irish music and dance, featuring visiting pipe bands, dance groups from Brittany, and Breton-I rish band Neke Tom Tom. Breton crepes will also be available on the night.

Cinema Review - The International

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

It’s an absolute sin to find yourself bored during a thriller/action movie especially if it had all the right ingredients but was just blended the wrong way. Apart from a few fairly decent shoot-em-up scenes The International was a long-haul dizzy trip to nowhere.

New Irish film to be screened at The Eye

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

WC, THE first Irish feature film to be released exclusively via digital cinema and the first feature film to be set in toilets, will be screened in The Eye from tomorrow.

Pink Floyd The Wall

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

IN 1979 the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, religious and secular Iranians united to oust the oppressive dictatorship of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Sandinistas took control of Nicaragua, and in the dying moments of the FA Cup final, Alan Sunderland’s goal secured victory for Arsenal after a remarkable comeback by Manchester United.

Smokie - still ‘Living Next Door To Alice’

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

MENTION SMOKIE and ‘Living Next Door To Alice’ immediately springs to mind. Co-written by English/Australian songwriting duo Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, it tells of a young man’s crush on the girl next door and how he is heartbroken when she leaves without explanation.

Sean nós agus belly dancing to meet for Seachtain na Gaeilge

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

SEAN NÓS dancing and Middle Eastern belly-dancing hardly seem like compatible dance styles, but they will join forces for a special event during Seachtain na Gaeilge.

Christy Moore @ Black Box

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

CHRISTY MOORE is coming back to Galway to play the Black Box Theatre on Friday May 8 and this month he will release his new single ‘The Ballad of Ruby Walsh’.

Calamity Jane is coming to the Town Hall

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

THE FIRST Lady of the Wild West, Calamity Jane, will be celebrated in Galway next month when The Patrician Musical Society stage Calamity Jane in the Town Hall Theatre.

Accordionist Gary Quinn plays St Patrick’s Night at Town Hall

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

FOLLOWING THE recent launch of his acclaimed album Keep Her Lit!, the Town Hall Theatre will play host to a concert by the well-known accordion player Gary Quinn on St Patrick’s Night at 8pm.

Drama as Gaeilge in Oranmore

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

DRAMA AT INISH a comedy by Lennox Robinson will be performed as Gaeilge by Bualagh Bos! Oranmore Music & Drama Group from March 10 to 12 in Route 66 (Keanes), Oranmore.

The first production of Drama At Inish took place in the Abbey Theatre in 1933. It deals with the visit of a travelling troupe of actors to an Irish seaside resort. The villagers openly respond to this highbrow entertainment, but soon life begins to imitate art, and this poky seaside town is overcome by farce, scandal, misdemeanour, and crime.

The Cellar gets set to go Deeper

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

THE CELLAR Bar on Eglinton Street is about to become a great centre of live original music, DJ nights, and themed parties, when its basement section is re-launched as Deeper.

Hot Chip DJ set @ Cuba*

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

HOT CHIP will be raiding their record boxes and CD collections this week in preparation for the DJ set they will unleash in Cuba*, Eyre Square, on Saturday.

Hot Chip’s DJ set will kick off a month of events to celebrate Cuba*’s 10 years in business.

It’s Judgement Night for Galway

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

JUDGE JULES, one of the biggest names in dance music is coming to Galway to play Judgement Night in Leisureland, Salthill on St Patrick’s Eve, Monday March 16.

Celebrate Haydn and Mendelssohn with Music For Galway

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

THIS YEAR marks the bicentenary of the death of one master and the birth of another – Haydn, one of the most important composers of the classical period and Mendelssohn, an early Romantic.

To mark the occasion, Music For Galway will host the Haydn Mendelssohn Bicentenary Celebration in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Thursday March 12 at 8pm with Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten and Irish pianist Finghin Collins.

An international night of tales

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

A LOCAL storytelling programme called The Community Storytelling Initiative is set to launch the debut performance of a new group of African storytellers next week.

Cinema Review - Gran Torino

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

GRAN TORINO, a film about a grumpy old-timer who begrudgingly becomes the local neighbourhood hero, is surprisingly one of the best films I have seen all year. Clint Eastwood has struck gold again!

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