Kinvara poetry readings

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

THE NEW Kinvara Poetry Reading Group will read their own poetry and poems they like by others at Greenes’ pub.

Readings take place on the second Monday of every month at 9pm. The first reading of the year will be on January 12.

Cold Comfort to be performed in Nuns Island Studio

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

COLD COMFORT by Owen McCafferty will be staged by the Hurricane Theatre Company in Nuns Island Studio from Wednesday January 14 to Saturday 17.

Writing workshops

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

Poetry and creative writing

An Asian flavour to this season’s Galway Film Society screenings

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

THERE WILL be a strong Asian flavour to this season’s Galway Film Society screenings, with movies from Iran, Turkey, India, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine to be shown, all dealing with historical and contemporary political issues.

The Galwayman who crossed the outback

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

In 1861 Robert O’Hara Burke from Craughwell, Co Galway, made history by becoming the first white man to cross Australia. In a major new series, TG4 will re-tell and retrace Burke’s epic journey.

Hail thou poetic spirit

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

GIVEN THE flow of negativity that has permeated our daily lives over the last six months, a book that brings with it a sense of positive and sensible calm could be favourably compared with a refreshing elixir of life.

It is all the more refreshing when that book restores our belief in humanity and our sense of humour. Such a book is Stepping Stones which at face value consists of a series of interviews by Dennis O’Driscoll with Seamus Heaney but which is, in fact, a whole lot more.

From Yamana Indians to Desmond Fennell

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

THE GIVEN Note: Traditional Music and Irish Poetry (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) by Seán Crosson is a substantial book begun as part of Crosson’s research for his doctoral dissertation at the Centre for Irish Studies in NUI, Galway.

Highly praised new novelist to read at Galway City Museum

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

IT IS 1976. Sean Farrell has been mistakenly linked by the State to IRA activity and Emma Balstead, the daughter of a British military attaché officer, has run away from home.

Cuckoo Savante leave the nest to spread their wings with new album

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

AMONG BIRDS, the cuckoo is the ultimate survivor. Often orphaned at an early age, the young chick will evict all other eggs from a host nest and encourage the host parents to bring it more food thus reaching maturity at a more rapid rate.

Go Russian and romantic this January

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

THE MUSIC of such great Russian composers as Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky will be celebrated and performed in the Town Hall Theatre from January 23 to 25 at 8pm during Music For Galway’s Russian Romantics chamber music festival.

All three main concerts feature chamber music alongside vocal works. The ConTempo Quartet will perform quartets by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Borodin. One of Tchaikovsky’s most popular works for strings, Souvenir de Florence, in its original version for string sextet will be performed by ConTempo together with the violist and cellist of the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Simon Aspell and Christopher Marwood.

Start 2009 with a laugh with Ian Coppinger

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

THE COMEDY Club at Cuba* roars into life in the New Year when it presents a showcase of the cream of Irish talent on Friday January 2.

Galway theatre 2008

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

AND SO the curtain falls on another year of playgoing and diverse theatrical activity; a year that saw much impressive work from both visiting and locally based companies.

Why not go and see a panto?

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

CHRISTMAS TIME is pantomime time and there are wonderful shows to see from the Renmore Pantomime and Performing Arts School Galway.

Indie Burgos to support Chernobyl charity tonight

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

Indie Burgos is back in Club De Burgos, Augustine Street, today (Tuesday) for a special Christmas fundraiser in aid of Galway based charity Sunflower Chernobyl Appeal.

Sunflower Chernobyl Appeal works in Belarus in the region worst affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The group helps many children in orphanages, other institutions, sick children in the home, and children who are in need of assistance.

Adrian Crowley to release new album in 2009

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

ADRIAN CROWLEY, the acclaimed singer-songwriter who originally hails from Barna, Co Galway, will release his new album in April.

Niall Connolly to play The Crane

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

THE CORK singer-songwriter Niall Connolly makes a welcome return to The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Thursday January 8 at 9pm.

Ring in 2009 with Fight Like Apes

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

It’s been a great year for Dublin’s Fight Likes Apes (pictured). They have amazed Irish audiences, saw their debut album Fight Likes Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion win high praise from critics, and made inroads into Britain. They will ring in the New Year with Disconnect 4, The Ghostwood Project, and Le Galaxie at the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.

New release from Rusted Rail

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

GALWAY BASED indie label Rusted Rail has just released Loner Deluxe’s Must Not Sleep Must Warn Others. The release includes Lost & Found - a bonus 3” disc of previously unreleased material.

Spend New Year’s Eve with The Disconauts

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

THE DISCONAUTS will wave farewell to 2008 and bring in the New Year with a bang at their New Year’s Eve party in the Cellar Underground.

Galway Arts Centre’s 2009 exhibitions

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

THE GALWAY Arts Centre will continue to bring Galwegians challenging artworks and exhibitions throughout 2009 and its spring programme will focus on solo exhibitions by Irish and other northern European artists.

The Galway Arts Centre’s biannual print making show, Impressions, and the Norman Ackroyd exhibition in the Galway City Museum both run until January 17 and from there, GAC will continue to show an interesting mix of Irish and international artists.

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