Vibe For Phil Lynott in Cuba*

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE LATE, very great, Phil Lynott will be remembered and celebrated at the Vibe For Phil Lynott show in Cuba*, Eyre Square, tomorrow at 8pm.

Phil Lynott is one of the titans of rock. He was the leader, bassist, songwriter, and vocalist with Thin Lizzy. He passed away on January 4 1986 aged 37. On the night there will be music by Remembering Lizzy. Phil’s mother Mrs Philomena Lynott will be guest of honour.

Colin Devlin to play the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

COLIN DEVLIN will be performing songs from his new album Democracy Of One when he plays an acoustic show upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday at 8pm.

The Three Tenors return to Town Hall

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE THREE Tenors, now known as ‘The Three Tenors-Le Voci’ - le voci being Italian for ‘the voices’ - return to Galway to perform at the Town Hall on Friday February 20 at 8pm.

Celebrate Beethoven in NUIG

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE MUSIC of Beethoven will be celebrated when Music For Galway presents the Emily Anderson Annual Memorial Concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Friday February 20 at 8pm.

Johnny Duhan’s voyage continues in the Town Hall

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

IN THE late 1980s, Johnny Duhan wrote a song that would make his name widely known, become a hit single for Christy Moore, and be sung at countless weddings across the world.

New plays at the Nuns Island Theatre

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE FIRE Testament and Dog, two short plays by Daniel Keene, will be performed by Zelig Theatre in the Nuns Island Theatre from Tuesday February 24 to Sunday 28.

Dog tells the story of a man beyond the brink who describes his journey over the edge while The Fire Testament, set in a post nuclear holocaust, is about a group of people sitting around a fire whose souls have been horrifically scarred by the tragedy they have experienced. Coming together slowly soon develops into a ritual where the values they once held are recalled.

Mali benefit gig

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

The Crane Bar, Sea Road, will host a gala night of trad music on Thursday February 19 at 9pm with Jackie McCarthy (pictured), Marion McCarthy, Garry O’Briain,Mary McPartlan, Breda and Claire Keville, Mary Staunton, and Jimmy Higgins to raise funds for volunteer projects in Mali. For tickets contact The Crane on 091 - 587419 or go to www.thecranebar.com

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

I’ve never had much luck or patience when it came to three hour long epic movies - there’s either far too much to take in or not enough. It takes a brave director, a great screenplay writer, and a few not too shabby actors to pull it off and I have to say Benjamin Button just about did just that.

Curioser and curioser

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

AT A time when our public servants are coming under the microscope it is perhaps appropriate to remember the important contribution the majority of them make to the fabric of Irish life.

Slumdog Millionaire

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

A QUIZ show seems like an unusual premise to build a novel around, but Vikas Swarup managed to cram quite a backstory around India’s fictional version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in his debut novel.

The missing steering wheel and poems to grieve with

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

PATRICK MORAN grew up in Templetuohy, Co Tipperary, where he still lives. In poem after poem in his new collection Green (Salmon Poetry) he brings absolutely to life the vanished world of small town and rural Ireland.

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

KERRY POET Donal Ó Siadhachain, the 2008 All Ireland Slam Winner, will read at the next North Beach Poetry Night on Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar.

Brian Friel’s The Home Place comes to the Town Hall

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE TOWN Hall will shortly host what promises to be one of the year’s theatre highlights when Brian Friel’s most recent play The Home Place arrives in a major new production jointly presented by Belfast’s Lyric and Letterkenny’s An Grianan theatres.

Blue stories and devilish tales from Canadian comedian Mike Wilmot

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

ONE OF the most popular comedy performers in Britain and Ireland is without doubt foul-mouthed funny man Mike Wilmot. Prowling the stage like a caged animal he strikes with lightning precision with a one-liner that leaves the audience helpless with laughter.

John Calder on Beckett and Endgame

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

THE ACCLAIMED London-based troupe The Godot Company arrive at the Town Hall Next week with a very special production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.

GUMS to unleash a Disco Inferno

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

TAKING ITS cue from funk and soul, and developing in the Latino and gay clubs of New York in the mid-1970s, disco became a global phenomenon by the end of the decade.

During that time it spawned glitter balls, Saturday Night Fever, and classic pop like ‘Blame It On The Boogie’, ‘Staying Alive’, ‘Hot Stuff’, and ‘Good Times’.

New plays, new playwrights, at Múscailt One Act Play Series

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

ST PATRICK, trollied teenagers, culture clashes, bus stops, and clampers are some of what audiences can expect to see in this year’s Múscailt One Act Play Series.

Nine plays will be performed at the university’s Bank Of Ireland Theatre during this year’s Múscailt which runs from Monday February 9 to Friday 13. The series offers NUIG students the opportunity to have their work performed on the stage.

Capote’s kingdom; Kingdom’s Capote

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

TRUMAN CAPOTE - social butterfly, gossipmonger, and faded novelist dropping names until those names drop him - is vividly resurrected in Bob Kingdom’s brilliant one-man show which comes to the Town Hall from next Tuesday to Thursday.

Images Of Galway to be launched in Town Hall

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

IMAGES OF Galway, a book of photographs by Galway based photographer Paul Malone, celebrating the city, its streets and characters, will be launched tomorrow.

Trash Dolls - alternative female DJs

Thu, Feb 05, 2009

THE TRASH Dolls - Louise Cunnane and Nicola Cosgrove - are a new Galway based duo determined to inject something different and ‘alternatively feminine’ into the city’s mostly male dominated DJ scene with their club nights in the Róisín Dubh and Cuba*.

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