A ska night from Jerry Dammers @ Stress!!

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

JERRY DAMMERS, the man behind The Specials, 2-Tone, and the explosion of British ska in the late 1970s and early 1980s, will play a DJ set at Stress!!, De Burgos, on Bank Holiday Sunday at 8pm.

Galway Theatre Festival gets under way

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE FIRST Galway Theatre Festival got underway last night with Zelig Theatre Co’s premiere of Cathal Cleary’s Birds Birds Birds and continues until Sunday with a lively programme showcasing the best of local theatrical talent.

Swan Lake at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

BALLET IRELAND will celebrate its 10th anniversary by staging Swan Lake in the Town Hall Theatre from Sunday October 26 to Tuesday 28 at 8pm.

So why do men cheat?

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

IN ANCIENT Rome, Julius Caesar was well known as a ‘ladies man’. Such was the great general’s inability to stay away from other men’s wives that he earned the nickname ‘the bald adulterer’.

It goes to show that infidelity among politicians, celebrities, and men (and Caesar was all three) is nothing new. Yet adultery seems to be something men are more likely to do than women. Why is this?

Josh Wink to play GPO

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

Josh Wink is a DJ but he’s not interested in spinning other people’s music - he prefers creating his own, as Galway will hear when he plays the GPO, Eglinton Street, on Saturday October 25.

Erin McKeown and Steve Cooney @ Campbell’s

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

FROM THE quirky, clever, songs of Erin McKeown, to the rousing, imaginative Irish trad of Steve Cooney, Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, will be bursting with great music this Halloween.

The nautical but nice sounds of Port O’Brien

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

VAN PIERSZALOWSKI was born in California, but spent his summers on Kodiak Island in Alaska, where his father works as a commercial salmon fisherman.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
The house to myself, the couch to myself, a great book, a glass of wine and chocolate.

Enjoy the magic of the viola

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

A BRITISH viola player, a Latvian cellist, and an Israeli pianist will join forces for Music For Galway’s Viola Magic concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Thursday November 6 at 8pm.

Tulca returns

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

TULCA, GALWAY city’s festival celebrating the visual arts returns in November and to whet appetites, the programme of events for this year’s festival will be launched tonight.

Augustinian Church Choir release new album

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

“TO SING is to pray twice,” said St Augustine and whether it is through Gregorian chant or music by classical composers, God and music itself has been richly served by Christian song.

Irish Times critic to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE IRISH Times critic John Kenny will be among the featured readers at the next Over The Edge reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday October 30 at 6.30pm.

Poetry Slams @ The Ruby Room

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE GALWAY Art Centre’s next poetry slam is on Tuesday at 7pm in The Ruby Room, upstairs in The King’s Head.

Puppet show at Ballybane Library

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE DOG and String Puppet Show will present The Wishing Tree, a magical puppet show in the Ballybane Library next week.

Spoof spy thriller is less than the sum of its parts

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

A new film from the Coen brothers is always greeted with deserved anticipation, and their latest, Burn After Reading is no exception, as evidenced by a packed cinema last Friday.

Dark kiddie toon is mature but still enjoyable for all ages

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

If Tim Burton made children’s cartoons, the end result would probably look a lot like Igor.

Junior Film Fleadh is back in November

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

FILMS FROM Germany, France, South Africa, Canada, Ireland, and Britain, will be screened at the 14th Junior Film Fleadh which takes place from November 12 to 14.

Films include the celebrated cartoon Perseoplis, which charts one girl’s experience of growing up in Iran, first under the brutal dictatorship of the western backed Shah, and then under the hardline and oppressive ayatollahs.

Sean Keane’s The Scattering

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE SCATTERING is Sean Keane’s musical journey along the Rhine with St Columbanus, across Australia, and onto the barricades of labour protest in the United States - told through the songs of Irish emigrants.

Ardvarna release new album The Lakeshore Town

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

IRISH TRAD and folk enjoy an unprecedented worldwide popularity, but it is easy to forget where it all began in the late 1960s and 1970s and the great debt owed to an earlier generation of ballad and folk singers.

The songs and contributions of Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Christy Moore, Paul Brady, Johnny Moynihan, Andy Irvine, and the late Joe Dolan, should be celebrated and command an important place in the repertoire of contemporary Irish folk musicians

Fionn Regan returns

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

Fionn Regan, the Irish singer-songwriter with the colourful turn of phrase and a plethora of endearing folk-pop melodies, returns to play the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 21 at 8pm.

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