Tickets still available for Junior Brother
Tue, Sep 29, 2020
JUNIOR BROTHER, the County Kerry folk singer-songwriter, who has won acclaim for his debut album Pull The Right Rope, released via Strange Brew, plays the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 1.
Read more ...Joe Geoghan - a retrospective at Art In Mind
Tue, Sep 29, 2020
JOE GEOGHAN, one of Galway's most respected photographers, will be marking a career spanning five decades, when a retrospective on his work goes on display in Art In Mind.
Read more ...Padraig Jack - new album, Róisín Dubh show
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
MAKING SAND, the debut album from Aran Island singer-songwriter Padraig Jack is released tomorrow, Friday September 25, and comes ahead of two gigs in Galway.
Read more ...A global environmental exhibition in Kinvara
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
WHAT WOULD happen if there was a call for artists from around the globe to make a work about creativity and environmental crisis, and the only rule was that the artwork had to be the size of a postcard and mailed to Kinvara?
Read more ...The sound of silver - Flirt FM to mark 25 years on air
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
On Monday September 28, at 12 noon, it will be exactly 25 years since Flirt FM, the award winning campus, community and alternative radio station, located at NUI Galway, went live on air.
Read more ...Album review: Pillow Queens
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 24, 2020
THE OPENING lines of opening track, 'Holy Show', present a picture of physical intimacy between two women, which is surprising for both its frankness, but also its tenderness.
Read more ...Maisie's story - ‘sincerity, humour, a celebration of a life’
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
"AGE CONFERS wisdom" goes the old adage, and there is a value in listening to the experiences of those who have lived through trying times in the past, which can in turn "enrich our understanding of the present".
Read more ...Chris Haze - live on stage
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
CHRIS HAZE, the Galway singer-songwriter, has announced his first socially distanced live show of 2020, taking place in the Róisín Dubh on Friday September 30.
Read more ...Gilgamesh is coming...
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
A BEARDED man with wild, unkempt hair, pulling a cart behind him, was spotted on the streets of Galway this week, the same man whose face adorns a mural that appeared on the corner of Bridge Street and Dominick Street.
Read more ...'Getting To Know...'
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
M: Laughter and peace of mind.
HOST releases new single - 'Borderline'
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
SYNTH-POP artist HOST will release her new song and video, ‘Borderline’ tomorrow, Friday September 25. The song was inspired by "the ugly, but totally normal stages of a breakup".
Read more ...Covid pandemic forces cancellation of 2020 Vodafone Comedy Carnival
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
THE VODAFONE Comedy Carnival Galway, one of the major events of the Galway, and indeed Irish festival calendar, has had to be cancelled this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...The Devil All The Time - too much misery and too much dirt for 2020
Films Reviews Tue, Sep 22, 2020
THE DEVIL All The Time is adapted from a 2011 best seller which Netflix bought last year for distribution. It has released it for streaming but apparently has a big campaign ready to go when awards season kicks off.
Read more ...Laugh and dine at the Róisín Dubh
Tue, Sep 22, 2020
INEPT HOSPITAL radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury, and Sean Finnerty, who Jimmy Fallon has called "one of the funniest comedians to come out of Ireland”, will play the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Galway musicians to host A Cup Of Music in aid of Galway Hospice
Tue, Sep 22, 2020
LEO MORAN of The Saw Doctors, singer-songwriter Marc Roberts, along with Tom Joyce and Carmel and Enda Dempsey will present a special show to raise funds for Galway Hospice.
Read more ...Savage; journey far more interesting than destination
Films Reviews Mon, Sep 21, 2020
My two previous experiences of New Zealand independent cinema, the excellent, hard-hitting, Once Were Warriors and the fun Hunt for the Wilderpeople, were ones I thoroughly enjoyed so when I saw the trailer for Sam Kelly's directorial debut, Savage, I had high hopes.
Read more ...Sean Keane - Live in Galway!
Sat, Sep 19, 2020
Sean Keane - Live in Galway
This Saturday night, you can watch Sean Keane Live in Galway from your living room, anywhere in the world!
Over The Edge September reading
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
THE WRITERS Ron Silliman, Molly Harris, and Fintan Coughlan will read from their works at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
Read more ...Drag and dine at Club GASS
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
CLUB GASS and the Galway drag queen experience is back at the Róisín Dubh with the city's leading LGBT+ club night hosting a special drag show tomorrow, Friday September 18.
Read more ...Album review: Suzanne Vega
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 17, 2020
WITH COVID-19 resulting in live shows becoming very small affairs and restricting artists to touring within their own national borders, the live album has - as it was during its 1970s heyday - become again one of the few ways to experience an artist in concert.
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