Breakfast On Pluto - the musical to premiere at GIAF 2020

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

PATRICK/PUSSY Braden, love child of an errant priest and a local girl is the most flamboyant character in the border town of Tyreelin. Bored with life in 1970s Ireland, he heads to London in search of his mother and a glamtastic new life.

Wilderland Film Festival makes Galway debut

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

THE WILDERLAND Film Festival is "special because it gives audiences unparalleled insight into some of the world’s most incredible wildlife”. So said Scottish wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan, best known for The Polar Bear Family & Me.

Galway Street Club annual St Patrick's Day shows

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

IT IS fast becoming a Galway institution - Galway Street Club's annual shows for the St Patrick's Day period - with the multi-national band playing the Róisín Dubh on Monday March 16 at 9pm and Tuesday 17 at 6pm.

Attracta Fahy launches new poetry collection

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

GALWAY WRITER Attracta Fahy, winner of the 2019 The Irish Times New Irish Writing award, releases her new poetry collection, Dinner In The Fields, tomorrow.

Exploring the Liminal Entities at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

THE QUIET tensions existing through and between bodies and objects, is a major theme of Liminal Entities, a new group exhibition currently running at the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street.

‘The great and the good of Irish writing'

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

THE FIRST year of the new decade sees a new director at the helm of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Sahsa de Buyl. “If you were to look at a theme for this years’s event,” she says, “it would be the great and the good of Irish writing.”

Join Micky Bartlett on a journey into his own head

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

MICKY BARTLETT, at the age of 32, is still trying to move out of his mother's house - a phenomenon all too familiar to anyone in their twenties and early thirties in Ireland.

The Shakespeare Sessions - the Bard for the modern age

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO and Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet, will each be presented at the Town Hall Theatre, across two days, by the Cyclone Rep theatre-in-education company.

Connemara premiere for new thriller Arracht

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

ARRACHT, the new Irish language feature film from Tom Sullivan, starring Dónall Ó Héalaí, Seán T Ó Meallaigh, and Pádraic Breathach, will receive a special pre-release screening in Indreabhán.

Songs of joy, war, and peace in St Nicholas'

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

SONGS OF JOY, war, and peace will be sung in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church when one of America’s top choral groups perform a special concert to raise funds for the church organ.

Birgit Lochmann exhibition

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

BIRGIT LOCHMANN is originally from Duesseldorf, bur has lived in Ireland since the early 1980s. Since retiring from being a dental ceramist, she is now focused entirely on painting.

Get up close and personal with Reg D Hunter

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

CONTROVERSIAL AND acclaimed, Reginald D Hunter returns to the Róisín Dubh this month for a show which will also see a set from the 83-year-old comedian Lynn Ruth Miller.

Ziggy Stardust - live in Galway tonight

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

THE RISE and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars, David Bowie's breakthrough 1972 album, a culturally significant artwork, and a turning point in popular culture, will be performed in Galway.

A night at the opera, at The Eye

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

TWO OPERAS - Der Fliegende Holländer, starring Bryn Terfel, and Fidelio, starring Jonas Kaufmann - will be broadcast live from New York and London, to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

A Seminar like no other from SamePage

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

FOUR STUDENTS enter a seminar room and come fact to face with the harshest critique of their lives. They can wither under the storm, or band together and face it head on. Which will they do?

Chris Kent - new show at Town Hall

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

CHRIS KENT has children and therefore feels guilty about his contribution to global over population. He is coming to terms with being called “well trained” for carrying out basic tasks. He also loves his clothes horse.

Book club and Mother's Day at the Pálás

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

MOMMIE DEAREST by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford, is the book and film for the next meeting of the Pálás Cinema's book club, on March 31.

MCnG’s concert series celebrates 10th anniversary

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

MAOIN CHEOIL na Gaillimhe will marks its 10th anniversary with a series of benefit concerts to raise awareness and funds for local community groups.

Embodied Voice workshop

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

AS PART of his Theatre Artist in Resident year in the Town Hall Theatre, Brú Theatre's James Riordan will curate a host of theatre workshops with European practitioners throughout 2020.

A night of Irish and Slavic music

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

AGU, THE Galway-based artist with Czech/Polish roots, joined by the Galway based musician and producer Tony Higgins, will headline an evening of music and song at the Róisín Dubh.

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