Dirty Dusting - hit comedy comes to the Town Hall

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

IS IT funny? Yes. Is it crude? Yes. If you love Mrs Browns Boys, then meet the show that can rival it - a group of 70-something cleaners who set up a phone sex service.

Choice nominee Maija Sofia to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

MAIJA SOFIA, the only Galway born artist to be nominated for RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album, will play a 'homecoming' gig at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 20.

Show Me The Funny - penultimate heat

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

THE PENULTIMATE heat of Show Me The Funny, Ireland's longest running and most wide reaching comedy competition, takes place this Monday [February 10] at The King's Head.

ConTempo in concert at Kylemore Abbey

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

KYLEMORE ABBEY in Connemara will be the setting for a concert of music by Beethoven, as part of the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

A Valentine's special from The Dirty Circus

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

THE DIRTY Circus will hold its first show of 2020 on St Valentine's Day - Friday February 14 - with a cast of leading Irish burlesque and cabaret performers taking to the stage of the Roisin Dubh.

Christy Moore - extra date added

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

CHRISTY MOORE has announced he will play an extra date in Galway this August and tickets go on sale next week.

KATS auditions

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

KNOCKNACARRA AMATEUR Theatre Society is holding auditions for its spring production in Joyce's Meeting Rooms, Knocknacarra from 8pm to 9pm.

Weather Warning... Welly Wardrobe set up in Galways Westend!

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

A place to leave your wellies while you change into your dancing shoes.

The 2 Johnnies - a spring break to Galway

Mon, Feb 03, 2020

THE 2 JOHNNIES, the Tipperary comedy podcasting, musical, and live show phenomenon, are coming back to Galway in April as part of their Spring Break Easter Tour.

Colin Geddis headlines new Friday night comedy at the Róisín

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

COLIN GEDDIS, who began 2020 with a sold-out show at the SSE Arena in Belfast, will tomorrow headline the Róisín Dubh's new monthly night of comedy - the Friday Night KARLnival.

An Taibhdhearc to host world premiere of Song Of The Yellow Bittern as Gaeilge

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

SONG OF The Yellow Bittern, a love story and a ghost story, set against the background of an 1828 paternity lawsuit by a Protestant woman against a Catholic priest, comes to An Taibhdhearc in a new Irish language version.

Imagining Ireland - a celebration of creative Irish women

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

LANKUM SINGER Radie Peat, Galway poet Elaine Feeney, and Choice Music Prize 2020 nominees SOAK and Sorcha Richardson will perform at the Imagining Ireland event as part of Galway 2020.

Alan McMonagle’s walk of fame

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 30, 2020

ONE OF the great joys of book selling is to watch the progress of a promising local writer from debut appearance in print – generally in a local journal – to first book, again by a local publisher, before making it onto the national and international stage.

Galway Film Society - new season

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

FRENCH FILM La Belle Époque, starring Daniel Auteuil (Jean de Florette) and Fanny Ardant (Paris, Je T'Aime), will open the new season of screenings from the Galway Film Society at the Pálás Cinema.

2020 Over The Edge poetry book showcase

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

EMILY CULLEN, Jenny Farrell, and Nicola Geddes, will be among those reading at the 2020 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday February 7 at 6pm.

‘Stand-up is me inviting the audience into a montage of my life’

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

AN EARLY experience in comedy, overhearing people talk outside his dressing room, became a formative moment for Jack Dee, one that has driven his sense of commitment and ambition throughout a career spanning almost 35 years.

President to launch new John Behan exhibition at Kenny Gallery

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D Higgins, will officially open Migrants, an exhibition of new works by leading Irish sculptor John Behan, and the first event of the Kenny Bookshop & Art Gallery's 80th Anniversary year.

Tom O'Mahony headlines the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

HE FIRST came to attention as Tarquin the toff on Damo & Ivor, and later as oddball neighbour Paddy d'Pervert in Bridget & Eamon, while the late, great, Rik Mayall called him a "psychotically funny bastard".

Irish debut for The New Half a Sixpence Musical

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

A MUSICAL from George Stiles, Anthony Drew, and Julian Fellowes, the team best known for adapting the classic Disney film Mary Poppins for the stage, will be performed in the Black Box in February.

Just Mercy - a timely story worth telling

Films Reviews Thu, Jan 30, 2020

JUST MERCY is the true story of the beginning of Bryan Stevenson's incredible career. Stevenson moved to the American South after graduating law school in Harvard to set up the Equal Justice Initiative to help people who were wrongly convicted.

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