A night of royal rock with Qween

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

SEEING QUEEN tribute band Qween in action is “as close to the real thing as it gets!” according to illusionist Keith Barry, while Radio Nova's Pat Courtenay declared, "Phenomenal. I was left speechless" after one of the their shows.

Get singing with Ad Hoc Choir

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

IF YOU like to sing at home, in the shower, or in the car, have not sung with other people, but like the idea of doing so, check out the Ad Hoc Choir's new term of workshops.

Just Guff on Inis Oírr

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

WHAT IS it like to be a dedicated member of a political party, working your way up through the ranks, believing in all the party stands for, and then, to see that certainty and belief shattered?

Galway musicians to celebrate the music of Dolores O’Riordan

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

DREAMING HER Dreams 2 - Remembering Dolores O’Riordan, where songs of the late leader of The Cranberries will be performed by Galway musicians, returns to the Rósín Dubh.

Rodney Owl - new single, Galway gig

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

THE GALWAY singer-songwriter Rodney Owl will launch his new single, 'The Rain On A Wave' with a gig in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 8pm.

Through the Decades Quiz: In Aid of Galway Simon Community

Wed, Sep 11, 2019

St. Anthony’s & Claddagh Credit Union are hosting a Table Quiz Night on Thursday, 19th of September at The Skeff Late Bar & Kitchen with the theme of ‘Through the Decades: 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s & 00’s.

Jason Byrne - Wrecked but Ready for the Comedy Carnival

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

HE IS the barely-in-control master of audience mockery and mayhem. He fires on all cylinders from the moment he bounds onto stage. He has been through real trauma with the breakup of his 20-year marriage, but comic genius Jason Byrne is ‘Wrecked but Ready’.

Saint Sister return to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

SAINT SISTER, the brilliant Irish "atmosfolk" duo of Belfast's Morgan MacIntyre and Dublin's Gemma Doherty, make a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh this month.

Album review: the strange, the brilliant, and the awful from the 60s counterculture

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THIS VAST and varied 18 track compilation, spanning 1959 to 1973, and running from the innovative to the period piece curiosity to the 'What were they on?', unearths some overlooked gems worth re-exploring and reconsidering.

One man's journey along the Camino de Santiago

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

SVEN IS blind and deaf, but undaunted. He is determined to walk the Camino de Santiago, the 804km pilgrimage/hike through France and northern Spain - a journey chronicled in the film, The World At Arm’s Length.

New adaptation of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at Town Hall

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

EUGENE IONESCO'S classic 1959 avant-garde play Rhinoceros, will be presented in a new adaptation by John Rogers, and performed by the Galway Actors Studio.

Danielle Holian launches debut poetry collection

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

BEAUTIFULLY CHAOTIC, the debut poetry collection from Galway writer Danielle Holian, which explores sexuality, the trauma of sexual assault, heartbreak, feminism, and learning how to survive, has just been published.

Baboró 2019 programme unveiled

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

AT GALWAY City Museum, on Monday evening, the 2019 Baboró International Arts Festival, Ireland’s flagship festival devoted exclusively to children and families, announced details of its 23rd programme.

Johnny Graham to play the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

HE IS best known for the viral video, Man Flu: The Truth, which has received close to a million hits on YouTube, and for co-running Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club. Next week he takes to the stage of the Róisín Dubh.

The Souvenir - a unsettling depiction of an abusive relationship

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 05, 2019

JULIE IS a film student in London in the late 1980s. She is trying to escape her life of privilege, but lives in her parents' flat in Knightsbridge. Yet, her attempts to make a film in Sunderland about a working class family are honest and admirable.

Emily Cullen to launch new Skylight 47

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THE POET and harpist Emily Cullen will launch the latest issue of poetry journal, Skylight 47, on Sunday September 8 at 5pm in The House Hotel, Lower Merchants Road.

Hardanger virtuoso Nils Økland at Galway Jazz Festival

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THE HARDANGER is a distinctly Norwegian version of the fiddle, but with eight/nine strings instead of four, and decoration, with a carved animal as part of the scroll at the top of the pegbox, and mother of pearl inlay on the fingerboard.

Examining motive and memory in TAPE

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

JON AND Vince, two former schoolfriends, reunite in a dingy motel room. Over the course of the evening, differing perceptions of a past event involving their friend Amy are called into question.

Enjoy afternoon tea at Downton Abbey

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

ENJOY AN afternoon tea that Mr Carson would be proud of at the Pálás cinema for the opening weekend of the highly-anticipated Downton Abbey movie.

Furthermore – new exhibition from AKIN at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

AWARD WINNING Galway arts collective AKIN opens the autumn programme at the Galway Arts Centre with a new show, Furthermore, which is launched tomorrow evening [Friday September 6] at 6pm, and runs until October 5.

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