'It’s our one Galway gig this year and our biggest venue as well'

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

SUMMER SAW the release of their new album. The autumn heralds a run of American festival appearances before a return to Ireland, including a major hometown concert in Salthll. Next year sees the band bringing North American fans around the county as part of Galway2020.

Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway 2019 launch night

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

JUST AS one festival season winds down in Galway, another brilliant one prepares to take off. It is time to announce the full line-up for this year’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway...

Jack Taylor and his battle with the Galway Girl

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

'GALWAY GIRL' has been the title of both a Steve Earle song and an Ed Sheeran song. The term is about to be put to better use by the award-winning crime writer Ken Bruen in his forthcoming novel.

Peter Pan to fly into the Town Hall

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

PETER PAN, the boy who is determined never to grow up, will take centre stage in Galway when Twin Production’s bring Peter Pan - The Musical to the Town Hall Theatre this month.

Niwel Tsumbu and Éamonn Cagney - an Afro-Irish fusion

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

A CONGOLESE guitarist and an Irish percussionist, who together create "redemptive music" that delivers "a cataclysm of moods and moves to share", according to The Irish Times, are coming to Galway.

Exhibition on Galway's Big Houses

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

A PHOTOGRAPHIC exhibition of Galway's Big Houses - the estates of the landed gentry in Ireland - will be on display at NUI Galway from August 19 to 24 as part of Heritage Week.

'There is a connection between girls and surrealism'

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

AUGUST IN Galway is usually a quiet spell, arts-wise, as folk wind down or bale out after the hectic festival season. However, city arts aficionados this month can look forward to a vibrant new exhibition by Tom Mathews.

Galway Pride 2019 begins on Monday

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

GALWAY COMMUNITY Pride is launching its 30th year this Monday [August 12] with its annual community awards night, which takes place in the Roisín Dubh at 8pm that same day.

The music of Miles Davis in Galway

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

THE CAREER of Miles Davis is almost the history of post-war American jazz, with the trumpeter exploring, and often pioneering, such genres as cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, as well as fusion through his embrace of rock, funk, and hip hop.

Wild Atlantic Cabaret

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

STAND-UP comedian Breeda Larkin, from east Galway and Limerick born burlesque performer Laura Lavelle join forces for the Wild Atlantic Cabaret.

Hush - women in solitude

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

HUSH, A new collection of portrait paintings of women in solitude, by the Galway artist Aine Doherty, opens this Saturday at 5pm in The Secret Garden cafe, William Street West.

Dance show and workshop

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

TWO CAN Do, a dynamic dance performance, winner of the Most Innovative Show award at the Limerick Fringe festival, comes to Galway next week as part of an Irish tour.

A concert in Thoor Ballylee

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

ORANMORE SOPRANO, Helen Hancock will give a concert, entitled The Art of Song, in the Yeats Tower of Thoor Ballylee on Saturday August 24 at 8pm as part of Heritage Week.

Expanding Horizons in Oughterard

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

HORIZONS, THE fourth and final exhibition of the Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme summer arts events, opens tomorrow at 7pm in the Oughterard Courthouse.

US choir's charity concert for COPE

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

MINNESOTA'S WRIGHT County Chamber Chorus are on their debut tour of Ireland and will perform a charity concert in St Nicholas Collegiate Church this weekend to raise funds for COPE.

Traditional song and dance in Kinvara

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

A NIGHT of traditional singing will take place in the Kinvara Community Centre this Saturday [August 10] at 8.30pm as part of the Cruinniu na mBad weekend.

Charlie Adley’s Craft of Writing course

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

GALWAY WRITER, columnist, and prize-winning playwright, Charlie Adley will host a new term of his popular Craft of Writing course in September, in the Westside Resource Centre.

Susan Millar DuMars' creative writing classes

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

THE SHORT story writer and poet Susan Millar DuMars will teach a series of creative writing classes at the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, starting in September.

Emman Idama to headline Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Aug 01, 2019

EMMAN IDAMA, the Nigerian-born Irish citizen, hailed as “charming and energetic" with "panache and charm to spare” by Chortle.co.uk, headlines the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.

The Current War - not exactly electrifying

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 01, 2019

THIS IS the story of Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and their competition to bring electricity to America. Westinghouse working with Alternating Current and Edison working with Direct Current.

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