Show Me The Funny returns for 2019

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

SHOW ME The Funny, Ireland's longest running and most wide reaching comedy talent competition, returns for its 12th season at The King's Head this month.

'Humanity Dick' and Lady Gregory at Ballynahinch Castle

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

RICHARD 'HUMANITY Dick' Martin, the pistol packing MP for Galway, and founder of Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Lady Gregory, a leading light of Ireland's literary revival, are the subject of two plays at Ballynahinch Castle Hotel.

NUIG Comedy Soc turns ‘January blues’ into January Laughs

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

THE DARK days of January can be a dreary time of year but NUIG’s Comedy Soc, in association with Bank of Ireland, has the perfect antidote to those seasonal blues with January Laughs, an evening of top-notch comedy with some of Ireland’s leading laughmeisters.

Album review: You Tell Me

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 10, 2019

YOU TELL Me is Field Music’s Peter Brewis and Admiral Fallow's Sarah Hayes, and despite drawing on a diverse set of influences, the duo has created a cohesive, often beguiling debut as a duo.

We Banjo 3 to play major US festival

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

WE BANJO 3, the Galway folk/bluegrass/trad sensation, and one of the biggest band's to emerge from Ireland in recent years, have been announced to play the BottleRock Music Festival in Napa Valley, California in May.

Free public lectures on Frankenstein and Once Upon a Time in the West

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

Sir Christopher Frayling, rector of Britain's Royal College of Art, will deliver two free public lectures in Galway - one on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the other on the classic spaghetti western, Once Upon a Time in the West.

The High Kings to play Leisureland

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

THE HIGH Kings - Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Darren Holden, and George Murphy - make a welcome return to the west of Ireland when they play Leisureland, Salthill, on Saturday January 19 at 7pm.

The reality for asylum seekers in Ireland's direct provision centres

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 10, 2019

A MONTH or so before Christmas, a rather imposing volume landed on my desk. Bound in a strong blue cloth, the front cover declared the title to be Asylum Archive, the author to be Vukasin Nedeljkovic. The spine declared the publisher to be Asylum Archive.

Don those 'Fancy Pants' for The Dirty Circus

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

NEW YEAR'S resolutions are mostly about trying to do what you have so far failed to do, rarely are they about treating yourself, and they are never about indulging in anything remotely naughty.

Neil Delamere brings new show to the Town Hall

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

AS SURE as January follows Christmas, the first month of the year will see Neil Delamere, one of Ireland's most popular comedians, make his annual trip to Galway with a new show.

Galway Actors Workshop 2019 courses

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

GALWEGIANS LOOKING to get into acting in 2019, or actors who feel they need to brush up on their skills for stage or TV, should take a look at the new series of classes from the Galway Actors Workshop.

Nick Oliveri - QOTSA and Kyuss man to play Galway

Thu, Jan 03, 2019

NICK OLIVERI, along with Josh Homme, has been a key member of both Queens Of The Stone Age and Kyuss, and can arguably claim his place as a significant figure in American alternative rock and metal.

Celebrating Roy Orbison with Barry Steele at the Black Box

Thu, Jan 03, 2019

GET READY for an upbeat night of solid gold hits at the Black Box Theatre on Saturday January 12 as Barry Steele & Friends present their internationally acclaimed show The Roy Orbison Story.

Roma - the best film of the 2010s?

Films Reviews Thu, Jan 03, 2019

ONE OF my New Years resolutions is to rein in the hyperbole. The world today is in an awful state, so blindly claiming everything is either the worst or the best ever is not good for us. I’m as guilty as anyone, just last week I claimed to have had the best pint of Guinness in my life several times.

A Brass Eye night at the Pálás

Thu, Jan 03, 2019

BRASS EYE was a British comedy series which parodied current affairs shows. It ran for seven episodes on Channel 4 from 1997 to 2001, and featured such writers as Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan, Charlie Brooker, and David Quantick.

Galway artist represented at international graphics exhibition

Thu, Jan 03, 2019

THE GALWAY artist Pádraic Reaney represented Ireland in two exhibitions in Romania in 2018 - INTER-ART 2018 Romania and the International Mail Art Exhibition 100.

Keith Barry - Deception comes to Galway

Thu, Jan 03, 2019

KEITH BARRY is bringing what he says will be his "biggest and most spectacular production yet" to Galway, when he presents his new show, Deception, in the Black Box Theatre on Friday February 22.

Sleaford Mods - new album, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Jan 03, 2019

IN THE month they release their new album, Eton Alive, Sleaford Mods will be back in Galway to play the Róisín Dubh, giving the public a taste of just what to expect from that new record.

Susan Lindsay’s linguistic and other challenges

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 03, 2019

SUSAN LINDSAY'S gorgeously produced third collection of poems, Milling The Air, published by Doire Press, is a book which asks more questions than it answers. And this is no accident, but a deliberate strategy by Lindsay.

New Galway orchestra to play two shows in 2019

Thu, Jan 03, 2019

THE CONTEMPO Quartet, and Paul Ezergailis, co-principal of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, part of a new orchestra which was launched recently in Galway - Luminosa Music - wil pay two concerts in the city this year.

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