The Over The Edge Fiction Slam is back

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

POETRY SLAMS are common and there are always opportunities for poets to read their work aloud. Not so for fiction writers, which is why the annual Over The Edge Fiction Slam is such a welcome event.

Fregoli at the double with The Streets Are Ours and The Heart Project

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

FREGOLI THEATRE Company take to the stage of Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre with a revival of its fine recent play, The Streets Are Ours, by Robert Higgins. One of the hit shows of this year’s Galway Theatre Festival, it returns on October 10 and 11, prior to a short national tour.

Owen Colgan wants to be a Little Weapon

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

OWEN COLGAN, a former, and possibly still, Hardy Buck, brings his one man show, Little Weapon, to this month's Vodafone Comedy Carnival. What's it about? "In a world full of hurt, pain, and sh**e craic," he says, "I’m on a journey to save people’s minds from sadness."

Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews at Town Hall

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

WHEN GRANDFATHER dies, he leaves a treasured piece of religious jewellery he hid from the Nazis during the Holocaust. Now a group of cousins fight over, not only this family heirloom, but their "religious faith, cultural assimilation, and even the validity of each other's romances."

SUUNS - 'Looser, not as clinical, more swagger'

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

"SUUNS WRITE smoldering music that’s painstakingly assembled. They are philosopher-musicians, schooled in free jazz, no wave, IDM, and German motorik, and their records are studies in contrasts."

Joe Rooney for the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

JOE ROONEY has the best quiff in the business, a hairstyle that says, ‘I’m here to party’. Any time spent in Joe’s company is a party, and he makes a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh next week.

3 Hail Marys at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

AFTER SPENDING more than a decade together in the same nursing home, it is time for Mary O’Toole, Mary O’Neill, and Mary O’Brien to bid farewell to one another. This is 3 Hail Marys, which is coming to the Town Hall Theatre.

Johnny Cash's grandson to play Monroe's

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

THOMAS GABRIEL, the oldest grandchild of Johnny Cash, is in Ireland this month to re-trace the steps his grandfather took exactly 55 years ago, in what is now referred to as the 'lost tour of Johnny Cash.'

Aslan @ The Quays

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

FOLLOWING THEIR three sold out Made In Dublin Revisited gigs at Vicar Street, The Olympia, and The Iveagh Gardens, Aslan have announced a return to The Quays music hall on Thursday November 29.

Reimagining Pádraic Ó Conaire's most famous tale

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

PÁDRAIC Ó CONAIRE'S short story, M’Asal Beag Dubh, about the time the writer bought a donkey from a Travelller family, is the subject of a new art exhibition, taking place where the original story was set - Kinvara.

BABORÓ INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN IS COMING SOON 15-21 OCTOBER

Wed, Oct 03, 2018

Excitement is building ahead of this year’s Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, which kicks off on Monday 15 October for seven days. This year’s programme is bursting with 51 events all designed especially for children and families. Whether you’re looking for theatre, dance, music, puppetry, exhibitions, films or storytelling, Baboró has it covered. Check out the full programme here https://www.baboro.ie/festival/programme

Dublin singer releases single in aid of Tuam Home Survivors Network

Tue, Oct 02, 2018

‘FINEST FLOWER’, a tribute to the women and children who survived mother and baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, is the new single from Dublin singer-songwriter Ciara Sidine, and will raise funds for the Tuam Home Survivors Network.

Grace Petrie - 'I'm a socialist, feminist, lesbian, protest singer'

Tue, Oct 02, 2018

“I'M A protest singer. Actually I’m a socialist, feminist, lesbian, left wing protest singer." With these words, Grace Petrie brought the house down at her performance at the 2017 Cambridge Folk Festival.

A Franco-Irish gig at the Róisín Dubh

Tue, Oct 02, 2018

A SINGER-songwriter, who has worked with Foy Vance and Duke Special, and a French experimental-rock trio, have joined forces for a tour of Ireland, which includes a gig at the Róisín Dubh.

Amazing acts coming to the Royal Theatre - Jimmy Carr, Gavin James and much more!

Fri, Sep 28, 2018

One of the most prolific joke-tellers of recent times, Jimmy Carr brings his brand new show ''The Best Of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits Tour' to the Royal Theatre Castlebar on December 13th 2018. Get your tickets here.

'Mystic Time Bird is my best show yet'

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

AMONG THE flock of fab comics winging their way to Galway for next month’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival is New Zealander Rhys Darby, best known as Murray from HBO’s Flight Of The Conchords and Steve in Wrecked.

Paul Currie, The Muppets, and a Hot Donkey

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

IN 2006, Belfast comedian Paul Currie fulfilled a childhood dream when he became a Jim Henson muppeteer. In 2010 that dream bubble burst, and it came from a conversation with the man who was and is Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.

The Dirty Circus - teasing, proud, and empowering

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

THE ANNUAL appearance of The Dirty Circus, Galway's burlesque and cabaret night, at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival, is as natural and traditional a pairing as stockings and suspenders.

Album review - Villagers

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 27, 2018

GIVEN WE live in a post-Christian, increasingly secular, Ireland, the opening line of Villagers' new album comes as a surprise: "I've found again, the space in my heart again, for God again, in the form of art again."

Arrested Development - live in HALO

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, the long running, progressive rap collective, who fuse soul, blues, hip-hop, and Sly & the Family Stone-influenced funk with political, socially conscious, lyrics, are coming to Galway to play HALO.

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