The Silver Branch - for the love of The Burren

Mon, Sep 24, 2018

PATRICK MCCORMACK is a poet, philosopher, and farmer. He is also the owner of ‘Fr Ted’s House’ in the Burren, County Clare, and is the subject of a film, which ponders a disappearing way of life, and our connections to the natural world.

Comedy magical mystery tours for the comedy festival

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

"IT IS only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed," declared the Irish poet and singer-songwriter, Thomas Moore, so dare we suggest, he might have been first in the queue to embark on The Wild Atlantic Wahey Mystery Tour?

Lenny Abrahamson to attend Pálás screening of The Little Stranger

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

ONE OF Ireland's leading film-makers, the Oscar nominated Lenny Abrahamson, will be in the Pálás cinema this weekend for a special screening of his new film, The Little Stranger, and take part in a public Q&A.

Predator - not as much fun as he was in the 1990s

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 20, 2018

THE PREDATOR is back on our screens, and why not? Every other moderately successful film from the 1980s and 1990s is getting a sequel, prequel, or reboot. It was only a matter of time before it came to Predator.

The Tales of Hoffmann for the 21st century

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

CLAUDIA BOYLE, one of Ireland's greatest sopranos, makes her Irish National Opera debut in the spectacular new production of The Tales Of Hoffmann, currently touring Ireland, and which comes to Galway next month.

MA18 - GMIT graduates exhibition in the Connacht Printworks

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

MA18, FEATURING the work of 12 visual artists and film makers, all graduates of the new MA in Creative Practice, opens tomorrow [September 21] in the Connacht Printworks Gallery, Middle Street.

The Galway Spiegeltent Sessions 2018

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

THE SPIEGELTENT returns to Eyre Square to house another week of raucous, riotous, comedy, but this year it will not just be comedy that takes place within - some of the very best of Irish music from Declan O'Rourke to The Undertones will be heard also.

A big hand for the little lady

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

SMALL IN stature but huge in comic talent, Tanyalee Davis is a feisty 3ft 6” Canadian comedian who has been described as the Ferrari of comedy – low to the ground and racy. She has performed all over the world and featured on flagship comedy TV shows like Live at the Apollo and The John Bishop Show. Now, she is taking her sparky brand of sharp comedy and candid stories to next month’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Karl MacDermott to go Over The Edge

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

KARL MACDERMOTT, the Galway born writer whose short story collection, Juggling With Turnips, was published earlier this year, reads at the next Over The Edge in the Galway City Library.

Gina Yashere - how to explain Brexit to Americans

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

GINA YASHERE is best known as the British correspondent, explaining all things Brexit, on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and next month, she comes to the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Irish SoundSystem Gathering Weekender 2018

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

FIRE UP the dance - Ireland’s second nationwide Soundsystem Gathering Weekender comes back to Galway this Halloween, to deliver two days of music, culture, and cuisine.

Galway Youth Theatre open day

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

GALWAY YOUTH Theatre is recruiting new members, aged between 15 and 23, for its one year part time course, and will hold an open day on Sunday September 30 from 12 noon to 2pm in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street.

'That’s my tribe'

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

JOE HENRY, the acclaimed singer-songwriter, is in Galway next week for an intimate gig at the Black Gate Cultural Centre. Since his 1986 debut, Talk Of Heaven, he has released 14 albums, with his most recent, 2017’s Thrum, hailed by American Songwriter as "literate, lovely, and artfully created".

And now for something completely different...

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

THE VODAFONE Comedy Carnival Galway brings some of the biggest acts in international comedy to the city, and also some of the more bizarre. That tradition continues with George Egg, a chef 'completely different’ to any you have come across.

Irish acts at 2018 Galway Jazz Festival

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

IRISH JAZZ musicians, channelling the sounds of Cuba and American hip hop, the ideas of Albert Camus, and others possessing voices that can croon with the best, are all coming to the 2018 Galway Jazz Festival.

Totally Wired return to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

TOTALLY WIRED, described by The Irish Times as "Ireland’s answer to Flight of the Conchords", but who describe themselves as "Ireland’s oldest and least successful boy band", are coming back to the Róisín Dubh.

Annual Amach! LGBT Galway table quiz in aid of Teach Solais

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

The fourth annual Amach! LGBT Galway table quiz in aid of the Teach Solais LGBT Resource Centre takes place next week in the Harbour Hotel, and everyone is welcome to join in the fun.

Engage Arts Studio Culture Night exhibition and fundraiser

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

ENGAGE ART Studios will present Inside the Box, an exhibition for Culture Night, which opens tomorrow at 6pm in the Cathedral Building, Middle Street.

Chekhov Technique workshops

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

A SERIES of classes using the Michael Chekhov Technique will take place during October and November, hosted by one of Galway's leading theatre directors Max Hafler.

A multimedia exhibition in Kinvara

Thu, Sep 20, 2018

PAINTING, SILVERWARE, and sculpture will make up Nine Views, a multimedia exhibition by Sam Beardon, which opens in The Courthouse, Kinvara, this Saturday at 6pm.

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