Trad on the Prom is back

Thu, May 10, 2018

"IF YOU ever thought Irish music and dancing weren’t sexy and cool, go - and be converted." So said The Irish Times about Trad On The Prom, the Galway based Irish music, song, and dance show, which returns next week.

'Getting off' at the Galway Arts Centre

Thu, May 10, 2018

HOW DO we maintain spaces for shared sensual/sexual pleasure, and care, when personal safety is at risk? This question is at the heart of a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre.

Sunflowers and disintegrating lovers

Literature Reviews Thu, May 10, 2018

THE WORK of some poets is great, or at least initially sounds great, when you hear it declaimed from a festival stage, but is rather less rewarding when read on the page, in the absence of the bells and whistles of performance.

A night of Irish trad at the Town Hall

Thu, May 10, 2018

THE TURBULENT, inspirational, and ever-evolving journey of Irish music, will be performed by 16 traditional musicians, in the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow night.

Punk and ska from the north of England

Thu, May 10, 2018

DIY DUB-punk and ska from the north of England, and a one man acoustic comedic whirlwind, will be in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh, next week.

Seattle Grunge Experience comes to Monroe's

Thu, May 10, 2018

NIRVANA, SOUNDGARDEN, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains - the Holy Quartet of Grunge and late 1980s/early 1990s sound of the Pacific Northwest, will be recreated in Monroe’s Live.

The life of Una Taaffe and a young man's struggle with MS

Theatre Reviews Wed, May 09, 2018

TWO LOCALLY-devised works in progress proved big hits with Tuesday’s Galway Theatre Festival audiences - Conor Geoghegan’s Invisible at Nuns Island and Elaine Mears’ Una at the Mick Lally Theatre. Both are already strong pieces of theatre and certainly whetted the appetite to see them in their finished forms.

An 'inventive' and 'charming' Little Prince

Theatre Reviews Wed, May 09, 2018

THE LAST time I saw Morgan Creative in action was with its imaginative staging of Crime and Punishment at Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre eight months ago. This week the company returned to the Mick Lally Theatre for the Galway Theatre Festival with another a literary classic - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.

A ROYAL FAIRY TALE AT THE GALMONT HOTEL & SPA

Wed, May 09, 2018

The 4* Galmont Hotel & Spa, formerly the Radisson Blu Galway, has announced its 2018 wedding fair, which is set to take place on Thursday 17th May, from 6.00pm to 8.30pm. As anticipation builds ahead of the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markel, The Galmont Hotel & Spa is inviting couples to ‘say yes’ to an evening of regal wedding inspiration. Fairy tales really do come true, whether it be a traditional wedding, contemporary civil ceremony or humanist ceremony, The Galmont Hotel & Spa marks the beginning of every couple happy ever after.

Digital Women's Afternoon Tea at Hotel Meyrick on 23rd May

Fri, May 04, 2018

Please join ITAG's for Digital Women's Afternoon Tea at Hotel Meyrick on 23rd May as we celebrate the evolution of women in technology. This years theme is 'Pressing for Progress' in line with International Women's Day 2018. Now more than ever, there's a strong call-to-action to press forward and progress gender parity.

One liners and her from 'Your One Nikita'

Thu, May 03, 2018

SEAN HEGARTY, the Irish king of one-liners, and Aoife Dooley, best known for her books, How To Be Massive and How To Deal With Poxes, will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh for the next Comedy KARLnival.

1798 - and why it still matters

Thu, May 03, 2018

IN 1798 something remarkable happened in Ireland. Irish Catholics and Presbyterians put aside religious differences to unite in common cause over their grievances against British rule and its discriminations against them. Between May and October that year, they fought to establish an Irish Republic.

Album review: Liz Phair

Music Reviews Thu, May 03, 2018

IF MOST people found Madonna's 1992 album Erotica shocking, there was no way in 1993 the largely sexless world of indie/alternative rock was going to be able to handle Liz Phair's debut, Exile In Guyville.

Patrick Bergin to launch Galway Sessions Festival 2018

Thu, May 03, 2018

ANDY IRVINE, John and Pip Murphy, and the actor Patrick Bergin, are heading west for the 2018 Galway Sessions Festival, the city's annual celebration of traditional, folk, and roots music.

Free Comic Book Day 2018

Thu, May 03, 2018

FREE COMIC Book Day 2018, the international day to celebrate comic books and comic shops, and to introduce family and friends to comics, falls on Saturday May 5.

The Messiness of Human Relationships

Thu, May 03, 2018

A NAÏVE creature, too curious for his own good, embarks on a journey to explore and expose the nature of humans. This is The Messiness of Human Relationships, which is coming to the Galway Theatre Festival.

Macbeth to be screened at The Eye

Thu, May 03, 2018

MACBETH, SHAKESPEARE'S dark and violent drama of political ambition, betrayal, murder, assassination, corruption, and greed, is being staged by Britain's National Theatre, and will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema.

Jim McKee and the Head Of The Sea

Thu, May 03, 2018

KINVARA, AND the south Galway/north Clare region, has inspired both the title and works of a new exhibition by the Tyrone born, locally based, artist Jim McKee.

Jinx Lennon - new album, Róisín gig

Thu, May 03, 2018

JINX LENNON, the agit-punk, performance poet, singer-songwriter is back, and as confrontational and challenging as ever, with his new album, Grow A Pair, and a show at the Róisín Dubh.

'Body positivity is a big part of burlesque'

Thu, May 03, 2018

IT IS almost that time of the year again when tassles are twirled and booties are shaken in the joyously sexy jamboree of Galway Burlesque Festival. Now in its third year, this feast of frisky fun takes place from May 18 to 20 and, as ever, promises lots of teasing thrills and thrilling teases.

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