Film review: The Cured

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 26, 2018

SET IN Dublin a few years after a zombie outbreak, The Cured finds the world is relatively stable again. Subverting the genre before the credits even end, a cure has been found. Happy days.

May creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

CREATIVE WRITING classes in poetry and fiction will be given by the writers Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, from May.

Maz and Bricks - a tale of an unlikely friendship

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

MAZ AND BRICKS, the new play by Eva O’Connor, and staged by Fishamble: The New Play Company, will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre, as part of the 2018 Galway Theatre Festival.

Unblessed - Chilean extreme metal

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

UNBLESSED, ONE of the leading bands in the Chilean underground extreme metal scene, are about to unleash their ferocious black metal/death metal fusion on Galway.

Humanity Dick - one man show for The King's Head

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

HUMANITY DICK, a hit show of the 2016 Galway Fringe Festival about the colourful life and times of Galway MP, humanitarian, and serial duelist Richard Martin, will be performed in The King's Head.

New Valley Wolves - new EP and Monroe's gig

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

NEW VALLEY Wolves latest single 'Cut-Throat', the first from their new Gospel EP, went straight to #1 in the Irish Rock charts, and the band are coming to Galway as part of their latest tour.

Bualadh Bos to stage The Cripple of Inishmaan

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

IN 1934, on Inis Meáin in the Aran Islands, there is great excitement when news arrives that a Hollywood film is being made on the neighbouring island of Inis Mór.

Galway Youth Orchestra - concert and auditions

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

GALWAY YOUTH Orchestra, now in its 36th year, will hold auditions for new members next month, in St Mary’s College, St Mary’s Road.

Big Maggie in Ballinderreen

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

JOHN B KEANE'S Big Maggie, first staged in 1968 and generating much controversy for its portrait of a woman determined to take back control of her life, is to be be performed in Ballinderreen.

A lunchtime Beethoven concert

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

THAT MONTY Python sketch, with John Cleese as Beethoven, all roars, shouts, irascible temper, and prone to shooting things, may have been closer to the truth than we realise.

All-Ireland bound Compántas Lir to stage Glass Menagerie

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

AFTER ITS award-winning run on this year’s festival circuit, Compántas Lir are back in town with their emotive interpretation of the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams before it opens the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone on May 3.

Make May the month to visit the National Museum Of Ireland

Wed, Apr 25, 2018

1. National Treasures - The Exhibition
The museum has just launched a new temporary exhibition, called National Treasures. The exhibition arises out of the hugely popular RTÉ television programme of the same name, which saw John Creedon and a team of curators travel around the country to assess a fascinating mix of social history objects from the last 100 years.

The changing face of Salthill through the decades

Tue, Apr 24, 2018

SALTHILL, FROM its days as a "wholesome if uninteresting place" to today, when it is a popular west of Ireland seaside resort, will be chronicled in a photographic exhibition in the Galway City Museum.

Limmy's Vines - last few tickets remaining

Tue, Apr 24, 2018

THE ONLINE sensation, the published author of two short story collections, the acclaimed stand-up, the Twitter addicted scourge of Donald Trump supporters - Limmy is all of these things.

Rising comedy talent at the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

THREE OF the finest emerging young comedians in Ireland - Belfast’s Shane Todd, Mayo’s Paul David Murphy, and Cork’s Ashley Manning - play the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.

Thoroughbred horses inspire exhibition for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

THE BYERLEY Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Barb, were three 18th century stallions that were the founders of the modern thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock. They have also inspired a new exhibition.

Steven Sharpe - new single, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

STEVEN SHARPE writes about gay male sex with the kind of ribaldry and attention to salacious detail Prince and Snoop Dogg brought to their songs about straight male sexual adventures.

Album review: The Shacks

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

OVER THE last 10 years indie music has rediscovered and re-explored 1990s genres, but it is rare to see young musicians going back any further than that. Recently however, a new series of disparate bands - School Damage, Mermaidens, Starcrawler, and now The Shacks - have delved into different aspects of sixties and seventies rock, delivering fresh new presentations of those forms.

My Fellow Sponges set to 'blur lines between gig and theatre'

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

MUSICIANS, WRITERS, performance artists, jugglers, videographers, animators, conductors, designers, and all kinds of doers, will partake in a genre defying ‘live music video’ experience, as part of the 2018 Galway Theatre Festival.

'An English Fiddler On The Roof'

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

GALWAY MUSICAL Society encamps in The Black Box Theatre for the first week of May with its bravura staging of The Hired Man, which is based on Melvyn Bragg's stirring novel of Cumbrian rural and industrial working life.

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