Theatre Review: The Hired Man

Theatre Reviews Wed, May 02, 2018

LAST NIGHT, Tuesday May 1, at the Black Box Theatre, Galway Musical Society presented the opening night of its terrific production of the musical, The Hired Man, based on Melvyn Bragg's stirring novel of Cumbrian rural and industrial working life in the first quarter of the 20th century.

Exhibition review: Mind Has Mountains

Art Reviews Wed, May 02, 2018

PRESENTED AS part of this year’s just-finished Cúirt International Festival of Literature, the fine group exhibition, Mind Has Mountains, is continuing at the Town Hall Theatre bar until the beginning of June and well merits a visit.

The Lords Of Strut - Release The Freak

Tue, May 01, 2018

OUTRAGEOUS, ACROBATIC, wild, gymnastic, irreverent, and hilarious - The Lords Of Strut are coming back to Galway with their new show, Release The Freak, featuring "banging dance routines and extremely sexy comedy".

Giz A Laugh's Enya Martin for Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

ENYA MARTIN of the online comedy sensation Giz A Laugh Facebook page, will be among the stand-ups taking to the stage of the Róisín Dubh for the next Comedy KARLnival.

Julian Gough to launch new novel in Galway

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

JULIAN GOUGH, the author of Juno and Juliet, Jude: Level 1, and Jude In London, will next week launch his new novel, Connect, in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop, Middle Street.

Danny Denton and Engage artists in conversation

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

DANNY DENTON, author of the acclaimed new novel, The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow, will join artists from Galway's Engage studios to discuss their collaborative exhibition, Fragmented Shore.

Cendrillon - from The Met to The Eye

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

CENDRILLION, A sumptuous new take on the Cinderella story, is being staged by The Met Opera, and will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark, this weekend.

Album review: Kacy & Clayton

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 26, 2018

THIS IS a new album, but the cover instantly declares that in Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum's world, every day is somewhere between 1965 and 1972, an impression confirmed and copper-fastened by the music within.

Super Silly - top class Irish r'n'b tonight

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

DO NOT be fooled by the name, there is nothing silly about Super Silly, the Dublin band who are fast become one of the key names in the emerging, fascinating, Irish urban music scene.

Thirteen Steps To The Attic

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

BALLINASLOE NATIVE Michelle Cahill presents her first solo dance theatre work, Thirteen Steps To The Attic, at next week’s Galway Theatre Festival, a work inspired by her discovery of a box of letters, hidden away for more than 20 years.

'Coming from an Indian background, it was easy for me to relate to Irish poets'

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

THE AWARD-winning Anglo-Indian poet, Daljit Nagra, whose ebullient, sharp-witted poems have made him one of Britain’s most popular and acclaimed poets, reads from his work at the Town Hall Theatre this Saturday, as part of Cúirt.

The morning after the marriage-equality vote

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

SUNDAY MORNING, May 24 2015, 62 per cent of voters in the State have voted Yes to marriage equality, and hungover Ann gets a text from her brother: “How’s the morning after the life before?"

Ladies sing the blues

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

WOMEN ARE pivotal in the story of blues music, with Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Mamie Smith being among its earliest recorded exponents and first major stars, but they have been overshadowed by the men who came later.

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.

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