Peppa Pig’s Adventure comes to Galway

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

PEPPA PIG is on a big adventure, so big it's taking her all the way to the Black Box and it has also led to an extra performance being added due to public demand.

William Fitzgerald named new Galway Film Fleadh programmer

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

William Fitzgerald has been appointed as the new programmer for the Galway Film Fleadh, taking over from Gar O’Brien who has stepped down after seven years in the role.

La Bohème to be screened at The Eye

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

AT 95, veteran Italian film maker and opera producer Franco Zeffirelli shows no signs of slowing down, as he is staging Puccini's much loved La Bohème at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

Steven Sharpe and Tara Stacey - live

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

THE OUTRAGEOUSLY brilliant Steve Sharpe, and the quirkily wonderful Tara Stacey, will be in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh, for a double bill of great music and song.

John B Keane's Big Maggie in Loughrea

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

MAGGIE POLPIN is a mother, a widow, and a shop owner. Not only does she have these three roles to contend with, she must also battle against the expectations, morals, and judgments of her small town neighbours.

Redmond O'Toole - one day, two concerts

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

REDMOND O'TOOLE, described as "an important ambassador for the classical guitar in Ireland" by the Royal Irish Academy of Music, is coming to Galway next week to play a lunchtime concert.

Galway Rocks For Hospice

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

LEADING GALWAY covers band, such as Tightrope and Metallica tribute band Whiplash, will take to the stage of The King's Head for the Galway Rocks For Hospice charity night.

Creedence Clearwater revived

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

BETWEEN 1968 and 1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival released seven albums - a staggering three alone in 1969 - enjoying enormous artistic, commercial, and critical success in that period.

A night in memory of Dolores O’Riordan

Wed, Feb 21, 2018

DREAMING HER Dreams: A Night in Memory of Dolores O’Riordan, which takes place this weekend, will see some of Galway's finest singers and musicians perform songs by the late Limerick songwriter.

Joshua Burnside - a world of (unconventional) music

Tue, Feb 20, 2018

HIS MUSIC has been called "rumbling, brooding, powerful, magnetic" by The Irish Times, and "dynamic and wide ranging" by Chordblossom, while BBC Radio 1's Phil Taggart said "it makes you glad to have a pair of working ears".

A Russian take on Martin McDonagh's west of Ireland

Tue, Feb 20, 2018

LAST WEEKEND, An Taibhdhearc hosted one of Russia’s premier theatre companies, U Mosta, from Perm, which presented two plays - Nikolai Gogol’s Marriage and Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Nathan Fake - a rootsier sounding electronica

Mon, Feb 19, 2018

NATHAN FAKE grew up in Necton, a village in the middle of Norfolk, he fell in love with music during his school years, and was turned on to electronica after hearing Aphex Twin and Orbital.

Three Tuesdays with Karl Spain

Mon, Feb 19, 2018

AS ANYONE who has attended the Late Night KARLnivals at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway can attest, Karl Spain is without doubt, the finest, funniest, and most irreverent MC in the business - and you can see him thrice on upcoming Tuesdays.

Album review: Belle and Sebastian

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 15, 2018

THE THREE EPs, released under the How To Solve Our Human Problems title, have now been grouped into one release, and together merge and flow seamlessly as an album.

Comedy night for Galway Autism Partnership

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

FRED COOKE, best known for his roles in Republic Of Telly and The Savage Eye, and for being the MC on The Tommy Tiernan Show, headlines a comedy night to raise funds for Galway Autism Partnership.

Connemara premiere for Murdair Mhám Trasna

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

MURDAIR MHÁM Trasna, a feature length docu-drama on the slaying of a family in Connemara, and subsequent wrongful convictions and executions of innocent people, will be screened in County Galway next week.

Life on the Aran Islands in the sixties

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

WHEN THE late photographer Bill Doyle first visited the Aran Islands in 1964 and began to photograph the local people, he was capturing a way of life that has since vanished.

Eamonn McCann to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

ACTIVIST, JOURNALIST, author, social justice campaigner, and briefly a Stormont MLA, Eamonn McCann has long been an outspoken and independent voice in Irish politics and society.

Billow Wood play Róisín Dubh tonight

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

BILLOW WOOD - formerly known as Flat Out - bring their multi-vocal and harmony driven mix of Irish trad, folk, indie, rock, and pop, to the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh this evening at 8.30pm.

Eva’s Echo explore toxic relationships in The Way It Is

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

Fledgling Galway theatre company Eva’s Echo, this month presents its second production, The Way It Is, by American playwright Donna Hoke - a taut two-hander about the painful unravelling of a relationship.

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