Cinema review: Isle Of Dogs

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 05, 2018

DIRECTOR WES Anderson is on a bit of a roll. His last two films, Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, have been among his best work, but I was a little disappointed at his decision to step back into stop motion animation.

Máirtín Ó’Connor to play A Night for Rosabel

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

THE GREAT Máirtín O'Connor has been announced as among the special guests to join We Banjo 3 for the upcoming A Night for Rosabel concert which takes place in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, next week.

Preview screening of new French film at the Pálás

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

THE MARVELLOUS Juliette Binoche stars in Let The Sunshine In, the French film that will open the new Galway Film Society season and mark the society's move from the Town Hall Theatre to the Pálás Cinema.

Mario Rosenstock - In Your Face!

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

MARIO ROSENSTOCK is intent on getting In Your Face! when he takes his new show of the same title around Ireland this month, including a date at Leisureland, Salthill.

Delorentos - new album, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

AS DELORENTOS get set to release their new album, the Dublin quartet will play the Róisín Dubh next week as part of an intimate series of shows around Ireland.

Tom French’s variations of the sonnet

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

TOM FRENCH'S fifth collection, The Last Straw (The Gallery Press) exudes a deep sense of warmth even before it is opened. The painting illustrating the cover, Sunset, by Sadie Mackie, invites the reader to open the book and to revel in its content.

Shuffle! marks fifth birthday this weekend

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

SHUFFLE!, GALWAY'S night of northern soul, blues, ska, Latin, boogaloo, r'n'b, and rock'n'roll is back this weekend at the Róisín Dubh, with DJ Dave Barry joined by Count Skylarkin.

Young Galway sopranos to join G4 for Galway concert

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

GALWAY SOPRANOS Aimee Banks and Clare Quinn will be the special guests of G4 when the X-Factor stars, and multi-platinum selling vocal harmony group, play Galway this month.

A ballet, jazz, and classical, music extravaganza

Wed, Apr 04, 2018

BALLET, JAZZ, classical, and film scores will come together in what is certain to be a splendid night of music and dance in Salthill, featuring the combined talents of Maoin Cheoil na Gaillimhe and the Regina Rogers School of Ballet.

Citóg Records - album launch and Róisín Dubh gig

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

THE GALWAY music scene is the healthiest it has been in decades, with a wide array of bands and solo artists creating genuinely imaginative, quality, music across diverse genres.

Album review: Courtney Marie Andrews

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 29, 2018

TO QUOTE The Smiths' 'Sheila Take A Bow', "How can someone so young/Sing words so sad?" Courtney Marie Andrews sings like a women who has lived for twice as long, and experienced twice as much, as any 28-year-old.

Karl Spain to host new weekly comedy night

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

KARL SPAIN, the comedy host and MC par excellence, will host a new weekly comedy night at the Róisín Dubh, starting in April with a show featuring Joe Rooney, Totally Wired, and Sarah O’Gorman.

Paintclub's family painting event

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

PAINTCLUB IS hosting a family 'Painting & Brunch' event in Tribeton this Easter, where both adults and the junior artists of the house, can get together and create a masterpiece.

Galway Theatre Festival unveils line-up

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

THE PROGRAMME for this year’s Galway Theatre Festival, which runs from May 4 to 12, was revealed on Monday evening at a thronged launch in Biteclub on Abbeygate Street. Once again festival director Máiréad Ní Chróinín and her team have assembled a top-notch line-up of shows and ancillary events, guaranteed to entertain, surprise, delight and inspire.

'I don’t mind it not being cohesive as long as it’s not jarring'

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

NEVER MIND your Easter Eggs on Sunday morning; the real treat this weekend is the launch party for My Fellow Sponges’ eponymous new album at the Róisín Dubh.

You Were Never Really Here

Films Reviews Thu, Mar 29, 2018

AFTER A Terrence Malick like absence, one of Britain's finest directors, Lynne Ramsay, has a film back in the cinema, following up her 2011 masterpiece, We Need To Talk About Kevin, with another adaptation.

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra to play Leisureland

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

BEETHOVEN'S SEVENTH Symphony, referred to by Wagner as "the apotheosis of dance", and which received a new lease of life via its inclusion in the soundtrack to The King's Speech, will be performed in Galway.

Tóraíocht - love, monsters and Gaeilge

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

FÍBÍN, THE Galway based Irish language theatre company is celebrating its 15th anniversary with its largest production to date, a nationwide tour, in April, of Tóraíocht, directed by Mikel Murfi.

Leon Vynehall returns to Electric

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

LEON VYNEHALL is that rare thing – an artist with his own agenda rather than a producer aping the sound of the day, as he has shown with his off-kilter EPs on labels like Brighton's Well Rounded Housing Project, George FitzGerald's ManMakeMusic imprint, and Will Saul's Aus Music.

April Foolin’ with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

THE LIGHTS will be low, but the spirits are sure to be high, as leading burlesque performers hit the stage of the Róisín Dubh for another night of naughtiness, decadence, and glamour at The Dirty Circus.

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