Verdi’s Rigoletto - live @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

RIGOLETTO, ONE of Verdi’s most popular operas, is being performed at The Royal Opera House Live, in Covent Garden, London, and is being broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, next week.

First Over The Edge reading for 2018

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

THE OVER The Edge readings will not only be marking its first event of 2018, but it's 15th birthday when Martina Evans, Edna Faye Kiel, and Nicola Geddes, read from their work at the Galway City Library next week.

Galway Actors Workshop - new spring courses

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

THE GALWAY Actors Workshop will hold a series of new classes for the New Year for beginners and experienced, covering all aspects of acting for both theatre and television.

Cult hip-hop legends The Pharcyde @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

BIZARRE RIDE II The Pharcyde was the 1992 debut album of American hip hop group The Pharcyde. Since its release, it has been hailed by music critics and alternative hip-hop fans as a classic, and has appeared in numerous publications' best albums lists.

Neil Delamare - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Pensioner

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

ONE DAY Neil Delamere's father asked him to help deliver the Meals on Wheels. He agreed, little knowing their lives would never be the same again - except for the bits of their lives that did not change.

Galway Autism Partnership fundraiser at the Róisín

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

A NIGHT of music, comedy and performance, to raise funds for the Galway Autism Partnership, with the flamboyant and multi-talented Steven Sharpe as MC, takes place in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night from 9pm.

Two songwriters, an intimate gig

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

SINGER-SONGWRITERS Kiernan McMullan and Aaron Shanley, who are currently touring Ireland, play an intimate gig in The Secret Garden café, William Street West, on Sunday January 14.

Galway Dance Project workshops

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

THE GALWAY Dance Project holds its first workshop of 2018 this weekend, with classes in improvisation and activating space with James Riordan and Cathy Walsh.

Hardy Bucks @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

HARDY BUCKS, best known for their mockumentary style video series on RTÉ and online, following the fictional exploits of a group of fellahs living in small-town Ireland, are coming to Galway.

Sos - new gig night for Galway

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

SOS, A new gig night celebrating Galway city and county's diverse original music community, will be launched on Saturday January 20 at 7pm at Nuns Island Theatre.

Seth Troxler makes Galway debut @ Electric

Wed, Jan 10, 2018

BIG HAIR! Bigger personality! Seth Troxler, one of dance music’s most recognisable characters, does not take himself, or life, too seriously, but he is serious when it comes to music, as he will show Galway tonight.

Arts Festival to host world premiere of new opera production

Tue, Jan 09, 2018

FOLLOWING THE enormous success of The Second Violinist last year, Galway International Arts Festival has announced it will hold the world premiere of Irish National Opera’s new production of Orfeo ed Euridice as part of the 2018 festival.

Remember Phil Lynott this weekend

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

THIS MONTH marks the 32nd anniversary of the all too early passing of the great Phil Lynott, but the music of the Thin Lizzy singer, bassist, songwriter, and leader, will be celebrated in Galway this weekend.

Galway film Sanctuary wows London critics

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

IT HAS been a particularly happy festive period for everyone connected with Galway’s Blue Teapot Theatre Company and its award-winning film Sanctuary, which has been getting rave reviews in Britain.

Celebrate women artists on Oíche Nollaig na mBan

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

POETRY, THEATRE, and art will all be on the bill at the Galway Arts Centre's first event of 2018 - Oíche Nollaig na mBan - which will celebrate the work of female artists and mark the official end of the festive season.

Galway Arts Centre - what's going on for 2018

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

THE GALWAY Arts Centre's 2018 visual art programme will feature a mix of Irish and international artists and partnerships with several festivals, including the Cúirt international Festival of Literature, TULCA Festival of Visual Art, Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, and Galway International Arts Festival.

The poet, Van Morrison, and their native Belfast

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 04, 2018

AT FIRST glance the reader could be forgiven for thinking Gerald Dawe’s new book, In Another World - Van Morrison and Belfast, is a memoir of Van and his life in Belfast. There is some justification for this, but Dawe's short volume is so much more, and in fact packs one hell of a punch.

Druid announces two new appointments to board

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

The Board of Druid recently announced two exciting additions to the Board, recently retired Irish senior diplomat and trailblazer Anne Anderson and business doyenne and innovator Helen Ryan.

Creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

DAYTIME CREATIVE writing classes take place this month, in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, and will be taught by the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars.

A poet of whom Markievicz would have approved

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 04, 2018

THE RECENT Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets has been criticised on the grounds that the gender balance is skewed in favour of those in permanent possession of a penis.

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