'Four Weeks, Four Guests' - Electric kicks off 2018

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

START AS you mean to go on they say, and 2018 is getting off to one hell of a start for Electric as the Abbeygate Street venue will this month host shows from Seth Troxler, Boots & Kats, Detroit Swindle, and Bicep & Hammer.

Galway visual arts highlights 2018

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

VISUAL ARTS enthusiasts have plenty to look forward to in 2018 with big shows, new shows, small shows, sexy shows, group shows, and single shows taking place throughout the city.

Versatile @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

INDIVIDUALLY THEY go by the names of Eskimo Supreme and Casper Walsh. Together they are hip hop duo Versatile, described as "lavish-living, hoop-loving, Ringsend natives, painting a vivid picture of day-to-day inner city Dublin".

Naomi Berrill - new album, Galway show

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

SHE LIVES and works in Florence, but she was born and reared in Headford. She is cellist and vocalist Naomi Berrill, and she coming back to Galway to launch hew new album, To The Sky.

Beth Orton - where folk and rave meet

Wed, Jan 03, 2018

BETH ORTON, the British singer-songwriter, who has collaborated with such diverse artists as William Orbit, Bert Jansch, Johnny Marr and Nick Cave, and whose music ranges from electronica to folk, is coming to Galway.

C4's Derry Girls and the Galway connection

Tue, Jan 02, 2018

THIS THURSDAY, Channel 4 begins broadcasting Derry Girls, a new comedy series set in Derry city in the 1990s - but despite it's Northern Irish setting, the show has strong Galway connections as it stars Galway born Nicola Coughlan, and Galway based comedian Tommy Tiernan.

Hudson Taylor - Galway bound in March

Tue, Jan 02, 2018

AS THEY put the finishing touches to their second album, which has been produced by Ryan Hadlock, best known for his work with The Lumineers and Vance Joy, Hudson Taylor are also preparing for a major tour of Ireland.

Theatre 2018 coming attractions

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

As 2017 draws to a close, thoughts turn to the New Year and Galway theatre goers have much to look forward to from both home-based and visiting companies and theatre-makers.

ASIWYFA - NYE @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

FOUR YEARS ago, And So I Watch You From Afar reinvented math-rock with All Hail Bright Futures. This year, they did it again with their fifth album, The Endless Shimmering - they remain the most exciting band in Ireland.

Matt Keane's annual Christmas concerts

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

MATT KEANE will host his annual Christmas season concerts - now in their 10th year - in the Claregalway Hotel on the Saturday January 6 and Sunday 7.

Galway electro-pop singer Laoise gets ‘Rich’

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

SHE HAS been called "the new electropop star of your dreams" by Wonderland magazine; "a gleaming gem" by Clash; while Notion has declared she is "not Ireland’s answer to anyone, but a new phenomenon in her own right”.

Shtax returns to Cloughanover tonight

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

Well known performer Aindrias de Staic bring his latest show "Seven Shades of Shtax" home to the Campbells Tavern, Cloughanover tonight December 28 for a night of comedy story-telling followed by a session onstage with the local Latchikos. It promises to be a fantastic evening with a few special guests and local homecomming apperanaces.

Creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will host a series of creative writing classes, for those interested in either poetry or fiction, starting in the New Year in the Galway Arts Centre.

The classes are aimed at beginner and continuing creative writing students, and take place on Mondays, from 2.30pm to 4pm, starting January 22, and running for 10 weeks. Susan is the author of the short story collections Lights In The Distance (2010) and the poetry collections Big Pink Umbrella (2008), Dreams For Breakfast (2010), The God Thing (2013), and Bone Fire (2016). She is also co-organiser of the Over The Edge reading series.

Keith Barry brings 'Magic Madhouse' to the Radisson Athlone

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

Internationally acclaimed mentalist/hypnotist, Keith Barry is bringing his brand new live show - Magic Madhouse - to the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone on Saturday, January 20.

New Year poetry workshops

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

ANYONE WHO has long wanted to write poems, but is unsure howe to begin, or even what the methods are, should check out the poetry workshops coming to the Galway Arts Centre.

The classes will be taught by Kevin Higgins, whose poetry collections, The Boy With No Face (2006), Time Gentlemen, Please (2008), Frightening New Furniture (2010), The Ghost in the Lobby (2014), and Song of Songs 2:0 – New & Selected Poems (2017), are all published by Salmon Poetry.

'Like any good villain she has been wronged in life'

Thu, Dec 21, 2017

IT IS now less than a fortnight until the opening night of this year’s Renmore Panto, Beauty and The Beast, and tickets are flying out of the Town Hall box office like hot mince pies.

Say I do at The Galmont Hotel & Spa & have a dream wedding day in Galway city - Wedding open day 2nd January 1-5pm.

Wed, Dec 20, 2017

The Galmont Hotel & Spa (formerly the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, Galway) is delighted to welcome brides and grooms-to-be to the iconic Inis Mór Suite, the handsome ballroom at the hotel which has been the backdrop to many countless happy days and nights of wedding celebrations in Galway city.

Paintings of Galway by Galwegians

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

GALWAY, ITS landscape and historic buildings, are the theme for a new exhibition, featuring work by students of the artist Jim Kavanagh, currently running at the Town Hall Theatre gallery.

New Year creative writing classes @ GTI

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

THOSE DETERMINED not to let 2018 pas without finally putting pen to paper, and composing the poems of that story they have had in their head for ages, can begin with creative writing classes in the Galway Technical Institute.

Brendan Grace - Salthill and Loughrea shows

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

IRELAND'S FAVOURITE funnyman, Brendan Grace, returns to Galway in 2018 to play the Salthill Hotel and the Loughrea Hotel, where he will perform some of his best loved comedy routines.

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