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.

The Best Albums of 2017

Music Reviews Thu, Dec 14, 2017

1. The Stevens - Good (Chapter Music)
The second album from the Melbourne quartet has songs by turns haunting, atmospheric, mysterious, catchy, outrageously melodic, lo-fi and raw, and definitely off-kilter. This is Indie par excellence.

Gilín Sneachta agus an Seachtar Scallywag

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

GILÍN SNEACHTA agus an Seachtar Scallywag, this year's An Taibhdhearc pantomime, written by Maeve Ingoldsby, and starring Tara Breathnach is currently running at the Middle Street based theatre.

Jenni Flaherty and Daniel Boyne are Beauty and The Beast

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

THIS YEAR'S Renmore pantomime, Beauty and The Beast, opens at the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday December 30, and promises to be a spectacular adventure of laughter, music, and song.

Galway Advertiser Galway musicians of 2017

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

Galway band of 2017
QUITE A number of bands have begun to hit their stride this year, meaning the future is looking very good for Galway music. Among the hardest working, but who, importantly, have the songs as well, are Rofi James.

ASIWYFA - NYE @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 14, 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.

Wyvern Lingo's Caoimhe Barry to play Repeal Party: R8@8€8

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

COMEDY, FASHION, music, and politics - including a guest appearance from Wyvern Lingo's Caoimhe Barry - combine at the Repeal Party in the Róisín Dubh, with all proceeds going to the Abortion Rights Campaign.

Music For Galway - love will be in the air

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

MUSIC FOR Galway will begin 2018 on a romantic note - no, not exclusively the romantic music era of c1780-1910 - but rather on music written by major composers when they were madly, and sometimes inapproiately, in love.

Le Galaxie - a dance fest for the Róisín

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

Close your eyes. It’s midnight. The ground is shaking underfoot and your fingers are pulled upwards by some invisible but very audible force. This is Le Galaxie. Theri music demands to be danced to. It brooks no opposition.

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