Yawning Chasm to play Bus King #3

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

YAWNING CHASM, the Galway indie folk rock singer songwriter, whose music has been described as "delicate and affecting" by The Irish Times, will play the next Bus King gig.

Music & Musings with ConTempo

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

MUSIC & MUSINGS is a new series of short concerts at the Black Gate Cultural Centre, featuring the ConTempo Quartet with emerging and established composers from Ireland, as well as guest artists.

Nosferatu - creeping onto a screen in Galway

Wed, Oct 18, 2017

THE ORIGINAL Dracula film, the first cinematic interpretation of Bram Stoker's novel, and one of the greatest horror films of all time - Nosferatu - will be screened in Galway - accompanied by a live soundtrack from the ConTempo Quartet.

Don McLean retuns to Galway

Wed, Oct 18, 2017

DON MCLEAN, the singer-songwriter whose 'American Pie', 'Vincent', and 'And I Love You So' are standards in the great songbook, not just of America, but of the world, returns to Galway in June.

Galway Cartoon Festival makes its bow

Tue, Oct 17, 2017

A NEW entry into the city’s crowded calendar of festivals is the Galway Cartoon Festival, which arrives next week and runs from October 21 to 30, with the aim of celebrating and showcasing drawings which make us laugh and make us think.

Join JSB for Run in the Dark Galway 2017!

Tue, Oct 17, 2017

Global Run in the Dark funds Mark Pollock Trust’s mission to fast-track a cure for paralysis.

Cinema review: The Snowman

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 16, 2017

WITH 2008's Let The Right One In, director Tomas Alfredson made one of the best film I have ever seen - a hauntingly powerful vampire film which has since been remade for an American audience and turned into a stage play.

Who are you going to see at the Comedy Carnival?

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

WITH LESS than two weeks to go to the biggest comedy festival this town has ever seen, there are still tickets available for an array of great shows at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival - so much so, it's hard to know where to start!

Get Pulled at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

"GET YOUR coat, you've pulled!" is one of the oldest, cockiest, and certainly cheesiest 'chat up' lines ever devised by the fallen mind of man - and who else but a certain kind of man would think such a line might work?

When Anna met Adrien

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

IN GERMANY, just after The Great War, grieving Anna comes across a young Frenchman, Adrien, laying flowers at the grave of her fiancé Frantz.

Album review: Liam Gallagher

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 12, 2017

THE CLUE is in the title. This is not about reinvention ("I didn’t want to be reinventing anything or going off on a space jazz odyssey," Liam has said.) It's about a return to terra firma after Oasis's end and Beady Eye's failure.

Liam O'Flaherty's WWI records to go on display in Galway

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

IN SEPTEMBER 1917, while fighting in Flanders during World War I, Liam O’Flaherty was seriously injured, suffering shell-shock, the trauma of which remained with him all his life.

Wyvern Lingo - new single, Róisín Dubh gig

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

WYVERN LINGO have just released their new single, 'Out Of My Hands' - their most candid, politicised song to date - and have announced a gig at the Róisín Dubh as part of their 2018 tour of Ireland.

'Give us the dancefloor and we’ll devastate the club'

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

HIS APPETITE for music is boundless, his belief in its power as a unifying force which can cross social divisions is deeply held, and in the Electric clubnight MOVE, DJ John Daly turns that passion into practice.

Bounce your way to Baboró

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

BOUNCE, A delightful blend of acrobatics, music, and a very physical form of dance, with a captivating live soundtrack, comes to this month's Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

Rosie Carney to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

BORN IN Hampshire in 1997, and moving to Ireland when she was 10, Rosie Carney grew up in Downings, a Gaeltacht village amid the vast, rugged landscapes of the Rosguill peninsula, County Donegal.

'My style is more storytelling and energy, just madness more than anything'

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

FROM COMEDY sketches about life in the GAA to more serious issues about mental health, it is likely you will have come across the work of Rory O'Connor if you are a regular user of Facebook.

Book review: Poets unblinking in the face of breast cancer

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 12, 2017

IF YOU are a woman, or have a mother, wife, girlfriend, sister, or daughter, the poems included in this new anthology, Bosom Pals: Eight Poets Share Their Experience of Breast Cancer could, some day, perhaps even today, prove invaluable.

A night of one acts plays in Loughrea

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

A NIGHT of one act plays, by the writers Paul Maher, Barry McKinley, and Stephen Smith, will be performed by the Seumas O’Kelly Players, in the Temperance Hall, Loughrea, next week.

Mundy brings Jelly Legs to Monroe's Live

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

ON OCTOBER 14 1996, an Offaly singer-songwriter going by the name of Mundy released his debut album, Jelly Legs, on Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony. It won critical praise and sold 60,000 copies around the world.

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