David McSavage - live and dangerous

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

DAVID MCSAVAGE, "the comic equivalent of dynamite fishing," according to the Official Edinburgh Fringe Magazine, and "one of Ireland’s funniest comedians," says The Irish Mirror, comes to the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

Galway Dark Arts Festival 2017

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

BLACK METAL, death metal, experimental, dark ambient, and noise musics will reverberate throughout the city centre as the Galway Dark Arts Festival 2017 descends this weekend to shroud all in its black cloak.

Exhibition by Kinvara artists

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

THE ART Of Nature, the Kinvara Area Visual Arts’ Annual Members Exhibition 2017, opens this weekend in the south Galway town as part of the Crinniu na mBad festival.

Do you like good music? Sweet soul music

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

“QUALITY SOUL music and people having a damn good time” in a city with “a great history of soul events”. This is what DJ Paul Grant says can be expected when the Galway Bay Soul Weekender hits the city at the start of September.

Disney's Aladdin jr - The Musical

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

FOLLOWING PREVIOUS family summer musicals like Seussical, The Sound of Music, and Peter Pan, Brian and Seán Power’s Twin Productions is continuing this tradition at the Town Hall Theatre with Disney's Aladdin jr - The Musical, based on the hit movie and Broadway smash.

Boys! Boys! Boys!

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

THE DIRTY Circus is well known as a great night of burlesque and cabaret, with the star attraction being the stunningly sexy divas of all body types, but what about a night featuring just the men, performing what is known as 'Boylesque'?

Paul Muldoon brings his Picnic to the Town Hall

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

PAUL MULDOON, the Pulitzer Prize winning Irish poet and former Oxford professor of poetry, librettist for operas, and rock lyricist who has worked with The Handsome Family and Warren Zevon, is coming to Galway.

The Elation - new single, Monroe’s Live gig

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

WITH THEIR Top 20 debut single 'XO', and follow-up single 'Catch', Cork quartet The Elation are no longer a secret, but a rising name in Irish rock, a trend that looks set to continue with their latest single.

Extra shows for Galway's Smallest Comedy Club

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

TWO OF Galway’s favourite comedians - Bob Hennigan and Johnny Graham - recently had a successful run of solo shows at Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club and have added two additional dates.

Scullion to play Róisín Dubh next weekend

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

SCULLION, FEATURING three of Ireland's leading musicians - Sonny Condell, Philip King, Robbie Overson - make a welcome return to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh on Sunday August 27 at 8pm.

Galway radio drama set to national broadcast

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

A LOCALLY made radio drama - recorded in the Flirt FM Studios in NUI Galway, and on location around Galway city - is set for a national broadcast when it is aired on Newstalk 106-108fm this weekend and next.

The crime solving taxi driver

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

GREEDY BUILDERS, resilient prostitutes, trafficked East European women, and rogue cops, all set in the Galway of 2009 - this is A Very Personal Service, a Galway noir novel by Seán Gibbons.

Conjuring Fate - power metallers Galway debut

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

CONJURING FATE, the County Antrim power metal quintet, who have won notice across Ireland for their scintillating and high octane live shows, will make their Galway debut when they play the city next week.

Esker Festival Orchestra - two Galway shows

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

MUSIC BY Mahler and Tchaikovsky, and the world premiere of new work by young Irish composer Christopher Moriarty, will be performed by the Esker Festival Orchestra at two shows in Galway this month.

Autumn creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will give a series of beginner and continuing creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre, starting in September.

Pogues tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

POGUEOLOGY - A tribute to The Pogues, the seven-piece Laois based group celebrating the music and energy of the great London-Irish trad band with punk spirit, play Monroe's Live this week.

The painted rhythms of life as it used to be

Art Reviews Wed, Aug 16, 2017

LAST SATURDAY afternoon the Town Hall Theatre bar hosted the opening of Timeless, a delightful exhibition of paintings by Kathy Ross, inspired by her locality of Coolreagh, near Tuam.

Album review: Breakfast Muff

Music Reviews Wed, Aug 16, 2017

IT BEGINS with a 50 second burst positioned somewhere between shouty noise and a song, before changing tack with a gently lo-fi piece of tunefully scratchy pop. In 164 seconds Breakfast Muff have set out their musical stall.

Through A Glass Darkly

Thu, Aug 10, 2017

ORIGINALLY A phrase in 1 Corinthians 13:12, "Through A Glass Darkly" has inspired book titles, including Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 collection of short stories In A Glass Darkly, titles of TV episodes, and the Rolling Stones album Through The Past, Darkly.

Galway Bay Soul Weekender

Thu, Aug 10, 2017

"DO YOU like good music? That sweet soul music! Just as long as it's swingin'. Oh yeah, oh yeah." So declared Arthur Conley on his classic 1967 hit, 'Sweet Soul Music', and Galway is in line for plenty of that beautiful sound next month.

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