Colm Tóibín - a classic menagerie

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 15, 2017

THE OPENING paragraph of Colm Tóibín’s new novel House Of Names is a surprise: “I have been acquainted with the smell of death...So much has slipped away, but the smell of death lingers. Maybe the smell has entered my body and been welcomed there like an old friend come to visit. The smell of fear and panic."

The Clockworks - live in the city

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

THE CLOCKWORKS, one of the most impressive young Galway bands on the scene today, who have released a number of promising singles, play The Cellar this weekend.

Creative writing course for young people

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

DANI GILL, author of the poetry collection After Love, and the former director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, is to host a creative writing seminar for teenagers.

Rising Appalachia - two sisters and a world of folk music

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

BORN AND raised in Atlanta, Georgia, with a soul and sound yearning for the mountains and music of Appalachia, and the hard work put in on the streets of New Orleans - this is Rising Appalachia.

Galway International Arts Festival seeks volunteers

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

GALWAY INTERNATIONAL Arts Festival is recruiting volunteers for its 2017 programme of events, running from July 17 to 30, to help with venue invigilation, production, marketing, stewarding, crowd management, administration, and information services.

US choir and orchestra to play two Galway concerts

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT Hill Academy Youth Choral and Orchestral Ensemble from Philadelphia will play two concerts - one in Galway city and the other in Connemara.

The Club Workout @ HALO

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

CLUBBING NEEDS music to dance to. Fitness classes need music for rhythm and routine. So why not have the fun of the former and the fitness inducing of the latter in one place at the same time?

Wild Fire Nights - Galway film gets set to hit the screens

Wed, Jun 14, 2017

WILD FIRE Nights, a new short film shot in Galway city and county is in post-production and is due to hit festival screens this summer. It is also the directorial debut of Moycullen actor Emma Eliza Regan, who also wrote the film, and plays its lead character Lila.

Calling all rebel girls, Riot Grrrls, and punk feministas

Tue, Jun 13, 2017

GALWAY RIOT grrrls, feminists, punk music aficionados, and everyone in between, is invited to the Galway Feminist Collective's fundraising screening of The Punk Singer - a powerful documentary on musician and Third Wave Feminist icon Kathleen Hanna.

'Ah sure lookit!' - Dermot and Dave are coming to Galway

Mon, Jun 12, 2017

TODAY FM’s Dermot & Dave have announced a nationwide comedy tour, hitting venues across the country this October, and as part of that, they play the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Public interview with film maker Mark Cousins

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

MARK COUSINS, the Belfast film maker, director, and film critic is coming to Galway to give a public interview about his work at a special event in the Galway Film Centre, which includes a screening of his film, I Am Belfast.

Future Islands - countdown to Black Box concert

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

FUTURE ISLANDS, the indie-electro, synth-pop trio, whose music is one part melancholic, one part euphoric; led by the impassioned vocals and endearingly dodgy 'dad dancing' of Samuel T Herring, are coming to Galway.

Republic of Telly's Kevin McGahern @ Comedy Clubh

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

KEVIN MCGAHERN has been called a "gas bastard" by The Rubberbandits and Charlie Brooker said he "made me laugh out loud", and Galway will see why when he plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh.

Pléasc – Fíbín play remembers Galway's WWI disaster

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

ON JUNE 17 1917, Loughaunbeg beach, near Spiddal, was the scene of a dreadful disaster when a mine explosion killed nine local men. Windows in houses nearby were shattered and the sound of the blast was heard in Galway city, 16 miles away.

The 'strong, wise' Juno and the 'boozy spoofer' Paycock

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

ONE OF the all-time great Irish plays, Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey, looks set to thrill Galway audiences from Wednesday June 21 to Sunday 25 in an exciting joint production by Galway Community Theatre and the Town Hall Theatre, under the trusty direction of Andrew Flynn.

Galway Community Pride fundraising events

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

THE COUNTDOWN has begun to the 2017 Galway Community Pride festival which runs from August Monday 7 to Sunday 13, and in advance of that, a number of fun fundraising events will take place.

Margaretta D’Arcy will Tell Them Everything

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

TELL THEM Everything, a book by the veteran Galway activist and author Margaretta D’Arcy will be launched this month in The Women’s Pop Up Playhouse as part of The Colours Free Festival.

Saucy Hot Soup with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

THE DIRTY Circus will deliver a night of the most fantastic, sauciest, and craziest cabaret imaginable when it returns to the Róisín Dubh, and among the performers is Bonnie Boux, Miss Burlesque Ireland Showgirl of the Year 2016.

An atypical heavy trio for FEAST

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

HAILING FROM Ostia, near the 'Eternal City' of Rome, Zu are an atypical trio of drums, electric bass, baritone saxophone, and electronics. It may be the strangest gig FEAST has yet organised, but all the more reason to go see it.

Volunteers sought for Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh takes place from Tuesday July 11 to Sunday 16 and volunteers are sought to help out at the festival and with the Fleadh TV crew.

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