American orchestral music at the Town Hall

Thu, May 25, 2017

ICONIC AMERICAN music, such as Bernstein's scores for West Side Story, will be performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra on their America Tour, which comes to Galway next month.

Mad Dog McRea - rowdy and room shaking

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOLK, ROCK, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and "shake your ass" music is what Galway can expect when Mad Dog McRea take to the stage of Monroe’s BackStage Bar next month.

US choir to sing at Galway Cathedral

Thu, May 25, 2017

THE SONORAN Desert Chorale from Arizona will give a concert at the Galway Cathedral featuring Renaissance and contemporary Irish compositions and arrangements of traditional Irish songs.

Go back to the eighties with Delorean

Thu, May 25, 2017

GOING BACK to the 1980s need not involve one of 'Doc' Brown's time machine Delorean car - it just needs 1980s covers band Delorean, who play HALO this weekend.

Seán McGinley and Garry Hynes reunite for upcoming Druid production

Wed, May 24, 2017

SEÁN MCGINLEY, one of Ireland's finest actors, will revive his long association with Galway's Druid Theatre Company company and director Garry Hynes, by starring in a new production of Eugene McCabe's King Of The Castle this autumn.

Galway African Film Festival 2017

Tue, May 23, 2017

THE FATHER of African film, Cape Verde's best loved LGBT woman, and the coming of age of an Afro hipster, these are just some of the stories and people to feature at the 10th annual Galway African Film Festival.

Reginald D Hunter - back in Galway in 2017

Tue, May 23, 2017

HE HAS often been controversial, he has often been provocative, he is always challenging. He is Reginald D Hunter, the comedian who, according to The Times, is always "going for broke, flying in the face of received opinion in a way that is simply exhilarating".

Paisiún Presents: "Letting Go"

Fri, May 19, 2017

We would be delighted if you could join us on June 4th @ the Árus na nGael courtyard to enjoy insightful talks, live music, local food, interactive art, honest conversation and dancing like nobody’s watching.

Tom Green’s European Road Trip hits Galway

Thu, May 18, 2017

TOM GREEN'S European Road Trip 2017 is heading to Ireland, and one of his stop offs in the country will be Galway, where the Canadian comic can be expected to share his wonderfully cracked view of the world.

Waves - paying homage to pioneering Australian women

Thu, May 18, 2017

AUSTRALIAN SWIMMER Elizabeth Moncello was the unofficial inventor of the butterfly stroke. She had a watertight reason for learning to swim and watching schools of fish, penguins, and other amphibian friends taught her how.

Discover the world of Vermeer

Thu, May 18, 2017

THE PAINTINGS of the 17th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, who depicted domestic interior scenes and is renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light, is the subject of a major new documentary.

Album review: The Charlatans

Music Reviews Thu, May 18, 2017

IT SAYS much for The Charlatans that, while other Manchester bands of their vintage who may have been bigger went and imploded long ago, Tim Burgess and friends have quietly been able to keep going.

Bruce Springsteen's right-hand man to play Galway

Thu, May 18, 2017

GARRY TALLENT, a long serving member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, is taking time out from those duties to go on a solo tour which will see him head to Ireland, and Galway, next month.

Crestfall - women on the edge

Thu, May 18, 2017

THREE WOMEN in one place, on one evening, under an unforgiving sky, find themselves on the precipice of catastrophe. This is Crestfall by Mark O’Rowe, which will be staged by Druid as part of the 2017 Galway International Arts Festival.

The Vikings are coming - to party, not to pillage

Thu, May 18, 2017

The Claddagh boatmen's Bádóirí an Chladaigh Regatta 2017 will not only showcase the finest Galway hookers and gleoiteogs in the West of Ireland, but brave an invasion of two Viking longships, thereby giving this year’s event a decidedly Nordic feel.

Sexy, outrageous, unclassifiable - Galway Burlesque Festival 2017

Thu, May 18, 2017

FROM THE sexy to the outrageous, from the traditional to the utterly unclassifiable, the 2017 Galway Burlesque Festival has it all, as burlesque performers from across the world will be strutting their fabulously wonderful stuff in the city next week.

Irish Times' Eileen Battersby to read at Over The Edge

Thu, May 18, 2017

EILEEN BATTERSBY, the chief literary critic of The Irish Times will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday May 25 at 6.30pm, along with Kathryn Guille and Chris Connolly.

Three Norn Iron comedians walk into a bar...

Thu, May 18, 2017

THREE TOP Northern Irish comedians - Micky Bartlett, Shane Todd, and Colin Geddis - will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow night for a first rate taste of Ulster comedy.

A FEAST of polyrhythmic heaviness

Thu, May 18, 2017

HIBAGON, THE heavy, polyrhythmic, duo from Bergamo, northern Italy, headline the next FEAST night this Saturday at 8.30pm in the Róísín Dubh's upstairs bar.

Actors sought for Crime & Punishment

Thu, May 18, 2017

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, 1861. A young man commits a violent murder in cold blood. He considers himself a Napoleon, acting for a higher purpose. Confronted with the seriousness of his crime, only the prostitute Sonja, offers redemption.

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