Áine Cahill to play The Loft

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

A FUSION of classic 1950s style jazz with contemporary pop defines the sound, style, and approach of Cavan singer-songwriter Áine Cahill, who plays Galway next week.

Baile An Salsa @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

FRESH FROM their recent tour of the US, Baile an Salsa - the Latin music/Irish trad fusion band - are back in Galway and will play the Monroe's Live Main Stage this Saturday from 9pm.

Bluesman WOLFF @ Monroe's

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

BLUES AND grunge combine in a primal and intense manner in the music of Wexford singer-songwriter WOLFF who plays Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Saturday May 6 at 9pm.

My Fellow Sponges Cúirt concert

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

GALWAY PROG-folk band My Fellow Sponges will play a one-off lunchtime concert, in the Ruby Room, The King's Head, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Bank Holiday weekender @ Electric

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

WITH THE May Bank Holiday Weekend coming hot on the heels of the Easter Bank Holiday, it will be another chance to dance, with leading Galway and Irish DJs taking over all floors of the Electric Garden and Theatre.

Bank Holiday Weekend @ HALO

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

WITH ANOTHER Bank Holiday coming so soon after the last it's another chance for a long weekend and big nights out, and HALO nightclub, Abbeygate Street, has a stacked line-up of resident DJs all weekend.

Review: Galway Theatre Festival

Theatre Reviews Wed, Apr 26, 2017

ONE OF the most keenly anticipated shows of the 2017 Galway Theatre Festival was Emma O’Grady’s What Good Is Looking Well When You’re Rotten On The Inside? at An Taibhdhearc and it fully lived up to expectations.

Simultaneous Vinyl Love for Repeal events across 8 Cities and 2 Countries..

Wed, Apr 26, 2017

Sunday May 14th in 8 cities of Ireland and the UK with more to be announced.

The Coronas, Jenny Greene, and RTÉ Concert Orchestra for Big Top

Tue, Apr 25, 2017

THE CORONAS, one of Ireland's best loved bands will play a headline at the Big Top to close the Absolut Big Top music programme at the Galway International Arts Festival this summer, while the day before 2FM’s Jenny Greene and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra will join forces for a night of dance anthems.

'Reading, writing, and thinking together will sustain us'

Tue, Apr 25, 2017

WITH THE Galway Theatre Festival having wound down on Sunday, it was time for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature to take the baton in Galway’s annual cultural relay race.

An Taobh Tuathail - a sonic journey to 1972

Mon, Apr 24, 2017

1972 WAS one hell of a year for music. It was the year of Roxy Music's debut album; David Bowie's breakthrough with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars; and Bowie also wrote a hit song for Mott The Hoople and produced Transformer for Lou Reed.

Fred Cooke returns to Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

THROUGH HIS guitar playing and physical storytelling, Fred Cooke delivers a distinctive brand of comedy, and he is about to make a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh this week.

EP review: Daithí

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 20, 2017

'GAELIC HEART, Modern Mind' could - should - be the very definition of Daithí's approach to music, a deep respect and love for traditional music and culture, with a forward looking embrace of the modern.

Talos - debut album and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

FOLLOWING THE release of his new single 'Contra', Irish indie-electro sensation Talos is about to release his debut album Wild Alee, after which he comes to Galway to play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh.

AL Kennedy and Conor O’Callaghan for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

AL KENNEDY, the Scottish author, columnist, commentator, and stand-up comic, is coming to Cúírt to read at an event alongside Conor O’Callaghan, shortlist nominee for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year.

Art For Fun exhibition

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

FIFTEEN STUDENTS from the Art For Fun weekly art class based in Kilcolgan, are currently exhibiting their works in the Renzo Café and Gallery, Eyre Street.

Yrsa Daley-Ward - ‘We’ve all experienced the same emotions’

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

HER SURNAMES are Irish, her parentage is Afro-Carribean, she grew up with Seventh Day Adventists, and she is an LGBT writer; Yrsa Daley-Ward is a one-woman rainbow coalition. This month, Cúirt audiences can savour her exhilaratingly raw and sensual writing when she reads at the Town Hall Theatre.

‘The story of Iphigenia raises a lot of pertinent questions for today’

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

ONE OF the must-see events at next week’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature is Lorna Shaughnessy’s powerful poetic drama The Sacrificial Wind which explores the characters around Euripides’ tragedy Iphigenia in Aulis.

Cúirt Over The Edge showcase 2017

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

PAUL BREGAZZI, Una Mannion, Eileen P Keane, and Rena Garrett, will read at this year's Over The Edge's annual New Writing Showcase as part of the 2017 Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Rise up and shine - Elaine Feeney's 'multi-layred' take on poetry and life

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

EMPEROR DARTH Sidious ordered Lord Vadar to 'Rise...!' in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith; WB Yeats threatened to "arise and go now, and go to Inishfree"; The Cardigans sang "Rise and shine my sister" - one word, yet each usage has very different connotations.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.