Galway Burlesque Festival 2017

Thu, May 11, 2017

BURLESQUE PERFORMERS from across the world will strut their stuff on Galway's stages when the second Galway Burlesque Festival returns to the city from Friday May 26 to Sunday 28.

Back West - debut album and Róisín Dubh gig

Thu, May 11, 2017

BACK WEST - Galway brother and sister duo Maureen and Brendan Browne, Tyrone's virtuoso PJ McDonald, and Lord of the Dance's Peter Vickers - launch their debut album in the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

Elaine Feeney - poetry at the edge

Literature Reviews Thu, May 11, 2017

LAST YEAR marked the 35th anniversary of the founding of Salmon press, during which its incredible contribution to Galway's cultural life was fully celebrated. Those heady days of the eighties were brought back to mind when Rita Anne Higgins, Mary O’Malley, and Eva Bourke were given a platform to present their challenging poems to a bewildered, if generally receptive, audience.

The Odd Couple...of women

Thu, May 11, 2017

NEIL SIMON'S much loved flat-share comedy of clashing personalities, The Odd Couple, has rarely been off the world's stages premiering on Broadway in 1965, but its 1985 female version is less well known.

Brahms - the musician, the lover...

Thu, May 11, 2017

AIMEZ-VOUS Brahms? Music for Galway’s 36th International Concert Season comes to a close with two events, one celebrating Brahms' music, the other looking at his most enigmatic aspect - his love life.

Time to go Beyond Therapy

Thu, May 11, 2017

WISHY-WASHY Prudence lives a lonely life with two cats and a ticking biological clock. Self-described crackpot Bruce has a volatile boyfriend, Bob. Both are looking for someone stable to love.

Galway metal band reaches Metal to the Masses final

Thu, May 11, 2017

NA CRUITHNE, the Galway folk-metal band, have made it to the final of the prestigious Metal 2 the Masses competition in Dublin, which takes place in Fibber Magees in Dublin this Saturday.

Cut loose with Italy's Ensemble Micrologus

Thu, May 11, 2017

"A MEDIAEVAL band cutting loose in the village square on a festival day" is how The Boston Globe described Italian ensemble Ensemble Micrologus, who will be "cutting loose" in Galway this month.

Duke Special - on his way back to Galway

Thu, May 11, 2017

DUKE SPECIAL is an artist who is forever restless, forever on the move. "I don't want to be sounding like I sounded 10 years ago," he has said. "I want to keep adding to what I've learned, keep developing."

Train Room to play Monroe's

Thu, May 11, 2017

TRAIN ROOM, the brainchild of Mayo songwriter/musician/producer Joe Monaghan, has been called "one to keep an eye on" by The Irish Times, and Galway has a chance to see why next week.

Sean Daly & The Shams to play Monroe's

Thu, May 11, 2017

DESPITE 'SHAM' being a word indelibly associated with Tuam, Sean Daly & The Shams do not hail from north Galway. Sean is from Donegal, while the band was founded in San Francisco in 2011.

Galway International Arts Festival impresses New York with drama and talks

Wed, May 10, 2017

GALWAY INTERNATIONAL Arts Festival and playwright Enda Walsh wowed New York’s culture scene this week with two openings for Walsh’s work, while Galway adventurer, and solo transatlantic rower, Gavan Hennigan took part in the GIAF’s first US First Thought Talk.

Exhibition Review: Placing the Word (Dolores Lyne and Margaret Irwin, Black Gate)

Art Reviews Tue, May 09, 2017

PLACING THE Word, the art exhibition mounted as part of the Cúirt Festival programme, and featuring work by Galway artists Dolores Lyne and Margaret Irwin, continues at the Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street.

'When you are in front of an audience your job is to entertain them'

Thu, May 04, 2017

ALL CONQUERING quartet We Banjo 3 make a rare hometown appearance at the end of this month when they play The Black Box for a 'Monroe's Live presents...' show on Friday May 26 at 8pm and it promises to be a storming gig.

Finbar McHugh's Feelings on display

Thu, May 04, 2017

HE IS best known as street artist Finbar247, but for his new exhibition he is going by his actual name, Finbar McHugh, and displaying a series of fine art paintings.

Youth Ballet West's tenth anniversary gala

Thu, May 04, 2017

YOUTH BALLET West marks it's 10th year in existence with a gala performance in the Town Hall Theatre that will draw from many of its most popular shows, as well as the world premiere of the new work - A Tribute to Haydn.

Elaine Mai - new EP and Róisín Dubh gig

Thu, May 04, 2017

THE COLOUR Of Night, the new EP from electro singer-songwriter Elaine Mai will be launched at the Róisín Dubh. Almost three years in the making, it is a cathartic work about the human experiences of grief and hope.

Banff Mountain Film Festival - an adventure on screen

Thu, May 04, 2017

MIND-BLOWING journeys and hair-raising moments amid the last wild corners of the planet, undertaken by ordinary people with a taste for taking on mighty challenges with nature - it's the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Album review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Music Reviews Thu, May 04, 2017

“THIS RELEASE is designed to be a way into three decades of music making...the songs we have chosen are the ones that have stuck around, for whatever reason. Some songs are those that demand to be played live. Others are lesser songs that are personal favourites of ours."

Al Murray - Lets Go Backwards Together

Thu, May 04, 2017

IN MAY 1940, three days after the Fall of France, with Nazi Germany looking unstoppable, Winston Churchill made a rousing speech to the House of Commons, concluding: "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."

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