Coole Music Orchestra Festival - celebrating 10 years

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

THE COOLE Music Orchestra Festival, which celebrates it's 10th anniversary this year, returns on Saturday March 11, with a series of afternoon and evening concerts, in the Gort Community Centre, south Galway.

What is poetry?

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 09, 2017

BACK IN the day, when the only poetry textbooks in our secondary schools were Intermediate Cert Poetry and Leaving Cert Poetry, should an intrepid pupil have the temerity to ask “What is poetry?” the answer generally given was “a lyric”.

Coirmcheoil Phadraig 2017

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

COIRMCHEOIL PHADRAIG 2017, the annual St Patrick's Festival concert of music and song of the nation, featuring the renowned Irish composer and pianist Tom Cullivan, takes place this weekend.

Bob Skeleton - and the sound of 'Midnight Pop'

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

THEY DESCRIBE themselves as playing "Midnight-Pop", with late night grooves and melodies that "create a dynamic blend of West Coast cool and Mancunian mood".

Stomptown Brass play Monroe’s on St Patrick’s Day

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

STOMPTOWN BRASS have released a new single, 'I Got A Plan', and the 10-piece urban street-funk band are touring Ireland this month, taking in Galway next week.

Ilenkus - new EP out next month

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

HUNGER, THE new EP from Galway post-metal band Ilenkus will be released next month on vinyl, and officially launched at an upcoming FEAST show in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh.

Cooney, Byrne, and Harper for Monroe's Live

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

STEVE COONEY, Altan's Dermot Byrne, and Bríd Harper, three outstanding Irish trad musicians, are coming to Galway to play Monrtoe's Live next week.

Free concert ahead of European Day of Early Music

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

A FREE concert, to take place next week in St Joseph’s Church, on the Presentation Road, will launch a week of pan-European celebrations ahed of the European Day of Early Music.

Galway Theatre Festival line-up unveiled

Wed, Mar 08, 2017

BITE CLUB was chock a block with eager punters on Monday evening for the programme launch of this year’s Galway Theatre Festival, and once again festival manager Máiréad Ní Chróinín and her team have put together a mouth-watering array of exciting, challenging, and entertaining shows.

Cúirt 2017 programme launched

Wed, Mar 08, 2017

THE RAIN was splish splashing in its Galway fashion on Tuesday evening but that didn’t deter the many literature devotees who gathered at the House Hotel for the programme launch of this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Two women’s poems of experience

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 02, 2017

POST-HEANEY, Irish poetry is in desperate need of a 'next big thing'. It should, preferably, be a poet with a haircut sufficiently stylish to allow him/her at least pretend to be young.

Edwin Sammon @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

YOU KNOW Edwin Sammon from RTE’s Republic of Telly, and as Father Gabriel on the IFTA Award winning Bridget & Eamon. He is also an accomplished stand-up comedian, who is playing the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh.

Galway Community Pride Festival fundraiser

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

MR PUSSY will be strutting her stuff on the stage of the Róisín Dubh at next week's GASS clubnight, when she hosts the first fundraiser for the Galway Community Pride Festival.

‘Deep and complex’ and Made In China

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

THE EXCITING new Dublin company Corps Ensemble come to the Town Hall Theatre this month with its blistering production of Mark O’Rowe’s high-octane drama, Made In China.

Eoin Colfer - Balancing laughs with pathos

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

GALWAY THEATRE-goers are in for a treat next weekend at the Town Hall with two performances of the achingly funny and touching drama, My Real Life, written by Eoin Colfer and performed by Don Wycherley.

The Blossoms - 'guitar pop's shooting stars' for Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

“WE WANT to be as mainstream as Will Smith, as great as The Smiths, and as uplifting as Mr Smith Goes to Washington.” So said The Blossoms who play Galway next week.

Lïnger - a 'powerful exploration of gay masculinity'

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

IT HAS been called "a must-see full-on theatrical show", one which possibly redefines and expands Irish dance. This is Lïnger, a contemporary dance work from former Riverdance principal dancer, Breandán de Gallaí.

Omid Djalili - taking on the schmucks of this world

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

"NEVER USE schmuck lightly, or in the presence of women and children," wrote Leo Rosten in his book, The Joys of Yiddish. Why? Because it is a very naughty word for the very naughty bits of a man.

The Quays win IMRO Connacht Venue of the Year

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

The Quays, one of Galway city's most popular bars and live music venues, has won the IMRO Best Venue Connacht Award 2016 at the IMRO Live Music Venue of the Year Awards which were held recently in Dublin.

Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn at NUIG

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

THE MUSIC of Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn, will be heard in the Emily Anderson Concert Hall in NUI Galway's Aula Maxima when the Trio Dali and Nathan Braude play the next Music For Galway concert.

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