‘I don’t know if I could have recorded this album until now’

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

ONE OF the critical hit albums of 2016 was Introducing Karl Blau, a 10-song set of sixties and seventies styled country gems that melded singer-songwriter Karl Blau’s mellifluous baritone with Tucker Martine’s silky production.

Na Cruithne - debut album launch in Galway

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

NA CRUITHNE, the folk-metal sextet, who fuse groove and black metal with the traditional musics of Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany, launch their debut album, Gairm an Fhiantais, with a concert next week.

Andrew Maxwell: Yo Contraire

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

ANDREW MAXWELL, “one of the most significant comedians working in the country today", according to The Independent, returns to Galway to perform his latest show, Yo Contraire, at the Róisín Dubh.

Over The Edge opening reading

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

WRITERS JAKI McCarrick, Ciaran Ferriter, and Paul Lewis, will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday February 23 at 6.30pm.

Saint Joan - live at The Eye

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

JOAN OF Arc - daughter, farm girl, visionary, patriot, soldier, leader, victor, icon, radical, heretic, saint, martyr, woman. George Bernard Shaw's classic play about the French heroine is being revived for the stage.

An evening of Beethoven's music

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

THE MUSIC of Beethoven will be heard in re-named Emily Anderson Concert Hall at the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, when the Ficino Ensemble perform the next Music For Galway concert.

12 Years A Teacher - comedy @ Seven

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

SCHOOL DAYS have always provided a rich material for stand-up comedians, with the joke usually at the expense of the teacher. However John Caplis has turned the tables to give the teacher’s perspective.

Romania - from a Galway perspective

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

OFF THE Beaten Track, a documentary by County Galway based director Dieter Auner, on emigration and rural depopulation in Romania, will be screened in Connemara this evening [Thursday February 16].

Des Bishop - One Day You'll Understand

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

HE MAY have been voted off Dancing With The Stars, but Des Bishop cannot be kept down, as he is currently busy touring his new show, One Day You’ll Understand, across Ireland.

The Three Tenors to play Town Hall Theatre

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

THE THREE Tenors, whose concerts have been called "fabulous, high-calibre...soulful" by the Sunday Independent, and a "knockout’’ by the New York Times, return to Galway this month.

Padraig Stevens - 70th birthday concert

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

LEGENDARY TUAM songwriter Padraig Stevens will play a rare Galway concert next week, at The King's Head, accompanied by Leo Moran of The Saw Doctors.

Show Me The Funny grand final 2017

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

AFTER FIVE hotly contested and sometimes controversial heats, the Show Me The Funny grand final takes place next week at The King's Head, with 12 comedians battling for a slot at this year's Electric Picnic Comedy Tent.

Cafolla and Engel @ HALO

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

CAFOLLA AND Engel, the live saxophone and DJ duo, eturn to Galway to play the HALO nightclub this Saturday from 11pm.

Matters romantic, carnal, and rapturous

Wed, Feb 15, 2017

AS IT is Valentine's week, the Town Hall Bar Theatre bar and the new Black Gate Cultural Centre, on Francis Street, joined forces to mark the occasion and host an exhibition entitled Desire, celebrating matters romantic, carnal, and rapturous.

Gender battles and a sexually ambiguous Greek (rock) god

Wed, Feb 15, 2017

CURRENTLY RUNNING at Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre, Max Hafler’s terrific production of Euripides’ The Bacchae attests to the gifted student talent of NUI Galway’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance and Chekhov Training and Performance Ireland.

The Redneck Manifesto - 11 essential tracks

Essential Playlist Tue, Feb 14, 2017

POST-ROCK, indie-rock, jazz, metal, hardcore, and avant-garde all fuse brilliantly in the music of The Redneck Manifesto, arguably Ireland's greatest post-rock band. With the band touring this month, and rumours of new material on the way, we present a 'Best Of' the Dublin quintet's work to date:

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh - The best of Tuesday, but on a Friday

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THIS WEEK'S instalment of the Róisín Dubh Comedy Club could be described as "the best of Tuesday, but on a Friday", with a 'tapas menu' of some of the best comedians who play the Róisín's regular Tuesday Comedy Showcase.

Protest prayers of the Hello magazine era

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 09, 2017

AN EMINENT literary gent recently used the pages of a leading poetry journal to take issue with “the new troubadours of protest and dissent whose combative views” are, he claimed, “promulgated like Papal bulls.”

The return of The Redneck Manifesto

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

FIRST CAME the announcement of live dates, then the appearance of their albums on streaming services, and now there is speculation The Redneck Manifesto are recording, and will be releasing, new music.

That Same Old Story – celebrating love’s vagaries for Valentine's

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

GERRY CONNEELY returns to the Town Hall studio on St Valentine’s week with a delightful musical play on the subject of romance, The Same Old Story. The show portrays Conor and Katie, two 20-year-olds in the first flush of new love and Frank and Maggie, an older couple, who are contemplating divorce.

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