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.

Putting ‘the Big Fellow’ onstage

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE TUMULTUOUS life and times of Michael Collins is recreated in Declan Gorman’s gripping new play, The Big Fellow, based on Frank O’Connor’s classic 1937 biography, and which comes to the Town Hall Theatre this month.

The Galway women who built the bombs

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

A LECTURE on the Galway women who built bombs for the British Army in WWI in the Galway munitions factory, and a film screening on the life nad work of Michael Davitt, will both take place in the Galway City Museum.

Show Me The Funny final heat

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE FIFTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny 2017 takes place in The King's Head on Monday February 13 with special guest, Eric Lalor, who many will know as Fair City bad boy, Cathal.

Athenry Youth Orchestra to perform in Dublin

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE ATHENRY Youth Orchestra has been chosen as one of only eight such orchestras from across Ireland, to perform at the 22nd Festival of Youth Orchestras in the National Concert Hall in Dublin.

A FEAST of prog-rock bands

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

VASA, "ONE of the most exciting, dynamic instrumental bands in the UK," according to The Independent, who play "riffs the size of King Kong's scrotal baskets", are coming to Galway this weekend.

Dancing along Ireland's coastline

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

"A MULTI-layered meditation on overcoming the constant force of gravity, and the fear of falling, in order to achieve the joyous freedom of the peak” is how Irish Theatre Magazine described The Cove.

Two classical concerts of Brahms and Bach

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

A SUNDAY afternoon with Brahms, and a lunchtime show, also involving Brahms, along with Bach and others, await classical music lovers, with two Music For Galway shows taking place over the coming days.

Hard lovin’ Valentines with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE LIGHTS will be low, but the spirits will be high as the cream of Irish and world burlesque struts its sexy stuff on stage for The Dirty Circus' Valentines Hard Lovin' Party in the Róisín Dubh.

Roesy - two Galway shows

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

ROESY, THE Australian based Irish singer-songwriter is bringing his The Very Round Robin tour across Ireland, playing shows where he will be joined by Kilá's Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Ye Vagabonds.

A Back To Basics singer-songwriter night

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

IRISH SINGER-songwriters Greg Clifford, Ian N Brennan, and Barry Jay Hughes are bringing their Back To Basics 'three-act showcase' tour around Ireland this month, covering 16 venues in three weeks.

The Rat Pack Live - at Seven

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE ERA, the music, the men - the Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, have become a byword for cool and male sartorial style.

Purple Rain - A Celebration of Prince

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE FIRST anniversary of the death of Prince - the soul, funk, rock, r'n'b genius and visionary - is drawing close, and a show is coming to Galway intends to celebrate the man, his life, and his music, in some style.

Killer Joe's Jazz Club returns to Monroe's

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE GALWAY Jazz Quartet is back with a new line-up for the Killer Joe's Jazz Club sessions, which return to the Side Bar at Monroe’s Tavern on Sunday February 12 at 8pm.

Galway Advertiser's Best New Songs #1

Essential Playlist Wed, Feb 08, 2017

SEVEN WEEKS into the New Year and already there has been some great music released by Future Islands, The Flaming Lips, Tinariwen, Father John Misty, and others.

A Galway documentary on a controversial life and mind

Tue, Feb 07, 2017

TOMMY TIERNAN and Mary Coughlan both feature in a new, Galway produced, documentary, Meetings With Ivor, about the life and work of leading Irish psychiatrist Ivor Browne, which will be screened at The Eye Cinema.

The differences Between Dog and Wolf

Mon, Feb 06, 2017

THERE IS a French phrase, "L’heure entre chien et loup" which translates as "At that time in the day, you can't tell the difference between a dog and a wolf", and can refer to a difficulty in distinguishing between things.

Chris Haze releases new EP - We Are One

Fri, Feb 03, 2017

GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Chris Haze's EP, We Are One, is about to be released. The five track EP will feature the singles 'Let Us Be Heroes' and 'I'll Run', along with three new songs.

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