New Year's Eve at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

THE VERY cream of Galway and Irish rock, indie, singer-songwriter, and electro talent will ring out 2016 and welcoming in 2017 from the stage of the Róisín Dubh for the venue's marathon New Year's Eve bash.

Brendan Grace - New Year Galway shows

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

IRELAND'S favourite funnyman, Brendan Grace, makes a welcome return to Galway in 2017, when he brings his It's A Funny Old World show to Salthill and Ballinasloe in January.

What Elsie Martin’s husband chose to do to his wife

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

TRAMP PRESS'S most recent publication, Orange Horses, a collection of short stories by seriously overlooked Irish writer Maeve Kelly, is the third in its Recovered Voices series.

Prodigy - celebrating classical teen geniuses

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

ALMA DEUTSCHER is no ordinary 11-year-old. She is acclaimed as one of today's most exciting young composers and pianists, and she joins a long line of classical musicians who have genuine claim to be considered a prodigy.

Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh and Cormac Begley in concert

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

HE PLAYS a 10-string fiddle called the Hardanger d'Amore, has recorded 12 albums, and worked with The Gloaming. This month he tours with Cormac Begley, and they will play the Róisín Dubh.

A tribute night for Mike Arrigan

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

MIKE ARRIGAN, the Galway drummer, music teacher, and mentor, who died last year, will be remembered and celebrated with a major show at the Town Hall Theatre in January.

Hudson Taylor to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

THEY LIKE "Katy Perry as much as The Beatles", have played Longitude, Glastonbury, and T in the Park, and have notched up more than six million views - and counting - on YouTube.

Keane Family Christmas concerts

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

CAHERLISTRANE'S KEANE Family - Matt, Sean, Noel and Pat - bring their annual Christmas Time Concerts to The Claregalway Hotel on Friday January 6 and Saturday 7 at 8pm.

A winter classical concert at St Mary’s

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

THE SOPRANO Lorna Breen and flautist Miriam Kaczor will give a 'Winter Concert in St Mary's College' on Saturday December 17 at 4pm.

A night of country music with RIAH

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

HEADFORD COUNTRY music singer-songwriter RIAH, known for her soaring vocals, catchy hooks, and modern take on country music, plays Monroe's BackStage Bar on Wednesday December 21.

Seán Keane - live in Moycullen

Thu, Dec 15, 2016

THIS YEAR saw Seán Keane release his first new album in almost a decade and he closes 2016 with a concert in The Forge, Moycullen, on Friday December 30 at 8.30pm.

Ten Ton Slug and Weed Priest - Galway gig

Mon, Dec 12, 2016

AHEAD OF their performances at the Cleansing Lights Festival in Munich this weekend, Ten Ton Slug and Weed Priest - two of the county's finest metal bands - will play a show in Galway city on Thursday.

Tommy Tiernan's new TV chat show starts in January

Mon, Dec 12, 2016

HE HAS been a guest on The David Letterman Show and The Late Late Show, starred in sitcoms for Channel 4, fronted his own BBC and RTÉ series, and hosted radio programmes, but come the New Year, Tommy Tiernan will be hosting his own TV chat show.

Hurtling into the Future with artist Joanna Kidney

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

WE ARE Hurtling Into The Future, a new solo exhibition by artist Joanna Kidney, opens tomorrow in the Galway Arts Centre. It reflects on ideas of time and motion, the experience of being human with a living body on this earth, moving through the measure of time.

Album review: The Wedding Present

Music Reviews Thu, Dec 08, 2016

A SLOW, atmospheric, post-rock instrumental is not what a seasoned Wedding Present listener expects to hear, nor a stately and majestic track built around a worldless choir of male and female vocals, nor a sublime movement for string quartet and piano.

Mr Pussy to attend tomorrow's GASS clubnight

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

MR PUSSY, "the doyen of Irish drag queens...the original of the species," according to the Sunday Independent, will be in Galway tomorrow to attend GASS - The Great and Secret Show.

Citóg Christmas show for AMACH! and Teach Solais

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

STEVEN SHARPE & The Broke Straight Boys headline the second annual Citóg Records Christmas show in the Róisín Dubh, which will raise funds for AMACH! LGBT Galway, and its new resource and support centre, Teach Solais.

Christmas screening of Scrooge

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

SCROOGE, THE classic British film adaptation of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, will be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Christmas family concert of song, music, and ballet

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

A CHRISTMAS feast of classical music, song, story, and ballet to delight families, takes place in the Town Hall Theatre at the Galway ConTempo Quartet and Friends' Christmas Family Concert.

Joe Rooney @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Dec 08, 2016

JOE ROONEY is best known as 'gurrier priest' Fr Damo from Father Ted, barfly Timmy Higgins on Killinaskully, and from his appearances on Red Rock, but he is also a first rate stand-up and improv comedian.

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