Jinx Lennon- new albums and Galway shows

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

JINX LENNON, the Dundalk agit-folk, punk-poet, has just released two new albums - Past Pupil Stay Sane and Magic Bullets Of Madness To Uplift Grief Magnets - and plays two shows in County Galway this week.

Country and Irish legends to play Salthill

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

BIG TOM and Margo O’Donnell, two of the major names in Irish country music, top the bill at the annual Michael Commins Concert Shows in the Salthill Hotel, on Sunday November 13 and Monday 14.

Theatre review: The Playboy of the Western World - the musical

Wed, Nov 09, 2016

THE PLAYBOY of the Western World has had countless outings and re-imaginings since its 1905 premiere, but few as rollicking and royally entertaining as Justin McCarthy and Diarmuid De Faoite’s musical version running in the Town Hall Theatre until Saturday.

Tommy Tiernan - Out Of The Whirlwind

Tue, Nov 08, 2016

OUT OF The Whirlwind, the new DVD from Tommy Tiernan, capturing the Irish comic's Edinburgh Comedy Festival 2016 show, will be released on DVD on Friday November 18.

Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! voice actor in Galway in January

Mon, Nov 07, 2016

ERIC STUART, a leading voice actor in some of the most popular and enduring modern cartoon series, as well as a musician who has toured with Ringo Starr and Lynyrd Skynyrd, is coming to Akumakon 2017.

'The Bonnie and Clyde of mythological Ireland'

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

GALWAY'S FÍBÍN Theatre Company will premiere Tóraíocht, its new version of the epic tale, The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne - written by Philip Doherty and directed by renowned actor and director Mikel Murfi - next week at the Black Box Theatre.

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

MARTIN HAYES and Dennis Cahill just may be one of, if not the greatest, partnership in Irish trad. The duo, going strong since they met in Chicago in the 1980s, make a welcome return to Galway, to play the Róisín Dubh this month.

Two films this Sunday from Galway Film Society

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR'S latest film, the critically acclaimed Julieta, and the award winning French film, The Measure Of A Man, will both be screened in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday.

'I write in books as much as in individual poems'

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

GALWAY POET Mary O'Malley recently published her latest volume of poems, Playing the Octopus, her fourth collection with Carcanet Press and her eighth in all since her 1990 debut, A Consideration of Silk.

Album review: Oh Boland

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 03, 2016

ASK NIALL Murphy, or rather, get into an engrossing discussion with him on music, and eventually he will come straight out and say it: "I'm a punk". Give him another few minutes and he'll cough up: "But I really like Yes...but no I'm a punk!"

Sail to Byzantium in Bastard Amber

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

INSPIRED BY the poet WB Yeats and the artist Patrick Scott, Bastard Amber, a dance production by the acclaimed Liz Roche Company, makes its Galway debut at the Town Hall Theatre next week.

The strange the terrifying world of Hieronymus Bosch

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

CREATOR OF some of the most bizarre and terrifying images ever put to canvas, Hieronymus Bosch stands as one of the most singular of all European artists, whose work profoundly influenced surrealism and continues to fascinate today.

Baking the planet

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

THERE IS an increasing personal belief that a poetry selection should at first be read through fairly quickly, and then revisited at a later date at a slower pace. This will help the reader to a deeper understanding of the why and wherefore of the poems and greatly enrich his/her reading experience.

Saint Sister bring the ‘atmosfolk' to Seven

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

"THEIR MUSIC is folk, pastoral, and dreamy with its pop eyes wide open." This is how Nialler9 has described Saint Sister, the 'atmosfolk' duo of Morgan MacIntyre and Gemma Doherty, who play Galway next week.

Acting course for beginners

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

ACTING 101, a new, six-week course from the Galway Actors Workshop, teaching the basics of acting to beginners in a relaxed, enjoyable, way, starts next month.

Fear not - Windings return

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

FROM ITS beginnings as a solo side project for the quieter songs of Giveamanakick's Steve Ryan, to a fully fledged band enjoying critical acclaim and Choice Music Award nominations, Windings have come a long way.

Joe Fox - A$AP Rocky protegé plays Seven

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

JOE FOX is not a man who does things in the traditional manner. He is a musician who admits he used to believe, "music always seemed like a very elitist thing”, and once thought it was odd that a friend of his kept a guitar in his house.

The soundtrack to France at war

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

TWO PIECES of music, both written in France during WWI, will be performed by Duo Chagall at a lunchtime Music For Galway concert entitled Notes from the Great War: French Chamber Music from 1917.

My Fellow Sponges return to Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

TAKE AN obsession with words, add a splash of weirdness, some theatrical training, and you have something like what My Fellow Sponges get up to on and off stage.

Galway Baroque Singers' new concert series

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers will join forces with the Dun Laoghaire Choral Society, under conductor David Brophy, for Choral Fusion, a new project where both groups will tour and perform together for what they promise will be a "challenging double choir repertoire".

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