Andrew Maxwell @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh
Thu, May 26, 2016
ANDREW MAXWELL, "one of the most significant comedians working in the country today", according to The Independent, plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow from 8.30pm.
Read more ...Three views on The Burren
Thu, May 26, 2016
THE BURREN, Ireland's strangest and most fascinating landscape, one of the world's finest examples of a glacio-karst landscape, is the subject of a new exhibition in The Kenny Gallery.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh pitching competition seeking entries
Thu, May 26, 2016
THE GALWAY Film Fleadh pitching competition, which encourages budding screenwriters and filmmakers with ideas, at any stage of development, is seeking entries for this year's fleadh.
Read more ...February & Mars - debut album and Róisín Dubh show
Thu, May 26, 2016
FEBRUARY & MARS, the Galway duo of Jack Considine and Carl Ramberg, whose hazy, synth-rock/disco sound has been turning heads, launch their debut album tomorrow.
Read more ...Garry Hynes and Steven Sharpe in new book on impact of Yes vote
Thu, May 26, 2016
DRUID THEATRE Co's Garry Hynes, Galway based singer-songwriter Steven Sharpe, along with other Galwegians, feature in a new book about LGBT Irish lives and the impact of the Yes vote in the marriage equality referendum.
Read more ...The achievement of Jessie Lendennie
Literature Reviews Thu, May 26, 2016
THERE IS a memory, somewhat hazy, probably romanticised, of the shop door opening one morning in the early eighties, and a young, statuesque, lady sailing in, wearing a flowing colourful cloak, somewhat reminiscent of an Adrienne Monnier or a Sylvia Beach.
Read more ...Mná 2016 - women of the revolution
Thu, May 26, 2016
WOMEN'S STORIES from 1916 to 2016, and their dedication to freedom, equality, and fairness, will be told in a new exhibition opening at 5.30pm, Friday May 27, in the Galway City Museum.
Read more ...My Fellow Sponges - new song and Róisín Dubh gig
Thu, May 26, 2016
FOLLOWING THE releasing their new video 'Cold Hand', My Fellow Sponges are promising "a midsummer stew for every shade of being and most genres under the sun" at their next concert.
Read more ...Al Murray - Lets Go Backwards Together
Thu, May 26, 2016
IN MAY 1940, three days after the Fall of France, with Nazi Germany looking unstoppable, Winston Churchill made a rousing speech to the House of Commons, concluding: "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."
Read more ...Justin Conboy to launch debut novel
Thu, May 26, 2016
CODE THIEF, the debut novel by Galwayman Justin Conboy, about a hacker, a CIA agent, and the development of a super-virus to end the Iranian Nuclear Program, will be launched in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop tomorrow at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Rock-a-Billy with Joe Fury & The Hayride
Thu, May 26, 2016
ROCKABILLY AND roots music will collide in exciting fashion when the great Joe Fury & The Hayride play Monroe’s Live on Sunday June 5 at 9pm.
Read more ...A guide to islands of Clew Bay
Thu, May 26, 2016
JOHN LENNON was so enchanted with Clew Bay he bought Dorinish Island in 1967. Ireland's pirate queen Granuaile ruled the seas around those parts; while the bay also attracted Sid Rawle, the ‘King of the Hippies’.
Read more ...No Quarter - Led Zeppelin tribute @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 26, 2016
NO STAIRWAY, the brilliant Galway Led Zeppelin tribute band, fronted by the multi-talented phenomenon that is Steven Sharpe, play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday from 9.30pm.
Read more ...Whiplash - Metallica tribute @ The Loft
Thu, May 26, 2016
WHIPLASH, the Galway based Metallica tribute act play The Loft at Seven this Saturday from 10pm, and can be expected to deliver a thrilling two hour set from the band's classic 1983 - 91 era.
Read more ...Mark Geary @ Monroe’s
Thu, May 26, 2016
SINGER-SONGWRITER Mark Geary returns to Galway to play Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Saturday June 11 at 9pm.
Read more ...Mozart's 'Coronation' Mass in the Augustinian
Thu, May 26, 2016
MOZART'S 'CORONATION' Mass will be performed by three Galway choirs, under the baton of Mark Keane, in the Augustinian Church on Thursday June 2 at 8pm.
Read more ...Pop Gods play the hits @ HALO
Thu, May 26, 2016
FROM WHAM! to Rihanna, Whitney to Beyoncé, Rick Astley to Justin Bieber, Pop Gods will play them all when they hit the stage of HALO Nightclub tomorrow from 11pm.
Read more ...The revolution is being screened
Wed, May 25, 2016
FILMS ABOUT revolution, liberation, and the desire for peoples to be free will be screened at the Féile Scannán na Réabhlóide/Films Concerning Revolution 2016 festival in Connemara on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Read more ...HAWK and Captain A to headline Citóg in June
Tue, May 24, 2016
GALWAY SINGER-SONGWRITER Julie Hough, leader of the London band HAWK, and Captain A's last gig for the foreseeable future, are just two of the highlights from next month's series of Citóg gigs at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Galway International Arts Festival 2016
Mon, May 23, 2016
Theatre and dance
A new Enda Walsh play premiering at the GIAF has become something of an annual theatre highlight in the city, and 2016 will be no different with the world premiere of Arlington [a love story]. However this will be a play with a difference, incorporating dance as well as drama.