Steven Sharpe to host the Valentine's Dirty Circus

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

LOVE EVERYBODY...Harder!! is the double entendre laden subtitle for the upcoming show from The Dirty Circus in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday from 9pm, where naughtiness and glamour will reign supreme.

'I am the creator of dub and creator of love'

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

IT IS 10:30pm and Hurricane Bridgett, or what ever they are calling it this week, is beating sheets of rain against the window, almost in time to the dread beat emanating from the speakers while Lee 'Scratch' Perry’s Super Ape LP spins on the record deck.

‘A bold, imaginative, staging’

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

ONE OF the very best shows at last year’s Galway International Arts Festival was Andrew Flynn’s brilliant large-cast staging of Pat McCabe’s The Dead School. The production was presented by the combined talents of Galway Youth Theatre and Galway Community Theatre, and Flynn has now re-assembled the same cast for a revival by Decadent Theatre Company at the Town Hall Theatre.

Eric Lalor @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

YOU MIGHT know Eric Lalor as Fair City bad guy Cathal Spillane, but the Dubliner is also a very fine comedian who headlines the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow at 8.30pm.

Alright The Captain to headline FEAST

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE FEAST nights of metal, punk, and math-rock in the Róisín Dubh celebrat's its second anniversary with a show by the forward-thinking British post-rock trio Alright The Captain.

Celebrate a century of film in An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

GALWAY UNESCO City of Film will celebrates 100 years of cinema and the centenary of the 1916 Rising, with screenings of Irish film and TV landmark s, across eight Saturdays in 2016.

Gerry Conneely in The Great Push

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

ON THE morning of September 25 1915, 75,000 British soldiers emerged from their trenches on the Western Front to begin what was then the biggest battle in British history, the Battle of Loos. It would also be the British army’s bloodiest day of the war so far.

Public lecture on Galway city and the 1916 Rising

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

OUTSIDE OF Dublin, Galway saw the most significant action of the 1916 Rising, but this took place in the county. Galway city by contrast was hostile to the rebellion and firmly supported the British.

Uncover the real Renoir

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

RENOIR IS one of the best loved artists of all time, for his wonderful depictions of beautiful women and 19th century French life, but he is also one of arts most influential figures.

Rackhouse Pilfer return to Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

RACKHOUSE PILFER, acclaimed for their stomping alt.country, bluegrass, and Amerciana, as evidenced by their winning the Hotpress/Jaegermesier Live Band of the Year 2015 award, return to Galway.

Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

FOR THE first time in a quarter of a century, Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, about a servant girl impregnated by a royal, receives a full production in Galway.

A concert of Mozart wind serenades

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

MUSIC BY Mozart, as well as the Irish premiere of Jonathan Dove's 'Figures in the Garden', will be performed in Galway by eight leading national and international wind players

Bizarre love triangle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE FRENCH are masters when it comes to the bizarre love triangle, they are of course the inventors of the concept of the menage à trois, and a complicated love trio is at the heart of All About Them.

The Addams Family @ The Black Box

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE ADDAMS Family, the comedy musical about everyone's favourite dysfunctional ghoulish relatives, is currently running at The Black Box Theatre in a production by the Galway University Musical Society.

Earl Jeffers to DJ @ new TRIBE night

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

DJ EARL Jeffers who formerly released music under the moniker Chesus, will headline Tribe, a new club night in The Loft, at Seven, which takes place on Tuesday February 16 at 10pm.

Club Lonely for Valentine's dancing

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

CLUB LONELY, a night of serious disco, house, "love and plenty of dancing", takes place in The Blue Note this Sunday, with DJ sets from P.Disconaut, Mitch, Byron B Yeates, and Nuff' Said.

My Tribe Your Tribe - alt-rock and electro

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

MY TRIBE Your Tribe, whose music mixes alternative rock and electro, will play Monroe’s Live on Thursday March 3 at 10pm.

Soul man Buck Taylor to play Galway

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

AMERICAN SOUL singer Buck Taylor, and his band, will take to the stage of The Clybaun Hotel this Saturday, when the Kentucky born singer will present his Soul Fever Show.

Get funked up with The Good Hustle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

FUNK, SOUL, rock, and dance, will collide in floor-filling and exciting fashion when The Good Hustle play The Loft at Seven, Bridge Street, on Saturday February 20.