Youtube's Farmer Michael - live

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

STEVO TIMOTHY, the star of the Farmer Michael Youtube sketches, headlines Ireland's Smallest Comedy Club in the Dew Drop Inn, tonight at 9pm. The club runs every Thursday and is hosted by local comics Johnny Graham and Bob Hennigan. Admission is €4 and includes free pizza.

Lunchtime concerts to start December

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

DECEMBER WILL be ushered in to the sound of classical music, with two lunchtime concerts taking place in NUI Galway's Aula Maxima, early next week.

Aine Cahill - jazz and torch song @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

JUST 48 hours after performing her song 'Black Dahlia' on The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show, Cavan singer Aine Cahill saw it clock up 62,000 views on the Today FM Facebook page.

Punk, metal, and noise @ FEAST

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

SPANISH PUNK, alternative, noise band Betunizer will make their Irish debut when they play the next FEAST night, upstairs, at the Róisín Dubh, this Saturday at 9pm.

Sam Binga to DJ @ The Loft

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

ACCLAIMED PRODUCER and DJ Sam Binga will be hitting the decks in The Loft at Seven next Thursday [December 3], the first of two appearances by the Bristol native in Galway city that week.

Nirvana tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

NEGATIVE CREEPS, the Nirvana tribute band who take their name from the final song on side one of Nirvana's debut album Bleach, are coming to Monroe's.

Gin'n'Juice @ The Loft

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

TAKING THEIR name from one of the great songs on Snoop Dogg's classic debut Doggystyle, Gin'n'Juice hit the stage of The Loft at Seven this Saturday at 11pm.

110th Street Birthday bash

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

THIS SATURDAY, 110th Street, one of Galway's leading clubnights, will celebrate its 17th birthday with a set in The Blue Note, from 8.30pm until late.

Eye to screen major Goya documentary

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

THE SPANISH artist Francisco Goya created some of the most memorable and in his Disasters Of War and Dark Paintings series, some of the most disturbing, images in western art.

Listen to stream of debut EP by Galway 'supergroup' Cranky Face

Essential Playlist Tue, Nov 24, 2015

CRANKY FACE, the Galway group featuring guitarist Fuz Reilly (Boyfights), vocalist/guitarist Simon Noble (Spats Colombo, Mugger Dave), drummer Mosey Byrne (Rural Savage), and bassist/Citóg co-organiser Hob Junker, have released their debut EP, We Should Hate.

Galwegians take a photographic look at Germany

Mon, Nov 23, 2015

GERMANY, OR rather, its Chancellor Angela Merkel and finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, have had plenty to say about, and dictate to, Ireland in recent years, but what have the Irish to say about Germany?

Pure imagination, based on science-fact

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

ART AND science, one based on subjectivity and a response to the emotions and imagination; the other the result of rational inquiry, study, and experiments to proving or disproving; would seem unlikely bedfellows, each requiring different sides of the brain.

Galway Arts Centre art and Christmas craft classes

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

THE GALWAY Arts Centre will hold art classes for children and teenagers, and Christmas craft-making workshops at the centre on Dominick Street.

Titus Andronicus - 'selling out' in American punk style

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

ON THEIR website Titus Andronicus declare themselves to be "specialising in punk solutions since 2005", and now, 10 years into the game, they find themselves 'selling out'.

Patrick McDonnell to headline Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

AS FATHER Ted's Eoin McLove he delivered such immortal lines as "Go away! I don't want to catch the menopause!" Now man who played him, comedian Patrick McDonnell, is coming to the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh.

Margaret O'Dowd and Patricia Comer exhibition

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

A SHOWCASE of work by Galway artists Margaret O'Dowd and Patricia Comer takes place in The Ardilaun hotel, Taylor's Hill, this Sunday from 12 noon to 6pm.

Album review: Ty Segall

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 19, 2015

ALTHOUGH HIS death is approaching its 40th anniversary, Marc Bolan's influence remains potent for musicians, not within the mainstream, which he dominated from 1971 to 1973, but within indie/alternative.

Annie as Gaeilge sa Taibhdhearc

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

ANNIE, ONE of the best known and loved musicals in the world, receivse an Irish language performance in An Taibhdhearc Theatre, Middle Street, from Saturday December 12 to Sunday 20.

French Film Festival at Town Hall Theatre

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

IN THE week following the horrific attacks in Paris, a timely reminder of the resilience of French culture, and the joy it brings to world, comes to Galway through next weekend's French Film Festival.

Woman at the Door

Coffee Break Read Thu, Nov 19, 2015

Life’s pictures flicker around me as I linger outside the weather-beaten door. A crow perches on a branch of the skeleton ash on the lawn and a hearse stands in the lane. Bodies hide under a roof of umbrellas. I recognise some, even though years of humanity have battered them. It’s not peculiar that they don’t acknowledge me. They give their condolences to my sister, Margaret. I lost Jamie a long time ago. She’s only losing him now.

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