Macnas to headline Lithuanian capital’s culture night

Thu, Jun 18, 2015

Macnas will take to the streets of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius tomorrow night where it will stage its street theatre show Whose Kingdom Is This Anyways?

Brazilian Festa Junina to be celebrated in Galway

Thu, Jun 18, 2015

FESTA JUNITA, the fourth annual celebration of traditional Brazilian music, food, and culture, takes place in The Claddagh Hall, this Saturday, from 9pm.

Brendan Shine to play Town Hall

Thu, Jun 18, 2015

BRENDAN SHINE, the man behind songs like 'I'm a Savage for Bacon and Cabbage' and 'Do Want Your Auld Lobby Washed Down?', not merely a hit, but a phenomenon in the Ireland of 1979, is coming to Galway.

The Doors' tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 18, 2015

NA DOIRSE, the Irish tribute band to The Doors, will bring the legendary LA band's dark-psychedelia and haunted blues to Monroe’s BackStage Bar on Friday July 3 at 9pm.

Choral concert in St Nicholas'

Thu, Jun 18, 2015

THE MORNINGTON Singers, the award winning, 35-member choir from Dublin, will be in concert in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church on Saturday June 20 at 8pm.

John C Reilly to appear at Galway Film Fleadh

Wed, Jun 17, 2015

JOHN C REILLY, the American actor best known for his roles in Guardians of the Galaxy, Anchorman 2, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Wreck It Ralph, and Chicago, for which he received an Oscar nomination, is coming to the Galway Film Fleadh.

Galway artist Blooms to support Ellie Goulding

Wed, Jun 17, 2015

BLOOMS, THE London based Irish indie-electro pop solo project of Galway woman Louise Cunnane, has been announced as the special guest to Ellie Goulding, who plays Live at the Marquee, Cork, on Wedenesday June 24.

Submissions now open for Sky Road TV & Film Festival

Wed, Jun 17, 2015

THE SECOND Sky Road TV & Film Festival returns to Connemara from October 9 to 11 and this week saw submissions open for the feature film and short film categories.

Tracy Bruen to play Mná Mná and Body & Soul

Tue, Jun 16, 2015

TRACY BRUEN, the multi-talented Galway indie-folk singer-songwriter will play the Mná Mná night in the Róisín Dubh this week and the Body & Soul festival this weekend.

Cinema review: Jurassic World

Films Reviews Mon, Jun 15, 2015

THERE IS a scene in the beginning of Jurassic Park, when we go through the huge iconic gates and the John Williams score kicks in, and if the hairs on the back of your neck don't stand up, I’m afraid, we can never be friends.

'Somebody is enjoying putting obstacles in my way'

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

"Man plans, God laughs" is an old Yiddish proverb, the equivalent of "the best laid plans can come undone", but who undoes them? Does the fault lie with the person making the plans or does God, fate, or some predetermined outcome decide that sometimes, things just will not go your way.

Take That live @ IMC Galway

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

TAKE THAT play London’s O2 arena on June 19 and Galway fans will be able to see the concert when it is broadcast live to the IMC Galway.

Album review: PINS

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 11, 2015

PINS' DEBUT Girls Like Us made many friends for the Manchester quartet, but the album was more a demonstration of their latent potential rather than a full realisation of it. Two years later and it's a different story.

Cream of Galway indie-rock and folk to play An Áit Eile

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

OH BOLAND!, Boyfights, and Steven Sharpe will be among those playing An Áit Eile, a one day arts, crafts, and music festival in the Nun's Island Theatre, which takes place this Saturday from 11am to 11pm.

Bloomsday events in Galway

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

JUNE 16 1904 is the date when James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set. It was the date of his own first date with Nora Barnacle, and June 16 is today Bloomsday, the annual event celebrating Joyce's most famous novel.

Galway 'was the start of the Lúnasa story'

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

LÚNASA MAKE a welcome return to Galway and the Galway Sessions festival when the trad supergroup play Monroe's Live on Thursday June 18. A hectic and busy international touring schedule has afforded the band little opportunity to play in Ireland in recent times so this Galway gig is all the more to be welcomed.

Deadline extended for film fleadh pitching competition

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

THE DEADLINE for entry to the Galway Film Fleadh 2015 Pitching Competition has been extended to tomorrow at 5pm and budding screenwriters and filmmakers with ideas at any stage of development are encouraged to enter.

The Deans - new single and The Loft show

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

THE DEANS, the Galway roots-rock band with "an unmistakable sound" who are also "one of the most dynamic independent bands to look out for", according to music website GroundSounds, play the city this weekend.

Free family Haiku workshops

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

FREE WORKSHOPS in the Japanese poetry form of Haiku will be hosted by the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, this Saturday, June 13th in the Galway 2020 Hub in The Cornstore, Middle Street.

Has Jack Taylor met his match?

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 11, 2015

JACK TAYLOR was always a man with few close friends. These days he has none. Stewart is dead and Ban Garda Ridge has had enough of him, but the whiff of sulphur around this former guard turned vigilante for hire, is always enough to lure people to him.

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