A troika of Doire Press Poets to read at The Crane

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

DOIRE PRESS will host a reading at The Crane Bar, Sea Road, next Monday June 8, featuring Breda Wall Ryan, John MacKenna and Robyn Rowland, all three of whom have recently had had new collections published by the Indreabhán-based company.

Monroe's to bring Galway a Flavour of Brazil

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

FRIDAY JUNE 12 is Dia dos Namorados in Brazil, the Latin American nation's equivalent of Valentine’s Day, and to mark the occasion, Monroe’s Backstage Bar will host a night of Brazilian music and dance.

A feast of classical music at the arts festival

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ ConTempo Quartet will join forces at the 2015 Galway International Arts Festival for what promises to be a first class series of classical music concerts.

Mary Coughlan in concert at the Town Hall

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

MARY COUGHLAN, one of Ireland's greatest jazz vocalists has just released her new album, Scars On The Calendar, with guitarist Erik Visser, and will be in concert at the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday June 13 at 8pm.

Roisin Dubh Art and Craft market

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE RÓISÍN Dubh Art and Craft market returns this Sunday to the Dominick Street venue, running from 1pm until 6pm, and hosting more than 20 local artists, craftspeople and designers.

Two chances to see John Statz

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

JOHN STATZ, the Americana singer-songwriter is coming to Galway to play two shows - Monroe’s Live on Thursday June 18 at 11pm and the Róisín Dubh's upstairs baron Friday 19 at 8pm.

The Yeti Suite - singer/songwriter night @ The Loft

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THREE SINGER-songwriters - Felix Sonnyboy, Shaunna McEvilly, and Eoin Dolan - take to the stage of The Loft @ Seven tonight at 9pm for The Yeti Suite.

Seanie Vaughan @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

SEANIE VAUGHAN, the Connemara folk-rock/indie singer-songwriter has seen his second album Redemption reach No 11 in the Irish indie charts, and he will play songs from that record in Monroe's Live on Saturday June 20 at 9pm.

Cantar! - The Marine Institute Singers in concert

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE MARINE Institute Singers, winners of the inaugural 2013 ChoirFactor competition will host Cantar!, a night of choral music on Saturday June 13 at 8pm in St Nicholas's Collegiate Church.

Charity concert for Jigsaw this evening

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THIS EVENING at 8pm in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, a visiting choir of 42 singers from Evansville, Indiana, will perform a charity concert in aid of Jigsaw.

Jazz, folk, and maybe metal - The Underscore Orkestra

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

HE SOUND of New Orleans, Eastern European folk, jazz, and Jewish music will collide in a rambunctious and exciting fashion when Portland, Oregon's The Underscore Orkestra plays the Róisín Dubh on Sunday June 7 at 9pm.

Tír na nÓg to play Gort

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

TÍR NA nÓg, the legendary folk-rock duo of Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell have reunited in recent years to great acclaim and they play The Gallery Cafe, Gort, on Sunday June 14 at 8.30pm.

Americana band Midnight Union @ Monroe's

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE MIDNIGHT Union Band will bring their Americana/folk sound to Monroe's Backstage Bar on Friday June 19 at 10pm for a free show as part of their tour to promote their new album, Of Life And Lesser Evils.

Citóg gigs for June

Wed, Jun 03, 2015

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED Irish indie bands will be taking to the stage of the Róisín Dubh over the coming Wednesday nights for the monthly Citóg gigs, with folk-blues, rock, electro, and acoustic genres well to the fore. Admission to all three shows are free. Doors are at 9pm.

Galway Film Fleadh announces opening film

Tue, Jun 02, 2015

EVANNA LYNCH, best known as Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter films, takes the lead role in the new Irish film, My Name is Emily, which will receive its world premiere at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.

Cinema review: San Andreas

Films Reviews Tue, Jun 02, 2015

WATCH THE trailer for this movie. After that, if you want to see it, then go. Do you want to see San Francisco shake? Great! Now you can see it shake with for two hours with beautiful people running around, gradually shedding garments and having near misses with falling buildings and flash floods. It is the Ronseal Quick Drying Varnish of movies. It does exactly what it says on the tin.

When products go bad

Tue, Jun 02, 2015

PRODUCT RECALL, an exhibition looking at ideas of displacement, and companies having to 'recall' products that could maim or kill consumers, is currently running in the Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street.

Des Keogh - exploring G B Shaw’s many amours in My Fair Ladies

Thu, May 28, 2015

THE INIMITABLE Des Keogh comes to the Town Hall next week with My Fair Ladies, a new play which he has written and performs about the many women in the extraordinary life of George Bernard Shaw.

Slow Magic to play Strange Brew

Thu, May 28, 2015

A MAN in a tribal like fox mask, bathed in fantastic light, with electronic triggers and a drum, playing a future-primitive combination of electronic compositions - this is Slow Magic.

Public talk on Yeats' The Wild Swans at Coole

Thu, May 28, 2015

WB YEATS The Wild Swans at Coole, published in 1917 and again, in an expanded edition in 1919, is one of his finest collections, containing such enduring works as the title poem, 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death', 'The Phases of the Moon', and 'Ego Dominus Tuus'.

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