The Matchmaker - tickets still available

Thu, May 14, 2015

TOMORROW'S STAGING of John B Keane's much loved comedy The Matchmaker is almost sold-out [May 15], but there are still tickets available to the Saturday May 16 performance.

Where the cello will go Baroque

Thu, May 14, 2015

MUSIC FOR Galway's successful cello season Cellissimo closes this weekend when MFG joins forces with the Galway Early Music Festival for a concert of Baroque music in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church.

Oliver Dollar @ Factory

Thu, May 14, 2015

OLIVER DOLLAR, the Berlin born and based producer/DJ, has over the last three years become a staple of the house music scene, and he is coming to Galway to play the Electric Main Floor tonight from 11pm.

Mark Geary @ Monroe's Live

Thu, May 14, 2015

"HIS DELICATE songs about love and defiance…..recall Richard Thompson and John Lennon…..one of the East Village’s favorite adopted sons.” So said Time Out New York about Irish singer-songwriter Mark Geary.

Epoch third birthday bash

Thu, May 14, 2015

THE EPOCH clubnight at Factory celebrates its third birthday this Saturday with a DJ set from no less a figure in the scene than the formidable DJ TLR.

Tech House @ The Loft

Thu, May 14, 2015

THE LOFT will be treated to a night of underground tech house and techno soundscapes this Saturday [May 16] when the Tech House Legion crew return to the Bridge Street venue.

Bridal Rock - the Wedding Band Festival

Thu, May 14, 2015

BRIDAL ROCK, Ireland's - and the world's - only Wedding Band Festival, makes its debut in Monroe’s Live on Sunday May 24 from 5pm to 9pm, featuring some of the best wedding bands performing back to back.

See Ralph Feinnes in Galway

Wed, May 13, 2015

RALPH FIENNES, the Oscar nominated British actor, will play Jack Tanner in George Bernard Shaw’s witty, provocative, classic Man & Superman, which can be seen in The Eye Cinema tomorrow evening - May 14 - at 7pm.

Sofie Hagen - Danish funnywoman for Róisín Dubh

Wed, May 13, 2015

DENMARK IS not a country associated in the public mind with stand-up comedy, but one women is set to turn that notion completely on its head when she takes to the stage of the Róisín Dubh next week.

When Harry Met Satan - Flirt FM to premier new radio drama

Wed, May 13, 2015

THE MOST unlikely place to meet Lucifer is in an Irish pub. Old Nick could be expected to show up at the crossroads, on a night of torment and temptation, or in the pits of Hell itself, but not down your local! Then again, alcohol is sometimes called 'the demon drink' - so maybe he is always lurking at the bottom of the pint glass.

Galway African Film Festival returns next week

Tue, May 12, 2015

THE GALWAY African Film Festival, the city's annual celerbration of movies and film-making from across the African continent, returns from Friday May 22 to Sunday 24, with a host of free screenings taking place in NUI Galway's Huston School of Film & Digital Media.

Bill Bailey adds Galway to Limboland Irish tour

Mon, May 11, 2015

BILL BAILEY, one of the greatest of modern British comedians, has announced he is coming to Galway on Wednesday September 30, when he performs his new show Limboland, in The Black Box Theatre.

Citóg - the eccentric and the wonderful

Mon, May 11, 2015

LEFT-FIELD, eclectic, eccentric, and marvellously creative Irish indie music is always the order of the day at the Citóg nights in the Róisín Dubh, and the nights remaining two shows for May will prove to be no exception.

The Coronas return to Galway for Big Top Arts Festival gig

Thu, May 07, 2015

ONE OF Ireland’s best loved bands, The Coronas, will play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top party on Saturday July 25 it was announced this morning.

Mark O’Rowe - Getting Shakespeare in the bag for Druid

Thu, May 07, 2015

NEXT WEEK sees the unveiling of Druid’s latest epic undertaking, DruidShakespeare, which condenses the four action-packed plays of the Henriad – Richard II, Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and Henry V – into one thrilling drama played out across six hours, as adapted by one of Ireland’s finest contemporary playwrights, Mark O’Rowe.

Album review: And So I Watch You From Afar

Music Reviews Thu, May 07, 2015

HAVING BROKEN new ground, not only for themselves, but also for the post-rock genre with 2013’s All Hail Bright Futures, Antrim’s ASIWYFA could hardly be expected to reinvent the wheel yet again.

Galway Early Music Festival 2015

Thu, May 07, 2015

A FEAST of fools, ticking clocks, apocalyptic visions, and a time warp - time is of the essence at the 20th Galway Early Music Festival which runs from Thursday May 14 to Sunday 17.

The lives of the Brontës - on stage

Thu, May 07, 2015

HOW IS it possible that three women, living in isolation on the Yorkshire moors, could have written some of the most powerful and passionate fiction of all time?

David O’Doherty on the quest for happiness

Thu, May 07, 2015

THE EVER-wonderful comedian David O'Doherty returns for two special shows at the Róisín Dubh tomorrow and Saturday, and he promises to have checked everything in his new show, David O’Doherty Has Checked Everything.

A theatre show in support of YesEquality

Thu, May 07, 2015

A YOUNG woman finds herself at an unexpected, yet strangely inevitable, crossroads, and in this situation, she has an odd proposal to put to an audience.

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