The things Galway makes young artists think of

Wed, Apr 29, 2015

ARTWORKS MIMICKING 12” vinyl on a record player, a man with an ever growing beard, a giraffe crossing the Salmon Weir bridge - all of these can be seen in a new exhibition in the Galway Arts Centre.

Lucy Spraggan to play Róisín Dubh

Wed, Apr 29, 2015

LUCY SPRAGGAN may describe her music as ‘A-Flop’, but that self-deprecation is really another way of saying her songs fuse acoustic, folk, and hip hop.

Neil Young tribute @ Monroe’s Live

Mon, Apr 27, 2015

PSYCHEDELIC PILL, the acclaimed tribute band to Neil Young, are coming to Monroe’s Live this week, to perform a set by the great Canadian singer-songwriter that concentrates mostly on his classic period between 1968 and 1975.

‘I wasn’t ever going to write a novel along familiar lines’

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

GALWAY WRITER Claire-Louise Bennett will launch her debut collection of short stories, Pond, this Saturday at the Hotel Meyrick, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Far From Literature We Were Reared

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

FAR FROM Literature We Were Reared the annual hooley of prose, poetry, music, and craic by Galway writers and performers, returns to the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 8pm.

Two nights with David O’Doherty

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

ONE OF Ireland’s greatest comedians David O’Doherty, makes a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh next month, with his new show David O’Doherty Has Checked Everything.

Oscar-winner Walter Murch is coming to Galway

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

OSCAR WINNING film editor and sound designer Walter Murch, who has worked on The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is coming to Galway next month.

Le Galaxie to launch new album in Galway

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

LE GALAXIE, the Dublin quartet, who have thrilled Galway dancefloors with their mix of exhilarating disco, funk, and indie-electro, launch their new album in the Róisín Dubh.

Lorraine Fletcher to exhibit at Renzo Café

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

A NEW exhibition, featuring “vintage style females, vibrant colours, and hats”, by Galway artist Lorraine Fletcher, opens at the Renzo Café Gallery, Eyre Street, this Saturday.

An all day and night theatre experience

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

A NEW theatre show, which takes place over the course of 24 hours, runs at the Nuns Island Theatre as part of the Galway Theatre Festival 2015.

Staging George Orwell at the Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

GEORGE ORWELL’S first full-length book was Down and Out in Paris and London, his classic account of living on the breadline in France and England in the 1920s. More than 80 years after its publication in 1933, the book’s vivid portrayal of people struggling to survive from one day to the next has lost none of its power. Indeed, with homelessness again a headline-making issue, the book has gained fresh topicality.

Walpurgis Night IV - unleash the metal

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

WALPURGIS NIGHT was a May Day’s eve festival when witches met and held revels with their gods to stir up trouble before the spring came. Sounds like a good night to hold a metal gig.

Booker listed Joseph O’Neill returns to Cúirt

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

IRISH AUTHOR Joseph O’Neill, who has previously been long listed for the Booker, will take part in a public interview for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Opera double bill @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and Pagliacci, two classics of opera, are being performed at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and will be broadcast to The Eye Cinema, this Saturday at 5.30pm.

Art exhibition at Oughterard Courthouse

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

M’ÁIT DHÚCHAIS - My Native Place, an art exhibition on the theme of emigration and the Connemara landscape, opens in Oughterard this evening at 8pm.

Tongue Fu - poetry, but not as you know it

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

TONGUE FU, a riotous experiment in live literature, music, film, and improv, and one of London’s best attended spoken word nights, is coming to Galway.

The Young Folk to play The Loft

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

THE YOUNG Folk, “one of the most promising young bands to come out of Ireland in several decades,” according to Maverick magazine, play The Loft (formerly Kelly’s) this Saturday.

Celebrate the legacy of Lady Gregory

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

THE LEGACY of Lady Augusta Gregory will be celebrated in the Lough Cutra Castle and estate, outside Gort in south Galway, next month.

Blooms (Louise Cunnane) to play Factory

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

BLOOMS, THE London based project of Irish singer-musician Louise Cunnane, will play Factory, Abbeygate Street, tomorrow at 9pm as part of her first Irish tour.

Stephen Young & The Union @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

“STEPHEN YOUNG & The Union are the cream of the crop in Ireland when it comes to Americana/Folk-rock.” So said Radio Nova about the band that plays Galway next week.

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