Public lecture on Liam O’Flaherty by his publisher
Thu, Apr 23, 2015
LIAM O’FLAHERTY, had the dubious honour of being the first novelist to endure the wrath of the Free State censors, when his The House Of Gold was banned.
Read more ...Launch of ROPES Literary Journal today
Thu, Apr 23, 2015
Ropes 2015, a literary journal published by the MA in Literature and Publishing at NUI Galway, will be launched during this year’s Cúirt Festival.
Read more ...Voice of Ireland’s Brendan McCahey @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Apr 23, 2015
BRENDAN MCCAHEY, the 2014 Voice of Ireland winner takes to the stage of Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 8pm, as part of his current Irish tour.
Read more ...Galway Youth Orchestra concert
Thu, Apr 23, 2015
GALWAY YOUTH Orchestra will give the last concert of its current season in Seapoint Leisure Centre, Salthill, this Sunday [April 26] at 3pm, with some 170 musicians taking part.
Read more ...Community - a musical experiment @ The Loft
Thu, Apr 23, 2015
COMMUNITY IS the improv alter-ego of Galway band My Fellow Sponges, whose drive is to see the audience create music along with the band.
Read more ...Bell X1 announce Galway date for upcoming tour
Wed, Apr 22, 2015
BELL X1 have announced they will play Galway’s Town Hall Theatre as part of their 17 date October Acoustic Tour 2015, tickets for which go on sale this week.
Read more ...Kodaline add second Big Top concert date
Wed, Apr 22, 2015
KODALINE HAVE added a second show at the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top, and will now play on Friday July 17 alongside the already sold-out Saturday 18 show.
Read more ...Delorentos play Seapoint on Saturday
Tue, Apr 21, 2015
DELORENTOS CONTINUE their ascent as one of Ireland’s finest, and most popular, bands with a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ show at Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...A Saturday evening with ConTempo and Beethoven
Tue, Apr 21, 2015
ST NICHOLAS’ Collegiate Church will be filled with the sound of the very first quartet for strings composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven - even if it is numbered as his third.
Read more ...Cobain: Montage Of Heck - second showing at IMC on Wednesday
Mon, Apr 20, 2015
COBAIN: MONTAGE Of Heck, the extraordinary new documentary on the life of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, will get a second screening at the IMC Galway cinema this week. Owing to overwhelming public demand, the film, written and directed by Brett Morgen, with Kurt’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, as executive producer, will be screened this Wednesday [April 22] at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Father John Misty announces Róisín Dubh show
Mon, Apr 20, 2015
FATHER JOHN Misty, the alter-ego of singer-songwriter and Fleet Foxes drummer J Tillman, will play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 22.
Read more ...‘We’re not comedians by the way’
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
THE RUBBERBANDITS, the satirical hip hop duo of Blindboy Boat Club and Mr Chrome, who had dominated Irish comedy through their shows, hit songs like ‘Horse Outside’, radio appearances, and videos going viral, seemed to go very quiet, very suddenly, over the last year and a half.
Read more ...Three sides of Steven Sharpe @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
THE PHENOMENON that is Steven Sharpe will be taking over the Róisín Dubh in his guise as band leader, Led Zeppelin tribute singer, and comedy/musical team member on Friday April 24 at 9pm.
Read more ...God Bless The Child at Town Hall
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
THE SHORT stories of Cork born author Frank O’Connor are universally regarded as being classics of their kind. Now, for the first time, three of those funniest stories are being brought together as the play God Bless The Child.
Read more ...Pádraic Reaney’s Crazy Jane at Coole Park
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
TO MARK the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats, artists Pádraic Reaney is hosting an exhibition of some of his graphic work based on Yeats’s Crazy Jane poems.
Read more ...Album review: Pale Honey
Music Reviews Thu, Apr 16, 2015
CONTEMPORARY INDIE could be said to divide into two strands, one which takes its cues from the 1980s, the other which looks towards the 1990s.
Read more ...Cúirt/Over The Edge New Writing Showcase
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
EMERGING WRITERS Alvy Carragher, Mary McGill, Teresa Sweeney, Daniel Roy Connolly, and Sonya Gildea, will read at the Cúirt and Over The Edge New Writing Showcase.
Read more ...Take a stroll through Joyce’s Ulysses
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
THIS EVENING [April 16] at 8.30pm Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop hosts Robert Gogan’s entertaining and illuminating show on James Joyce’s Ulysses, entitled Strolling Through Ulysses.
Read more ...Reinventing the heroines of Irish myth
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
DRAWING INSPIRATION from the great Irish epic, the Táin Bo Cuailgne, Women In Arms is a show about Irish myths from the point of view of the women involved.
Read more ...Dott - new release and Record Store Day concert
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
GALWAY INDIE-pop/garage rock band Dott, launch their new record, Carousel, a 12” split with California’s Night School, at Saturday’s Record Store Day concert.
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