Vincent Van Gogh on screen @ The Eye
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
TO MARK the 125th anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh’s death, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum is hosting a major re-showing of the gallery’s collection of works by the much loved artist.
Read more ...Whose Line Is It Anyway? back at the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
WHOSE LINE Is It Anyway?, featuring the talents of Stephen Frost, Andy Smart, Steve Steen, and Ireland’s Ian Coppinger, make a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Tradiohead - live at The Loft
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
THE MOST unusual and original of tribute bands, Tradiohead, who take the music of Radiohead and reinterpret it as Irish folk and trad, are back.
Read more ...Hourglass Theatre Company’s Loose Change
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
GALWAY COMPANY Hourglass Theatre grace the Town Hall studio next week with a trilogy of new one act plays by local writer Ian Patterson, under the title Loose Change.
Read more ...FEAST metal/grindcore gigs at Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
TWO BRITISH grindcore bands - Human Cull and This Ends Here - play the next FEAST gig tonight, upstairs in the Róisín Dubh, at 9pm.
Read more ...Ballet from the tutu and beyond
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
TUTUS & BEYOND, a show featuring classical and contemporary ballet, comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Friday April 17 at 8pm. Performed by Ballet Ireland, the show will feature new work created for the company by Royal Ballet dancer-turned-choreographer, Ludovic Ondiviela.
Read more ...Cathy Belton revelling in her role on Red Rock
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
Cathy Belton has excelled at playing a a slightly scary TV character in the form of Red Rock’s Patricia Hennessy so one could be forgiven for thinking the Galway woman might resemble the ice-queen in real life. However the charming, softly spoken, actress could not be more different to the villainous Hennessy matriarch.
Read more ...Galway Theatre Festival programme launch tonight
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
THE GALWAY Theatre Festival holds its Programme Launch this evening at 6.30pm in Biteclub, Electric Garden, Abbeygate Street, with the great Little John Nee as guest speaker.
Read more ...Enter the Labyrinth with Dr Sketchy’s
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
DR SKETCHY’S life drawing class/cabaret/burlesque event will focus on the much loved cult film Labyrinth, when it comes to Monroe’s Live this Saturday from 5pm to 8pm.
Read more ...Love Street to play Monroe’s
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
LOVE STREET, declared “the English Eagles” by BBC Radio Sheffield, and by UK Country Radio as “an amazing new act from Cornwall”, play Galway next week.
Read more ...Peter Doran to play Monroe’s Live
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
FOLLOWING THE release of his fourth album Outlines, Peter Doran plays Monroe’s Live on Sunday April 19 as part of his current Irish tour.
Read more ...Tree planting to mark thirty years of Cúirt
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and one of the events to mark this milestone will be a tree planting ceremony.
Read more ...Puzzle to celebrate first birthday
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
THE PUZZLE drum’n’bass clubnight celebrates one year in existence by holding a birthday bash in The Loft, headlined by German DJ Misanthrop.
Read more ...Get funky with The Good Hustle
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
THE FUNK, the whole funk, and nothing but the funk, will be the order of business when Galway review band The Good Hustle play The Loft @ Seven.
Read more ...Traid Phicnic 2015 - ceol agus craic in July
Wed, Apr 08, 2015
LIAM Ó MAONLAÍ and TG4 Musician of year 2014 Harry Bradley will be among the musicians coming to An Spidéal from Friday July 3 to Sunday 5 for the village’s fourth annual Traid Phicnic festival.
Read more ...Leo and Anto start their biggest US tour tomorrow night
Wed, Apr 08, 2015
FOLLOWING THEIR headlining spot at the 2014 Vancouver Folk Festival, Leo Moran and Anthony Thistlethwaite begin their biggest North American tour to date tomorrow evening.
Read more ...Japanese Film Festival - movies for the cherry blossom season
Tue, Apr 07, 2015
FROM ANIME to historical comedies, stories of financial corruption to all kinds of romance, the seventh annual Japanese Film Festival promises a programme of acclaimed new Japanese cinema from some of the country’s leading directors and actors.
Read more ...Award winning songwriter Jenn Grant to play Galway
Tue, Apr 07, 2015
JUNO NOMINATED singer-songwriter Jenn Grant will begin her Irish tour with a show upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on tomorrow night from 9pm. Her set is liekly to be dominated by songs from her new album Compostela, which was released last week.
Read more ...‘We’re not afraid to experiment and shake things up’
Thu, Apr 02, 2015
AN ARCHITECT, a university lecturer, and a fine artist hardly sounds like a combination that could create thrilling, high energy, indie-electro dance music, but these are the day jobs of Belfast’s Not Squares, and that is the kind of music they make when they are together.
Read more ...The Assassination of Brian Boru
Thu, Apr 02, 2015
THE BATTLE of Clontarf is both a landmark event in Irish history and a fabled story passed down the generations, right up to our present day, 1,001 years after its occurrence. The famous battle provides the backdrop for an acclaimed new play, The Assassination of Brian Boru, by Lauren-Shannon Jones, which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday April 13 at 8pm.
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