Finland’s leading comic to play Galway

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

FINLAND MIGHT not be known as a stand-up comedy hotspot, but in Ismo Leikola, they can boast one of the world’s very finest comedians.

A night of cello quintets - tonight

Mon, Mar 09, 2015

CELLO QUINTETS by Mozart, Schubert, and Boccherini will be performed by French cellist Raphaël Merlin and the RTÉ ConTempo Quartet this evening at 8pm in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway.

Cinema review: Kill the Messenger

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 09, 2015

KILL THE Messenger is the remarkable story of how a reporter from the tiny San Jose Mercury News managed to scoop The Washington Post and the New York Times to one the CIA’s biggest controversies of the 1990s.

Wine, women, and song!

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE WORD ‘bespectacled’ is usually preceded or followed by the term ‘mild-mannered’, but there is nothing ‘mild-mannered’ about the bespectacled trio of wild women in sequinned mini-skirts that go by name The Nualas.

Amazing Apples to launch new single in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE AMAZING Apples will launch ‘Lullaby’, the first single from their forthcoming debut album, when they play the Róisín Dubh on Friday March 13 at 9pm.

Paul Durcan and Joseph O’Neill to read at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

The poets Paul Durcan and John Montague, as well as the Booker nominated novelist Joseph O’Neill will read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature which will  run from April 21 to 27 in venues across Galway city and county.

Album review: Bob Marley

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2015

ROBERT NESTA Marley would have celebrated his 70th birthday this year had he not been cruelly called back to Zion in 1981 at the tragically early age of 36.

Grimm delights with Galway Community Circus and Fidget Feet

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE FOLK and fairy tales gathered by the Grimm brothers have entranced readers and audiences for more than 100 years and the recent movie adaptation of Broadway hit, Into The Woods, attests to the stories’ enduring appeal.

New exhibition from Angeline Cooke

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

ANGELINE COOKE, a founder member of the Irish Kidney Association, will hold an exhibition of her paintings, Looking West, in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Dylan Moran to play Galway’s Comedy Carnival

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

DYLAN MORAN, one of Ireland’s leading comedians, and the star of Black Books, Shaun of the Dead, and Calvary, brings his new stand up show Off The Hook, to the 2015 Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

A theatrical side to the St Patrick’s Day Parade

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THERE WILL be a strong theatrical feel to this year’s Galway City St Patrick’s Day Parade, with theatre performers, costumes designers, and community groups involved in the preparations.

A Russian family and a greedy mayor

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

A FATHER, his second wife, and his son live together, all harbouring resentment towards each other. Then there is the mayor, who is determined to take their land. This is Russian film Leviathan, which will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre by the Galway Film Society this Sunday at 8pm. Directed by Andrey Zvyaginstev, it won Best Screenplay at Cannes 2014.

Gort to celebrate the life and work of WB Yeats

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THIS WEEKEND marks the start of a series of events in County Galway, as part of Yeats2015, celebrating WB Yeats and his connections to south Galway.

The stormy life of Granuaile

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2015

IRISH HISTORY and mythology, and indeed the points where they intersect, are rich materials for the graphic novel, leading, over the last number of years, to Irish writers and artists exploring the potentialities of such as Cúchulainn and The Táin.

Mad About Mark - a night to remember Mark Logan

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE LATE Mark Logan, percussionist with the Disconauts, passionate Chelsea FC fan, and all-round top bloke, will be remembered and celebrated at a special Mad About Mark night in the Róisín Dubh this Friday [March 27] at 9pm.

Meltybrains? headline Strange Brew tonight

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

NOBODY KNOWS quite how to define Meltybrains? Some even wonder if they are actually human. What is not in doubt is that they play fearlessly imaginative, wildly original, music.

Book review: John O’Donohue

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THERE WAS a day in January 2008 when suddenly the valleys, streams, rivers, and lakes of Connemara and the Burren lost their colour and blackened, when the silent music of the stones, hills, and mountains abated for just a moment, for at that moment, in far off Italy one of the few men who fully understood their physical and spiritual presence experienced, to quote his own words,

Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

WRITERS FROM Galway, Dublin, Cork, and Belfast will read at The Over The Edge March Writers’ Gathering in the The Kitchen, Galway City Museum, Friday March 13 at 8pm.

A Turkish-Irish collaboration

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

IRISH JAZZ/folk musician Aengus Hackett and Turkish singer Sanem Kalfa, have joined forces to explore their respective country’s traditional music.The results of this collaboration will be heard during the Irish-Turkish Project tour which comes to Galway on Thursday March 12 at 1pm in The Cube Theatre, NUI Galway, and Friday 13 at 9pm in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover.

Tickets selling fast for Hermitage Green @ Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

HERMITAGE GREEN, led by former Irish rugby international Barry Murphy, play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on St Patrick’s Day at 9.30pm, and tickets are selling fast.

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