Japanese and Irish poetry @ Charlie Byrne’s

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

THE ANNUAL Japanese and Irish poetry evening returns this Saturday to Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop at 6pm, with Hisa Kagawa and Gerry Hanberry.

Kidnap Kid @ Electric

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

DJ AND producer Kidnap Kid, who enjoys more than 2.8 million Soundcloud followers, makes his Galway debut in Electric on Thursday March 5 from 11pm.

Creative writing classes

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

THE SHORT story writer Susan Millar DuMars will give an advanced fiction writing class. The classes start on April 8 and bookings are now being taken.

Bap To The Future at Factory

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

BELFAST BASED DJ and label owner Nez will play the first Bap to the Future clubnight of 2015 in Factory, Abbeygate Street, this Saturday.

Raising Jupiter @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

RAISING JUPITER release their new single ‘Tightrope’ on Friday February 27 and will follow this with their first headline show at Monroe’s Live on Thursday March 5.

Classical music concert in St Nicholas’

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

AN ILLINOIS student orchestra will be in Galway this Sunday to perform work by Bach, Holst, and Sibelius, in St Nicholas Collegiate Church at 8pm.

Rachael Sage - ‘one part Elton John, one part Kate Bush’

Wed, Feb 25, 2015

SHE IS “one part Elton John, one part Kate Bush” according to Uncut, while Billboard.com declared her “keen ironic sense of humour and quirky sense of the profound is what makes her special as a songwriter”. She is American folk/chamber-pop singer-songwriter Rachael Sage who plays Monroe’s Live.

A classical Saturday at the museum

Wed, Feb 25, 2015

THE MUSIC of Schumann, Saint Saens, and Britten will be heard in the Galway City Museum this Saturday from 11am in the last of the 3 Saturdays: 3 Kinds of Music concert series.

Le Galaxie - new album and Róisín Dubh show

Tue, Feb 24, 2015

LE GALAXIE, one of the greatest live bands in Ireland, make a welcome return to Galway on Friday May 1 as part of their Irish tour to support their new album Le Club.

Cinema review: Cake

Films Reviews Mon, Feb 23, 2015

EVERY OSCAR season there are a few awkward films - often war movies or about mental or physical illness - that have clearly been produced and planned as a vehicle for an actor who feel s/he is due an award.

‘I like to be in America!’

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

ON THE mean streets of New York’s Upper West Side, where rival gangs jostle for territory, and will fight dirty for it, where newly arrived immigrants compete among themselves - and against other ethnicities - to survive in a society hostile to them, two young people fall in love.

Fregoli unveil Mary, Mary, Mary

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

FREGOLI THEATRE Company gets 2015 off to a strong start next week at the Town Hall Theatre studio with the premiere of artistic director Maria Tivnan’s Mary, Mary, Mary.

A girl caught in the middle of extremes

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

MARIA IS a 14-year-old caught between the extremes of a strict Catholic community and secular classmates who bully her for remaining religious.

Tedfest 2015

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

TEDFEST 2015, the annual celebration of all things Father Ted returns to Galway this month with a table quiz and Toilet Duck Awards taking place in the city’s West End.

Duke Special plays Róisín Dubh next week

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

DUKE SPECIAL will preview music from his new album Look Out Machines! when he plays the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 27 at 8pm.

Julian Gough to read @ Over The Edge

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

JULIAN GOUGH, the award winning novelist and former lead singer of the great Irish indie band Toasted Heretic, reads at this month’s Over The Edge.

Reg Gordon - new exhibition, new website

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

ONE OF Galway’s leading photographers, Reg Gordon, launches his new website and new exhibition in the Town Hall Theatre gallery this Saturday at 3pm.

Album review: Rural Savage

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 19, 2015

WITH AN album cover and title that references the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks and all manner of Jamie Reid inspired multiple typeface, Rural Savage leave entrants to their second album in no doubt that their feet are firmly placed within the punk camp.

Rediscovering Maud Gonne

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE LIFE, times, and personality of Maud Gonne will be vividly evoked in a new stage presentation by local theatre-makers Caroline Lynch and Sarah O’Toole, of Mephisto and Anam Theatre companies respectively. The show, which could be described as a dramatised lecture, takes place on Thursday February 26 at 1pm in NUI Galway’s Cube Theatre and admission is free.