One Book One Galway 2015

Mon, Feb 09, 2015

MORE THAN 500 schoolchildren across Galway city will take part in One Book One Galway - an initiative to encourage children to read one specific book - which will be launched this Thursday [February 12] at 11.30am.

Guinness Amplify Live Stages - in Galway

Mon, Feb 09, 2015

THE GUINNESS AMPLIFY Live Stages gigs come to Galway on Thursday February 26 with the Róisín Dubh and Monroe’s Live announced as the venues where the shows will take place. Each venue will host three bands on the night.

‘It is all about stories’

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THERE IS no doubt that one of this year’s hottest tickets in Irish theatre is Decadent Theatre Company’s imminent production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, which opens in the Town Hall Theatre later this month. So despite what you hear on the radio, Galway, not Dublin, gets to see the Irish premiere.

Stockings, sex, and the Nazi threat

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

CABARET, THE classic musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin, and immortalised on screen in the 1973 film starring Liza Minelli, will be staged by NUIG’s Galway University Musical Society in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday February 10 to Saturday 14 at 8pm.

Charlie’s Country - a look at Aboriginal life

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE HARSH lives and prejudices faced by Australian Aboriginies is captured in Charlie’s Country, to be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday [February 8] at 8pm.

Amelia Curran at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

AMELIA CURRAN, the Juno Award winning singer-songwriter has been described as “a bit like Leonard Cohen being channelled in a dusty saloon by Patsy Cline.”

PLASTIK Festival

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE INAUGURAL PLASTIK Festival of artists moving images and experimental film, which will run across three weekends in February, opens in An Taibhdhearc this Saturday.

Michael Murphy to read at Town Hall

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

MICHAEL MURPHY, the former RTÉ newscaster and more recently best-selling author, brings his show, Stories, Poetry, and Dreams, to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday February 14.

Album review: Natalie Prass

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

IN JANUARY 2013 Big Inner, an album of blue eyed soul, Memphis horns, funk, and Christianity by singer-songwriter Matthew E White caused a considerable stir. Now he returns to give his schoolfriend Natalie Prass her start, with this, her debut album.

Show Me The Funny - the penultimate show

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE PENULTIMATE Show Me The Funny heat takes place this Monday at 8pm in The King’s Head, with only four grand final places left to fill.

‘I always wanted to have a career in performing’

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

SHE IS best known as Winnie McGoogan in her brother Brendan’s sitcom, Mrs Brown’s Boys, but now Eilish O’Carroll takes her own turn in the limelight with her acclaimed autobiographical solo show, Live Love, Laugh.

The Dirty Circus Dirty Love Weekend party

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE DIRTY Circus rolls into the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 13 at 9pm for its Valentine’s party of burlesque, cabaret, and all things ‘naughty but nice’.

Máirtín O’Connor to headline fleadh fundraising concert

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE GREAT Máirtín O’Connor headlines a major concert in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway, on Friday February 13 to raise funds for the Galway County Fleadh.

Book review: Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

IT IS every publisher’s dream s/he should “discover” the author who will be as iconic as James Joyce, as commercially successful as JK Rowling, and as prolific as Charles Dickens. So when a potential candidate appears above the parapet the publisher will - rightly - not hesitate to sing loud and clear that the new literary protégé will out-Joyce Joyce, out sell Rowling, and outwrite Dickens.

Michael Harding and his elephant

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE IRISH Times columnist Michael Harding reads from his book, Hanging With The Elephant, in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday February 11 at 8pm.

Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANTIC comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, is being staged by Stratford-upon-Avon’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and will be broadcast live to Galway.

Dylan Murphy to launch debut EP

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

DYLAN MURPHY, the guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of Steven Sharpe’s band The Broke Straight Boys, is to launch his debut solo EP.

Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

LOUIS DEPAOR, Sarah Clancy, and Gerry Hanberry take part in the Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase at Charlie Byrne’s, on Friday February 13 from 6.30pm.

Book review: I Remember, I Remember: Galway Stories and Sketches

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

NOSTALGIA IS defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.” Tales of bygone years when the sun seemed to shine forever, and childhood days were filled with laughter are always trying to tell the reader some sort of lie.

Art class at Galway City Museum

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

LIMERICK BASED artist Maurice Quillinan will deliver a one-day masterclass in the museum this Saturday from 10.30am. The course is designed for students and full-time/part-time artists or those with an interest in gaining a deeper knowledge and understanding into how a painting is made.

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