Cinema review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Films Reviews Mon, Nov 24, 2014

DESPITE REALLY enjoying the first two Hunger Games films I was apprehensive about this one. The third Hunger Games book is by some distance the worst of the trilogy and with the end of this incredibly lucrative franchise in sight the makers have taken the, no doubt purely artistic, decision to split the final book into two films.

‘It’s fierce, it’s dark, it’s full of conflict, but it’s actually all about love’

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

ON MONDAY February 2 1959, The Listowel Drama Group presented the premiere performance of Sive, John B Keane’s debut play, thus launching the career of one of Ireland’s most popular writers.

Tracy Bruen to launch debut EP

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

TRACY BRUEN, the indie-folk singer-songwriter the Electric Picnic festival described as possessing “a stunning vocal range and a theatrical bent” launches her debut EP next week.

Brendan O’Carroll’s The Course on tour

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

BRENDAN O’CARROLL’S riotous comedy play The Course will be performed in An Taibhdhearc by Mountbellew drama group The Malthouse Players.

Bernard Canavan - painting a lost generation

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

AT A time when some Irish painters came to the west of Ireland and depicted a rural idyll, Bernard Canavan was, like many other people his age in the 1950s, boarding a boat to England.

The Barber of Seville @ The Eye

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

THE BARBER Of Seville, one of opera’s best known and loved works, will be broadcast live from The Met in New York to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday at 6pm.

Album review - Ariel Pink

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 20, 2014

IF NOEL Fielding had such a thing as an evil twin, then LA’s Ariel Pink just might be it, for in pom pom, he has just unleashed possibly the strangest album of 2014, and certainly the year’s most eccentrically uninhibited.

The show (band) must go on

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

IT IS all systems go at the Mick Lally Theatre this week as Thereisbear! gear up for No Show, Peter Shine’s zestful showband-themed drama which starts previewing at the theatre from tomorrow and opens on Tuesday November 25.

Marion Cotillard on-screen at Galway Film Society

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

MARION COTILLARD, one of France’s best known actresses, stars in the Belgian film, Two Days One Night, which is to be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday November 30 at 8pm.

Improv theatre workshop

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

GALWAY ACTORS Workshop will host A Big Day of Play, an improv theatre intensive course, which will be taught by performer and facilitator Órla McGovern.

Anthemic Raglans set for Strange Brew

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

THERE MAY be no exact consensus on how to categorise Raglans’ sound, but there is unanimous agreement that it is irresistible and that on-stage the band are phenomenal.

Listen to an exhibition

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

ART EXHIBITIONS are usually something you look at. Even when the works have a sound elements, such as in video or installation, they are primarily an experience for the eyes.

Leonard Elschenbroich - charisma and perfection

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

A PERFORMER of “tremendous assurance and power” whose playing has “depth, expressivity, charisma and perfection” will play Galway next week.

Stephen Young & The Union @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

STEPHEN YOUNG & The Union bring their Americana sound to Monroe’s Live this Sunday, playing songs from their forthcoming album Eagle Fort Rumble.

Noreena Gill - two shows and a debut EP

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

GALWAY JAZZ/SOUL singer-songwriter Noreena Gill is to play two shows in the city over the next six days, and launch her debut EP, Something About You.

Parle and Barnes @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

LUAN PARLE, the Meteor Award winning singer-songwriter is coming to Galway on Friday November 28 to play an intimate acoustic set, upstairs in the Róisín Dubh.

110th Street’s birthday bash

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

YOU ONLY turn 16 once, so when that milestone birthday comes around, it makes sense to do it in style, and that is just what clubnight 110th Street plans to do.

Shuffle! @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

SHUFFLE! RETURNS to the Róisín Dubh for another instalment of foot stomping floor fillers with DJ Dave Barry tomorrow at 11pm.

Abandoman @ The King’s Head

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

Comedy/hip-hop duo Abandoman (pictured) play a free ticketed gig at The Kings Head on Thursday November 27 at 8.30pm. From Kanye to Jay Z, from country to funk, their set will contain musical, lyrical and comical scenes of a seriously awesome nature. Check The Kings Head Facebook to book on how to get free tickets

Leading Irish animators to speak at Galway film and TV seminar

Wed, Nov 19, 2014

THE PEOPLE behind such animated films as Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Coraline, The Secret Of Kells, and Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble will attend the Galway Film Centre’s annual film and TV seminar on November 27 and 28.

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