Fia Rua - launch gig for new album

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

FIA RUA, the Galway folk-rock singer-songwriter launches his new album The Sky Went Low And The Sea Went High with a Galway Fringe Festival concert.

The whole opera is enthralling

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

OPERA GETS its turn at the Galway International Arts Festival tonight and tomorrow at 8pm when Atalante and Resurgam combine to present Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo at St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church.

Declan O’Rourke to return next month

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

FOLLOWING HIS sold-out arts festival show, where he was accompanied by a string quartet, Declan O’Rourke will return in August.

Chapatti, iD, Star of the Sea, Midsummer

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

CHRISTIAN O’REILLY’S Chapatti, jointly produced by Northlight Theatre Company and GIAF, is a real crowd-pleaser of a play.

Basswax returns to The Cellar

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE BASSWAX clubnight returns to The Cellar on Friday August 1 with special guests Mecca and Bellows alongside.

Closing date looms for writers’ competition

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6 is the closing date for the 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition.

Orion Walsh - songs of a Nebraskan wanderer

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

NEBRASKA IS the state “where the west begins”, a region dominated by The Great Plains, and a place subject to thunderstorms and tornadoes.

Fringe festival exhibitions

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE GALWAY Fringe continues into this weekend so there is still time to check out a number of the visual arts exhibitions taking place as part of the festival.

Exploring the hidden world of infant bereavement

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE TRAGIC and painful loss of an infant will be explored in a new exhibition, The Amulet, by artist Marie Brett and a number of bereaved parents, which launches in Galway.

Bag of Weirdos tonight in Busker Brownes

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

TONIGHT SEES the final performance of comedy improve troupe The Leg Breakers’ The Bag of Weirdos, upstairs in Busker Brownes.

The art of anaesthetics

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

SOME YEARS ago, the artist Karen Conway received a present of an anaesthetic textbook by Minnitt and Gillies from 1948, and she found in it a source of inspiration.

Seattle folk-punk band play Galway shows

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE BOG Hoppers, the Seattle folk punk band, are in Galway next week to play two shows in the city - the Róisín Dubh on Monday July 28 and Monroe’s BackStage Bar on Tuesday 29.

Primrose Leary is back

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

THE THIRD and final instalment in the Primrose Leary trilogy of books, prIMPERFECT, will be launched next month.

Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft continues in The Ruby Room, The King’s Head, each lunchtime up to and including Sunday.

Paul Heaton - Five Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Wed, Jul 23, 2014

PAUL HEATON has enjoyed a 30 year career as leader of The Housemartins, The Beautiful South, and as a solo artist. Showing no signs of stopping, he is going back on tour this autumn, re-united with Beautiful South co-vocalist Jacqui Abbott.

New play gets public reading today

Tue, Jul 22, 2014

A BOY Called Nedd, a new play by Emily Gillmor Murphy, will be given a public reading by NUI Galway drama students in the Druid theatre this afternoon.

Charity art auction on Thursday

Tue, Jul 22, 2014

A CHARITY art auction, featuring work by emerging artists, and to raise funds for Team Hope’s Christmas Shoe Box Appeal, takes place on Thursday.

Listen to stream of Fia Rua's new album

Tue, Jul 22, 2014

FIA RUA, the Galway folk-rock singer-songwriter launches his new album The Sky Went Low And The Sea Went High with a Galway Fringe Festival concert in Áras na nGael this Saturday [July 26] at 9pm. In advance of the show, listen to the new album, which is streamed here in it's entirety:

Booka Brass Band - the Irish sound of New Orleans

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THE ONLY New Orleans style brass band in Ireland - the Booka Brass Band - are coming to play the Róisín Dubh as part of this summer’s Galway International Arts Festival.