Erin McKeown - new album and Róisín Dubh show
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
“A COUPLE of years ago, I found myself at a cross-roads. It was no longer sustainable to participate in a traditional label relationship. It was no longer possible to keep my political and musical selves separate.
Read more ...Traidphicnic An Spidéal
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
FRONT RANK Irish trad musicians, beach walks, hawks, and a giant camera obscura are on the bill for Traidphicnic in An Spidéal tomorrow and Saturday.
Read more ...Declan O’Rourke - three Galway shows
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
DECLAN O’ROURKE, the songwriter whose admirers include Paul Weller and Eddie Reader, will plays County Galway three times this summer.
Read more ...Safe Sex & Unprotected Poetry
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
SAFE SEX & Unprotected Poetry is where music, poetry, performance, comedy, and songwriting collide, as well as featuring a man Tom Waits said is “blowing my mind.”
Read more ...Alice’s day-to-night disco
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
THE ALICE clubnight returns this Sunday with a special day to night disco on the rooftop of Biteclub, Electric, Upper Abbeygate Street.
Read more ...Ted Hughes - the Galway connection
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
TED HUGHES, the English poet regarded as one of the greatest of the post-war era, will be celebrated at an event in County Galway.
Read more ...‘I’m proud to be intellectually disabled, it’s who I am’
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
BLUE TEAPOT Theatre Company provided one of the big hits of last year’s arts festival with Christian O’Reilly’s heartbreakingly beautiful play, Sanctuary, a production which also enjoyed a successful run at the Dublin Fringe Festival.
Read more ...Galway Is Film!
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
IN THE year Galway city makes its bid to become a UNESCO City of Film, and in recognition of the film-making history of the county, the Galway Film Fleadh is celebrating local film with its Galway Is Film! strand.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus and a Galway Film Fleadh night
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
THE DIRTY Circus, Galway’s burlesque and cabaret event, returns to the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday July 8 and as that is also the day the Galway Film Fleadh opens and fleadh guests will be attending the show.
Read more ...A summer evening of poetry
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
THE POET Eamon Grennan will give a rare public reading of his work at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Galway City Library.
Read more ...Inishbofin Concerts
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
JULIE FEENEY, Paddy Casey, and Eleanor Shanley are among the singers who will be in concert on Inishbofin, as part of the island’s annual summer concert series.
Read more ...The Lads (and one lass) of Comedy
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
FOUR MEN and one woman make up The Lads of Comedy, and they are believed to be five of Ireland’s best comedians you might not have seen before.
Read more ...Midsummer madness and match-ups
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
AS IT has done for the past couple of years, Galway Youth Theatre and Galway Community Theatre again team up for the Galway International Arts Festival with their staging of Midsummer by Scottish author David Greig.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh to show world premiere of Glassland
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
GLASSLAND, THE new film by Pilgrim Hill director Gerard Barrett, and starring Jack Reynor, the IFTA winning actor best known for his role in What Richard Did, will have its world premiere at Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
A COMEDY AND arts festival institution, Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft in The Ruby Room, The King’s Head, returns for lunchtime laughs on this month.
Read more ...The return of Heroes in Hiding
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
A CROSS between Mumford and Sons and The Frames, with shout-a-long folk-rock songs, injected with some indie songwriting nous – this is Heroes in Hiding.
Read more ...Drama summer camp at City Museum
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
A DRAMA summer camp for those aged between 11 and 14, takes place at the Galway City Museum.
Read more ...It’s all happening at the Colours Fringe Festival
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
THE JULY festival season was ushered in this week by the Colours Fringe Festival which features events taking place across the city until Tuesday 8.
Read more ...Glenn Gibson's new Sculpture exhibition
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
SEEMINGLY SOLID Things, a sculpture exhibition by local artist Glenn Gibson opens on Friday July 4 at 6pm in the Town Hall Theatre gallery and bar.
Read more ...The best new Canadian cinema
Tue, Jul 01, 2014
TODAY IS Canada Day/Fête du Canada, the Great White North’s national holiday, and this month’s Galway Film Fleadh is showing a range of films from the North American nation.
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