McSavage and Irrera for Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 29, 2014
DOM IRRERA and David McSavage will headline separate shows at the Róisín Dubh, with the Irishman closing the month of May and the American starting June.
Read more ...Danny Ryan comedy show
Thu, May 29, 2014
LIMERICK COMIC Danny Ryan returns to Galway to play the Dew Drop Inn Comedy Club tonight at 9pm.
Danny’s subtle mix of the surreal with the mundane has made him one of the best emerging comedians on the circuit. Also on the bill are co-hosts Dermot Roche and Johnny Graham. Admission is €3.
Read more ...Last Friday Club @ Monroe’s
Thu, May 29, 2014
THE LAST Friday Club in Monroe’s Backstage Bar, the clubnight for anyone over 30, returns on Friday May 30.
The club features music from the 1970s to today and is organised by Emer Hennelly, Monroe’s Live, and DJ Jon Richards. Admission is €10 or half price for anyone who wears sixties, seventies, or eighties fancy dress.
Read more ...Richmond Fontaine/The Decemberists members to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 29, 2014
WILLY VLAUTIN of The Richmond Fontaine and Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists have joined forces as The Delines, whose Irish tour next month takes in Galway.
Read more ...Celtic reggae fusion @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 29, 2014
REGGAE, SKA, Irish trad, Latin music, American and Eastern European music, and Gaeilge collide in spectacular fashion in Belfast band Bréag.
Read more ...Ultan Conlon - new single and Galway gig
Thu, May 29, 2014
‘IN THE Mad’, the second single from Ultan Conlon’s second album Songs Of Love So Cruel is to be released tomorrow as a download.
Read more ...The Voice/Pop Idol vocal coach comes to Galway
Thu, May 29, 2014
JOSHUA ALAMU, the London based vocal coach, who has appeared on BBC’s The Voice and ITV’s Pop Idol, and who has worked with West Life and Joss Stone, is coming to Galway.
Read more ...POD - a place to dream
Thu, May 29, 2014
THE POD, a “mobile daydreaming facility for young people” is touring County Galway, and will be in Coole Park this Sunday, and Silver Strand Beach on Saturday May 31.
Read more ...Major Matisse exhibition @ The Eye
Thu, May 29, 2014
HENRI MATISSE is one of the key figures in 20th century art, and his Cut-Outs, which he began in the late 1930s, are among his best loved works.
Read more ...Galway Workshop Festival
Thu, May 29, 2014
THE LATEST addition to the city’s festival roster is the Galway Workshop Festival which takes place this Saturday and Sunday.
Read more ...Over The Edge writing competition seeks entries
Thu, May 29, 2014
THE 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition is seeking entries and is open to poets and fiction writers worldwide.
The total prize money is €1,000, with the best fiction entry winning €300; the best poetry entry winning €300; and the overall winner receiving an additional €400 and a slot as a featured reader at Over The Edge in 2014/15, and a hamper of books from Kenny’s Bookshop.
Read more ...ConTempo’s ‘Musical Exhibits’
Thu, May 29, 2014
THE CONTEMPO Quartet and saxophonist Gavin Brennan are joining forces to present a family concert of classical music in the Galway City Museum.
Read more ...Album review - Sharon Van Etten
Music Reviews Thu, May 29, 2014
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
SHARON VAN Etten’s world is of dark, late night confessionals of heartbreak, unrequited love, failing relationships, relationships that should have worked, and yearning for better times that may never arrive.
Album review: La Sera
Music Reviews Thu, May 29, 2014
La Sera - Hour Of The Dawn (Hardly Art)
“I WANTED the new La Sera record to sound like Lesley Gore fronting Black Flag. I didn’t want it to be another record of me sad, alone in my room.”
Dancehall days - Jimmy’s Hall and sinful dancing
Tue, May 27, 2014
KEN LOACH, the acclaimed British film-maker and director of The Wind The Shakes The Barley, returns to Ireland for his latest film - Jimmy’s Hall.
Read more ...Ballyturk - Just where are we?
Thu, May 22, 2014
THE REALISATION that one day we die, and that this existence is over, never to be re-experienced, hits two men one night as they sit at home, sending them on a journey, not into misery, but outrageousness and laughter, and a route whose end, ironically, they cannot even begin to guess.
Read more ...Moving statues back in town
Thu, May 22, 2014
HIT PLAY, The Year of the Moving Statues, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre. A side-splitting satirical comedy by Kinvara playwright Gerry Conneely, it captures the madness and excitement of summer 1985 when the country’s grottoes began to move en masse.
From Ballinspittle to Ballydehob, from Blanchardstown to Bohola, there was shaking and shuddering, weeping and lamentation. Ireland was transfixed and tens of thousands took to the roads, in pouring rain and driving wind, to witness the supernatural spectacle.
Read more ...Sir Richard Bonynge to conduct in Galway
Thu, May 22, 2014
SIR RICHARD Bonynge, one of the greatest of all operatic conductors, playS a fundraising concert on Thursday May 29 in the Augustinian Church.
Read more ...The Importance of Being Wilde
Thu, May 22, 2014
MORE THAN a century after his death in Paris, Oscar Wilde’s work remains as popular as ever while the triumphs and tragedies of his life exert an enduring fascination.
Read more ...Postscript’s ‘moving story’ of adoption
Thu, May 22, 2014
THE RECENT success of the movie Philomena highlighted the social and personal impact of adoption in Irish society in times past. This weekend, in the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, actor and playwright Noelle Brown’s play, Postscript, visits the same topic through the story of her own life.
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