Funk, Soul and Reggae at Massimo

Thu, Mar 20, 2014

GALWAY DJ Dave Barry’s monthly vinyl excursion into funk, northern soul, boogaloo, r’n’b, Jamaican ska, and more, returns to Massimo tomorrow night. The emphisis is on the dancefloor but there are plenty of snugs for a quiet pint not to mention the smoking room.

‘It is the characters who really take over’

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

ONE OF the most keenly anticipated readings at next month’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature is sure be that of Tipperary born author Donal Ryan.

Ryan’s two novels, The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December, have been showered with praise and awards, establishing him as one of the most impressive new voices in Irish fiction. His sudden literary fame has not altered his life except, ironically, in impeding his writing time, as he tells me over a lunchtime conversation.

‘I’m not looking for soundbites in Greek tragedy’

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

MONDAY MORNING at 10am, a Greek tragedy and a full house, this was the unlikely combination NUI Galway achieved for its inaugural Theatre Season with a fine production of Sophocles’ Electra.

Andrew Maxwell’s Banana Kingdom

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

ANDREW MAXWELL, one of Ireland’s leading comedians and a double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, comes to the Róisín Dubh this Saturday.

Seacht Scéal with Diarmuid de Faoite

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

DIARMUID DE Faoite, the acclaimed actor and storyteller, will be in An Taibhdhearc with his show Seacht Scéal/Seven Sagas.

Diarmuid, who was nominated for Best Actor at the 2012 IFTAs, will tell stories based around the legends of the Tuath Dé Danann this Saturday from 1pm to 2pm. This will be an interactive show as Gaeilge, with some English.

Dub reggae with Jonah Dan

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

JONAH DAN, a mainstay of the British dub scene since the early nineties, plays the first Rootical Sound System show of 2014.

Memory, dance, and mothers

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

SWIMMING WITH My Mother and Missing, two new shows by choreographer David Bolger, are being brought to Galway by CoisCéim Dance Theatre.

Irish-American hoe-down @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

ST PATRICK’S Eve and St Patrick’s Day will be celebrated musically at Monroe’s Live with two gigs from Minnesota’s The Hounds of Finn.

The Hive’s birthday celebration

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

THE HIVE clubnight celebrates one year of throwing parties in the Róisín Dubh when DJs Cian Ó Cíobháin and Cyril Briscoe hit the decks tomorrow from 11.30pm.

The girl who sings sean nós

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

AISLING GHEAL are a group of women keeping sean-nós alive by attracting young people to this traditional form of Irish singing - including Shahira Apraku.

New film by maker of The Pipe

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

RICHIE O’DONNELL, who made the acclaimed documentary The Pipe, will screen his new film in Galway next Tuesday.

Atlantic will be screened in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, by The Little Cinema Club at 9pm. The night will include the launch of the website for the film.

Dum Dum Girls to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

THE BRILLIANT Los Angeles pop-punk/indie-rock band Dum Dum Girls play the Róisín Dubh on Friday May 9 as part of their European tour.

Foals man to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

EDWIN CONGREAVE, the keyboardist with leading English indie-rock band Foals will be in Galway this weekend, DJing at the Electric Garden and Theatre.

Senakah - new single and Kelly’s show

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

IT’S ALL go for Irish indie band Senakah, with a new single and an Irish tour which takes in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street this Saturday.

The story of a fighting man

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

JOHNNY KILBANE, the Irish-American boxer who remains the longest reigning World Featherweight Champion of all time, is the subject of a film to be shown on TG4.

Six of the best on stage

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

LIVERPOOL-GALWAY punk band Vamos will storm the stage of Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street tomorrow, headlining a bill featuring six bands.

Sal Vitro @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

THE GRITTY stomp-rock of Sal Vitro will be on display in Monroe’s Live tonight from 10pm.

Second collection of Tom Duddy’s poems

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

THE YEARS, a collection of poetry by the late philosopher and academic Tom Duddy, is to be launched in Galway city this month.

Mr Duddy was a lecturer at NUI Galway, working in the Department of Philosophy from 1979 until he became ill in 2011. He was also a keen poet. His debut collection, The Hiding Place was published by Arlen House in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry. Mr Duddy died in June 2012, while compiling his second book of poems.

Choral concerts for Simon

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

GALWAY SIMON Community has been selected as the chosen charity for two concerts to take place during St Patrick’s Weekend.

The concerts will take place in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church. The first takes place on Saturday at 8pm with the Laramie and Kelly Walsh Choirs from Wyoming. The choirs are made up of 90 singers from the western US and perform popular classics, spirituals, pop, and Irish and American folk songs. The choirs will also be accompanied by a bluegrass band.

Cúirt 2014 - from Booker winners to new voices

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

IT SAYS something about the ambition of Cúirt 2014 that an eminent author like Sebastian Barry; Irish fiction’s rising star Dónal Ryan; and the Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton, are among the major - but far from only major - names coming to this year’s festival.

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