Dutch artist ‘brings’ her ancestors to Ireland

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

FOR DUTCH artist Noor Poppers, studying at the GMIT inspired her to explore her family history and the lives of relatives who lived before the Holocaust.

Over The Edge reading

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

THREE GALWAY based writers, Alvy Carragher, Kate Ennals, and Michael Farry, will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday February 27 at 6.30pm.

New exhibition @ 126

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

An exhibition of new work by Siobhan McGibbon, Ciara Healy, and Karl Musson opens at the 126 Gallery on Flood Street this Saturday at 7pm.

Live music @ Stock Exchange

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

CHART HITS and pop/rock classics will ring out in The Stock Exchange, Shop Street, this weekend with an array of cover bands and DJs on musical duty.

Mike Denver to play Salthill Hotel

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

LEADING IRISH country and western singer Mike Denver will play The Salthill Hotel this Sunday at 8pm.

HOW TO perpetrate a theatrical get-rich-quick scheme: Find the worst play ever written; hire the worst director and worst actors in town; raise $2 million, officially to ‘stage the show’, but in reality for the producers to pocket; see the play close after opening night; then take the money and run for Brazil.

Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant Leo Bloom believe this is a fail-safe plan to make them very rich men. They are certain Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden written by Franz Liebkind, a Nazi hiding out in New York, cannot but fail to insult Jews, the gay community, and anybody who isn’t a Nazi or a Homophobe.

Remembering Seamus Heaney

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

ALMOST SIX months have passed since the death of the much-loved poet Seamus Heaney and Galway will commemorate his life and work in a gala event at NUI Galway’s Bailey Allen Hall on Wednesday February 26.

Gift Grub Live 3 is coming to Galway

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

MARIO ROSENSTOCK, one of Ireland’s greatest satirists, impersonators, and comedians is bringing his new show Gift Grub Live 3 to Galway.

Gift Grub Live 3 will be performed in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Thursday May 8 and audiences can expect Roy Keane, Marty Morrissey, Davy Fitz, Donal Skehan, Miriam ‘Genuinely’ O’Callaghan, Keith ‘Howya Buddies’ Duffy, Joan Burton, José Mourinho, Michael Noonan, and of course Mario’s inimitable take on Vincent Browne, all ‘live on stage’ as you have never seen them before!

The Rising, And By Way Of Interludes World War I

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

THE GALWAY City Council’s bulging-at-the-seams title of a new play - The Rising, And By Way Of Interludes World War I - bulges at the seams with some of the key events from Irish history.

What’s D’Scéal at An Taibhdhearc?

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

ROS NA Rún’s Macdara Ó Fatharta and Anne-Marie Horan will launch An Taibhdhearc’s 2014 programme at What’s D’Scéal at An Taibhdhearc?, on Monday February 17 at 6pm.

The Dirty Circus - a saucy Valentine’s party

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

A VALENTINE’S night of burlesque and cabaret, set to tease, titillate, and delight, comes to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night, in the form of The Dirty Circus.

Digging up the secrets between men

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

IN SOME parts of rural Ireland, graves are dug, not by professional gravediggers, but by friends and neighbours of the deceased.

Dig, written by playwright and director Seamus O’Rourke, will be staged by Big Guerilla Productions in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday February 18 at 8pm.

Bluegrass, tattoos, and struggles

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

ELISE RUNS a tattoo shop while Didier plays banjo in a bluegrass band. When they meet, it is love at first sight.

Advanced Fiction classes

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

THE SHORT-story writer and poet, Susan Millar DuMars, will host a new series of creative writing classes for those serious about writing short or long fiction.

KATS seeks actors

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

THE KNOCKNACARRA Amateur Theatrical Society is holding auditions for its production of Bernard Farrell’s comedy Say Cheese.

Actresses sought for Lorca play

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

HOURGLASS THEATRE Company is seeking actresses for a Spanish language production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba.

English folk duo to play two Galway shows

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

THEY HAVE been praised for “gorgeous vocals...[and]...harmonies complementing each other beautifully” by For Folk’s Sake, while the BBC called them “upbeat and kinda a lot of fun”.

Lisa O’Neill to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

SHE HAS played support at David Gray and Glen Hansard’s recent Galway concerts, but next week Lisa O’Neill takes top billing when she plays the Róisín Dubh.