Claregalway Drama Festival

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

THE 32ND Claregalway Festival of Drama opens on Thursday March 13 and runs until Friday 21, and will include works of Irish and international theatre.

The opening play will be Compántas Lir’s production of Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan, while the closing event will be Arthur Miller’s A Room With A View by the Thurles Drama Group.

Comedy with Maxwell and Bishop

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

ANDREW MAXWELL and Des Bishop, two of Ireland’s greatest comics, bring their new stand-up shows to the Róisín Dubh this month.

Award winning Mexican film for Town Hall

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

NEWLY ARRIVED in Mexico City, Roberto opens a restaurant, while daughter Alejandra quickly makes friends with the popular kids in school. It seems a great start to a new life.

Conal Gallon’s A Bit On The Side

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

A BIT On The Side, the phenomenally successful debut play by Donegal comedian Conal Gallon, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday March 15 at 8pm.

A trio of Indie brilliance @ Strange Brew

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

STANLEY BRINKS and The Wave Pictures are not a singer and his band, but a collaboration between and English group and a French musician.

Galway will be able to check out this partnership when they play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday March 13 at 9pm.

David Burke’s cycling tour reaches Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

IRISH SINGER-songwriter David Burke is seeking to play 32 shows across the 32 counties in 32 days, all on his bicycle.

Mojo GoGo @ Monroe’s

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

“THE MUSIC world is Mojo GoGo’s for the taking. Their live show has already become the stuff of legend,” said Hot Press.

New clubnight starts in Factory

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

GET BOOGIE! is the name of a new clubnight for Galway, and it kicks off tomorrow from 11pm in The Factory on Abbeygate Street.

Get Boogie! is a sister session to the Jungle Boogie! series and cousin of the recent Get Busy. The music policy is Old School Jungle, Footwork, bass, and breaks, pumped through a newly installed Void sound system. On the decks for the debut night will be Don Rosco (Bassbin/Wobble) alongside resident Welfare.

Forde brothers to represent Galway @ IYMAs

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

GALWAY ROCK duo Keagan & Evan Forde will represent Galway in the Irish Youth Music Awards final in the Aviva Stadium on April 12.

Cover bands @ The Stock Exchange

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

COVERS BAND Badly Stocked Jukebox take to the stage of The Stock Exchange tomorrow night, followed by Kensey 3 for the Sunday session.

Máirtín O'Connor Band to play An Spidéal

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

THE MÁIRTÍN O’Connor Band, featuring the titan talents of Cathal Hayden, Seamie O’Dowd, and Jim Higgins, and the great man himself, play the Éigse an Spidéil festival this weekend.

The beauty in forgotten places

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

GERAGH IN County Cork is the only ancient post glacial alluvial forest in Western Europe and the subject of a new photographic exhibition, entitled Lost.

Lost, by photographer Seamie Gallagher is currently running in the Arts Corridor at University Hospital Galway and is inspired by an alluvial forest - a hardwood forest found on low levees, ridges and terraces with a high level of underground water within the floodplains of streams - near Seamie’s hometown of Macroom.

Calling Galway schools for poetry slam

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

THE BRAVE New Words Schools Poetry Slam comes to the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday April 8 and could eventually see young Galway poets performing on HBO.

Brave New Words, which has featured on RTÉ TwoTube and Nationwide, is aimed at transition year students and below. It aims to improve literacy, encourage creativity and performance, and help young people make themselves heard.

Poetry made of dark material

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

WHILE STILL a teenager, Caoilinn Hughes was a featured reader at the first Over The Edge Open Readings in the Galway City Library.

The storytelling revival

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

IN IRELAND, there is an extremely strong tradition of storytelling. However, in recent years this rich aspect of our indigenous inheritance is disappearing.

Thankfully these wonderful stories have not totally disappeared, as is evident from the new series, the first volume of which has recently been published by the History Press.

Any colour you like

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

CATHERINE FLEMING may only be 18 years old, but already she has had three exhibitions, and her fourth, currently running in the Providence Market Kitchen on St Augustine Street, reveals her increasingly bold use of colour and abstraction.

A ‘technicolour phantasmagoria’

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

PAT MCCABE’S rollercoaster new play, The Bridge Below The Town, set in 1950s small-town Ireland, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre and promises audiences a swirling drama of life, love, Butlins, and nuns who make márla men, set to a classic soundtrack.

Staged by Livin’ Dred Theatre Company, in association with NASC Theatre Network, the play centres on housewife Golly Murray who, despite being almost broken by life’s struggles, ultimately discovers the gratifying truth that love can triumph over adversity.

ConTempo and O’Connor - when trad meets classical

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

TRAD TITANS Máirtín O’Connor, Garry O’Briain and Cathal Hayden are joining forces with the mighty ConTempo Quartet for a concert in Galway next month.

Putting Portrait Of The Artist on stage

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

JAMES JOYCE’S A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man comes in the Town Hall Theatre in an imaginative staging from Dublin’s New Theatre.

Life among the Dorset Street Toys

Thu, Feb 27, 2014

A CHILD prophet is taken from a basket sent drifting down the Liffey. A young girl clutching a dolly is taken from her home.

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