Get Busy with Sam Binga

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

SAM BINGA is a emerging as a major name in underground dance music and he plays the Get Busy clubnight in The Victoria Hotel this Saturday at 10pm

Ocean Colour Scene man to play Monroe’s

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

STEVE CRADOCK, the guitarist and founder member of mod-rock/britpoppers Ocean Colour Scene, and a member of Paul Weller’s band, is coming to Galway.

Show Me The Funny returns for 2014

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

SHOW ME The Funny, the annual comedy event which searches for Irelands freshest, newest brightest comedy talent, returns next week.

Shuffle at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

Vinyl junkie Dave Barry returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow for his Shuffle DJ night

Samantha Mumba to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

AFTER A lengthy hiatus, singer, actress, and model Samantha Mumba returns to live music duties and will play Monroe’s Live next month.

Date announced for Liam O’Flaherty summer school

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE GREAT Aran Island writer Liam O’Flaherty will be commemorated, discussed, and celebrated at a summer school to be held in Galway in August.

Ken Bruen wins a ‘Stanny’

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

KEN BRUEN, the acclaimed and award winning Galway crime-fiction writer has won the Best Crime Novel 2013 title in the annual Stannies list.

Wordhaus - words, writing, digital, and ideas

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

PETER GRIFFIN likes to say “Roadhouse” at random moments, but in the Bierhaus on Henry Street, on Wednesday January 15, the key word will be ‘Wordhaus’.

Galway venues and festivals nominated for IMRO awards

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

THE GALWAY Arts Festival, the Róisín Dubh, and The Townhouse Bar have all been short-listed for the IMRO Music Festival of the Year Awards 2013.

Art and reiki workshop

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

A WORKSHOP exploring painting and the healing art of reiki will take place on Saturday January 25 and Sunday 26 with artist Denise Hogan and reiki master Arja Sweeney.

Books - personal landmarks on life’s landscape

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

“MY OWN books I packed up in cases and sat on them, or dined on them. Books in a colony play a different part in your existence from what they do in Europe; there is a whole part in your existence where they alone take charge of; and on this account, according to their quality, you feel more grateful, or more indignant with them, than you will ever do in civilised countries.”

Mass, porn, and Nazi Party meeting minutes

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

IT WOULD be difficult to find three Irish poets more different from each other than Athenry’s Elaine Feeney; Belfast born, Galway resident Fred Johnston; and Dubliner Alan Jude Moore.

More than a decade of ‘Over the Edge

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

This month marks the commencement of the 11th year of the Over The Edge series of monthly literary readings run by poets Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins. Founded as a platform for emergent writers, OTE has showcased the work of some 300 authors since its inception. An impressive statistic in itself, no less impressive is the fact that more than 40 of the OTE readers have gone on to have their work published in book form. The high quality and lively diversity of their writing is much to the fore in the recently published Over The Edge, the First Ten Years, An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry from Salmon Poetry.

Galway Arts Centre visual art programme for 2014

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

2014 promises to be an exciting year for Galway Arts Centre’s visual art programme. Despite funding cuts to the arts for five consecutive years, the Dominick Street gallery is still working with a superb mix of Irish and international artists in solo and group exhibitions. The visual art education programme is also reaching new levels with major projects for young people and older people in 2014.

A group exhibition entitled NINE kicks off the year on January 25. Curated by Dublin City Council assistant arts officer Sheena Barrett and education professionals Lynne McGrane (Dublin Contemporary) and Liz Coman (advisor to the young people, children, and education department of the Arts Council of Ireland, The Ark Cultural Centre for Children, Dublin City Arts Office). The title NINE comes from the curator’s investigation into what it is like to be nine years old. Using the seminal’Growing Up in Ireland’ longitudinal study of children in Ireland as a starting point, artists Aideen Barry, Alan Butler, Maeve Clancy, Sam Keogh, and graphic designer Oonagh Young each made new work in response. The diverse exhibition looks at bullying, taking risks, creative play, and subversive creativity as a result of boredom. Nine year olds across Galway city and county have been invited to take part in workshops in February.

Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days will feature as part of the Town Hall’s January to March programme

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

The Town Hall recently unveiled its programme for the early months of the new year and it contains some real gems for theatre-goers to look forward to. There are plays featuring Beckett, Joyce, Martin McDonagh, and Pat McCabe, the Rough Magic and Decadent Theatre Companies, to name but a few in a line-up combining classics with exciting new works.

First into action are Kinvara’s Orion’s Belt Theatre Company with Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy, a madcap comedy about dating, romance, and psychoanalysis. It centres on the fraught romance between single, straight, Prudence, and bisexual Bruce -whose male lover Bob is seriously miffed by the affair. Further complications come from the erratic counselling of two unhinged psychotherapists. A comic classic, it is at the Town Hall studio onWednesday January 15 and Thursday January 16.

Galway Film Society’s new season opens with Le Week-End

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

As the New Year approaches it is time for Galway to look ahead towards new resolutions and experiences. For those searching for something different on a Sunday evening, the Galway Film Society has announced its winter and spring schedule of screenings taking place in the Town Hall Theatre from January 19 to March 23.

Keane Brothers’ Christmas Time Concert

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

The Keane brothers (Citizens Keane) from Caherlistrane, Matt, Sean, Noel, and Pat, will play the Claregalway Hotel on Friday January 3, in what has become an annual event.

Andrew Maxwell announces new Irish tour

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Andrew Maxwell, will return to Ireland touring his new show Banana Kingdom. With this blissfully funny show, Andrew will cover most of Ireland taking in 27 venues across the country, and will visit Galway on Saturday March 15 at the Róisín Dubh.

Fight Like Apes at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Ahead of their UK album release and tour, the nation's most intrepid sonic stevedores will be delivering their own brand of inimitable electro-punk at the Róisín on January 23.

Lindi Ortega @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Tennessee-based Canadian singer songwriter Lindi Ortega has been making very subtle waves of late with her alternative folk rock sound and an impressive background of major festival appearances and critically acclaimed albums.

Since 2001 Ortega has been hard at work releasing five albums and three EPs, including three very successful albums recently under the Last Gang Records label. In 2011, the Toronto artist made the move to Tennessee where she compiled and recorded her two breakthrough albums Little Red Boots and Cigarettes & Truckstops, which have both been nominated for Juno Awards and longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. Her output did not stop there however, with the release of her new album Tin Star in April of this year which has already sparked attention and excitement at her potential.

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