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.

Reading Feeney’s The Radio Was Gospel (Salmon Poetry), Johnston’s Alligator Days (Revival Press), and Moore’s Zinger (Salmon Poetry) one after the other, you are made confront the different things poetry can be.

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.

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.

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.

This is the sixth consecutive Christmas concert at the Claregalway venue, and has become one of the rare occasions when the brothers perform together. Sean Keane is taking a night off from his winter Irish tour, ‘Christmas by the Hearth’ promoting his new CD collection Never Alone, to join the family for this special 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.

Packed full of fearlessly intelligent topical observations, delivered in his animated and inclusive style, Banana Kingdom recently completed a sell-out run in one of the Edinburgh Fringe's biggest venues (playing to more than 10,000 people) and a hit run in London's Soho Theatre.

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.

Wallis Bird Monroe's show announced

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Choice Music Award nominee Wallis Bird will return to Galway in spring 2014 with a show at Monroe's Live.

Moon landing at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Lunar Playground’s tag line reads, somewhat ironically,“We don’t do tag lines, we do rock ‘n’ roll”. While the first half of this statement might be dubious, the second is beyond doubt.

Galway Youth Orchestra opens 2014 at NUI Galway

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

The Bailey Allen Hall in NUI Galway will be the venue for the first Galway Youth Orchestra concert of 2014 on Saturday January 4 at 8pm.

New Year poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Starting in January, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.

Kevin’s second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published in 2008 also by Salmon Poetry and his poetry is discussed in The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry. His third collection, Frightening New Furniture, was published in 2010 by Salmon and his work also appears in the generation-defining anthology Identity Parade –New British and Irish Poets.

Going coast to coast with ThereisBear!

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

GALWAY THEATRE company ThereisBear! recently announced details for its ambitious and exciting 2014 programme, which begins in January with two simultaneous productions – Christina Reid’s Joyriders in Galway and Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus in Dublin.

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