Charity concert for the Philippines
Thu, Dec 19, 2013
A CHARITY concert to raise funds to help rebuild lives and communities devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, takes place tonight.
Read more ...Exhibition of youth and children’s art
Thu, Dec 19, 2013
EIDETIC IMAGERY, an exhibition of art by Galway teens and children, is currently running at The Shed, Centre Pier, Galway City Harbour.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Dec 19, 2013
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting at home in front of the fire with my girlfriend Hannah.
New charity book for Barnardos
Thu, Dec 19, 2013
IF I Were a Child Again, a new book compiled by Caroline Finnerty, and featuring Galway writer Miranda Manning, has just been published.
Read more ...Solstice night @ The Cellar
Thu, Dec 19, 2013
THE WINTER Solstice will be marked in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, with a DJ driven party in aid of Galway Hospice Foundation.
Read more ...Ranting and raving about Neil Delamere’s Smartbomb
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
WHETHER IT be on RTE’s The Panel or The Republic of Telly, Irish audiences are well acquainted with the name Neil Delamere.
Read more ...‘I always loved Renmore panto’ - Jenni Flaherty on being Maid Marian
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
AS THE Christmas season swings into gear folk look forward to the annual highlight of the Renmore Pantomime. This year’s offering is Robin Hood & Babes in the Wood and the leading role of Maid Marian is taken by singer/performer Jenni Flaherty.
Read more ...Triple treat of comedy excellence
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
COMEDIANS MARK Thomas, Sean Hughes, and Jason Byrne are confirmed to play the Róisín Dubh and ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ shows in 2014.
Mark Thomas will present 100 Acts of Minor Dissent on April 2 in the Róisín. On May 13 2013, Mark set out to commit 100 acts of minor dissent in the space of a year and, on at midnight May 13 2014, the task will end. The show catalogues those acts from the smallest to the grandest confrontation. The results are hilarious, subversive, mainly legal, and occasionally inspiring.
Read more ...Twas The Night Before Christmas
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
IN a small village in 1940s Ireland, before most homes had electricity, there is an air of expectation. Santa Claus is on his way and it is almost Christmas Day.
Read more ...All rise for The High Kings
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THE HIGH Kings, whose members grew up in households soaked in Irish trad, return to Galway to play the Town Hall Theatre on Friday December 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Christmas with Frank Naughton
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THE GREAT Galway tenor Frank Naughton takes to the Town Hall Theatre stage on Thursday December 19 at 8pm for his annual Christmas concert.
Read more ...A political panto as Gaeilge
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
IT IS a cruel world and chieftain Enda Lofta makes people’s lives a misery, but all is about to change, with a hell of a lot of laughs along the way.
Read more ...A Gaelic Blazing Saddles?
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
TEXAS, THE 1800s. A young man from the east has come to the Wild West in search of adventure and ‘something a bit different’.
Read more ...Falstaff - live from New York
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
VERDI’S FALSTAFF will be broadcast to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, live via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera in New York this Saturday at 6pm.
Read more ...Stay golden with ASIWYFA
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
AND SO I Watch You From Afar, the ground-breaking Antrim post-rock quartet will curate two nights of music at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Fred to play last Galway show
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
AFTER 15 years, four albums, critical acclaim, and awards and nominations, Cork indie-pop band Fred are calling it a day.
Read more ...Rap and alien pop
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
NANU NANU, the ‘alien pop’ duo, and US West Coast rapper Steve Liriks, take to the stage of Monroe’s Live tomorrow from 10pm.
Read more ...Declan O’Rourke @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
PAUL WELLER declared Declan O’Rourke’s ‘Galileo’ as the one song he wished he had written, while Chris Rea, John Prine, and Paul Brady have sung O’Rourke’s praises.
Read more ...Exhibitions - from Berlin to Galway
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
IRISH ARTISTS living in Berlin, a host of major names in the Irish art world, and numerous emerging young talent are exhibiting across Galway city.
Read more ...Spirit of Voice Festival 2013
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THE 10TH Spirit of Voice Festival which celebrates the human voice through folk singing, sean-nós, spoken word, poetry, and rap, takes place in The Townhouse Bar on Friday December 20 at 8pm.
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