Pictiúr - the Baboró 2013 exhibition
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
PICTIÚR - AN exhibition of contemporary Irish children’s book illustrations, as part of the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, is running at the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...New children’s books from Galway authors
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
OF ALL the things to inspire a children’s book, veteran and outspoken journalist and broadcaster Vincent Browne does not seem to be one of them.
Read more ...Performance poetry classes
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
THE AWARD winning performance poet Dave Rock is holding a four week class in this style of poetry at the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Artists announced for TULCA 2013
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
NEAL WHITE and Tina O’Connell, Bojan Fajfric, Sandra Johnston, and Robert Ellis will exhibit at the 2013 TULCA Festival of Visual Art.
Read more ...Michael Murphy to read at Dubray
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
MICHAEL MURPHY, one of Ireland’s most respected broadcasters, and a best-selling author, is coming to Galway to read from his new book..
Read more ...From horses to hilarity
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
SHE GREW up in the Irish equestrian heartland of Kildare, in a family that loved telling stories. She earned her comedy apprenticeship at university, moved to London, and found it made her more Irish and more determined to become a comedian.
Read more ...From Brandon to Brooklyn
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
IT IS 1988 and all eyes are on the western skies. Wide-eyed, wild yet innocent, they watch the jetstream trails over Brandon Mountain. Soon they will be up there on one of the planes bound for a new life across the Atlantic. Big dreams, work hard, get rich, and someday maybe...if things get better they will come back home again.
Read more ...Laughs for youngsters - Comedy Club 4 Kids
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THERE WILL be laughs for the whole family, and especially for children, when comedians from Galway Comedy Festival 2013 play the Comedy Club For Kids.
Read more ...Away with the fairies - Human Child
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild.
Face The Music with Equinox
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
EQUINOX, THE acclaimed jazz/rock/fusion band, comprising Dutch, Irish, and American musicians, are coming to Galway to play the Town Hall Theatre.
The quintet play the Town Hall on Saturday October 19, the first date on their Irish tour, to promote their new album Face The Music.
Read more ...Moonfish recast Pinocchio as ‘cool teen’
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
ONE OF the highlights of next week’s Baboró is the return of Moonfish Theatre Company’s much-acclaimed Tromluí Phinocchio/ Pinocchio – a Nightmare.
Read more ...Led Zeppelin tribute night
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
A NIGHT of classic hard rock and a tribute to Led Zeppelin will take place in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Saturday October 19 from 9pm.
Read more ...Calling all students at The Quays
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE QUAYS Music Hall new student night, Lockdown, continues tonight with a concert by folk-rockers The Kilkennys.
Read more ...Charity night in The Quays
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
A CHARITY night and gig, in memory of Gosia Urbanik, takes place on Sunday, upstairs in The Quays.
Read more ...Three films from the Arab Mediterranean
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE GALWAY Film Society will screen three films in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend, all of them from the southern Mediterranean region.
Read more ...New Youth Film Club opens tomorrow
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE GALWAY Youth Film Club opens tomorrow in the Galway City Youth Cafe, Fairgreen, and is open to young people aged between 14 and 18.
The club will be showing a broad range of films that cater for a teenage audience, including independent releases, documentaries, and classics. Films will be shown every Friday from 6pm to 8pm.
Read more ...Get free tickets to Disclosure’s Black Box concert
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
CHART CONQUERING dance duo Disclosure are coming to the Black Box Theatre on November 14 as part of Heineken Live Project.
A limited number of free tickets to the concert will be available on Tuesday October 15 at 2pm through www.heinekenmusic.ie, on a first come, first served basis.
Read more ...Session Americana at Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
SESSION AMERICANA, a who’s who of the Boston folk music scene, bring their Irish and American folk fusion to Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Hard rocking tonight @ Monroe’s
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
IF YOU pine for the days of hair-metal, epic guitar solos, spandex, and a time when Guns‘n’Roses, Whitesnake, and Mötley Crüe, ruled the world, read on.
Read more ...Harrison & The Devil - gig and debut EP
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
GALWAY BAND Harrison & The Devil are set to launch their debut EP Cat Matters and will play Club Áras na nGael, Dominick Street, at 9.30pm.
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