Rush competition winners
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
THE WINNERS to tickets for the screening of the new film Rush in The Eye this week were:
Read more ...Junior Film Fleadh storytelling competition seeks entries
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
YOUNG GALWEGIANS with ideas for feature films, short films, TV series, documentaries, web series, video games, animation, or combined media projects, are being sought.
Read more ...Fab sounds from The Mersey Beatles
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
“THERE ARE a lot of Beatles tribute bands from all over the world and I’ve seen them all, but The Mersey Beatles are the best I’ve heard.”
So said John Lennon’s sister, Julia Baird about the Liverpudlian tribute band that plays the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 8pm.
Read more ...Three free gigs from The Cabin Collective
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
THE CABIN Collective, featuring The Saw Doctor’s Leo Moran, The Waterboy’s Anthony Thistlethwaite, and singer-songwriter Noelie McDonnell, will play three free gigs.
Read more ...Epoch descends on Factory
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
THE EPOCH clubnight returns to Factory, Abbeygate Street, this Saturday with DJs Colin Finnegan, Enda, and Lynam.
Read more ...The Hive @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
110TH STREET DJs Cyril Briscoe and Cian Ó Cíobháin will host their Hive clubnight tomorrow in the Róisín Dubh from 11.30pm.
Read more ...War Iron to lead Cellar metal night
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
BELFAST METAL band War Iron, who formed out of stoner sludge doom band The Naut, play The Cellar underground tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Mark Geary @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
MARK GEARY plays the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 8.30pm as part of his current Irish tour.
The tour comes as a break from work on Geary’s fifth album, which he is currently recording. Fans can look forward to hearing some new songs as well as numbers from Mark’s previous releases, 33 1/3 Grand Street, Ghosts, Opium, and Songs about love, songs about leaving.
Read more ...Wheatus @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
WHEATUS, THE band responsible for ‘Teenage Dirtbag’, one of the biggest hits of the noughties, are coming to Galway.
Read more ...Debut short story collection from Aileen Armstrong
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
END OF DAYS, the debut short story collection from the Galway based, Sligo born, writer Aileen Armstrong, will be launched next week.
The collection, published by County Galway based publishing company Doire Press, will be launched on Saturday September 14 in the Galway Arts Centre. The guest speaker will be The Stinging Fly’s Declan Meade.
Read more ...Go Overland and beyond
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
WAYS OF seeing, memory, image, and interactions between the seer and the seen is examined in two exhibitions at the 126 Gallery, Flood Street.
Read more ...Canadian choir to sing in County Galway
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
NEWFOUNDLAND HAS been described by historian Tim Pat Coogan as “the most Irish place in the world outside of Ireland”.
Read more ...Culture Night open mic
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
GALWEGIANS WHO have written stories or poems, and who would like to read them before an audience, have an opportunity to do so on Culture Night.
Read more ...Creative writing classes
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginner and intermediate levels take place in the Galway Technical Institute this month.
Read more ...Auditions for Renmore Panto
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
AUDITIONS FOR Renmore’s 35th annual pantomime Robin Hood and The Babes in The Wood take place next week.
Auditions for dancers (aged 15+) take place on Sunday September 15 at 4pm and Tuesday 17 at 7.30pm in the Renmore Scouts Den. Auditions for adult principal roles take place on Monday 16 and Wednesday 18 at 7.30pm in the Renmore Soccer Club.
Read more ...Be illuminated for Culture Night
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
CULTURE NIGHT on Friday September 20 will see the opening of the public art project Illuminate at 6pm at the Nun’s Island Theatre.
Read more ...When we weren’t all in it together
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
THE AVERAGE commentator on an Irish internet political discussion forum holds two opinions. First: that, unlike the French or the Greeks, the Irish will never stand up and say no.
Read more ...The ‘overnight success’
Thu, Sep 12, 2013
EVER SINCE the selection of his book The Spinning Heart on the Booker Long List, Donal Ryan has been hailed as Ireland’s ‘new overnight success’, ensuring the continuity of the long established, glorious, and precious literary tradition of which this country is justly proud.
Read more ...Adventures in the world of cinema
Thu, Sep 05, 2013
THE FIRST film to be made inside Saudi Arabia; the Snow White tale reimagined as a girl and a troupe of bullfighters in Spain; and popular French actress Audrey Tautou as a proto-feminist - are just some of the delights in store for film fans at the Galway Film Society autumn/winter season screenings.
Read more ...New production of Eden from Decadent Theatre Company
Thu, Sep 05, 2013
EUGENE O’BRIEN’S award-winning play Eden is about to get a major new production from Decadent Theatre Company and will open at the Town Hall Theatre before embarking on a national tour.
Eden is the powerful story of an ordinary relationship on an extraordinary weekend. Billy and Breda are approaching their 10th wedding anniversary but their relationship has gone stale. Neither can remember the last time they slept together.
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