My Fellow Sponges - folk, prog, and science fiction sounds

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

AMONG THE more beguiling music releases this summer is Bonne Nuit, the debut offering from Galway ensemble My Fellow Sponges which was officially launched a few weeks ago at the Róisín Dubh.

Janeane Garofalo to play the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

JANEANE GAROFALO, the critically acclaimed, award winning comedian and actress plays the Róisín Dubh on Sunday August 18 at 8pm.

A lightning rod for controversy, Janeane's well informed opinions and unflinching honesty have inspired laughs all over the world and made her a household name.

Shay Mouse returns to the Town Hall

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

SHAY MOUSE, one of the hit shows of last month’s Galway Arts Festival, returns to the stage for three performances.

NUIG appoints first professor of drama

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

PATRICK LONERGAN has been appointed as NUI Galway’s first professor of drama and theatre studies. His focus will be to develop new courses, build research resources, and partner with theatre companies.

New theatre programme seeks applicants

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

JOLT: VOLITION, a new theatre project, centred on creating original work through workshops, festival events, and discussions, is seeking applications.

JOLT, which runs in Galway under the guidance of Róisín Stack and Craig Flaherty, has been awarded an Arts Council grant to roll out the Volition programme.

Connemara sounds in An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

SONGS, MUSIC, and sean nós dancing from singer-songwriter Don Stiffe and Carna’s Ó Iarnáin family, will form the core of the new Conamara sa Chathair shows.

Revisiting Eclipsed with Margaret O’Sullivan

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

IT IS now more than 20 years since Patricia Burke Brogan’s powerful play, Eclipsed, received its premiere in Galway from Punchbag Theatre Company.

Dott announce album release date

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

IT IS now more than 20 years since Patricia Burke Brogan’s powerful play, Eclipsed, received its premiere in Galway from Punchbag Theatre Company.

Winner of a Fringe First at Edinburgh in 1992, the play was one of the first works to tell the harrowing story of the Magdalen laundries and the women who were incarcerated within their walls. Widely acclaimed during its inaugural run, Eclipsed has since gone on to receive more than 60 productions both in Ireland and overseas, winning a Moss Hart Award in the US in 1994.

Creative writing classes @ GTI

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

BEGINNERS AND intermediate creative writing classes will be held in the Galway Technical Institute in September and bookings are now being taken.

Poetry classes in GAC

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

THE POET Stephen Murray will hold poetry master classes for adults and children at the Galway Arts Centre this month.

Brendan Grace - laughter in Salthill

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

BRENDAN GRACE returns to Galway to play The Salthill Hotel on Thursday August 15.

GAP cinema screening

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

THE BRILLIANT Despicable Me 2 will be the next screening in the Galway Autism Partnership’s sensory movie for families affected by autism series.

Extras sought for film

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

EXTRAS FOR a period drama will be cast tomorrow at 10am in Arus na nGael in Dominick Street.

Alabama 3 - unplugged in Galway

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

ALABAMA 3 have been called many things - pop band, punk rock, blues and country, a techno situationist crypto-Marxist-Leninist electro band.

Paddy Casey @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

PADDY CASEY began his musical career busking on Galway’s streets, but since that apprenticeship he has become one of Ireland’s best established singer-songwriters.

Casey plays Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm where he will perform songs from his four albums - Amen (So Be It), Living, Addicted To Company, and The Secret Life Of. Doubtless the set will include such audience favourites as ‘Saints and Sinners’, ‘Bend Down Low’, ‘Everybody Wants’, and ‘The Lucky One’.

Bluegrass master Tim O’Brien to play Galway

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

TIM O’BRIEN, one of America’s leading folk, bluegrass, and country musicians, is coming to Galway to play Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover.

The Hive party @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

110TH STREET DJs Cyril Briscoe and Cian Ó Cíobháin will host their Hive clubnight tomorrow in the Róisín Dubh from 11.30pm.

Gold Diggers @ Monroe’s

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

KANYE WEST’S ruminations on gold diggers has become part of the popular conscience, but the phrase is also the name of an Athenry folk quintet.

Japanese butoh in The Shed

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

BUTOH IS many things. It can be dance, performance, or movement. It involves grotesque imagery and taboo topics, and is traditionally performed in white body makeup.

Launch of new crime fiction book

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

THE NEW York based Irish writer Seamus Scanlon launches his new collection of crime fiction stories in Galway this evening.

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