The Amazing Apples @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

THE AMAZING Apples return to Galway, following dates in Britain and the USA, and play Monroe’s Live tomorrow from 9pm.

Emerging Kinvara painters

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

TEN ARTISTS, recent graduates or current students of the ACCS art and design degree in the GMIT, are exhibiting in Kinvara.

Calling all teen film-makers

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

THE JUNIOR Galway Film Fleadh is calling on young and budding film-makers in the city and county to enter its Short Film Programme.

Biblio - A monthly review of Irish Books

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

Nowadays, there are, in the main, two kinds of sports books. The first, and by far most often published, are the so called biographies, or even worse autobiographies, of modern stars, some of whom who have not reached 25 but who decide to tell their whole life story to cash in on their current stardom.

The ghost of Galway past

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

NUASCÉALTA THE History Press’s re-publication of The House Of Gold, perhaps Liam O’Flaherty’s finest novel, does something to ameliorate the wrong done when the book was banned in 1929 by those charged with protecting the Irish people from publications that might lead them to have impure thoughts.

Galway Stories to be read in Clare

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

GALWAY WRITERS will be reading short stories set in Galway at an event in The Russell Gallery, New Quay, in the Burren, in County Clare.

Planet of sound

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

BIG STAR should have ruled the airwaves in the 1970s, notching up hit singles and albums across the USA, playing arenas, and being adored by the mainstream.

Instead, the band that created some of the greatest post-Beatles guitar-pop of the era languished in obscurity, their three albums failing to make any impact.

‘Let’s go into free fall’

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

LAST FRIDAY, the Norman Villa Gallery hosted the opening of Debi O’Hehir’s superb Galway Arts Festival exhibition, Hooves and Watermarks, her first new show in four years.

Theatre reviews: Galway Arts Festival

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

The Adventures of Shay Mouse: Galway Youth Theatre and Galway Community Theatre, brings Pat McCabe’s early children’s novel to bustling stage life.

Primal Scream to play Salthill

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

THE MIGHTY Primal Scream are coming to Galway to play a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concert in Leisureland, Salthill, on Saturday October 26.

Cats in Loughrea

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

THE GREAT musical Cats, by Andrew Lloyd-Weber, is being staged by Loughrea Youth Theatre in the town’s Temperance Hall.

Children’s booklaunch at Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

IS LINNE An Tolg!, the third book in the Mise, Máire Treasa Mí Abha! series about a feisty cat, will be launched as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.

Little Big Maps of the city

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

A series of Galway landmarks, both permanent, such as the Town Hall Theatre, and seasonal, like the Festival Big Top, are captured in a new exhibitions by Gala Tomasso.

Drama workshop for teens

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

A DRAMA workshop for teenagers takes place in the Foróige youth café, Fairgreen, opposite the Bus Station and The Radisson Blu hotel.

In Stitches with Shakespeare, which takes place on Monday and Tuesday from 7.30pm to 9pm and is a comedy workshops, ideal for Junior and Leaving Cert students, that will use fun, provocative, exercises to explore Shakespeare.

Druid Debuts Reading for Galway Arts Festival

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

BE INFANTS In Evil, a new play by Brian Martin, will receive a rehearsed reading tomorrow at 2pm at the Druid Lane Theatre.

The event is part of Druid’s Debut Readings for the Galway Arts Festival ‘First Thought’ series of events.

Fringe Festival art exhibitions

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

THE GALWAY Fringe Festival continues up to Sunday so there is still time to see any of its 16 art exhibitions throughout the city.

Electric to celebrate first birthday

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

THE ELECTRIC Garden turns a year old this Saturday and the Abbeygate Street venue will hold a birthday bash to celebrate.

Galway Cathedral Recitals

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

GALWAY CATHEDRAL will be treated to a concert of organ duets by Hamburg husband and wife team Uwe and Judith Bestert this evening at 8pm.

TULCA - new appointments and submissions sought

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

THE TULCA Festival of Visual Art has made two new appointments and is seeking submissions for its 2013 festival which runs from November 8 to 24.

Two exhibitions, one location

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

TWO EXHIBITIONS, Kathleen Furey’s On Paper and Levi Hanes’ The Night Scene Series, are currently running at UHG’s Arts Corridor in the hospital foyer.

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