The Curragh Sons @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
THE CURRAGH SONS are no strangers to Galway audiences as they have played Kinvara’s Cuckoo Fleadh and Cruinniu na mBad festivals over the years.
Read more ...Kory Quinn - the true sound of American folk
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
PORTLAND, OREGON, singer-songwriter Kory Quinn plays “train-hoppin’, foot-stompin’, hobo-blues,” according to that city’s Eight-Ball Studios’ Rob Stroup.
Read more ...The Lofires @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
THE LOFIRES are Dublin songwriters, Niall Toner Jr and Jonny Rowen and they come with a pedigree and years of experience.
Read more ...Metal night @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
FRENCH BAND Dead Like Me headline a night of chaotic metal, gloom rock, and punk upstairs in Róisín Dubh tonight from 9pm.
Read more ...The Tom Portman Trio
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
FRESH FROM his return from Poland’s Suwalki Blues Festival and the launch of his new solo album Float Your Blues Away, gifted guitarist Tom Portman is back in Galway.
Read more ...Sean Keane announces second concert
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
SEAN KEANE and Citizen Keane have announced a second concert in the village marquee on Sunday August 25 as part of the Caherlistrane/Kilcoona Gathering.
Read more ...Wheatus @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
WHEATUS, THE band responsible for ‘Teenage Dirtbag’, one of the biggest hits of the noughties, are coming to Galway.
The song featured on the soundtrack to the movie Loser, starring Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari, and reached No 1 in many countries, and No 2 in the British charts. Wheatus followed that success up with a cover of Erasure's ‘A Little Respect’, which peaked at No 3.
Read more ...Galway artists on display in window exhibition
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
FOUR GALWAY artists, Cecilia Danell, Brid Egan, Alannah Barrett, and Arlene McPadden, are exhibiting in an unusual location - the windows of Brown Thomas.
Read more ...A ‘macho’ exhibition
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
WHAT IS it to be macho? Hard livin’, hard drinkin’, wine, women and song rabble rousing? Beer and crisps street fighter? Muscle-bound body builder? Leather clad, biker, tough guy?
Read more ...New novel asksWhat Would Kate Do
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
KATE MIDDLETON is something of an icon of style and role model for certain women, and fans of the British duchess will enjoy a new novel entitled What Would Kate Do.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginner and continuing creative writing students will take place in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, in September.
Read more ...The music of the ancient Irish harp
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
EARLY IRISH songs and music will be performed on the harp, Ireland’s national emblem and instrument, at a special concert in Galway city next week.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
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