Summer Music in Galway festival

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

The Summer Music in Galway school and festival returns on Monday August 5 with classical concerts in both the city and county.

The concerts take place in Claregalway Castle, St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, and the Raheen Woods Hotel in Athenry and will feature Galway Youth Orchestra.

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Midlake to play Róisín Dubh in August

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

ALTHOUGH THEY began as jazz students, Midlake eventually pioneered a kind of 1970s styled, west-coast Americana, which paved the way for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver.

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Theatre reviews: The Great Hunger, Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

THE CLAIRE Keegan-helmed Galway Fringe Festival made a distinctive splash in July with two and a half weeks of non-stop theatre, art, music, literature, dance, workshops, children’s events, and more.

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Alan Partridge to the rescue?

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

STEVE COOGAN’S celebrated Alan Partridge character is now to star in his own movie, where the hapless radio DJ/talk show host encounters disaster at an airport.

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Free children’s art workshop on The Claddagh

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

THE CLADDAGH was once a vibrant fishing village of thatched cottages and its people had a distinctive form of dress.

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Foster & Allen in concert

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

FOSTER & ALLEN will be in concert at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe, on Thursday August 8.

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TULCA festival open call

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

THE DEADLINE for artists to make submission to take part in November’s TULCA Festival of Visual Art is Monday August 5 at 12 noon.

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On-line creative writing course

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre is hosting an eight-week series of tailored creative writing courses on poetry and prose.

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The Cellar Underground party

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

THE CELLAR Underground will host The Session party this Bank Holiday Saturday from 9pm.

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Metal night @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

PSYCHEDELIC DOOM metallers Headless Kross top the bill for a trio of metal acts who play the Róisín Dubh tonight at 8pm.

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Txütxükan - French Gypsy-folk

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

FRENCH GYPSY-folk band Txütxükan are coming to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Friday August 9 at 10pm.

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Eddi Reader and Alan Kelly in concert

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

THE GREAT Scottish singer Eddi Reader will join The Alan Kelly Gang for an Irish tour which takes place in Galway this month.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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