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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...Foster & Allen in concert
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
FOSTER & ALLEN will be in concert at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe, on Thursday August 8.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...The Cellar Underground party
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE CELLAR Underground will host The Session party this Bank Holiday Saturday from 9pm.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...‘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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