Run For Your Wife

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

THE HILARIOUS comedy Run For Your Wife will be staged in the Turloughmore Social Centre tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at 8pm.

The Three Tenors St Patrick’s Eve concert

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

THE THREE Tenors, “the most delicious box of chocolates your ears could ever have,” according to The New York Times, are coming back to Galway.

Galway Arts Centre March Poetry Slam

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

THIS MONTH’S Galway Arts Centre Poetry Slam takes place on Tuesday March 19 at 7pm at the centre on Dominick Street.

KNOTS @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

DUBLIN TRIO KNOTS, an abbreviation for King’s Now On The Stage, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night at 10pm.

Belfast punks for Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

BELFAST ALT-PUNK band Empty Lungs play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Tuesday at 9pm as part of a tour promoting their new EP.

The EP, Stand Up, was self-released in association with Quarantine Collective, and contains six songs which draw on the influence of punk, post-hardcore, and nineties indie, with a hint of folk and Americana.

Doom metallers to launch debut album @ The Cellar

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

GALWAY DOOM metal trio Weed Priest will launch their eponymous debut album with a gig in The Cellar Bar tomorrow at 8pm.

Apartment Records @ Bierhaus and Factory

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

DJ KENNY Hanlon, the owner and operator of Apartment Records, is coming to Galway as part of a night featuring three of the label’s acts.

Don Stiffe’s Garvey’s residency

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

DON STIFFE, one of Galway’s best loved folk singers can be heard and enjoyed at his residency in Garvey’s Bar, Eyre Square each Sunday from 9.30pm to 11.30pm.

Glen Hansard to play the Big Top

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

THE GALWAY Arts Festival Big Top line up is looking to be among the best in years with Grizzly Bear, Josh Ritter, and Glen Hansard confirmed.

Fundraising concert for Pieta HouseFundraising concert for Pieta House

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

A FUNDRASIING concert for Pieta House takes place in Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday March 15 from 10pm.

The line-up includes My Fellow Sponges and guests. There will be a raffle with some prizes.

Get down to Motown @ HALO

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

SOUL FANS can look forward to Ireland’s leading Motown big band experience, The Papa Zitas, upstairs at HALO Live tomorrow night from 11pm.

Youth exhibition on city architecture

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

ARTWORKS, SOUND pieces, photographs, and poetry inspired by the architecture of Galway city’s west end forms the basis of a new, youth led, exhibition.

Two exhibitions open this weekend

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

TWO EXHIBITIONS open this weekend, one in the Galway Arts Centre, featuring short films, the other in The Shed at the docks, featuring large-scale works.

Poetry reading at city museum

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

DESPITE BEING one of the key movers and shakers in the west of Ireland poetry scene, Kevin Higgins has not given a major public reading in Galway since 2007.

The silent heroes

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

OVER THE last three years or so, there has been a continuous growth in the number of books published inside and outside Ireland relating to the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War, and Irish involvement in the First World War.

The spirit of literary free enterprise

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

THE NEWBIE writers of Galway are an enterprising lot. Not for them the hours we spent gazing into tepid cappuccinos and complaining about what Cúirt or Poetry Ireland were not doing for us.

That was, until the announcement, by the grizzled fake bohemian in the seat opposite, that s/he had always been secretly in favour of hanging and/or Saddam Hussein, clarified the choice before us: either go home and actually write something or die talking to a gobsh**e such as this.

Epic poem on Gibraltar killings re-published

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

AN EPIC poem, written by a man who spent many years living in Galway, about the killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar in 1988 has been published in a new edition.

‘The tautness of a bow’

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

GIFTED GALWAY dance company Chrysalis grace the Black Box Theatre next week with its new production, Slings and Arrows, which will showcase its remarkable versatility and promises to be a visceral feast for the senses.

Eclipsed and the world of the Magdalene Laundries

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE DIFFERING reactions to the Magdalene Laundries over the years have been mirrored in the responses to Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed, which will have a staged reading in Galway next week.

Villagers to play Seapoint

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

WHEN VILLAGERS take to the stage of the Seapoint Ballroom in Salthill on Thursday March 14 at 8pm, it will be for one of the most anticipated gigs of the year.

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