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Murphy to take centre stage at Galway Arts Festival
Date Published: 02-Jun-2011
BY JUDY MURPHY
Hollywood star Cillian Murphy is making an eagerly awaited return to the stage at this year’s Galway Arts Festival in a one-man show, written and directed by Enda Walsh.
Misterman is a co-production between the Arts Festival and Dublin’s Landmark Theatre Company and is a complete reworking of a blackly humorous play that Enda Walsh himself performed in 1999, explains Festival Director Paul Fahy.
Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh previously worked together to great acclaim in Walsh’s groundbreaking Disco Pigs in the mid 1990s and Misterman is the first time that they have joined forces since then.
The play has been in development for the past year and, says Mr Fahy, although it is a one-man show, it is a huge production, with a creative team that includes Dublin-born contemporary composer Donnacha Dennehy who has written a new score for it.
A major new exhibition by one of Ireland’s leading artists Hughie O’Donoghue, two Shakespeare productions from Ed Hall’s Propeller Theatre Company; a new play by UK author Mike Bartlett, supergroups AfroCubism; Blondie and authors Colm Tóibín and Emma Donoghue are just some of the participants in the Galway Arts Festival which runs from July 11 to 24.
The Festival will stage street events from French company Les Phiébulistes and Erth from Australia, while Macnas presents This Fierce Beauty, a night-time parade, starting at 8.45pm on Sunday night, July 17.
The Big Top musical acts have already been announced and include AfroCubism, Blondie, Bell X1 with Duke Special and New Zealand native Liam Finn, and De La Soul and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Other music includes Session Americana, a who’s-who of the Boston roots scene; Irish super group De Danann; Reels, Jigs & Jazz with Brendan Larrissey and Pat Collins; The National Chamber Choir of Ireland; Kaleidoscope; Iarla Ó Lionáird, The Walls, Jack L, and a series of traditional lunchtime gigs in two new Festival venues, Kelly’s Bar and Monroe’s Live, featuring a host of leading Irish musicians including Altan’s Dermot Byrne.
For more on this story, see the Galway City Tribune.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
Galway has a population of young people which is more than twice the national average.
According to information gathered by the Central Statistics Office, Galway’s population of 20 to 24 year olds is more than twice the national average.
The number of 25-34 year olds in Galway is also more than the norm nationally, with the two main colleges thought to be the main reason.
However immigration in Galway is much higher than in other areas at 19.4 percent, compared to the national average of 12 percent.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
A city councillor is encouraging people to donate goods directly to charity shops.
It follows allegations of thefts from clothes banks in Galway and across the country in recent months.
However, cameras are in place at some clothes banks and surveillance is carried out by local authorities.
Speaking on Galway Talks, Councillor Neil McNeilis said the problem of theft from clothes banks is widespread.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
A park ‘n’ ride scheme from Carnmore into Galway city could become a permanent service if there is public demand.
That’s according to the Chief Executive of Galway Chamber of Commerce, Michael Coyle.
The pilot scheme will begin at 7.20 next Monday morning, May 13th.
Motorists will be able to park cars at the airport carpark in Carnmore and avail of a bus transfer to Forster Street in the city.
Buses will depart every 20 minutes at peak times and every 30 minutes at offpeak times throughout the day, at a cost of 2 euro per journey.
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