Family history research and genealogy event at Galway City Museum
Thu, Nov 02, 2017
The Western Family History Association will be in the Galway City Museum this Saturday to provide free family history and genealogy advice for members of the public starting or struggling with their research.
Read more ...What's Lenin's relevance for today?
Thu, Oct 26, 2017
OCTOBER 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the "10 days that shook the world" in the words of American journalist John Reed, but what is its relevance for today?
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Colin Stafford-Johnson's wild side of life
Thu, Oct 26, 2017
COLIN STAFFORD-Johnson, Ireland's foremost nature and wildlife cinematographer and presenter, who some regard as 'the Irish David Attenborough', is coming to Galway to talk wildlife and adventure at the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Schoil Chroí Iosa wins Baboró Above and Beyond Award
Thu, Oct 26, 2017
The Presentation Primary School, Scoil Chroí Íosa on Newcastle Road, has won Baboró’s ‘Above & Beyond' award, in recognition of the "outstanding work" the school does in using the creative arts in the everyday teaching of the curriculum.
Read more ...FREE Trick & Treat Trail of Galway City!
Fri, Oct 20, 2017
Get your best Halloween costumes on & come along to the Trick & Treat Trail of Galway City in association with Visit Galway City, The Heart of Galway Business Association & with very special thanks to The Eyre Square Shopping Centre. A unique FREE Family experience where your little ones will unearth spooky surprises & gather ghoulish goodies as they soak up the Halloween festivities in the city centre.
Read more ...Celebrate Diwali with Galway's Indian community
Thu, Oct 19, 2017
Diwali: Festival of Lights, one of the main festivals of Hinduism which celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, hope over despair, will be celebrated in Galway at the Connacht Hotel on Monday October 30 at 5pm.
Read more ...A non-fiction Over The Edge
Thu, Oct 19, 2017
NORMALLY THE Over The Edge readings at Galway City Library feature poets and prose writers, but this month's reading will be different, as it will present work by non-fiction authors Angela Nagle, Fiona Neary, and Jonathan Sugarman.
Read more ...Galway Cartoon Festival makes its bow
Tue, Oct 17, 2017
A NEW entry into the city’s crowded calendar of festivals is the Galway Cartoon Festival, which arrives next week and runs from October 21 to 30, with the aim of celebrating and showcasing drawings which make us laugh and make us think.
Read more ...Join JSB for Run in the Dark Galway 2017!
Tue, Oct 17, 2017
Global Run in the Dark funds Mark Pollock Trust’s mission to fast-track a cure for paralysis.
Read more ...Liam O'Flaherty's WWI records to go on display in Galway
Thu, Oct 12, 2017
IN SEPTEMBER 1917, while fighting in Flanders during World War I, Liam O’Flaherty was seriously injured, suffering shell-shock, the trauma of which remained with him all his life.
Read more ...Graham Linehan is special guest at FÍS TV Summit
Thu, Oct 05, 2017
GRAHAM LINEHAN, the co-creator of Father Ted and Black Books, and the creator of The IT Crowd, will give a public interview at the FÍS TV Summit in Galway next week.
Read more ...Fiction Slam - read your story out loud!
Thu, Oct 05, 2017
THERE ARE many slam events for poets, but fiction writers never get the same look it. To rectify this, the ninth Over The Edge annual fiction slam returns to The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum next week.
Read more ...Forty thousand expected to watch Macnas Halloween Parade
Thu, Sep 28, 2017
More than 40,000 people are expected to line Galway's city centre streets to see Port Na bPucaí - The Song of the Spirits, the 2017 Macnas Halloween Parade, which will wind it's way through the streets on Sunday October 29 at 5.30pm.
Read more ...Leading international photographer to speak in Headford
Thu, Sep 28, 2017
Internationally renowned photographer, Michal Dzikowski, better known as Michal Clearskies Ahead, whose work has been published by National Geographic and The Guardian, will be the guest speaker at the Headford Camera Club's upcoming open night.
Read more ...Irish and Indian poetry anthology
Thu, Sep 28, 2017
POETS FROM Ireland and India ponder questions of home, belonging, identity, exclusion and homogenisation, in a new anthology to be launched in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop.
Read more ...William Orpen and The Great War
Thu, Sep 28, 2017
IN 1917, the Irish artist William Orpen was appointed an official war artist and sent to the Western Front with a strict brief from the British War Office as to who and what he was to paint.
Read more ...Calling all Galway pubs, you are invited to take part in Galway’s first PUBLICAN’S PINT RACE!
Wed, Sep 27, 2017
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Read more ...Over The Edge Open Reading at Galway City Library
Mon, Sep 25, 2017
THE WRITERS Oisín Fagan, Dara Ó Foghlu, and Paul Denby will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday September 28, from 6.30pm to 8pm.
Read more ...Art classes with Jennifer Cunningham
Thu, Sep 21, 2017
FOLLOWING THE success of her All That Surrounds Us solo show in the Royal Hibernian Academy, Galway artist Jennifer Cunningham is taking bookings for her Autumn term classes and one day workshops.
Read more ...TEDx returns to Town Hall
Thu, Sep 14, 2017
TEDxGALWAY, a local gathering where live TED-like talks, returns to the Town Hall Theatre next week. The event’s aim is to be a shining light for all that is noteworthy, challenging, and thought-provoking in Galway.
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