Scéal Ale Sessions: Terrie McEvoy, Ally McGinn and Edita Maciulyte

Tue, Dec 31, 2019

Enjoy the perfect girls’ night out at The Skeff Late Bar this Friday, 3rd January. Gather the troop for one last Christmas hoorah before returning to work. Join our host Dinny Cro as he takes to the stage for the second round of his Scéal Ale Sessions. This time he will interview three top Fashion and Beauty experts to hear all about their professional journeys to-date, their life behind the lens, makeup tips, styling tricks, advice for those interested in blogging and their aspirations for 2020.

Let’s Celebrate 2020 at The Skeff Late Bar & Kitchen!

Wed, Dec 18, 2019

The team behind The Skeff Late Bar & Kitchen and The Skeffington Arms Hotel are looking forward to welcoming in the new decade and celebrating 2020 in style.

Winter Pride events this weekend

Thu, Dec 12, 2019

PRIDE TAKES place in August, but does it have to only take place then? Galway Community Pride think not and will hold the city's first 'Winter Pride', tomorrow and Saturday.

Ad Hoc Choir New Year classes

Thu, Dec 12, 2019

THE AD Hoc choir voice workshops will return in the New Year, but ahead of that there will be two introductory workshops in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, this weekend and next.

The very best of Irish stand up comedy to the stage to launch Rough Set Ireland 2019!

Wed, Dec 11, 2019

Comedians Francis Cronin, Joe Rooney, Karl Spain & a very special celebrity guest will bring the very best of Irish stand-up comedy to the stage to launch Rough Set Ireland 2019, at the legendary Roísín Dubh.

A Christmas Carol with the St Patrick's Brass Band

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

CHARLES DICKENS' A Christmas Carol has enjoyed countless adaptations for stage and screen, and been copied and re-imagined numerous times since it was first published in 1843.

Cross the bridge into Galways Westend to discover the real meaning of Christmas

Thu, Nov 21, 2019

From the Bridge Mills to Dominick Street to Ravens Terrace across to Henry Street over to Williams Street West, into the small Crane and onto Sea Road, Galways Westend will officially light up on Friday 6th December.

Rock Against Homelessness - Saturday 23rd November at Monroe’s Galway

Mon, Nov 04, 2019

The Sunday Independent’s Rock Against Homelessness concert in aid of Focus Ireland - now in its fifth year - is heading West. Earlier this year, the show sold-out the Olympia Theatre and saw performances from Camille O'Sullivan, Tommy Fleming, Aidan Gillen, Deirdre O'Kane, Finbar Furey, The Celtic Tenors and Laura Whitmore among others, helping to raise a record total of over €25,000.

What's on in Galway this November

Tue, Oct 29, 2019

Oh it is a tough time of the year. The sun has gone on its annual vacation to another part of the planet. Temperatures are dropping fast, the rain is beating down, and the wind is howling, and it just feels like there is doom and gloom with nothing to do around Galway.

Galway Autism Partnership’s Lipsync Battle 2019

Thu, Oct 24, 2019

ON BANK Holiday Sunday, October 27, in the Clayton Hotel, nine acts will take to the stage to emulate their idols and perform a range of crowd pleasing songs to raise funds for the Galway Autism Partnership.

Boy singers sought for St Nicholas' Schola Cantorum

Thu, Oct 24, 2019

IN 1486, by special Papal Bull, St Nicholas' Collegiate Church established a college with singing priests, appointed by the Galway Corporation, which was instructed to train young children to sing at daily church services.

A close-up view on wildlife with Colin Stafford-Johnson

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

COLIN STAFFORD-Johnson, the Emmy award winning Irish cinematographer, whose works has been seen on the BBC's Animal Babies: First Year on Earth and RTE's Wild Ireland - Edge of the World, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre.

Celebrate the Irish harp at Galway City Museum

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

THE HARP, Ireland's national instrument, will be celebrated in the Galway City Museum this Saturday from 10.30am, with exhibitions, talks, and concerts.

Galway Cartoon Festival programme announced

Thu, Oct 10, 2019

DETAILS OF the third annual Galway Cartoon Festival, which runs from November 8 to 18, were announced at a gathering in the Black Gate Cultural Centre on Monday evening.

The man behind the Ó Conaire statue

Thu, Oct 03, 2019

THE SCULPTOR Albert G Power is best known as the creator of the Pádraic Ó Conaire statue, once an integral part of Eyre Square, but now on display in the Galway City Museum.

Conference exploring the life of James Hack Tuke

Thu, Oct 03, 2019

JAMES HAKE Tuke, who initiated an assisted emigration scheme, known as the ‘Tuke Fund’, that supported nearly 10,000 people leaving the western seaboard for a better life in America and Canada, will be remembered in Galway at a special two-day event.

What's on in Galway this October

Mon, Sep 23, 2019

We are well into the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and winter is not far away but fear not — there is still lots to do in Galway as we prepare for the shorter evenings ahead. So grab a scarf and an extra layer of clothing, and get out and enjoy October in Galway.

Clare Daly and Mick Wallace for one day GIAF First Thought Talks event

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

The health of democracy, the European Union, and food will all be examined in a new series of the Galway International Arts Festival's First thought talk, taking place not in the summer, but in October.

Margaretta D’Arcy's Karl Marx street event

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

THE COMMUNIST Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848, will be proclaimed and debated on the streets of Galway as part of Culture Night, tonight [Friday September 20].

Art classes with Jennifer Cunningham

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

THE AWARD winning Galway artist Jennifer Cunningham will be holding a new term of art classes and one day workshops.

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