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Two local independent Galway bookstores have each secured a €5,000 grant as part of the Books At One Community Fund 2025. Charlie Byrne’s and Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery were successful following a national call for submissions to deliver interesting and innovative community initiatives.

One of the most enduring of Galway's institutions is this band which has given pleasure to its own members and countless thousands of members of the public since it was formed in Forster Street in 1896. Thanks to dedicated leaders and teachers, this group of musicians continues to entertain. The founders were Peter Rabbitt, a Forster Street publican and grocer, Paddy Walsh, the station master and Michael Spelman of Moon’s staff.

Galway City Council has awarded grants totalling €450,000 to the city’s arts organisations for 2025.

Kennys.ie, the website of Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway, is celebrating 30 years online. Set up in mid-1994, it was Ireland’s first e-commerce website and among the first retail websites in the world.

Olympic champion Aifric Keogh, Kenny’s Bookshop and Gallery director, author, and historian Tom Kenny, and World Food Program representative Mary-Ellen McGroarty are among the recipients of the 2022 University of Galway Alumni Awards. The winners, announced this week, will be presented with their awards at a gala banquet on Friday October 21.

Kenny’s Bookshop and Art Gallery, a Galway institution for more than 80 years, has been shortlisted for the An Post Bookshop of the Year 2021 award.

THE VIBRANT colours and abstract forms of the paintings of An Post worker Jeffrey Hirst have been gaining positive attention in recent times - from buyers, curators, and the public - and it comes during an unprecedented period, the most intense and busy he and his colleagues have ever known.

Commandant Leo Quinlan will deliver a public lecture in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway on the experience of his father, Commandant Pat Quinlan, in the historic Battle of Jadotville, 1961. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 9 April, at 5pm.

Once again Christmas approaches and inevitably that means it’s time to prepare for our Annual Christmas Art Competition. The principal aim of the competition is to find a glorious colour cover for the Christmas week edition of the Galway Advertiser on December 21 and in so doing we know a great many people derive a lot of pleasure and satisfaction from entering.

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