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Galway City Council is delighted to support Eastside Arts Festival - an exciting new, community-led festival for Galway City East, funded through the Council’s Creative Ireland Programme - which aims to celebrate the rich diversity of Eastside communities through arts and culture.

The workshops were launched as part of World Heart Day on Sunday 29 September. The aim of the project is to encourage the arts to patients suffering from heart conditions.

Galway City Museum was recently awarded €15,000 in the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media’s Regional Museum Exhibitions Scheme 2024. This funding will be used to further enhance exhibition engagement at the Museum.

The Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and the Embassy of the United States of America in Dublin are pleased to announce 21 Fulbright Irish Awardees for 2024/2025. Recipients were presented with awards at a ceremony in Iveagh House.

Galway teens (aged 16-18) are invited to explore their musical creativity with "Beats and Beyond," a FREE DJ workshop series led by renowned DJ Laura O'Connell.

University of Galway has launched Imirce, a digital repository of thousands of Irish emigrant letters and memoirs dating from the late 1600s through to the mid-20th century.

Galway Community Circus has been selected for the Fundraising Fellowship Ireland Project.

The Arts Council is inviting all schools in Westmeath to get involved in their first ever Creative February, a celebration of art and creativity in schools with a focus on fun, festivities, imagination and innovation, the initiative to run from February 1-29.

The recording and publishing of previously unheard and unwritten stories of Galway’s central role in the voluntary period from 1913 to 1923 is being described as a legacy project of the County’s Decade of Commemoration programme, which draws to a close this week.

Patrick Ganly was born in the parish of Kilcleagh near Moate in 1857. At just 18 years of age, like thousands of others from Westmeath and Longford, he left for Argentina. In 1899 Patrick Ganly and his wife Mary (nee McGeoy) returned to Ireland and took up residence at Aghanagrit near Moate. During this time their daughter Ellen was born. In 1901 the family returned to Argentina, where they remained.