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Tomi Reichental, a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, will speak about his experience of the Holocaust in a public lecture in NUI Galway on Thursday [February 8].

Bergen Belsen Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental was in Galway this week for a special screening in The Eye Cinema of “Condemned to Remember”, a documentary inspired by his experiences as a child during the war.

Veterans of the 1961 Siege of Jadotville were awarded medals for their bravery at a ceremony in Custume Barracks on Saturday, December 2. The ceremony followed years of campaigning by veterans for recognition.

STRIKING BACK - The Untold Story of an Anti-Apartheid Striker by Mary Manning, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop at 6.30pm this evening.

LIKE 2006's Living With War, this is Shakey's immediate response to current events. Whereas the latter album was about the Bush presidency and the 'War On Terror', The Visitor centres on Trump's first year in office.

DIMEBAG DARRELL, co-founder of Panthera, the Texan band who kept the metal flag flying in the 1990s when others in the genre appeared to have lost their way - and one of metal's most admired guitarists, will be remembered in Galway next week.

Yesterday morning, we got a reminder of just how close we always are to turning on one another.

GALWAY PROG-FOLK band My Fellow Sponges today [Thursday November 23] release their new single 'The Schlieffen Plan' and will promote it with gigs around Ireland, including three dates in County Galway.

In September 1867, 50 Fenians attacked a prison van at Hyde Road, Manchester, intent on releasing their comrades Thomas Joseph Kelly, a Galwegian, and Timothy Deasy. An unarmed police sergeant, Charles Brett was shot dead and 26 men were tried for partaking in the attack.

MARK GEARY has just released his new album The Fool and will play songs from it, and from across his 25 year career, at his show in Monroe's Live, part of his current Irish tour.