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Former President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, will join this year’s Galway Climate Inspirations Festival in a special public conversation exploring the intersection of climate action, culture, creativity and hope.

Kennys Bookshop are delighted to be hosting a very special event with bestselling author Robert Harris in Galway's Black Box Theatre on Friday, September 18.

A new edition of “Where Songs Do Thunder; Travels in Traditional Song” by the late great Irish traditional singer, poet and songwriter Paddy Tunney was launched in Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Galway recently by Dr Orla Flynn, President of ATU, attended by members of the Tunney family, ATU staff, students and invited guests.

Gráinne O'Brien is the head buyer at Kenny’s Bookshop, and being surrounded by all that literature must definitely rub off, evifdenced by her scooping another writing award last week.

The award-winning Climate Inspirations Festival 2026, a landmark celebration of creativity, innovation, and community action in response to the climate crisis, will take place from 24-28 June 2026 in various venues throughout Galway City. It brings together artists, scientists, council staff, and local communities to explore how storytelling and culture can accelerate climate solutions.

Galway’s Green Earth Organics, a business that has been deeply rooted in sustainability since its inception in May 2006 - when it made its first organic vegetable box deliveries - has marked its 20th birthday by announcing a new Sustainability Festival featuring thought leaders from the interconnected areas of food, health, nature and the environment.

Galway City Council’s award-winning Climate Inspirations Festival will return to the city with brand new dates- Wednesday, 24 June to Sunday, 28 June 2026, bringing five days of creative, community-led events focused on climate action, sustainability and positive change.

Nun's Island Theatre was dressed in fairy lights with a stage that looked like it had been taken straight from your nan's spring garden for the opening of Cúirt 2026.

Running two events for the 2026 programme, a free ‘Children’s Story Time’ on Saturday, April 25, at 11am in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, and a ‘Sunday Breakfast Club’ on Sunday, April 26, at 10am in Nuns Island Theatre, Méabh is excited to show children that there is a space for them within the literature festival.

As the big yellow pencils are taken out of storage for another year of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Méabh McDonnell, children’s book author and bookseller with Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, looks ahead to her events.