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Galway City Museum will hold its special Winter Talk Series at Westside Resource Centre (H19 C1KX), running from November 2025 to March 2026. Developed in response to community interest, the series offers an engaging mix of folklore, local history, built heritage, and environmental storytelling to brighten the darker months.

What's Next For The Left? will be chaired by former University of Galway historian, John Cunningham, and is open to the public

James Hardiman, who wrote the history of Galway, died on this day, November 13, 1855. He was born in Westport in 1782, the son of Tomás Ó hArgadáin and Marcella Hall. Irish was his first language. The family moved to Galway where his father had a ‘small but respectable shop’. He had hoped to study for the priesthood but he had to give up that idea when he lost his right eye in an accident. He studied law instead in the King’s Inns in 1804, became a solicitor in 1814 and worked in the Public Records Office from 1811-1830.

Dublin Cemeteries Trust (DCT) has appointed Galway historian Dr Brian Casey as its new Historian and Archives Manager, bringing a wealth of historical expertise and archival knowledge to one of Ireland’s most significant heritage organisations.

This past weekend, Open House Chicago, the annual architecture festival organised by the Chicago Architecture Center, welcomed visitors into over 200 of the city’s most iconic and hidden architectural treasures. For the first time, the event extended its reach internationally by spotlighting Galway City — a long-standing sister city of Chicago.

Galway actress Nicola Coughlan is emerging as a top contender to star in a major new film about Ireland’s legendary pirate queen, Gráinne Ní Mháille, a project already being hailed as one of the most ambitious Irish productions in years.

Forty-six years ago, Cathal Dunne stood under the lights of Jerusalem’s Eurovision stage, charming Europe with his self-penned song Happy Man. This week, under very different skies, he stood once again in the spotlight—this time in the medieval town of Athenry in County Galway, promoting his deeply moving historical novel, Athenry – A Famine Tale of Love and Survival.

Galway’s historic Druid Lane will come alive with voices, music, and stories on Saturday, August 23 as the city gathers to honour the life and legacy of Peadar O’Dowd, the beloved historian, author, and champion of Galway’s heritage.

Galway’s rich medieval landscape will once again echo with the footsteps of history this August, as the 2025 International Mannion Clan Gathering returns with a vibrant three-day programme celebrating the storied legacy of the ancient Ó Mainnín—or Mannion—Clan of East Galway. Set to take place from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th August, this twelfth annual reunion will see attendees from across Ireland and the wider global diaspora—including the United States, Canada, Australia, Latvia, and England—gathering to honour their roots and explore their shared heritage.

Galway has always been a city of stories—tales whispered through stone walls, sung across the bay, and told beside fire and pub counter. But few told them as lovingly and thoroughly as Peadar O’Dowd. Historian, teacher, author, environmentalist, tour guide, columnist, and tireless ambassador for Galway’s past, Peadar passed away on January 4, 2024, leaving behind a city immeasurably richer for his life’s work and immeasurably poorer in his absence.