TINY TRADERS VILLAGE TO RE LAUNCH IN NUN'S ISLAND

Mon, Mar 04, 2019

Much Loved Local Food and Craft Market Makes Long-Awaited Return in one of Galway's Most Storied Buildings. The Galway Food, Arts, and Crafts scene is in celebration at the announcement that Tiny Traders Village will be returning to the city this month. The much enjoyed but short-lived market will be relaunching in their new location the Nuns Island Theatre on March 16th and will run every Saturday thereafter.

COFFEE CULTURE MEETS COCKTAIL HOUR FOR THE TIA MARIA COFFEE REVOLUTION AT CAPRICE!

Mon, Mar 04, 2019

Coffee lovers around the world are now enjoying their favourite drink from morning cup through to evening cocktail, as the global love for coffee booms, on the 19th of March you may be invited to a very unique event which takes place at Caprice. An evening filled with treats, tricks and Tia Maria. Feel like a V.I.P with Espresso Martini on arrival, Cocktail masterclass sessions, Goodybags and a trip to LONDON up for grabs! An event you do not want to miss!

The men who inspired Narcos return to Galway

Thu, Feb 28, 2019

STEVE MURPHY and Javier Peña, the US Drug Enforcement Administration agents who led the manhunt of Colombian drug lord and Medellín Cartel leader, Pablo Escobar, and whose actions inspired the hit Netflix series, Narcos, return to Galway.

Guessing, Regressing and Fancy Dressing! It’s the Annual Baboró Throwback Table Quiz.

Thu, Feb 28, 2019

The 80’s, 90’s and 00’s are coming back in a big way! We've been hunting Pokémon, binge-watching the Sabrina the Teenage Witch reboot series, buying tickets to the Spice Girls, and dusting off our denim dungarees. Now is the time to put this nostalgia know-how to the test at this year's Baboró Fundraising Throwback Table Quiz in Monroe's Live on Tuesday, March 26th at 8pm.

DNA Nightclub – Bringing Sax Appeal to Galway City!

Mon, Feb 25, 2019

This weekend at DNA Nightclub is bringing Sax Appeal to Galway’s nightlife scene. Join them this Saturday night, 2nd March, to see one of Ireland’s leading international saxophonist performers take to the stage. Having performed across Ireland and further afield in Dubai, Spain and Ibiza, they are ready to bring their funky jazzed up music style to Galway city, playing all of your favourite chart hits and party starters.

The Biggest 90’s - 00’s Crazy Disco… Coming to DNA Nightclub!

Mon, Feb 25, 2019

After selling out Dublin’s Three Arena, the biggest disco concert is now going on a club tour, starting with DNA Nightclub & Venue on Saturday, 23rd March. The “Biggest 90’s – 00’s Crazy Disco” will take you back in time and bring you all the magic of the Three Arena concerts in a club setting. During the night you will hear all of your favourite 90’s and 00’s hits from all of the ‘Biggest Disco DJ’s’.

Bualadh Busk - a day long busk-a-thon on Saturday

Thu, Feb 14, 2019

BULADH BUSK, a day long busk-a-thon organised by the Galway Buskers’ Community takes place this Saturday, February 16, from 10am to 10pm, for what is being called "a positive protest" against the Galway City Council’s re-proposed busking bye-laws.

Festival In Exile in solidarity with Nicaragua

Thu, Feb 14, 2019

NICARAGUA'S Festival Internacional De Poesia De Granada, a celebrated international poetry event, has been cancelled this year as a result of the serious political crisis the Central American country has been experiencing since April 2018.

Art classes with Gill Christie

Thu, Feb 07, 2019

GILL CHRISTIE, the award winning Galway filmmaker and artist, will hold a 10 week art class, covering painting and drawing, starting on Tuesday February 19.

Galway Dance Project workshops

Thu, Jan 31, 2019

GALWAY DANCE Project will hold a new series of professional development classes, on the first Saturday of the month, starting this Saturday, at St Nicholas’ School, Waterside.

La Nuit des idées - from the moon to HP Lovecraft

Thu, Jan 24, 2019

TWO FILMS, made almost a century apart, as well as talks on HP Lovecraft and press cartoons in Ireland after 1916, will make up the La Nuit des idées/Night of Ideas 2019 event at NUI Galway.

New art classes from Denise Hogan

Thu, Jan 24, 2019

DENISE HOGAN, the award winning Galway artist, has announced the dates of her new spring term, including weekly art classes in oils, acrylics, and watercolours, along with a new aspect to her classes.

Galway to mark centenary of the First Dáil

Thu, Jan 17, 2019

In the UK general election of December 1918, 73 out of 105 Irish seats were won by Sinn Féin, and in a move to assert Irish sovereignty and the right to self-determination, those 73 MPs refused to take their seats at Westminster.

News From Home - a film screening at Ballygar Courthouse

Thu, Jan 17, 2019

A FILM exploring the lyrics of Ballygar composer and bandmaster, PS Gilmore, and the town itself, will be screened in Ballygar Courthouse this weekend.

The Global Game Jam® - Taking place January 25th-27th in at the PorterShed

Mon, Jan 14, 2019

The Global Game Jam® (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical locations. Wait, what is a gamejam? One way to think of a game jam is like a musicians jam session, except instead of making a song you are collaborating to make a game. You can also think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. Now that we have a better idea of what a game jam is, let's talk about Global Game Jam!

Galway graphic artist selected for prestigious New York fellowship

Thu, Jan 10, 2019

GALWAY GRAPHIC artist and designer, Leon Butler, has been selected for a prestigious New York Fellowship by Design Incubation – an organisation for educators and practitioners of communication design to further design research and practice.

Ad Hoc choir voice workshops

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

THE AD Hoc choir voice workshops return in the New Year for a full term of singing and are open to anyone who would like to move from singing in the shower to singing with other people.

The Late, Late, Late Toy Show: Bringing Christmas Cheer UHG Children’s Ward

Thu, Dec 13, 2018

Get into the Christmas Spirit this Saturday, 15th December, at DNA Nightclub’s Late, Late, Late Toy Show.

Entertainment Around The Clock

Mon, Dec 10, 2018

It’s entertainment around the clock this New Years Eve at The Skeff Late bar, Galway.

Was Britain, not Germany, responsible for the start of WWI?

Thu, Dec 06, 2018

"THE FIRST World War, it came and it went, the reasons for fighting I never did get," sang Bob Dylan on 'With God On Our Side', and unlike WWI, the Great War's causes are complex and not straightforward.

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