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This Easter will mark the 110th year since the Easter Rising of 1916. Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic outside the GPO in Dublin on Easter Monday that year – an event that began events leading to our partial independence in the 26 counties a short time later.

In correspondence seen by the Advertiser, the university’s Executive Dean, Professor Rebecca Braun, wrote a strongly worded email to all departmental heads this week, complaining that a confidential document circulated with college members last Tuesday “was passed to the Irish Times with near immediate effect last week”.

Michael D is back home, and he’s not holding back.

Bestselling and award-winning Irish author Mary Costello will be at Kennys Bookshop for an event on Tuesday, March 3, when she will be joined in conversation by Sarah Kenny about her new novel, A Beautiful Loan, officially published the following week. The event is at 6pm and is free, but space is limited and you can book on Kennys.ie/events now.

In her first major gig since selling out the Galway International Arts Festival’s Big Top this summer, legendary jazz and blues singer, Mary Coughlan, plays the Black Box Theatre, next Friday, December 19.

Some of the country's most prolific podcasts, like Keep It Tight, How To Gael, The Creep Dive and Eejits of the World, will record live in venues around the city during this year's Galway Comedy Festival.

Galway audiences will have the opportunity to hear the Polish-born artist’s hotly anticipated new work ahead of its official release. It will not be available on streaming platforms until early November.

The 9th Galway Cartoon Festival returns from Friday, October 3 to Wednesday, October 8 2025, with a line-up featuring Palestinian artist Malak Mattar, comic book artist Gilbert Shelton, creator of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and political cartoonists Jeff Danzinger and Belfast’s Ian Knox.

The experience of Galway university students and graduates in the First World War (1914-18) is the subject of the inaugural lecture in the winter series hosted by the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society. The speaker is Ronan McGreevy, and the lecture will be held in the Harbour Hotel at 8pm on Monday, September 8.

The Shantalla-based politician formally quit her party last week, just days after Soc Dem TD Eoin Hayes was readmitted to the so-called ‘purple party’ after an eight-month suspension for being opaque about his investment in a company providing software to the Israeli military.