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Galway’s international literary magazine, Crannóg will launch its 64th issue on Friday, April 10, in The Crane Bar, on Sea Road, at 6.30pm.

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.

This Easter will mark the 110th year since the Easter Rising of 1916.

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.

Galway Tour Guides’ Association will hold a Scavenger Hunt Tourist Trail this weekend to celebrate International Tourist Guide Day 2026 on Saturday, February 21.

While the country has many ongoing problems admittedly, there is little any of us can do right now, as ordinary citizens, to resolve them, other than exercising our vote at the next election to enact change. That is our democratic prerogative.

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Middle Street is welcoming all its customers for the festive season, with six rooms of more than 150,000 books of all shapes, sizes, and varieties that will surely satisfy your every Christmas book-shopping need.

The Galway Tour Guides Association elected its new board for the coming year at its recent AGM.

Easter is a special time for Irish Republicans, and County Galway was one of the main areas that rose in 1916 in defence of the Irish Republic, having the second largest uprising in the country after Dublin.

Two Galway writers have secured the rights to The Poetry Jukebox installation in Galway, the first of such in the West of Ireland.