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Following the clamorous Midwinter Festival featuring the works of Maurice Ravel, Music for Galway’s offensive against the darkness and the cold continues with a concert featuring the virtuosic Fidelio Trio in the welcoming setting the Hardiman Hotel’s ballroom, on Monday, February 17, at 7.30pm.

Celebrated Galway artist Joe Boske and Galwegian Michael Quinn, have collaborated to create a unique blend of visual art and poetry in their publication, Rathgar Odyssey.

Cartoons with a strong water safety message, drawn by leading Irish cartoonists, are set to appear across Galway City centre this week.

Selected artworks from the Galway Cartoon Festival's hit exhibitions go under the hammer from 12:30pm to 3:30pm this Saturday, June 22 in the Town Hall Theatre gallery-bar. This is your chance to own one of twenty framed cartoon prints by a remarkable artist and help grow the city's internationally respected celebration of disrespectful art.

Irish whiskey lovers rejoice because there is an enticing new option on the market to savour – the Galway Hooker 8-Year-Old blend.

Jarir Al-Majar, formerly Gerry Mulholland, was a singer, musician, songwriter, poet, artist, peace activist, a man of principle and bravery and one of Galway’s most remarkable and beloved citizens. Majar was from a noted musical and sporting family. His father, Ned Mulholland had a fine tenor voice and won an All-Ireland football medal with Galway in 1938.

A special ceremony took place outside Tigh Neachtain last Friday, July 22, to mark the 200th anniversary of the world’s first piece of legislation concerning animal welfare.

THE SOUND of the cello, a pleasure for the ear and appealing to the heart as the instrument many believe is closest in sound to the human voice, will be at the centre of a new festival for Galway.

Galway’s second Cartoon Festival kicks off this weekend on Saturday, and last year’s little acorn has already had an impressive growth spurt. Last year the festival was confined to two venues, whereas this year’s event features work by more than 70 cartoonists from all around the world which will be on show in a minimum of eight locations across the city.