Summer Stars 2018 Children's Reading Challenge

Summer Stars 2018 Children's Reading Challenge is well and truly underway in all Galway Libraries. It runs throughout July and August.
Join the 2018 Summer Stars reading adventure at your local library this summer!
Summer Stars is an exciting reading-based programme which is available free of charge to all children across the country with plenty of goodies and prizes to be had.
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Galway City Library Galway author Gary Ward, reading from his new children's book 'Under the Bed Monsters' during a a recent visit to Galway City Library

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Contempo Quartet in Ballinasloe Library

Ballinasloe Library
Thursday April 12, 1.00pm - 2.00pm
The Galway Music Residency presents ConTempo in the first of their series of lunchtime concerts in Ballinasloe Library.
Please see attached programme. The series continues on May 24 and June 14.

Healthy Ireland at Galway Public Libraries

Through the Irish countrywide library network, the Healthy Ireland at Your Library Programme will provide a range of resources, services and support to users and communities.
Book stock A comprehensive collection of books on health and wellbeing will be available in all public libraries.
Online resources New e-books, e-audiobooks and e-magazines will be accessible in every library and by remote access Health information services

Healthy Ireland Galway Events

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The Atlas of the Irish Revolution - Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year for 2017

The Atlas of the Irish Revolution, a book which tells the full story of Ireland’s revolutionary history from 1913 to 1923, has been voted the Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year for 2017. It was chosen by a public vote from the list of category winners announced at the recent Irish Book Awards.
The atlas has nearly 1,000 pages, weighs 5kg and there is a copy of this book available in every library in Galway, courtesy of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Cork University Press.
After the initial print run of 8,000 sold out in September, publisher Cork University Press ordered another 14,000 copies to meet demand ahead of the Christmas present rush. Diarmaid Ferriter’s review in The Irish Times called it “mammoth and magnificent”.