Ballybane Library - Artist in the Community Exhibition

In Ballybane Library James Harrold launched the Exhibition by the residents of Sliabh Bán. 

This was a community project in association with visual artist Fiona Hession.
 
Fiona Hession is a Galway based Sculptor. Her work investigates different aspects of social status, identity and taboo. Hession is predominantly an object maker but also uses printmaking and textiles to realise her work. Hession is currently working with the Sliabh Ban Residents in Ballybane on a Create Artist in the Community project 

Young members of Ballybane Library in an arts and crafts workshop making 'Medusas and Dragons' as part of the Summer reading Challenge

Summer Reading Challenge in Westside Library

Congratulations everyone!

 These are the 'Mythical Maze' Summer Reading Challenge Treasure Hunt Quiz Winners from last Thursday 7th August in Westside Library.

Exhibition for August in Clifden Library

Soundbites in Tuam Library

Teddy Bears Picnic in Tuam Library

'Mythical Maze' Summer Reading Challenge in Westside Library

Story time with Dog’s Trust in Loughrea Library

Story time with Dog’s Trust

Loughrea Library – 12.00pm Wednesday 30th July

Gort Library – 3.00pm – 4.00pm Wednesday 30th July
Portumna Library – 11.30am Thursday 31st July

Mythical Maze Summer Reading Challenge & Westside Arts Festival Story-time

July exhibition in Clifden Library

Clifden-based artist Jason Fitzpatrick is hosting an exhibition of oil paintings, acrylics and mosaics at Clifden Library throughout July.

Castleblakeney Heritage Centre and Galway Mobile Library Service

 

 

The Castleblakeney Heritage Centre in conjunction with the Mobile Library Service held a millennium celebration of the Battle of Clontarf 1014.
Valerie Kinsella from the Heritage Centre arranged  Arts and Crafts sessions for local children in the Heritage Centre during their Easter holidays from school.
She has arranged further art and craft sessions for the month of July to run concurrently with a Summer Reading Challenge on the theme of Animals, Insects and Birds!

Summer Reading Challenge for Children

Galway Libraries Summer Reading Challenge for Children is now on.
 
Keep children reading throughout the school summer holidays with Mythical Maze, the 2014 Summer Reading Challenge.
 
Contact any Galway Branch Library for details.

Westside Library Miscellany

Traveller Pride 2014 - Ballinasloe Library

Galway Libraries Summer Reading Challenge

Galway City Library - Summer 2014 Young Adult Book List

A Place to Be - Galway City Library

Sharon Murphy, will be the host of A Place To Be and will also perform. Sharon is a Singer/song writer whose music could be described as Irish - Soul Folk music with reggae influences due to Sharon's Caribbean Heritage.
Guest Performer - Ciarán Parkes. For further details:-http://galwayowc.org/up

Galway Music Residency in Galway City Library

Journeys Creative Writing Programme in Galway City Library

Poet and writer Susan Millar DuMars read at the 2014 Cuirt Kitchen Readings

Bealtaine Creativity Workshops in Gort Library

Bealtaine – celebrating creativity in older years.  Creativity Workshops for Free at Gort library from 2pm-4pm on Wed. 21^st and Wed. 28^th May.  

Decorate an old frame with buttons, bows or quilling. Bring along an old frame, buttons, bows and old magazines.  The fruits of the workshop will be on display at the Bealtaine Tea Party in the library at 12noon on Friday 30^thMay.  All ‘older’ people welcome.

Learning from Art exhibition in Westside Library

 The Learning from Art exhibition is an outreach exhibition from the National Gallery of Ireland.

It includes art produced by many young people over a period of years based on their interpretations of their favourite piece of art from the National Gallery.

Their art is framed and on display in Westside for the month of May.

Children from local schools are participating in art workshops with Helen Monaghan an artist who has worked with the project in the National Gallery throughout the month.

This event is part of Westside Library’s 10^th Anniversary programme of Events. It has been part funded by sponsorship from local businesses and grants.

The exhibition will be on display until 06^th June. All are welcome to view.

What I read about when I read about running...Westside Library

I started the recent May bank holiday weekend by tumbling off the bike on the way home from work on Friday evening. A few hours later I walked out of UCH stitched, plastered and patched. My plans for the weekend were just as tattered.

Fortunately it was only a couple of days since I'd visited Westside Library. Many of you will know this as the congregation point for a multitude of runners on Monday and Thursday evenings who get to run with guidance from Bernie and a team of volunteer leaders. I've been lucky that it's my local library since it opened in January 2004.

If you haven't ventured inside there's a treat awaiting you. It's one of the nicest library's I've had the pleasure to frequent. Apart from the lovely building, good reading and study spaces it's also staffed by some of the most helpful librarians I've encountered. Dee, one of the team there, introduced me to the dedicated running section when I last visited. What a treasure trove it was. I saw copies of many books I own myself but a lot of new books I don't have.

Along with a great selection of running, triathlon, and nutrition books there was a shelf of DVDs. I left the building that evening "fully loaded" with five books and a DVD, all out of the running section.

More Galway City Harriers

A Trio of Artists - Exhibition in Clifden Library

'Gallant Sons' in Tuam Library

Mayor to Launch For the Record, the Archives of Galway’s Rural District Councils

Cllr. Liam Carroll, Mayor of Galway County, is to launch For the Record, The Archives of Galway’s Rural District Councils, a Guide to the Collections held by Galway County Council Archives in Áras an Chontae on 1 May 2014 at 5.30 pm. The guide has been produced by the Archives as an action of the County of Galway Decade of Commemorations Strategy 2013-2023. All are welcome to this event.

Dr Mary Clancy, historian and author attached to NUI Galway, will also give what promises to be an enlightening and interesting talk on the role, functions and attitudes of the Rural District Councils.

Galway Libraries shortlisted nomination for 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English. The award is an initiative of Dublin City Council, the municipal government of Dublin, in partnership with IMPAC, with the objective of promoting excellence in world literature. Nominations are submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world.

The nomination process for the Award is unique as nominations are made by libraries in capital and major cities throughout the world. Participating libraries can nominate up to three novels each year for the Award. Over 400 library systems in 177 countries worldwide were invited to nominate books for the 2014 award.

Cúirt Kitchen Reading 2014 - Dave Lordan

Holistic Infant Development in Gort Public Library

Liam & Tom O’Flaherty Society - Galway City Library

Liam & Tom O’Flaherty Society - 
THE INVENTION OF LIAM O’FLAHERTY AND LAUNCHING AN UNKNOWN O’FLAHERTY SATIRE. ‘A Cure for Unemployment’
Thursday, 24 April, 6 – 8 p.m. in Galway City Library.
Free. All welcome

It took a person of courage and understanding to ‘discover’ the forsaken Irish writers in England. One such person, and a key agent in the case of Liam O’Flaherty, was Edward Garnett.

The speaker, Dr Frank Shovlin, is an expert on the subject. He is Senior Lecturer of Irish Literature in English at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool and will give an entertaining and informative, illustrated talk on Edward Garnett and Liam O’Flaherty in England.

In the context of O’Flaherty as a writer in London, the Society is launching, at this event, a hitherto completely unknown satirical text by O’Flaherty – ‘A Cure for Unemployment’. This text is published as one of three satirical texts in the Swiftian mode – one of these is by Swift himself: ‘A Modest Proposal’, a modern take on it by Tomás Mac Síomóin, ‘An Immodest Proposal’ and Liam O’Flaherty’s.
This publication will be launched, quite appropriately, by Terry McDonough, Professor of Economics at NUI Galway.

Glimpses of Tuam through the Centuries

April Exhibition in Galway City Library

Leabharlann Bhaile Locha Riach - Lá Idirnáisiúnta na Leabhar 2014

French Literature in Galway City Library

Did you know that Galway City Library has a collection of French literature books?
They can be found in the adult literature section and you can also find some books in the juvenile section.

There are books in French,  French authors translated into English and bilingual books.
Be adventurous and discover a new language, new authors and another culture.
A small part of the collection is on display on a table near the adult desk.

Cúirt Kitchen Readings in Westside and Ballybane Libraries

Cúirt Kitchen Readings are informal gatherings are free and open to all. 
The guests gather in the kitchen with the overflow finding seating in the hallway or, weather permitting, in the garden, are served the tea and scones provided by the hosts, and then listen to the reading.

For more information contact 

Ballybane Library (091) - 380590, ballybane@galwaylibrary.ie

or 
Westside Library (091) - 520616, westside@galwaylibrary.ie.

April Photo Exhibition in Clifden Library

Tuam Library March Events

For the Record, the Archives of Galway’s Rural District Councils

Galway County Council Archives has published, as an action under the Decade of Commemorations Strategy, 2013-2023, a guide to its Rural District Council archive holdings.  It is hoped that this easy to read useful guide, titled For the Record, the Archives of Galway’s Rural District Councils, will raise awareness of the existence of this important primary source material.  

The collections, dating from 1899-1925, detail the functions and achievements of our predecessors in early local government, dealing with, among other things, the provision of labourers’ cottages, water pumps and burial grounds, and also the maintenance of local roads.  The collections, which are comprised primarily of minutes, chart the change in political thinking in the early 1900s when the Councils supported Home Rule but were by 1920 demanding full independence and recognising the underground Dáil Éireann.

Copies of the publication are available by contacting archivist@galwaycoco.ie