Come to our 2025 Programme Launch and be first to hear Galway City Arts Officer Ruth Mulhern announce the fabulous events we have in store! Tigh Nora, 8 Cross st, Galway 6PM, Tuesday 9th September

The Galway Cartoon Festival, held annually in Ireland, is open for submissions for this year’s event. This year’s theme is “Danse Macabre”—think the mysterious, the seasonal and supernatural, the limi...

As usual, we're accepting public submissions to several exhibitions. Three of these are now open: 1 - The Themed Show By the time the Festival comes it will be autumn, the great seasonal change we have celebrated since ancient times as Samhain, or Hallowe'en. So we're looking for work with a twist of the seasonal and supernatural, the liminal and grotesque.

Still Charlie After All These Years Rather than the usual signatures, Galway thought it would be more respectful to offer an illustrated book of condolence. Contributing artists who went on to start the Cartoon Festival included Allan Cavanagh, Margaret Nolan, Tom Mathews and Richard Chapman (above). Photo, Boyd Challenger Among the events that led to the creation of the Galway Cartoon Festival, one of the most important was the murder of five cartoonists and seven others at the offices of the…

Announcing the opening of submissions to the 9th Galway Cartoon Festival! It seems a long way off right now, with Galway's summer rain still splashing happily on our heads, but by the time the Festival comes it will be autumn, the great seasonal change we have celebrated since ancient times as Samhain, or Hallowe'en.

For those who couldn't make it to Galway in person last October, here are the cartoons we selected for our four open exhibitions out of the many hundreds we received from all around the world. A huge and heartful thank you to all who took the time to show us their art. We wish as always that we could have shown it all.