The Irish Times

Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays

Galway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venues

Tue Jul 23 2019 - 05:00

Festival director calls for dedicated visual arts space for Galway

Paul Fahy says it is ‘shocking’ that city is still without a proper cultural hub and gallery

Wed Jul 17 2019 - 10:16

Galway International Arts Festival: The must-see events

The best picks from this year’s selection of theatre, street spectacle and quirky surprise

Sun Jul 14 2019 - 06:00

Galway arts festival and painted poems: This week’s best visual arts shows

A collection of labourers’ cottages in Co Wexford is among the other highlights

Sat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00

A matter of life and death: the startling lifelike sculptures of Sam Jinks

Artist Sam Jinks’s exhibition gets to grips with life (the universe and everything)

Sat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00

Bringing artists back to the island of Inishlacken

A group gathers on the remote island off Roundstone to paint, sculpt and write

Sat Jun 15 2019 - 06:00

Galway 2020: Chairwoman Aideen McGinley signals intention to step aside

Three new appointments to the capital of culture board and new creative director promised in New Year

Fri Dec 21 2018 - 17:00

Galway arts centre director calls for resignation of Galway 2020 chair

Arts groups seeking meeting with city and county managers over debacle

Fri Sept 14 2018 - 20:18

Culture clusters: Do cities need cultural hubs?

At Kilkenny Arts Festival young architects imagine what the city might look like in the future

Wed Aug 01 2018 - 05:00

Galway 2020 cultural capital hires in British consultant to advise it

Move, after resignation of event’s creative director, questioned by leading arts manager

Tue Jul 10 2018 - 01:22

Nollaig na mBan: How women can spend their ‘day of rest’

Events to mark centenary of vote for women, Fine Gael pledges ‘women’s charter’

Fri Jan 05 2018 - 13:14

Sarcoid Years: A poem for your troubles

A bout of pneumonia 12 years ago was the start of my life with sarcoidosis

Mon Sept 25 2017 - 07:00

The best art shows this weekend with moving mountains and electrical magic

What’s getting the arty treatment this week?

Wed Aug 23 2017 - 05:00

We’re all deeply weird and 'normal' can be a crushing concept

The visual art at this year's Galway International Arts Festival has lots of odd junctures, strange characters and weird journeys

Wed Jul 26 2017 - 05:00

Champagne deliveries: now that’s worth celebrating . . .

. . . but we’re less keen on the in-tents side of the summer festival experience

Fri Jun 09 2017 - 12:00

Waterford businesswoman to head Galway 2020 team

Hannah Kiely handling €45.75m budget for European Capital of Culture programme

Mon May 29 2017 - 20:08

A vision of the future that's a ‘Hunger Games’ in reverse

‘Futures’ at RHA showcases idiosyncratic, thought-provoking work in variety of media

Tue Mar 28 2017 - 06:00

Illuminating our complex relationships with things

The things we are drawn to acquire reflect and express our personalities and more: our ideas about ourselves, our aspirations and perhaps our limitations and delusions

Tue Mar 07 2017 - 06:00

The Kilkenny art centre with a difference

Jubilant and celebratory, the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent blends art with disability care to create a studio like no other

Sat Jan 14 2017 - 06:01

Paul Doran in Dublin: You won't see a livelier display of painting all year

Plus: Finnish women let us into their lives with humour

Tue Aug 23 2016 - 06:00

When Ballymun was all towering promise

Vulnerable bodies and the dispossessed also feature in three Galway International Arts Festival highlights

Tue Jul 19 2016 - 01:00

Visual art: A Kilkenny collective that recognises no rules

A strong show by the KCat collective is refreshingly free of irony and knowingness

Tue May 10 2016 - 01:00

Teens in hospital explore their creative lives

Art projects help teenagers at Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and Cork University Hospital to alter their realities

Tue Mar 15 2016 - 01:00

Disappearing islands and a planet on the edge: visual art round-up

Galway’s annual winter arts festival is, fittingly enough, all about the weather

Tue Nov 24 2015 - 01:00

‘Galway Banksy’ focuses on mind over matter in hospital graffiti

Finbar 247 was let loose in University Hospital Galway to mark Mental Health Week with positive messages

Mon Oct 19 2015 - 06:00

Beneath the surface of ordinary family life | Visual art round-up

Sabine Lacey paints real photographs to explore the history of a family; Bridget O’Gorman’s sculptures point to some unspoken calamity; and Johnny Savage’s book is a thoughtful, valuable take on the 21st-century Irish landscape

Tue Sept 22 2015 - 06:00