Welcome to the ‘jungle’: Galway International Arts Festival gets off to a startling start
Life-sized hybrid-creature sculptures set to draw thousands of visitors over next two weeks
Life-sized hybrid-creature sculptures set to draw thousands of visitors over next two weeks
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: The Tallaght playwright on new play Reunion, his changing preoccupations, and the stress of TV work
The Australian artist exhibits a wilderness of imagined creatures for the Galway International Arts Festival. The works challenge our empathy and revulsion
Dublin artist Yvonne McGuinness lives on the fringes of a starry world, thanks to her marriage to Cillian Murphy, but says she feels more at ease in a mucky field than on a red carpet
July 13th-19th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The composer and drummer’s show, Police Deranged, at Galway International Arts Festival, recalibrates Police songs for a full orchestra
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say
Schools are out and out of offices are on so it’s time to plan how to get the best out of summer in Ireland
What’s Next For?: The producer returns to his home city for a colossal show in the Big Top at Galway International Arts Festival
From huge events such as Electric Picnic and Dublin Theatre Festival to more esoteric gatherings around Ireland
Productions of classics appeared to be aimed at long-time theatregoers, yet this year the Arts Council warned of a decline in young people attending plays
Critical thinking, analysing of information and ability to solve complex problems are essential skills in the modern world
Druid’s magnificent new staging of the O’Casey trilogy should be a source of national pride
Including The Pulse, Colm Meaney’s Galway tribute, David Mach’s exploding installation, Luke Murphy’s explosive dance, and the epic DruidO’Casey
Traffic is a perennial issue in the City of Tribes, and many believe the solution is not to build more roads, but to build sustainability
Theatre: Branar’s take on James Joyce is surprisingly simple for such a complicated novel – and a great introduction to its appeal
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Handspring’s astonishing puppetry brings Michael K and his mother to life
Galway International Arts Festival: Seán O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock follow Druid’s Synge, Murphy and Shakespeare cycles
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Luke Murphy’s dance-theatre piece about two men going slowly crazy in deep space is tense, troubling and touching
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Clare Barrett is vulnerable and utterly charming in managing the vagaries of improvised audience participation
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: In the hour-long show there is physicality, mask and music, but there’s not a word
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: The acting is excellent, but this early play has moments that now strike a crude, adolescent note
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Zara Devlin provides the voice for a ballroom attendant in Enda Walsh’s latest Rooms installation
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Gravity & Other Myths’ outstanding show stretches the limits of what a human body can do
Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit
In Spain, they bet on weather being on their side. In Ireland for the Galway International Arts Festival, they won’t
After her forthcoming brace of Irish gigs, the singer plans to take a year off to digest all that has happened since her divorce, and to begin writing again
Including DruidO’Casey, The Saw Doctors, Bedbound and more, this year’s festival programme has heft and depth
The Oligarch’s Nightmare is the artist’s fourth installation at the Galway International Arts Festival
Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse
Geoff Sobelle’s show one of the many highlights of this year’s vibrant, audience-engaging festival
After two years of restricted programmes, there’s a real sense of the festival’s proud presence on the streets
Director Sara Joyce and writer Sonya Kelly bring ‘an enormously triggering scenario’ to the stage
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices