Galway gets ready for something special this weekend with the Great Indian Food Festival

Thu, Jul 11, 2024

This Saturday, the city of Galway will experience a cultural and food extravaganza it has never witnessed before. The Indian Cultural and Sports Community, ICSC Galway, in association with India Soc of the University of Galway, is delighted to announce the first-ever Great Indian Food Festival. A very stretched-out event, planned from 1 PM till 9 PM near the Alice Perry Engineering Building, University of Galway (H91 HX31), will be a treat for all senses through its sundry, authentic Indian foods, music, and dance.

The Great Indian Food Festival promises a taste of India in Galway, with the concept of bringing together an array of dishes from the local and award-winning food houses in Ireland. At the threshold, it is not just a festival of food but a celebration of diversity—of the cultural tapestry that is alive, pulsating India—and a forum to imbibe the spirit of community here. And entry is absolutely free to ensure that everybody gets to join in the celebration. It will also allow the visitors to directly purchase items of their choice of food by visiting various food stalls and food trucks.

Murphy’s Rising Sons to shine at Monroe’s

Thu, Jul 11, 2024

Singer-songwriter George Murphy returns to Galway with The Rising Sons on Saturday, July 27, as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Beautiful Apocalypse on Dominick St

Thu, Jul 11, 2024

Curated by Megs Morley, the thought-provoking collection intertwines a range of media to examine and critique the enduring legacies of colonialism and patriarchy.

Artist Mary Harrison journeys 'To the Waters and the Wild' in solo exhibition

Thu, Jun 27, 2024

Hosted by painter and sculptor, Joe McCaul, who is the current chairperson of Kava as well as being Mary's husband, the show will be officially opened by newly elected Councillor Paul Killilea.

Claim your own piece of disrespectful art with the Galway Cartoon Festival fundraiser auction this Saturday

Thu, Jun 20, 2024

Selected artworks from the Galway Cartoon Festival's hit exhibitions go under the hammer from 12:30pm to 3:30pm this Saturday, June 22 in the Town Hall Theatre gallery-bar. This is your chance to own one of twenty framed cartoon prints by a remarkable artist and help grow the city's internationally respected celebration of disrespectful art.

Four summer art shows for Oughterard

Thu, Jun 06, 2024

The Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme has announced four exhibitions this summer showcasing the work of 37 local artists and visitors

Poured paint in Ballybane

Thu, May 16, 2024

With the inspiration of Bealtaine festivities, Vibrant Voices is an art initiative aimed at empowering the elderly through expressive acrylic pouring, promoting mental well-being, creativity and imagination.

Countdown begins for Galway Arts Festival

Wed, May 15, 2024

The 2024 Galway International Arts Festival will include seven world premiers, a new visual arts commission, the most extensive music line-up to date, and new theatre co-produced with partners Landmark Productions and Once Off Productions.

Theatre audiences can look forward to the world premiere of Reunion by Mark O’Rowe. The playwright turns his laser focus on the deep currents of family life with biting humour and insight. The GIAF and Landmark co-production features a roll-call of Ireland’s finest actors, including Ian-Lloyd Anderson, Cathy Belton, Venetia Bowe, Stephen Brennan, Robert Sheehan and Catherine Walker.

From Dungeness to Galway, a summer of art at Ard Bia

Thu, May 09, 2024

The upcoming show by photographer Aoibheann MacNamara, titled 'Dungeness', is a showcase on light, how it impacts textures and interacts with the natural landscape.

Matter and Infinity, a solo show by Dani Gill at 126 Gallery

Thu, Apr 04, 2024

Matter and Infinity is a solo show in the 126 Gallery on April 10 to April 24 by Dani Gill, exploring memory, water, lineage, the real and the ephemeral. Working with water, text, and sculpture, the work explores what it means to exist in and between universal planes, the fractured nature of memory, and how we understand our physical state.

Leftfield to go loud at Big Top gig

Thu, Mar 28, 2024

Famous for their building-shaking volume, Leftfield will headline the Heineken Big Top during the Galway International Arts Festival on Friday, July 19.

Careful Now! Ted Fest is coming

Thu, Feb 29, 2024

Prepare yourself for copious cups of tea, reams of red tank-tops, nuns on the run, priests on the pull, hobby horses, lovely girls, mad costumes and a most unusual brass band called The Circus Ponies.

Lady Bird Lad lands in Galway

Thu, Feb 29, 2024

Galway music fans devastated by this week’s break-up of Irish band Hudson Taylor may find solace in plans that one half of the fraternal duo, Harry Hudson-Taylor, will play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow, Friday, March 1, at 8pm.

Shark School swarm Róisin Dubh

Thu, Feb 29, 2024

Galway’s female-fronted abstract garage band Shark School play Róisin Dubh tonight, Thursday, February 29.

Kettleboilers to roil Monroe’s for St Patrick’s Day

Thu, Feb 29, 2024

Six-piece Celtic punk rock band, Kettleboilers, will take to the stage at Monroe's Live on Sunday, March 17, at 8pm for a night of lively craic and folk fusion.

Kettleboilers to roil Monroe’s for St Patrick’s Day

Thu, Feb 29, 2024

Six-piece Celtic punk rock band, Kettleboilers, will take to the stage at Monroe's Live on Sunday, March 17, at 8pm for a night of lively craic and folk fusion.

Princess Galvia to return to Corrib River perch

Thu, Feb 15, 2024

By Maxim Kelly
One theory behind the placename for Galway is that the river, and thence the town and county, were once named Galvia, the latin term for an ancient princess Galilbhe or Gaillimh, who drowned in the Corrib.

Wildlife is gold for Galway artist

Thu, Jan 25, 2024

Environmental visual artist Helen Caird is staging a solo show at the Oughterard Courthouse from Friday, February 9, to Sunday, February 18.

JFK’s three miles a long journey for Galway filmmaker

Thu, Dec 21, 2023

"It has been a marathon," sighs Oranmore’s Pamela Finn, producer and director of JFK - The Three Miles. The 24-minute film tells the story of JFK’s visit to Galway – over just three miles from the Sportsground to Salthill - through eye witness recollections.

Galway artist scoops major award

Thu, Dec 14, 2023

ATU Galway art graduate Taïm Haimet has won the €10,000 Taylor Art Award after Royal Dublin Society (RDS) judges hailed her as Ireland’s most promising emerging visual artist. Her visual art is inspired by her experiences as an Arabic interpreter for asylum seekers in Galway, and her own family’s stories from Syria.

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