MfG midwinter festival concerts to be live streamed

Mon, Jan 17, 2022

MUSIC FOR Galway’s midwinter festival, Stanford, takes place this weekend, and all shows in the Town Hall Theatre will be live streamed as well as in person.

Celebrate Stanford in 2022

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

THE MUSIC Of Charles Villiers Stanford is “dramatically significant, as well as beautiful in itself. It has, moreover, that quality so rare among modern composers – style.”

Tiger King cast members to appear in Galway

Wed, Dec 08, 2021

SAFF, JOHN Reinke, Josh Dial, and Barbara Fisher, from Tiger King, the Netflix documentary and phenomenon, will be in Galway for a live show in 2022.

Club Áras na nGael Christmas culture fest

Thu, Nov 25, 2021

CLUB ÁRUS na nGael’s Christmas Culture Festival takes place from December 3 to 5, featuring a drag show, trad music, a trad session, and events focussing on Transgender issues.

Club GASS - bring back our girls

Tue, Nov 23, 2021

CLUB GASS, Galway’s leading drag and LGBT+ night is back at the Róisín Dubh tomorrow, Friday November 26.

Have you found your TRIBE?

Thu, Nov 18, 2021

After a very successful run last year, Galway’s only youth arts festival is back, and is bigger and better than before.

TRIBES Youth Arts Festival is a multi-disciplinary arts festival promoting and developing high quality arts and cultural events for young people. The broad themes of the TRIBES festival include mind-body connection through movement and expression, issues of identity and mental health, and exploring worlds outside of the tribes we become part of as we grow.

Galway Restaurant Host Tinder Night For College Students!

Wed, Nov 17, 2021

Bangin Noodles restaurant in Galway are holding Galway’s first ever ‘Swipe Right’ Night this Friday in De Burgo’s bar on Augustine Street (where the restaurant is located!)

Galway Indian Community to celebrate Diwali on Saturday

Thu, Nov 04, 2021

THE GALWAY Indian Community will hold its annual Diwali celebration at the Salthill Hotel, this Saturday, November 6, from 5.30pm.

Misleór - Celebrating Nomadic Cultures from around the World

Fri, Oct 15, 2021

Misleór, which starts on Friday the 22nd of October, is a truly special event, and the only festival in Ireland that celebrates and connects nomadic cultures from around the world.

Galway Cartoon Festival starts on Friday

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

The fifth Galway Cartoon Festival, which starts tomorrow, Friday October 1, has a “packed, dense and diverse programme”, with cartoonists from across the world sharing their illustrated views of the last 18 months.

Culture Night 2021 - what are you going to see?

Wed, Sep 15, 2021

FOR 18 months the arts were in lockdown, but the autumn saw them return, and this weekend there will be events all over the city and county with Culture Night 2021, under the theme of ‘Come Together Again’.

Galway Cartoon Festival returns in October

Tue, Sep 14, 2021

THE GALWAY Cartoon Festival is back next month with a host of exhibitions, events, and brilliant cartoons and cartooning from October 1 to 9.

‘To our imaginations and beyond’ - Baboró International Arts Festival for Children

Tue, Sep 07, 2021

Baboró International Arts Festival for Children turns 25 this year and will be celebrating its silver anniversary in style with six premieres of work by Irish artists; seven new commissions, and young people co-creating many of the events.

Get involved in Galway Fringe Festival 2021

Tue, Sep 07, 2021

GALWAY FRINGE Festival will present an outdoor programme of creative arts activities throughout Galway city and county during the autumn.

Ceol an tSamhraidh - free concerts in Cloughanover

Wed, Aug 25, 2021

MEMBERS OF The Waterboys, We Banjo 3, and The Whileaways will play the next Ceol an tSamhraidh free open-air concerts in Galway.

Tommy Tiernan added to this weekend’s Pearse Stadium concerts

Wed, Aug 25, 2021

TOMMY TIERNAN has been added to Friday’s comedy concert at Pearse Stadium, with capacity for the four Salthill concerts now raised from 500 to 1,200.

Liam O’Flaherty and the War of Independence

Tue, Aug 24, 2021

LIAM O'FLAHERTY was travelling in the Americas during the War of Independence, while his brother Tom was involved in Communist politics in the United States.

Fall Right Into Place - Galway’s new music festival

Mon, Aug 23, 2021

VILLAGERS, BELL X1, And So I Watch You From Afar, and Saint Sister, are set to play Galway’s new music festival - Fall Right Into Place - in Claregalway Castle in September.

Christy Moore to open new series of Pearse Stadium concerts

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

FOR THE first time in more than a decade, Pearse Stadium will host a series of major concerts, starting with the legendary Christy Moore on August 26.