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For more than 150 years, the story of Thomas McDonogh & Sons has been closely connected with the story of Galway itself. From the sawmills and quays of the nineteenth century to modern commercial property and agricultural supply, the family business has witnessed—and helped shape—the transformation of the city from a modest western port into a centre of commerce, industry and culture.

Druid Theatre Company is reviving Dion Boucicault’s classic play, The Shaughraun, for this year’s Arts Festival. Its first Galway performance, in December 1876, followed sold-out runs on Broadway and in London’s West End. Though set in rural Sligo, The Shaughraun became associated with Galway, and specifically with Claddagh.

A seachrán can be a wandering vagabond, a clever rogue, maybe astray in the head as well as abroad, and the play that made the word infamous in nineteenth century America returns to Galway this summer, for the first time since 1982.

Each year, the arrival of the Galway International Arts Festival programme feels less like a publication drop and more like a seasonal shift. Before a single ticket is bought, before a stage is lit, there it is in your hands — weighty, ink-rich, quietly electric. That physical programme, dense with possibility, signals something deeper than scheduling: it tells the brain, almost instinctively, that summer has arrived in Galway.

An exhibition of just 50 of his thousands of photos will be launched in The Kenny Gallery during the Galway International Arts Festival to document the fiftieth anniversary of another stalwart of modern Galway city: the Druid Theatre Company.

On this day, 50 years ago, Druid Theatre Company opened their first production, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ in the Jesuit Hall on Sea Road. The following evening they staged “It’s a two foot six inches above the Ground World” and on the third night it was “The Loves of Cass Maguire”. It was an ambitious beginning.

Two of Galway city’s famous theatre companies have joined forces to provide work experience opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities.

For sixty years Galway Film Society has been at the heart of culture in Galway and the west of Ireland. And at the heart of GFS for most of those years were Joe and Bridie McMahon.