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“Catholic cathedrals in Ireland are monuments to our imitative instincts and conservative distrust of artistic originality. There are examples of new church architecture but in general, Church authorities remained faithful to the Middle Ages and refused to abandon medieval architecture. It is therefore understandable that in 1949 when the building of Galway Cathedral was commissioned, it should have been conceived in a hybrid Romanesque style. In 1959, the foundation stone was laid and on August 15, 1965, the Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas was dedicated by Cardinal Cushing. In December that year the Vatican Council solemnly ended its revolutionary document The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy which rendered the shape, style, arrangement, and setting of such buildings obsolete and anachronistic. This building was almost an object lesson in insularity. It is clear from the late Bishop of Galway’s instructions that for him art can be no more than decoration, an illustration of scripture or a clearly formulated theology. Art is never an original source, a spiritual revelation, a doing of theology.”

THE ANNUAL series of summer concerts in Galway Cathedral returns on Thursday July 3 with a performance by Australian-born organist and pianist Tristan Russcher.

GALWAY CATHEDRAL will be treated to a concert of organ duets by Hamburg husband and wife team Uwe and Judith Bestert this evening at 8pm.

A special mass will take place on Sunday October 14 in Galway Cathedral at 3pm to launch the “Year of Faith” for the Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh & Kilfenora. 

THE GALWAY Cathedral Recitals series of summer concerts returns next week with shows on Thursdays at 8pm. This series begins and ends with choral concerts.

MUNICH HUSBAND and wife team Organ Duet Four Feet will play the next Galway Cathedral Recitals concert this evening at 8pm.

GALWAY CATHEDRAL organist Raymond O’Donnell performs a solo recital this evening at 8pm as part of the Galway Cathedral Recitals concerts.

THE GALWAY Cathedral Recitals series of summer recitals returns with the opening concert, featuring the ConTempo Quartet and David Grealy, taking place this evening at 8pm.

Basque musician Aitor Olea Juaristi is the next performer in the Galway Cathedral recital series.