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There are many cultural architects of the Galway that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. There was a creative energy abroad then, a sense that the old, austere order could be challenged and that a small city on the western edge of Europe could imagine itself differently. That decade conceived the Galway International Arts Festival, the Galway Advertiser, Druid and a growing community of musicians, artists, writers, journalists and performers who all contributed to that transformation.

Macnas, noun: The frolic-like behaviour of a young calf let out to grass for the first time after being kept in all winter; joyous abandonment; dalliance, wantonness.

Staff opening the Town Hall Theatre last Monday morning could not believe their eyes.

A vibrant new theatre production celebrating one of the most exciting periods in the cultural history of Tuam and Galway is set to premiere at the Mick Lally Theatre this November.

The wonderful orchestrated performance of Same Oul’ Town featuring the Saw Doctors and the RTE Concert Orchestra on last Saturday’s Tommy Tiernan Show is to be released globally as a single tomorrow (Friday)

Ronnie O’Gorman was the most influential Galwegian of the past fifty years. In The Galway Advertiser he created and nurtured a unique forum for Galway creativity, enterprise and community. Under Ronnie’s benign yet focused stewardship an entirely new version of Galway developed as the universal image of the city – an innovative, cultured, tolerant and sparkling city, successful, slightly raffish, and fun.

There is nothing as innocent as the process of passion that drags you on the path to whatever you choose to do in life. The excitement of eking out a wage, of convincing yourself that people will want to consume what you produce is common across all occupations.

Controversial Scottish agitprop theatre troupe 7:84 visited Galway in 1974 and left a lasting impression on the city and its nascent arts scene.

A brand new exhibition, ‘This is the Modern World’ has just opened at Galway City Museum, featuring a wide selection of live music posters promoting gigs in Galway during the period 1977 – 1982.

Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward.