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Claregalway Castle will welcome one and all to the charming annual Galway Garden Festival this Saturday and Sunday.

The 49th Clifden Arts Festival returns to Connemara from September 17 to 27 with an ambitious programme of music, literature, visual arts, theatre, film and ideas under the theme ‘OPEN – A Festival of Welcome, Encounter and Possibility’.

Poet Mary O’Malley will open the Wests’ exhibition Fold at 3pm as the second exhibition of this year’s Oughterard Courthouse Summer Arts Programme (OCAP)

The work entitled ‘Seated Figure’, by artist Sean Henry, was lowered into position on Middle Arch beside the Claddagh Basin last week as part of the build-up to the city’s annual International Arts Festival.

Leading Irish cartoonist, Tom Mathews, will unveil 18 new works this week, including the official poster for this autumn’s Galway Cartoon Festival.

"I think that's what the powers that be would want anyway, they want you to be walking around cynical and disheartened. But then I know for a fact that I get lit up and inspired by music at all these gigs and I learn something new all the time. And people come to the gigs, there's a community there, so if anything the fire is bigger now than it ever was."

A leading academic has expressed concern over the depiction of “man boobs” on a commemorative statue in Athenry and has questioned the commissioning process behind the monument’s erection.

For artist Emer Whelan, creativity has always been more than making beautiful things. It is a way of processing, connecting and finding perspective when life feels uncertain.

HYDE Bar Galway is set to host an unforgettable evening of Italian-inspired style, music and flavour this summer as it welcomes ONLY NIGHTS with Peroni Nastro Azzurro for one night only.

Creative Places Tuam has secured Arts Council funding for 2026 and 2027, paving the way for a new phase of the community?led arts programme under local leadership.