For Dolores review: Funny, bruising and brilliantly written and acted
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Eva O’Connor’s play is an acerbic, emotionally astute portrait of female friendship in all its intensity
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The Shaughraun review: Druid’s laugh-out-loud romp is the most enjoyable show you can imagine
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Garry Hynes directs a cast whose delight in performing Boucicault’s melodrama is contagious
Two review: Patrick Ryan and Clelia Murphy bring this painful but very funny play to life
Galway International Arts Festival: Jim Cartwright’s series of vignettes balance bawdy tavern comedy with a bleak sense of how badly life can turn out
Patti Smith review: Last of the poet rock stars takes the stage on a scorching Galway night
Galway International Arts Festival: At 79, Smith’s voice remains strong, and her demeanour is as pure and earnest as ever
Dressing Room review: Enda Walsh creates a meditative, moving 15 minutes
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: The Rooms series continues with the story of a caretaker whose marriage has reached a moment of crisis
What happens when the most important relationship in your life begins to unravel?
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: In Eva O’Connor’s play For Dolores, a fractured friendship feels every bit as painful as the end of a romance
Sculptor Sean Henry: ‘When I do the eyes, that’s when I get a sense of presence’
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Sean Henry’s lifelike sculptures lead this year’s visual-arts line-up
Aaron Monaghan on The Shaughraun: ‘I’d vastly underestimated Boucicault. He’s kind of a genius’
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Druid Theatre’s revival leans into the Victorian melodrama’s surprising political undercurrent
‘Who wants to look at old people on stage?’ Tim Booth of James on surviving and thriving
From a near-death experience to his Lifewave membership, Booth’s life story would make for an interesting biopic
Event guide: Dermot Kennedy, Galway arts festival and other top things to see in Ireland this week
July 11th-17th, 2026: The best music, art and more coming your way in the week ahead
Colossus choreographer Stephanie Lake: ‘We’re a really small team, but we’re making big works’
The Australian is bringing her 50-dancer show to Galway International Arts Festival 2026
Singer Lucy Rose: ‘Almost every doctor I saw was like, Oh, I’ve never treated anyone with this’
The singer on being a present parent, refusing to work the room, and coming to accept being diagnosed with a rare life-changing illness
The best and biggest music festivals to see around Ireland this summer
Your guide to live music for May, June, July and August in 2026 from CMAT, Forbidden Fruit, Fontaines DC, The Cure to Electric Picnic
2025 in art: Our 10 favourite Irish exhibitions of the year
Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland, Kunstkammer in Waterford and Lisa Fingleton in Tralee are among the highlights
‘A hug runs all the way through this’: How to Catch a Star, based on the Oliver Jeffers book, returns to the Ark
This puppet show, which has been a huge hit for Branar, draws similar reactions from children all over the world
Mars review: INO’s exhilarating space-travel opera comes from a mind exploding with ideas
Jennifer Walshe’s new opera, created with Mark O’Connell, is like nothing else Irish National Opera has staged
Why the Moon Travels review: Eye-opening show is not just a retelling of Traveller folktales
Galway International Arts Festival: For the audience, there are hints of things we want to hear more about
T5 and Sea Wall double bill review: Two very different responses to trauma pack an emotional punch
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Simon Stephens’ short one-act monologues are strong, forthright and beautiful
Mikel Murfi’s underwater production is unusual, intriguing and oddly life-enhancing
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Oh…. is gob-smackingly skilled
Riders to the Sea and Macbeth: A magnificent horror unbalancing nature
Theatre: Druid’s Galway International Arts Festival double bill
Beckett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan review – Beckett’s vision given a haunting, evocative twist
Theatre: Sarah Jane Scaife’s vision builds on the work that Company SJ started in 2021 with Laethanta Sona/Happy Days
Sabotage review: Joyously chaotic festival opener has all the fun of the circus
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: A gorgeous, playful, accomplished start to a festive fortnight
As Galway’s arts festival opens, the city’s long-expected cultural space inches slowly towards planning this year
Artistic director ‘embarrassed’ at how ‘dreadfully inadequate Galway is in terms of cultural infrastructure’
Ready for launch: Mark O’Connell and Jennifer Walshe on Mars, their new collaboration
Galway International Arts Festival stages the premiere of an Irish opera in which four women astronauts embark on a Martian voyage
Garry Hynes: ‘My wife was taken from me in the blink of an eye. My whole life’s changed’
The Druid founder has a reputation as a demanding director. But she has mellowed – and theatre is a consolation after her wife was ‘taken from me in the blink of an eye’
The Guide: Galway arts festival, The Script, Taylor Tomlinson and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
July 12th-18th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Druid at 50: Joe O’Shaughnessy’s photographic history of the Galway theatre company
An exhibition in Galway charts the company’s remarkable evolution since being founded by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and Mick Lally in 1975
A Druid show and a sandwich for 50p: How Mick Lally, Marie Mullen and Garry Hynes began their theatre company 50 years ago
‘We were chancing our arm,’ Garry Hynes says of the company that brought superlative, expansive, intimate, skilled theatre to Galway and then the world stage
An Irish industrial folly spawns a new generation of cutting-edge creativity
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Interface’s This Too Will Pass, at the Carrolls salmon hatchery, and Funeral for Ashes, by Conor Maloney and John Conneely
A Cork woman in the circus: ‘In transition year, I wrote to a circus dance company asking if I could do an internship’
Gracie Marshall quit school to train to be a performer. Now Sabotage, in which she stars, is on its way to Galway International Arts Festival
Druid Theatre to mark 50th anniversary with Synge-Shakespeare double bill
Presentation in Galway this summer will feature Riders to the Sea and Macbeth
A middle-class millennial at a Kneecap gig: am I just cosplaying at republicanism?
The bilingual west Belfast hip-hop trio take Galway by storm with an act that is in reality more satire than sectarianism
The Map of Argentina review: Sexual desire and forbidden passion in a drama that clutches you to its chest
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Marina Carr’s play features Maeve Fitzgerald as married mother Deb, who has fallen madly in love with another man
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