Galway International Arts Festival

Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit

After her forthcoming brace of Irish gigs, the singer plans to take a year off to digest all that has happened since her divorce, and to begin writing again

Including DruidO’Casey, The Saw Doctors, Bedbound and more, this year’s festival programme has heft and depth

The Oligarch’s Nightmare is the artist’s fourth installation at the Galway International Arts Festival

Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse

Geoff Sobelle’s show one of the many highlights of this year’s vibrant, audience-engaging festival

After two years of restricted programmes, there’s a real sense of the festival’s proud presence on the streets

Director Sara Joyce and writer Sonya Kelly bring ‘an enormously triggering scenario’ to the stage

Galway International Arts Festival returns to full scale with international and Irish work across the city

Organisers pulled together significant festival from wreckage of Covid

Festival is back with a dose of Medicine, the Mirror Pavilion and an in-person VR experience

Covid-19 restrictions also force postponement of city’s Big Top gigs to summer 2022

That is a nightmare for anyone trying to put on an event such as a festival

Druid Theatre Company stages Brian Watkins’s new play Epiphany, a serious comedy with Joycean inspiration, Cornwall’s Kneehigh turn The Beggars Opera on its head

Programme straddling popular and esoteric work attracts record numbers

Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in

Incantata review: the staging of Paul Muldoon’s elegy for a lover and a fellow artist is grief as an artform

Punter paid almost €1,000 for two tickets that did not exist for ‘Pet Sounds’ gig

Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events

Delight at announcement of 2020 title tempered with sympathy for victims of Nice attack

Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous

Enda Walsh’s despairing and dystopian work is a play woven from grief

‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Anne Enright champions short-story writers at Galway International Arts Festival

Sir Henry’s is a club of legend, having brought house music to Ireland and put it on the international clubbing map. Raymond Scannell’s show Deep examines the rise and fall of this musical movement, and here he remembers the Cork nightclub and wonders where the next counter culture is going to rise from