Galway Arts Festival

Crossing the Salmon Weir Bridge in Galway at night, it is balmy and magical: not so much the pale moon rising above the green mountain as the dark-blu(...)

REDEMPTION FALLS An Taibhdhearc ★★★★☆ Following Moonfish’s success with Star of The Sea in 2014, Redemption Falls is one of the most eagerly awaited(...)

CLEFT  O'Donoghue Theatre, NUI Galway ★★★☆☆ “What is the difference between no fear and bravery?” Fergal McElherron’s Cleft explores the limina(...)

It’s hard for a festival to take over a city and make its presence felt. The Galway International Arts Festival was everywhere in the city centre over(...)

DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE (AND OTHER LOVE SONGS) Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway ★★★★☆ “Who’d shoot a dog?” somebody wails early in Kneehigh’s splenetic(...)

LEAST LIKE THE OTHER – SEARCHING FOR ROSEMARY KENNEDY Black Box Theatre, Galway ★★★★★ This is deeply disturbing art, and deeply moving and humbling.(...)

Pamela Connolly is a singer, guitarist, and bassist with the Irish band Pillow Queens, who play the Galway Arts Festival on July 19th, and the All Tog(...)

All eyes are on the City of the Tribes, as the Galway International Arts Festival takes over the parks, rivers, bars and venues of the western capital(...)

“What’s the world coming to?” The trite and tired phrase takes on urgent meaning in Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and Other Love Songs). But “you can’t blam(...)

All cities have hidden spaces that few people know or think about much. Bang in the middle of Galway city, invisible behind the junction of William St(...)