Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays
Galway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venues
Galway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venues
Paul Fahy says it is ‘shocking’ that city is still without a proper cultural hub and gallery
The best picks from this year’s selection of theatre, street spectacle and quirky surprise
A collection of labourers’ cottages in Co Wexford is among the other highlights
Artist Sam Jinks’s exhibition gets to grips with life (the universe and everything)
A group gathers on the remote island off Roundstone to paint, sculpt and write
Three new appointments to the capital of culture board and new creative director promised in New Year
Arts groups seeking meeting with city and county managers over debacle
At Kilkenny Arts Festival young architects imagine what the city might look like in the future
Move, after resignation of event’s creative director, questioned by leading arts manager
Events to mark centenary of vote for women, Fine Gael pledges ‘women’s charter’
A bout of pneumonia 12 years ago was the start of my life with sarcoidosis
What’s getting the arty treatment this week?
The visual art at this year's Galway International Arts Festival has lots of odd junctures, strange characters and weird journeys
. . . but we’re less keen on the in-tents side of the summer festival experience
Hannah Kiely handling €45.75m budget for European Capital of Culture programme
‘Futures’ at RHA showcases idiosyncratic, thought-provoking work in variety of media
The things we are drawn to acquire reflect and express our personalities and more: our ideas about ourselves, our aspirations and perhaps our limitations and delusions
Jubilant and celebratory, the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent blends art with disability care to create a studio like no other
Plus: Finnish women let us into their lives with humour
Vulnerable bodies and the dispossessed also feature in three Galway International Arts Festival highlights
A strong show by the KCat collective is refreshingly free of irony and knowingness
Art projects help teenagers at Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and Cork University Hospital to alter their realities
Galway’s annual winter arts festival is, fittingly enough, all about the weather
Finbar 247 was let loose in University Hospital Galway to mark Mental Health Week with positive messages
Sabine Lacey paints real photographs to explore the history of a family; Bridget O’Gorman’s sculptures point to some unspoken calamity; and Johnny Savage’s book is a thoughtful, valuable take on the 21st-century Irish landscape
Over 2,000 people attend the rugged annual race in the west of Ireland
New plaques celebrating Yeats, ‘The Kasbah’ and Ó Conaire to be unveiled in Galway city
The news from Dublin to Kerry; Belfast to Cork; Sligo to Waterford
Sara Baume and Colm Tóibín will also take part in this year’s literary event in Galway
Asylum Archive opens at Galway Arts Centre combining photography and video works
The artist’s latest projects centre on what he calls ‘folk fictions’
Patrick Connolly teams up with an artist to build a ‘pavilion’ as a public art commission
Its theme is the anxiety of life in the modern world, but the annual festival is rock steady
Broad in scope and well presented, the exhibitions of Galway International Arts Festival reward visitors of all stripes
Exhibition opening in Galway will tour Limerick, Cork and Dublin
A panel on how to promote reading and writing in schools gets a warm reception at the literature festival in Galway
For the sisters at the helm of Moonfish, a fascination with the rebellious marionette goes back a long way
John Gerrard, Howard Hodgkin and Richard Gilligan shine at Galway Arts Festival’s visual-arts strand, while Heneghan Peng’s giant wooden see-saw bench is a big hit
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices