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Microcosmos takes to the streets of Galway for this year's Arts Festival

The Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

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Actor Mikel Murfi goes underwater with Oh (Pic: James Connolly)

10 must-see events at Galway Arts Festival 2025

John Crumlish, Chief Executive of the Galway International Arts Festival, picks his own 10 must-sees at the 2025 edition of the west coast arts extravaganza, which runs from July 14th - 27th.

Festivals • 05 Aug

First Thought Talks: Martha Wainwright's tall true stories

Stories I Might Regret Telling You is singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright's heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more.

In Conversation • 26 Oct 23

Dragon - The Forgotten World will bring a 30ft mechanical creature to the streets for Galway International Arts Festival. (Pic: Adrian Rosati)

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm

Culture 5 • 13 Jul 23

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Galway Arts Festival • 11 Oct 22

Watch: Middle ground in Northern Ireland - what happens next?

In Conversation • 10 Oct 22

Watch: Cheap houses in Ireland? How to fix a crisis

We have a housing crisis, and we've had one for many years. One solution to it would be to bring back into use even one third of the 180,000 vacant properties in Ireland, not counting holiday homes...

In Conversation • 10 Oct 22

Namir Smallwood and Michael Hill in Sam Shepard's True West

Go West! Galway Arts Festival announces 2022 programme

Festivals • 16 May 22

Watch: Where is Ireland with Renewable Energy?

Talks • 20 Sep 21

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Talks • 15 Sep 21

Watch: Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes - what comes next?

Talks • 15 Sep 21

Watch: Will Remote Working Change Rural Ireland?

Talks • 15 Sep 21

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Culture 5 • 10 Sep 21

Other Voices: Courage live from the Galway Arts Festival

Music • 03 Sep 21

Sruth na Teanga: Branar on bringing Irish history back to life

visual arts • 23 Aug 21

The forgotten Kennedy sister - Fergus Sheil on INO's new opera

Fergus Sheil, Artistic Director of Irish National Opera, writes for Culture about INO's latest production, Least like the Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy, which premieres at this year's Galway Arts Festival.

Opera • 10 Jul 19

Penny Layden (L) and Simone Kirby (R) star in Fergal McElherron's Cleft

Cleft, family & unconditional love - Fergal McElherron's new play

Actor and writer Fergal McElherron writes for Culture about his new play, Cleft, a co-production between glór and Rough Magic which travels to the Galway Arts Festival and Kilkenny Arts Festival this summer.

Theatre • 22 Jul 19

Irish summer arts festivals 2018 - your one-stop guide

With summer stretching out tantalisingly in front of us, it's not just music fans who'll have calendars with dates circled in red over the course of the next few months.

Festivals • 19 May 18

John Mahoney in Christian O'Reilly's play Chapatti, which played the Galway Arts Festival in 2014

John Mahoney remembered - from the RTÉ Archives

In his later years, Frasier star John Mahoney, who has died aged 77, became an honorary Galway resident, appearing onstage at the Galway Arts Festival upon numerous occasions and visiting the city and its surrounding countryside regularly.

Theatre • 06 Feb 18

The Earagail Arts Festival kicks off in Donegal this week.

Summer arts festivals - your essential guide

With the summer solstice gone, RTÉ Culture takes a look at what is still to come in terms of multi-disciplinary arts festivals from now until September.

events • 07 Jul 17

1971: John B. Keane (centre, back row) welcomes guests to Listowel Writers Week

Altering States - the regional development of the arts in Ireland

'Altering States: 100 Years of the Arts in Ireland' is a series which takes a thematic look at how the arts fared in Independent Ireland on into our own time.

RTE Radio 1 • 19 May 17

Patrick O'Kane and Camille O'Sullivan star in Woyzeck in Winter, adapted and directed by Conall Morrison, at this year's Galway International Arts Festival

Galway Arts Fest turns 40 with bumper 2017 programme

Galway International Arts Festival (GIAF) has launched its programme for 2017 and with it comes that heady mix of progressive and established theatre, opera, visual arts and music, as well as street spectacles and numerous talks.

Theatre • 04 May 17

Galway Arts Festival

The Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

10 must-see events at Galway Arts Festival 2025

First Thought Talks: Martha Wainwright's tall true stories

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Watch: Ukraine and Russia - what happens next?

Watch: Middle ground in Northern Ireland - what happens next?

Watch: Cheap houses in Ireland? How to fix a crisis

Go West! Galway Arts Festival announces 2022 programme

Watch: Where is Ireland with Renewable Energy?

Watch: How Can We Protect Ourselves from Cyberhacking?

Watch: Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes - what comes next?

Watch: Will Remote Working Change Rural Ireland?

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Other Voices: Courage live from the Galway Arts Festival

Sruth na Teanga: Branar on bringing Irish history back to life

The forgotten Kennedy sister - Fergus Sheil on INO's new opera

Cleft, family & unconditional love - Fergal McElherron's new play

Irish summer arts festivals 2018 - your one-stop guide

John Mahoney remembered - from the RTÉ Archives

Summer arts festivals - your essential guide

Altering States - the regional development of the arts in Ireland

Galway Arts Fest turns 40 with bumper 2017 programme

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