Launching the Clifden Arts Festival programme of events 2017 are festival chairman Des Lally, 2FM Radio Presenter Ciara King, creative director Brendan Flynn and festival secretary Karen Mannion . The Clifden Arts Festival is Ireland’s longest running arts festival, celebrating 40 years this year. The festival features over 200 events including: arts, theatre, music, literature, exhibitions, workshops and cultural offerings. This year’s festival will be held from September 13th – 24th and launched by President Michael D. Higgins

The 40th Clifden Arts Festival welcomes literary heavyweights

A stellar line up of literary heavyweights will be welcomed to Clifden this year as Ireland’s longest running arts festival will celebrate 40 years of continued success. Launching on September 13th, eleven days of artistic...
Little John Nee in Derrigimlagh, Connemara, the site of the world’s first commercial transatlantic wireless station. PHOTO: COLM HOGAN.

Creative resistance and comedy in Radio Rosario

Arts Week with Judy Murphy The latest show from the much-loved adopted Galwegian Little John Nee sounds like a perfect one for our times.  The “serious comedy” that is Radio Rosario is set sometime in...

Over the Edge readings resume

Bobbie Sparrow, Art Ó Súilleabháin and Ailbhe Darcy are the featured readers at this month’s Over the Edge: Open Reading, It will take place in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 31, from 6.30-8pm and...

Macnas warming up for annual Halloween parade

Macnas Theatre Company is one of Galway’s real treasures, a creative company that has reimagined itself in recent years under the artistic directorship of Noeline Kavanagh. Its talented members will take to the city’s...

Country stars meet their match in Lisdoonvarna

The biggest stars of Irish country music will headline this year’s Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival which takes place next month. Mike Denver and Nathan Carter will perform for the Festival’s opening weekend on September 1 and...

Former Pogue Cait is key part of Muldoon’s Picnic

Arts Week Bass player and singer Cait O’Riordan, who first came to prominence in the early 1980s as a member of London-Irish band, the Pogues, was a model student until two weeks before her 14th...

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