The spactacular landscape at the back of Inis Oirr provides the setting for the first ever run of an Irish...
Welcome to Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr.
Celebrating 21 years as an Arts Centre in 2021.
Click on the link to view our progrramme of activities for 2021. (pdf, 4.8mb)
Áras Éanna – Call for Artists in Residence (in absentia)
Áras Éanna’s Artist in Residence programme has seen national and International artists come to Inis Oírr to create and make great Art. Due to the Coronavirus 19 restrictions, Áras Éanna Arts Centre is closed. Despite this Aras Eanna in partnership with Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway County Council Arts Office and Galway City Arts Office are offering three residencies (in absentia). We are offering artists the opportunity to create work, albeit from their own home or studio and with the spirit and inspiration of the Inis Oírr in mind.
Don’t miss
Upcoming Events
Exhibitions
Carrying the Songs
Imagine starting a story on the Aran Islands and bringing it all the way to Istanbul in Turkey, via more...
Cormac Coyne ‘Inis Oírr in Lockdown’
Exhibition of Photographs taken during the Coronavirus lockdown on Inis Oirr
Residencies
Trying to keep Inis Oirr secret
A chance encounter with an Irish artist with Finnish roots at the opening of an art exhibition in Co Mayo...
A perfect escape for Daniel
Coming from Co Armagh, visual artist Daniel Coleman readily admits that he knew very little about Aras Eanna, Inis Oirr,...
December 2019 – Mick O’Dea PPRHA
Mick O’ Dea was born in Ennis Co Clare in 1958. He studied at the National College of Art and Design Dublin, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Winchester School of Art in Barcelona and Winchester where he was awarded a Masters in European Fine Art. He lectured at NCAD for sixteen years up to 1999 and has acted as an external assessor and lecturer in Art Colleges and Universities in the USA, UK an Ireland.
O’Dea has had numerous exhibitions and has participated in a wide range of artists residencies in Ireland, the USA and Europe.
The recipient of many awards, his most recent include The Ireland US Council / Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award in Dublin and The Royal Ulster Academy Portrait Prize in Belfast.
Latest News
A happy day at Áras Éanna
It was an honour for Aras Eanna Ionad Ealaíne to welcome the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, his wife...
Bringing Beckett to the island
A new Irish language production of ‘Happy Days’ by Samuel Beckett will be staged outdoors at the back of Inis...
