Galway Cartoon Festival This is our fifth year welcoming the Galway Cartoon Festival. Although the festival is spread out over Galway city, each year we host the exhibition ‘Tarraing é i nGaeilge’, a fantastic array of all styles of cartoons as Gaeilge. Many National and International cartoonists visit Inis Oírr and mingle in the shops...
Cúirt Cheoil na mBan – A traditional Irish music festival celebrating women and non-binary singers, dancers and musicians for the communities of Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin. 4th, 5th & 6th October 2024 What began as a one-off event for Culture Night in 2022, Cúirt Cheoil na mBan has now grown into a 3-day festival that happens...
by Ciaran Tierney The local composer who has put together the stunning soundtrack to go with our current ‘Old Aran in Colour’ exhibition has a special connection to one of the photographs which are currently delighting visitors to Inis Oirr. MacDara O Conaola’s own grandfather, granduncle, and their parents were captured in a photograph by...
It was an honour for Aras Eanna Ionad Ealaíne to welcome the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, his wife Sabina, and daughter Alice Mary to spend the day with us on Inis Oirr yesterday. They visited Aras Eanna to check out some of the 21 currachs in the ‘Curacha’ exhibition which celebrates our 21st...
Their works have transformed our island. From now until September 12, you can follow the trail around Inis Oirr and discover the amazing works by 21 Irish artists for the ‘Curacha’ exhibition which celebrates 21 years of Áras Éanna. Seven of the pieces, including a stunning sculpture by John Behan, are inside the theatre at...
There is great excitement on the island of Inis Oirr this week ahead of the launch of an open air exhibition of 21 currachs by artists from all along the western seaboard to celebrate the 21st birthday of the island’s arts centre. Each of the six foot currach creations, fabricated in metal and covered in...
Street and circus artists from all over Europe got to hear about a new project to build a unique artistic residency on the beautiful Gaeltacht island of Inis Oirr during an international seminar which took place online recently. Artists attending the Fresh Street #4 conference, which was originally supposed to take place in Turin, Italy,...
