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  • Féile an Phobail, Inis Oírr

    Féile an Phobail, Inis Oírr will take place from Friday 12 - Sunday 14 July 2024

  • Crime and the City Solutions Acoustics

    Áras Éanna

    Crime & the City Solution is proud to announce the launch of a three-piece acoustic version of the band that will be known as Crime & the City Solution (Acoustic) or Crime (Acoustic) for short. Inspired by the Bonney/Adams duo that toured the US and Europe with Mark Lanegan in 2019, Crime (Acoustic) is born...

  • THE BRÓD, THE BOLD, & THE BEAUTIFUL

    Áras Éanna

    "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are" E.E. Cummings Inspired by true stories THE BRÓD, THE BOLD, & THE BEAUTIFUL is an original, raucous new comedy drama spanning 30 years of Irish LGBTQ+ experience and exploring the challenges and joys of living as a young LGBTQ+ person today. Using their innovative physical...

  • Vixen

    Áras Éanna

    It is the first anniversary of Martin’s death- Angie’s lover- and his family has come to visit his grave. Angie watches the mourners from the safety of her car, hidden under the Yew tree. She remains unseen, her own grief buried deep within. She remembers the foxes, appearing in formation like a string of ugly...

  • Enchanted (12:30pm & 3pm)

    Áras Éanna

    Within this playful, immersive experience, the merfolk sip seaweed tea inside eerie underwater buildings, Seagull-John cooks white birds over trash fires, and dreams from the future explore loss, rainbows, and sorrow in a liminal space gone awry with climate chaos. The magician (Ali Keohane) brings the audiences onto Hy-Brasil, the mythical disappearing island, while they...

  • CANCELLED – Jon Kenny & special guests Catherine Ronan & Ruth Dillon

    Áras Éanna

    An evening of Poetry, Music, and Story at Áras Éanna It is a privilege for Áras Éanna to host a  special evening of poetry and music with the legendary Jon Kenny. Jon is a man who needs no introduction, a great friend to the island and it’s community, being a celebrated, actor, comedian, musician, and...

  • Dúchas agus Dóchas

    Áras Éanna

    Áras Éanna, Inis Oirr are delighted to welcome 'Dúchas agus Dóchas A Clare Songline' on Inis Oirr as part of their national tour.   Inish oirr and County Clare are lined over many years, geographically, historically and musically, not to mention the blood ties as well: many islanders are married into County Clare. Diarmuid de Faoite...

  • For the Love of Milseáin – Bilingual comedy drama

    Áras Éanna

    Award winning comedian and Ireland’s “queen of the offbeat” Áine Gallagher, is on a mission to prove that speaking Irish can be both accessible and hilarious. Using her quirky and deadpan style as her secret weapon, Áine navigates dating, mug-cake-baking, and mistake-making to create a wholly unique comedy experience. A comedy experience that is bilingual...

  • Pádraig Jack – Friday 12 July, Inis Meáin

    Halla Inis Meáin Inis Meáin

    Pádraig Jack O Flaithearta was born into a musical family on the Aran Islands. The son of singer Barry Ronan and nephew of poet Mary O'Malley, he is proud to be writing music in English and in Irish on guitar and piano. His album received a lot of praise from Hot Press, Rock'n'Reel magazine and...

  • Pádraig Jack – Áras Éanna

    Áras Éanna

    Pádraig Jack O Flaithearta was born into a musical family on the Aran Islands. The son of singer Barry Ronan and nephew of poet Mary O'Malley, he is proud to be writing music in English and in Irish on guitar and piano. His album received a lot of praise from Hot Press, Rock'n'Reel magazine and...

  • Ar An Dé Deiridh

    Áras Éanna

    A new play entitled Ar An Dé Deiridh, based on the folklore and history of Connemara that brings the ancient stories and place names of the place to life, is coming to Inis Oírr on Tuesday 16th July.  Produced by Gliogar, a collection of Connemara artists, and with Caoimhghín Ó hEoghusa as lead actor, this...

  • The Raines – Inis Meáin

    Halla Inis Meáin Inis Meáin

    The Raines bring their unique Folk Americana sound back to the island, where the seed for the band was first sewn. Every time they play here, it’s a sell-out show, so don’t miss this chance to hear their brand new material, as well as songs from their debut album Reverie. They will be joined on...

  • Tom Portman and Maciej Zavoronek

    Áras Éanna

    Train to Nowhere, a concert with Tom Portman and Maciej Zavoronek  - Friday 2nd August 8:30pm Tom Portman: Vocals, Guitar & Dobro (slide guitar) and Maciej Zavoronek on Harmonica, Clarinet and Saxophone Original music inspired by Country Blues, Jazz and a few covers of Hank Williams, Mississpi John Hurt, J.J Cale and Eric Bibb. ‘Train to Nowhere’ is...

  • Nettle Horse

    Áras Éanna

      ‘Nettle Horse’ is about a man selling edible beetles at a horse fair, a woman who’s just got planning permission to build a pyramid and a horse eating nettles Written and performed by award winning writer, performer and musician, Little John Nee, ‘Nettle Horse’ is a transformative theatrical odyssey weaving storytelling, song, and satire,...

  • Julie Feeney

    Áras Éanna

    Julie Feeney Julie Feeney’s sell-out shows have riveted audiences and critics all over the world. She performs as solo, duo, with ensemble, with choirs or with full orchestra. She composes, arranges and orchestrates all of her own music and writes all of her words. Her three albums have been widely critically acclaimed. She is winner of...

  • Liam Ó Maonlaí Inis Meáin

    Halla Inis Meáin Inis Meáin

    Liam spent the month of November as artist in residence at Áras Éanna last year where he immersed himself in island life, language and culture. Liam, best known as frontman and founder of the Hothouse Flowers, is a rare talent as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and a passionate advocate for the Irish language and...

  • Liam Ó Maonlaí Áras Éanna

    Áras Éanna

    Liam spent the month of November as artist in residence at Áras Éanna last year where he immersed himself in island life, language and culture. Liam, best known as frontman and founder of the Hothouse Flowers, is a rare talent as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and a passionate advocate for the Irish language and...

  • Padraig Stevens, Seamus Ruttledge, Leo Moran and Pat Quinn

    Áras Éanna

    Three of Tuam’s heavy-hitting songwriters, Padraig Stevens, Seamus Ruttledge and Leo Moran team up with Inis Oírr’s own musical wordsmith, the legendary Pat Quinn for a night of song and music. Between the three Tuam lads they have played with The Sawdoctors, The Stunning, Waterboys, Dé Dannán and Blaze X. Pat Quinn is known far...

  • A Concert with Sander Saarmets, Wednesday 4 September 8:30pm

    Áras Éanna

    Galway Music Residency is thrilled to announce its International Guest Artist in Residence for  2024. Sander Saarmets, an Estonian composer and electronic musician  will play in Áras Éanna on Wednesday 4 September at 8:30pm Sander Saarmets, an Estonian composer and electronic musician, has ventured across international electronic scenes since the 2000s, studying composition and performance...

  • Culture Night 7-9pm

    Áras Éanna

    Dara McGee will present 'Inis Oirr 2024- in the style of Jack B Yeats' an exhibition of ink drawings and colour wash. Dara has been documenting Inis Oirr scenes through drawings over the past year. The exhibition will open on Culture Night and Áras Éanna will host a concert featuring Island musicians and singers. Áras...

  • Cúirt Cheoil na mBan 4-6 October

    Áras Éanna

    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...

  • We Built This City on Rock and Coal

    Áras Éanna

    We Built This City on Rock and Coal brings scientists and theatre-makers to the rural west of Ireland for a co-created comedy show driven by hopepunk, climate research, music, and what matters most to the local community. It’s a show that’s fun for you, and good for the planet! We believe that every individual and their...

  • UNITED IN SONG

    Áras Éanna

    Celebrating the rich folk traditions of Ireland and Palestine!  Fundraiser concert. Ticketed event Irish Artists for Palestine and Áras Éanna are proud to present the collaboration of Galway natives, Ruth Smith and Fergal Scahill along with a Palestinian duo Mohammed Kahla and Abed Alqam Galway’s Fergal Scahill is a skilled multi-instrumentalist and teacher, celebrated for...

  • Lunchtime show with Úna Ní Fhlannagáin (harp) & Mélissandre Tremblay Bourassa (dancer)

    Áras Éanna

    ‘Work In Progress’ show with Úna Ní Fhlannagáin (harp) & Mélissandre Tremblay Bourassa (dancer) Mélissandre Tremblay Bourassa is an award-winning dancer. A specialist in Québec step dancing, she was part of the creation process and cast for 1000 performances of Cirque du Soleil’s ZAIA production in Macau, China. She has also danced for Disney (Epcot...

  • Clann Mhic Ruairí – Inis Meáin

    Halla Inis Meáin Inis Meáin

    Clann Mhic Ruairí are an Irish folk/trad band. They are a family group, made up of siblings Tony (singer), Aodh (singer/guitar), Sean (singer), Dónall (singer/percussion) and Tony’s daughter Megan (piano and singer). As a family they were raised on the Gaelic songs and stories of the ‘Rann na Feirste Gaeltacht’ in County Donegal, (Gaelic speaking area) in the...

  • Clann Mhic Ruairí – Áras Éanna

    Áras Éanna

    Clann Mhic Ruairí are an Irish folk/trad band. They are a family group, made up of siblings Tony (singer), Aodh (singer/guitar), Sean (singer), Dónall (singer/percussion) and Tony’s daughter Megan (piano and singer). As a family they were raised on the Gaelic songs and stories of the ‘Rann na Feirste Gaeltacht’ in County Donegal, (Gaelic speaking area) in the...

  • Blue Road – Edna O’Brien Story 4PM & Girl with Green Eyes 8PM

    Áras Éanna

    Blue road:Edna O Brien Story  4PM Director: Sinéad O'Shea Featuring : Jessie Buckley, Declan Conlon, Gabriel Byrne FILM INFO: 98 minutes, Ireland, 2024, 12A Short synopsis  Filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea (Pray for our Sinners) brings us author, playwright and socialite Edna O’Brien, as she reflects upon her life and career with astounding candidacy. Defying Ireland’s patriarchal, religious constraints...

  • The Raines

    Áras Éanna

    Folk Americana trio The Raines - Juliana Erkkonen (fiddle/ vocals), Yvonne Tiernan (vocals/ ukelele) and Ruth Dillon (vocals/ guitar) - are delighted to return to Áras Éanna with a full band (Sam Wright/ double bass & Cesar Benzoni/ guitar), as part of their 2025 Irish tour. Following on from their recent headline show at Galway...

  • Zeitgeist Jukebox

    Áras Éanna

    Zeitgeist Jukebox  On a night such as this, some folk meet up at an old warehouse in response to a notice on a lamppost. An invitation to join the oddest band that ever was in the making of the greatest album of the twenty-first century. Primitive recording equipment sits ready for use; the clock ticks…it’s now...

  • Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta Inis Meáin

    Halla Inis Meáin Inis Meáin

    Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta Thursday 24 Iúil 8:30i.n. – Inis Meáin Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta are the winners of Best Emerging Artists at the 2024 RTÉ Folk Awards. Born into a musical family, siblings Séamus & Caoimhe hail from the village of An Áird Mhóir in the Gaeltacht region of Connemara, County Galway....

  • Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta – Áras Éanna

    Áras Éanna

    Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta Friday 25 Iúil 8:30i.n. – Inis Oírr Is iad Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta a bhuaigh an gradam do na Ceoltóirí is Fearr atá ag Teacht chun Cinn ag Gradam Ceoil Tíre RTÉ in 2024. Tagann Séamus & Caoimhe ó chlann ceolmhar atá ag cur fúthu san Aird Mhóir i...

  • Padraig Jack

    Áras Éanna

      RTE Folk Music Awards nominee Padraig Jack Ó Flaithearta delivers a totally engaging performance which comprises a series of moments which are supported by his disarming charm, wit, perspectives on society, Irish history and of course top quality songs in both English and Irish. Padraig Jack released his second album called ‘These Shores’ in...

  • By the Light of the Silvery Moon

    16+ Show “A special evening of Irish Stories for grown-ups told through words, sounds and music in the bardic style. Strongly influenced by previous bards like Raifterian File, Brian Merriman and Aindrias Mac Cruitín, this tour will see the wandering bard, with his rustic violin and other such accompaniment , Brian Flemming on percussion &...

  • Achill Island, Basking Shark Fishermen

    Áras Éanna

    Achill Island, Basking Shark Fishermen is a musical response to Achill Island’s basking shark fishing industry, preserving this important part of Achill’s heritage for future generations. Following the release of their first album Isle of the Eagle in August 2023, The Achill Sound presents its latest project focused on preserving the oral history and stories of the basking...

  • Sheep!

    Áras Éanna

    Sheep! Lunchtime theatre – 1pm     Saturday 23 August Sheep! is a play about sheep!. Not about people. Not about you. Except... it is about all of us, about flocks, belonging - and violence that make us afraid to look anyone in the eyes in fear of inviting unwanted attention. A play in progress showing of...

  • BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF

    Áras Éanna

    An evening of storytelling with Tommy Tiernan & Martin Shaw Storytelling is a way of talking about the stranger side of life. There's a secret history of the world hidden in a fairy tale. Tommy Tiernan and Martin Shaw are setting out on adventure and inviting you to come with them. Not stand-up, not literary...

  • An Ceolchoirm Mhór

    Áras Éanna

      Áras Éanna will finish off their excellent 25th anniversary summer programme of events with ‘An Ceolchoirm Mhór’, The Big Gig. The concert will celebrate the music the arts centre has programmed over the past 25th years with an eclectic line up of talented performers. Since Áras Éanna first opened its doors in 2000 they...

  • Draw it in Irish & Lucie Arnoux

    Áras Éanna

    As part of The Galway Cartoon Festival, an exhibition of cartoons in Irish will take place in Áras Éanna between the 6 October and the 6 November 2025. This is the sixth annual exhibition of Draw it in Irish, and it will be launched in Áras Éanna. The exhibition will showcase a wide variety of...

  • Cúirt Cheoil na mBan 2025

    Cúirt Cheoil na mBan - A traditional Irish music festival celebrating women and non-binary singers, dancers and musicians for the community of Inis Oírr. 10th, 11th & 12th October 2025 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 at the end...

  • Gile na Gile – Brightness of Brightness The Music and Journeys of Aodhagáin Ó Rathaille

    Áras Éanna

    Composed and presented by Lorcán Mac Mathúna (voice), Martin Tourish (accordion), and Éamonn Galldubh (pipes and flute). The Gaelic world fell apart during the life of Aodhagáin Ó Rathaille, and he was one of the leading chroniclers of this traumatic turn in Irish history and literature. He was born during the era of the Bardic...

  • Ger O Donnell

    Áras Éanna

    Sunday, 24th May 20:30, Áras Éanna Arts Centre Tickets €25/20 on Eventbrite Áras Éanna is delighted to begin our summer programme in the amharclann welcoming a musician who will be familiar to anyone in the folk and traditional scene in the West of Ireland, Ger O Donnell. Ger is one of Ireland’s finest folk singers...

  • Clare Sands

    Áras Éanna

    Clare Sands is a sixth generation fiddle player and bilingual singer from Cork, Ireland. Drawing deeply from the music of her ancestors, she weaves traditional Irish roots with contemporary sounds and influences. Her songs are deeply connected to place, and where folklore, language, and activism meet melody. Known for her raw and infectious energy, she...

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    Maria Somerville + Olan Monk

    Áras Éanna

    Friday, 19 June, 20:30, Áras Éanna Tickets €30/25 (MS photographed by Cáit Fahy, OM by Charlie Doherty) By the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for 4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown up amongst the wild, mountainous terrain of Galway’s...

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    Máirtín O’Connor, Cathal Hayden, Séamie O’Dowd

    Áras Éanna

    Friday, 26 June, 20:30pm., Áras Éanna  Tickets €30/25 Since The Mairtin O’Connor Trio’s first performance in Sligo in the early 2000s , they’ve toured worldwide as well as making two critically acclaimed recordings, “Crossroads” and “Going Places.” Their path has taken them from the Sydney Opera House to New York’s Symphony Space Centre as part...

  • Síomha

    Áras Éanna

    Saturday, 11 July, 20:30, Áras Éanna Tickets €30/25 Photograph by Zé Bateira Independent Irish singer and guitarist Síomha (pronounced She-vah) dances the line between folk, jazz and neo-soul effortlessly taking audiences on an unexpected and unforgettable journey with her soulful melodies. Her debut album ‘Infinite Space’, described by The Irish Times as “a seriously accomplished and self-confident...

  • Lisdoon-Nirvana

    Áras Éanna

    Thursday, 16 July, 20:30, Áras Éanna Lisdoon-Nirvana A one-man dramatic monologue by Frankie McCafferty. Review by Jackie Hayden - used with artists' permission. The last music festival at Lisdoonvarna in Co Clare took place in 1983 with a line-up that included Rory Gallagher, Christy Moore, Stockton’s Wing, De Danann, Van Morrison Moving Hearts and more....

  • Colm Seoighe agus na hEasógaí

    Áras Éanna

    Tickets €15 - Eventbrite Doors 8:00pm/ Start 8:30pm Since they were founded in Scoil Chuimsitheach Chiaráin in 2022, Galway's Na hEasógaí have been creating totally original music between sound, lyrics and image. Na hEasógaí fuse styles such as rock, Irish traditional and world music with their native and first language: Irish/Gaelic. Instruments such as the...

  • Johnny’s Got a Bus Pass

    Áras Éanna

    Thursday, 20th August, 20:30, Áras Éanna | Tickets Little John Nee, one of Ireland’s iconic live entertainers, proves that ageing doesn’t mean opting out — it means showing up and playing louder where it matters. Funny, heartfelt, musical, and celebratory memoir, state-of-the-nation and masterclass of the joys of being an elder punk. Little John Nee...

  • Our Friends From Tuam and a lad From Longford

    Áras Éanna

    Saturday, 19 September, 20:30, Áras Éanna | Tickets Our friends from Tuam and a lad from Longford Áras Éanna are delighted to present four of Tuam’s heavy-hitting songwriters, Mouse McHugh, Seamus Ruttledge, Noelie McDonell and Leo Moran along with Inis Oírr’s own musical wordsmith, the legendary Longford man, Pat Quinn for a night of song...