By Ciaran Tierney It was the exhibition which captured the imagination of thousands of visitors to Inis Oirr last summer and now you can celebrate it with a superb new colour poster which has gone on sale online. Áras Éanna has teamed up with Charlie Byrne’s bookshop in Galway City to sell copies of the...
Project Category: Exhibition
A whole new take on ‘Happy Days’
The spactacular landscape at the back of Inis Oirr provides the setting for the first ever run of an Irish language version of ‘Happy Days’ by Samuel Beckett as part of the Galway International Arts Festival (GIAF) next week. Director Sarah Jane Scaife has had a passion for both Inis Oirr and the works of...
Carrying the Songs
Imagine starting a story on the Aran Islands and bringing it all the way to Istanbul in Turkey, via more than 400 people, 50 languages, and 29 countries. This elaborate game of ‘Chinese Whispers’ forms the basis of the ‘Carrying the Songs’ exhibition which runs at Aras Eanna in the Summer of 2021. The story...
Cormac Coyne ‘Inis Oírr in Lockdown’
Exhibition of Photographs taken during the Coronavirus lockdown on Inis Oirr
August 2019: Margot Quinn
Official Opening Fri 2nd August. A representative of Margot’s work which is about the ordinary everyday and can be anything from a pile of washing up to some bizarre models or a newspaper headline. Margot is an Irish visual artist based in Co Leitrim. She completed a fine Art degree in London Guildhall university in...
July 2019: Macnas Associate Artists An Criú 2
An Criú 2 is an exhibition of theme-less, aim-less, point-less cross-disciplinary artwork; sculpture and painting, video and sound, big things and small things, inside and outside, síos ann agus suas an seo at Aras Éanna and around the island of Inis Oírr. The work is created by over 25 artists who usually work with Galway-based street performance and spectacle...
June 2019: Mick O’Dea ‘Landscapes’
Official opening by cartoonist Tom Mathews – Sat 8th June. Best known as a painter of portraits and historical subjects, O’Dea is the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited internationally. He will exhibit selected works for the month of June before he returns to Áras Éanna as September’s Artist in Residence.
May 2019: Inis Oírr Artists
A selection of works from the Inis Oírr Winter Art Workshops.







