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The announcement of the Galway International Arts Festival 2026 programme arrives with a sense of scale and confidence that underscores its position as one of Europe’s most dynamic multidisciplinary arts festivals.

Meteorologists tells us wetter, warmer winters and summers are the new norm, but against all the momentum of man-made climate change, Eyre Square shall remain dry.

There is no greater harbinger of a Galway summer than the release of the Arts Festival’s programme, setting out what delights the city may salivate for until mid July.

“She was beautiful, fearsome, an English aristocrat, a communist spy, a loose woman, a middling novelist, a doting mother, an impossible parent, a successful sculptress, a respected journalist.” This was how Anita Leslie described her first cousin in My Cousin Clare, her wonderful biography of Clare Sheridan.

During a recent visit to the Isle of Man, I was struck by a substantial monument in Douglas, commemorating a maritime rescue in 1830. Aware of another heroic rescue in Galway the same year, I realised both took place during the same storm.

The Environment Department of Galway County Council was recognised in An Taisce’s annual Good Practices Competition. The department recently hosted a seashore event at An Trá Mhór in Indreabhán.

Gort Tidy Towns has successfully restored the iconic Christ the King statue in the centre of the town. The group has worked in conjuction with Galway County Council, after securing a Built Heritage Investment Scheme grant, to meticulously clean and protect the statue in Market Square.

It is that time of year already: school is out, life guards are on duty, the city is filled with dusty D-reg jeeps collecting Irish College escapees, and the Galway International Arts Festival begins in earnest next week when the whole town seems enchanted.

The 2024 Galway International Arts Festival will include seven world premiers, a new visual arts commission, the most extensive music line-up to date, and new theatre co-produced with partners Landmark Productions and Once Off Productions.