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Galway's three major festivals - the Galway Film Fleadh, the Galway International Arts Festival, and the Galway Races - are set to attract a combined total of 375,000 people to the city, and collectively generate more than €90 million for the local economy.

Among the speakers at the Galway International Arts Festival’s ‘First Thought Talks’ is Liz Fekete, director of Britain’s Institute of Race Relations. Her recently published book, Europe’s Fault Lines, examines the ominous rise of far right parties across the continent and attendant upsurge of racist and authoritarian policies and ideas.

The Minister for Culture and the Arts Council has today announced €688,279 in Arts Grant funding for artists and arts organisations in Galway city and county.

WYVERN LINGO, possibly the best band in Ireland right now, released their new single 'Crawl' earlier this month, and play two shows in the city this year, including one at the Galway International Arts Festival.

IT IS easy to forget The Flaming Lips have been a going concern for 35 years, but this vast, 52 track, three-disc collection, reminds you, not only of their longevity, but their evolution over that time, and their achievement.

LASAIR, THE first public exhibition by third year students from the GMIT's BA in contemporary art programme, will be officially launched next week by the Galway international Arts Festival's artistic director, Paul Fahy.

The Stunning will be ‘brewing up a storm’ at the Galway International Arts Festival this summer, when the much loved and legendary band play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top.

THE STUNNING will be 'brewing up a storm' at the Galway International Arts Festival this summer, when the much loved and legendary band play the Big Top in the Fisheries Field.

LAST WEEKEND, An Taibhdhearc hosted one of Russia’s premier theatre companies, U Mosta, from Perm, which presented two plays - Nikolai Gogol’s Marriage and Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan.

He was the cantankerous, but loveable, father in the now classic 1990s comedy Frasier. He lit up the stage during numerous appearances over the years at the Galway Arts Festival, and he has been called a "wonderful, sweet and gentle man".