40 Years of GIAF in Pictures

Four decades of Galway International Arts Festival through the lens.

1980s

'Devil in Silhouette' by Els Comediants at the 8th Galway Arts Festival, which ran from 8 - 17 August 1985. Photo: Stan Shields - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Fintan Coogan, Mayor of Galway 1988, with The Brass Band from San Francisco, at the 11th Galway Arts Festival, which ran from the 2-14 August 1988. Photo: Joe O’Shaughnessy - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Footsbarn-Theatre_1986 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Joe-Boske-1986-Poster - thumbnail Open Image Popup
La_Negro_Ester_1989 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Late-Late-Breakfastshow_1988 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Macans-Preparation_1989 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Macnas-Dragon-1986 -Shop-Street -Galway - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Trial-Run-Gulliver_1988 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Gulliver_Grattan_Beach - thumbnail Open Image Popup
El-Gran-Circa-Teatro-1989 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Els-Comediants_1_1985 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Els-Comediants_2_1985 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Els-Comediants_3_1985 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
El-Comediants-4_1985 - thumbnail Open Image Popup

1990s

Complicit-Anything-for-a-Quiet-Life - thumbnail Open Image Popup
John -Fergal -Kieran - thumbnail Open Image Popup
ARCOS.1990 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Brendan-ORegan_1990 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Daniel-Lanois_1991 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Artspace_1992 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Brian-Bourke_Opening-Night_1992 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Bobby-Baker_Drawing_on_a_mothers-Experience_1992 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
GAF_Opening-Launch_1992 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Stomp_1992 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
HAMLET-SEAN-MCGINLEY1993 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Romeo--Juliette---Footsbarn-Travelling-Theatre-Company_1993 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Footsbarn-tent-1993 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
GAF_Fashion-Show-Little-John-Nee - thumbnail Open Image Popup
GAF_Fashion-Show-1_93 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Les_Pietons - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Les-Freres-Topolino_1994 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Paul-Fahy_Hay Fever_1995 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
RADIOHEAD - thumbnail Open Image Popup
NENAH-CHEREH - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Sinead_OConnor_1997 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Carmen-Fuenbra - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Galway Youth Theatre_1998 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
ALICE-MAHER_1998 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
The-Dead-School_1998 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Titanic_1998 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
PULP - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Groupe-F--GAF-Macnas-Parade-Cargo-de-la-Nuit-1999 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Groupe-F-1999 - thumbnail Open Image Popup

2000s

The-Pogues-Shane Mc Gowen - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Alice-Underground-Teatro-del_Silencio_2000 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Cookin_2000 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Blue-Boys-_-2000 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Steppenwolf-Sideman-2000 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Storytelling-in-Archipelago_2000 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
John-Astin-Launch-at-festival - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Urban_Dream_Capsule_2001 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Acrobat_2003 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Bernard-Pras_2003 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Joe-Boske_Nightwatch_2003 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Macnas---Betty-Big-Shoes-1-2004 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Trad- - thumbnail Open Image Popup
La-Veillee-2004 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
David-Byrne-2004 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Strange-Fruit_2004 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Druid Synge-Tinker-2005 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Druid Synge-Playboy-2005 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Aurelias-Oratorio - thumbnail Open Image Popup
My-Name-is-Rachel-Corrie-2006 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Hubbard-Street-Dance-Chicago-2006 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
The-Bulls_GAF-2007 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
David-Gray-2009 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Omara-Portundo-2008 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Philip-Glass-Ensemble - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Propellers-Midsummer-Nights-Dream--5-GAF-2009 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
The-New-York-Dolls - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Spanish-Harlem-Orchestra-1-GAF-2009 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Circa-2009 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Bon-Iver-2009 - thumbnail Open Image Popup

2010s

Hofesh-Shechter-Dance-Company-Political-Mother-2010 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Michael-Billington-and-Sir-Peter-Hall - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Cillian-Murphy-Misterman-2011 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Blondie_2011 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Arcane-2013 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Enda_Hughie_Cillian_2011 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Macnas_2011 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Macnas-Festival-Parade-This-Fierce-Beauty-3 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Misterman_2011 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Chic_2012 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
David_Mach_2012 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
The-Great-Goat-Bubble_2012 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
GAF_-programme-launch_2012_s - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Kamchatka-2012 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Rite-of-Spring_2013 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Any_Day_2013 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Olwen_Riverrun_2013 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Lightwalkers_2013 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Riverrun - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Ballyturk_2014 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Box-Office-Launch-2014_s - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Enda-Walsh--John-Mahoney_2014 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Les-Philebulistes-2014 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Kurt-Perschkes-Red Ball-Project-at-Galway-International-Arts-Festival-2014-9 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Ballyturk_Cillian_2014 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Patricia-Piccinini-skywhale-2015 - thumbnail Open Image Popup
Charlie Murphy_Arlington_502 - thumbnail Open Image Popup

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