17th - 30th July 2006
Ireland's leading arts festival and one of Europe's key cultural events. Annually presenting a programme of theater, dance, music, visual art, literature & comedy. Galway has long been considered a centre of cultural excellence with Galway Arts Festival the defining cultural expression of Galway.
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31st - 6th August 2006
The Galway Races has become the greatest of all Irish Racing Festivals and probably the most lavish, colourful and sociable fixtures in the Irish Racing World. It is also both monetarily and numbers-wise the most successful race meeting in the country hailed as one of the world leaders in that field.
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28th - 30th September 2006
The Galway International Oyster Festival was founded in 1954 and is now coming into it’s 50th year of unbroken sequence. It is Ireland’s longest running Festival and each year draws visitors from all over the world to Galway. It has been equated with the Munich Beer Festival, The Salzburg Spring Festival and has been listed by the Sunday Times as one of “The Twelve Greatest Shows on Earth”.
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