Meet the Artists behind the new flags reimagining Galway’s Tribes for the AATE Festival 2026.
Galway City Council’s Museum Lates is part of Galway’s Night-Time Economy Programme. The initiative extends Museum opening hours on the last Thursday of every month from June to December 2026, with a free programme of immersive performances, talks, workshops and events taking place between 5pm and 9pm.
Funded through the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport’s After Hours at the Museum scheme, with support from Galway City Council, Museum Lates contributes to a thriving, diverse and accessible evening cultural offering in the heart of the city. The initiative also strengthens Galway’s tourism appeal by extending cultural activity into the evening, encouraging visitors to spend more time in the city centre and experience Galway’s heritage and creativity after dark.
Museum Lates offers a unique opportunity to explore the Museum’s collections and exhibitions outside regular opening hours while enjoying live music, engaging talks, creative workshops and community events in an exciting evening setting.
Meet the Artists behind a brand new public art flag display on Druid lane for the Architecture at the Edge Festival 2026. The artists vibrant designs entitled ‘14 Flags of Belonging will adorn the Galway skies from 17th to 27th September 2026.
These flags are a nod to the 14 Tribes of Galway, created in response to the festivals theme fopr 2026 ‘Le Chéile – the Architectures of Belonging’. The 14 commissioned designers have worked to create a series of symbolic flags which represent various identities and communities in the city and speak to a place, a feeling, a tribe or community, a memory, and/or ideas and concepts around collective ideas of belonging, wellbeing, identity, imagination and purpose.
’14 Flags of Belonging’, is part of the Culture Night Late programme, funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Night-Time Economy programme with support from Galway City Council Arts Office.
Shane O'Driscoll is a Cork-based visual artist and art director. He is a full time artist that practices mainly in printmaking. Shane has artwork in the permanent collection of The National Gallery of Ireland, Crawford Gallery Cork, Trinity College Dublin, Glucksman Museum UCC, and UCD.
He is also Co director of Ardú Street Art Project, an initiative that has brought a number of large scale contemporary murals to Cork City.
In 2024, he was an artist in residence for Team Ireland at the Paris Olympics, where he was commissioned to create an artwork to commemorate 100 years of Team Ireland. His art was an integral part of the Team Ireland campaign.
Jeremy Madden is a designer, maker, photographer, educator and researcher based in Renvyle, Co. Galway. A lecturer at ATU Connemara, he has over 28 years’ experience in furniture design, making and education. His practice explores the relationships between place, material, craft and making, with a particular interest in the landscape and material culture of the West of Ireland. Through furniture, photography, research and collaborative projects, he explores how traditional knowledge and contemporary design practice can connect people with place, heritage and material. His work has been exhibited at Farmleigh House and includes a range of commissioned and collaborative projects.
Enda Mannion is a graphic designer based in Ballydotia, Belclare, Co. Galway, where I live and work at the foot of Knockma Hill (Cnoc Meadha). Growing up, I was surrounded by stories of Finnbheara, the Fairy King of Connacht, who is said to dwell beneath the hill. His cairn, alongside that of Queen Medb, crowns its summit, making Knockma a place where landscape and folklore are deeply intertwined.