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Fire Structures
Sept
17
to 27 Sept
Workshop, Tour, Exhibition

Fire Structures

  • Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St. Galway (map)
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Fire Structures - Ambacht studio

Exhibition/Workshop

Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.


Exhibition open from Thursday 17 – Sunday 27, September 


Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm, Sunday - Monday 12 noon - 5pm 

FREE entry - All are welcome, no booking required 

Walking Tour led by Róisín Mc Loughlin

“Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán Féin:
Hearth to Hearth through Galway City” 

12:00 - 13:00, Sunday 27th September

Meeting point: Tigh Neachtains

Artist Talk / Workshop with Ambacht studio : 

13:00 - 15:00, Sunday 27th September

Ancient gathering around the hearth is explored through an installation of pre-modern structures in the form of cyanotype prints and a cyanotype print workshop.

Acknowledging fire’s role in human gathering and pre-modern architecture, this exhibition explores Irish settlement structures from the Grooved Ware period (3000-2400BC), a culture believed to be particularly centred around fire. The installation spatially interprets a typical circular enclosure featuring four internal posts and a central hearth.

The central hearth is represented by a rectangular podium where visitors can handle study prints. Beneath these, an undeveloped cyanotype print is affected by the changing light and visitor movement, serving as a "living" symbolic fire. Surrounding this are interconnecting stools (by Nocht Studio), creating a gathering space. Large-scale cyanotype prints—toned in ash and wheat grass—form a concentric semi-enclosure, interpreting the site plan, individual buildings, and art of the period. The exhibition culminates in a workshop led by Adela Gomez, where participants will create their own cyanotype prints and develop the print exposed under the hearth, actively engaging with the themes of architectural memory and communal creation.

Project credits Kinstools by Nocht Studio, and courtesy the KinShip project.

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On Site - Údarás na Gaeltachta
Sept
25
12:00 pm12:00
Tour

On Site - Údarás na Gaeltachta

  • Salerno Business Park, Inverin, County Galway - H91 XHE3 (map)
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On Site - Údarás na Gaeltachta

Adaptation and re-use of two 1970s factories at Inverin.  

Architect led Tour

Salerno Business Park, Inverin, County Galway - H91 XHE3

12:00-13:00 hr, Friday, 25th September 2026

FREE entry – but prebooking is advised via Eventbrite as spaces are limited.

Architect led Tour with Michael Horan and Seamus Lunn, Axo Architects.

The temptation is to build new….build in the city….add to the congestion.  

An alternative, is to provide employment in your own locality to strengthen your community where families can grow, become neighbours, become friends, attend the local school, play sport for the local teams, support the local shop, cycle to work, socialise, and foster a sense of ’Belonging’.  

InverMed and Advant Medical could have moved to the city, but they chose to stay in their own locality and provide employment, thus allowing both management and staff to continue to ‘belong’ to the area and therefore support the growth and vibrancy of their local community, thus fostering ‘Pride of Place’ and the Architecture of Belonging.

Údarás na Gaeltachta is the regional authority responsible for the economic, social and cultural development of the Gaeltacht. It is a key player in fostering and driving the essence of ‘Belonging’.

Project Credits;

Architects, Assigned Certifier & PSDP – Axo Architects.

Quantity Surveyors – Peter F Costello & Partners.

Mechanical & Electrical Engineers – IN2 Engineering Design Partnership.

Civil and Structural Engineers – CHH Consulting Engineers.

Site info: 

Parking is available to the rear of the site.

The two pharmaceutical units are live operations so internal photographs are not permitted.

Supported by:  

Údarás na Gaeltachta.

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Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán Féin
Sept
27
12:00 pm12:00
Tour

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán Féin

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán Féin 

Cultural Walking Tour

Location meeting point: Tigh Neachtains


12:00 noon, Sunday, 27th September 2026 


FREE admission - All are welcome, no booking required 

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin: Hearth to Hearth through Galway City is a guided cultural walk exploring the hearth as an architectural and social space at the heart of Galway’s civic and cultural life.

Moving through a series of historic locations in Galway City, the walk considers the fireplace not simply as an architectural feature, but as a gathering place - a space around which stories are shared, ideas debated, relationships formed and communities sustained.

The route connects Tigh Neachtain, Galway Arts Centre, Nora Barnacle’s House Museum and The Kings Head, drawing out stories associated with politics, literature, creativity, domestic life and belonging.

Responding to Architecture at the Edge’s 2026 theme Le Chéile, the walk invites participants to consider the spaces that bring us together and to reflect on their own understanding of home, community and the enduring idea of the hearth.

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