What to say about the Galway Arts Festival? It is a two week cacophony of arts. Music, Dance, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Street Performances. For nearly three decades this celebration has occurred each July in the City of Tribes. While I've traveled through while it was occurring two times previously, this was my first time to truly experience the event. From beginning to end, from the middle of the day to very late at night, I experienced a spectacular blend of art forms from across the globe. It was a world class production, rivaling Edinburgh not perhaps in breadth but certainly in quality.

It was a privilege to photograph the event on behalf of Galway.Net and Emigrant Publications. By the end, I was certainly well cultured, not to mention thoroughly exhausted. If it wasn't the running between the venues that wore me out, perhaps it was the nightly visits to the festival club.