Galway Pride Festival 2026

2026 Galway LGBTQ+ Festival 🏳️‍🌈

The annual Galway Pride Festival – the longest continual Pride event in Ireland is expected to take place from 2 to 8 August 2026. This new event will encompass everything that makes our city the cultural magnet that it is. The aim is to encourage involvement from the wider community, and to highlight the great variety of people that make Galway such a vibrant and exciting place to live and visit. Events throughout the week will include evenings of information and awareness, arts and performance, music nights and the colourful parade on the final Saturday of the festival.

Pride Parade Route

Expected Pride Parade Route for Saturday 8 August from 12pm till 2pm.

🌈 Bród Na Gaillimhe

There are bilingual panels with an emphasis on mental health, disabilities, and the building of safe places for LGBTQI+ communities, as well as information awareness seminars, a Queer Women’s Night, and these events. There will also be plenty of street entertainment and drag queen master sessions.

Le linn seachtain Bhróid na Gaillimhe, Lúnasa, beidh réimse d’imeachtaí ar siúl againn. Le picnicí, siamsaíocht bheo, painéil iontacha, imeachtaí lasmuigh agus go leor rudaí eile san áireamh.

The march through the city in the afternoon on the second Saturday will be the festival’s high point.

 

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The Galway Pride Festival committee on an annual basis welcome expressions of interest from people wishing to take part in the festival, from street entertainers to volunteers.

What to expect

Contact the festival

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