Our English Language school is 19 years old and is located 10 minutes walk from Galway city centre overlooking the Atlantic west coast of Ireland. Whether your English language needs are for work or study, we have a programme to suit you.

Our English language students benefit from studying at Galway Cultural Institute because we offer a wide range of courses including: General English, Examination preparation courses for Cambridge, TOEIC, IELTS and TOEFL, Business English, English language courses combined with Galway Business School business programs, Specialist courses.

We are recognized by the Irish Department of Education & Science, are members of IALC and MEI RELSA, meet or exceed the requirements of ISO 9001:2000, Hogskoleverket and Bildungsurlaub. We offer excellent facilities to our English language students – 22 classrooms, 20 PCs for internet access, large library, coffee shop, student room and free WIFI access throughout the school, expert teaching faculty - all of which combine to make the English language learning and study abroad experience fruitful and enjoyable.

We provide both host family and residential accommodation and our social program includes the cultural and festival experience of Galway, golf, fishing, horse riding, football, racing etc.

Galway cultural Institute

To find out more about how Galway Cultural Institute can help you learn English please explore our website, which will tell you everything you need to know about our English courses, the school and Galway. Download our interactive brochure below and watch the video about GCI. Browse our message board where you can find answers to common questions or share your experiences about learning English with other students.

GCI was founded in 1989 and has built a reputation for providing quality English language programs to students from all over the world.

Since our foundation, we have been recognized by the Irish Department of Education and Science as a school for teaching English as a foreign language and are founder members of MEI-RELSA, the industry body for quality EFL schools in Ireland.

Galway Cultural Institute is situated in a landmark seafront building, with dramatic views of Galway Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Formerly the headquarters of a large financial services organization, the building has been redesigned, refurbished and upgraded so as to combine high tech specifications with a superb learning environment.

Galway business school

Galway Business School was founded in 2002. It launched in response to demand from the local community and from international students for direct entry courses leading to an honors degree program. You, our students, face lives of phenomenal global change. Such is the rate of change in the global economy that our students – indeed all of us – will need to keep on adding new skills and qualifications throughout our lives, if we are to maintain our career growth. An important part of the mission of Galway Business School is to not only provide our students with relevant skills and knowledge but to inculcate in them a level of flexibility that enables them to cope with the rapidly changing needs of the employment market of the information age. We prepare our students to take their place in an expanding Europe, the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, so that they can adapt to new developments and the changing demands of society.