irish music kerry

"Mighty" traditional Irish music sessions seven nights a week....

The pub has traditional music nightly, especially in the summer. Visit An Conair Bar for a lively evening out....

January 08 Programme

2nd - 31st SÚIL SÍAR A photographic exhibition looking back at St Johns in 2007

Tues 8th THE LIVES OF OTHERS A chilling and fascinating film on the grueling repression of those years before the Berlin Wall came down. Best European Film Award 2006, Audience Award 2007. In association with Access Cinema.

Fri 11th A SKULL IN CONNEMARA Sat 12th A black comedy by Martin MacDonagh. Digging up the past ha...

At the Anglers Rest (an Irish Pub in a rural setting), the age-old tradition of Irish Cross-Roads Dancing has not only survived, but thrives. Generation after generation, in the farmhouses of Finuge, the intricate dancing steps have been handed down from father to son and from mother to daughter. The symbolism of some of these rapidly-executed foot movements has been lost in antiquity. The meaning behind other steps is known and can be explained. You are invited to come and watch the fre...

This is the 8th year that the traditional Irish Music style of Sliabh Luachra is celebrated. Con Curtin himself is a master of this nearly forgotten art and all are welcome to come to meet the legend himself. Good craic and merriment is assured to be had by all....

The Marina Inn in Dingle is a popular place for both locals and tourists. The pub has traditional music nightly, bar food and a beer garden....

February Programme 08
1st-29th STILL LIVES. An exhibition of new works by James Clancy, Cork. Fri 1st AN EVEINING WITH FREDDIE WHITE Sat 2nd HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ALICE. A comedy by Bernard Farrell presented by The Knockaderry Player , Limerick, Alice celebrates her 70th birthday,she recalls former birthdays, as her children try to convince her its time to enter a retirement home. Tues 5th GHOST OF CITE SOLEIL.The slum of port has been described as the most dangeroues place to...

One of the most popular traditional music instruments in Kerry is the Bodhran. It was ideally suited to a people who didn't always have the money to buy instruments but had the time and the skill to make them. The bodhran is made by stretching the skin of a goat over a circular wooded frame. It is cured by a method that goes back centuries. The old way of curing the skin was to hang it in the smokey atmosphere of a chimney, high up from the heat. The bodhran is not expensive to buy and is a...