August 3rd Irish The Irish Rock ‘N’ Roll Museum Experience added a donation of memorabilia from the Family of Rory Gallagher to Apollo Studios. This donation is part of a long term goal to build musical bridges between Dublin and Ballyshannon. The two donations were brought by Eoin Gallagher, Nephew of Rory Gallagher and are …
My ‘Heart and Soul: Portraits of Irish Musicians” is coming to Dublin. It features portraits of musicians from all genres of Irish music; Christy Dignam, Imelda May, John Sheahan, Lisa Hannigan and many more. Claire will be unveiling my newest portrait of Phil Lynott which was commissioned by his late mother Philomena, who gave her …
Vibe for Philo 2019 Vibe for Philo is an annual event held to commemorate Phil Lynott on the anniversary of his tragic passing. This year marks the 33rd Vibe and will take place in Whelan’s over 3rd, 4th and 5th January.
A Donation For All Our Beatles Fans The Museum is delighted to announce that we’re launching an exhibition of Beatles Memorabilia donated by arguably Ireland’s Biggest Beatles Fan Terri-Colman Black. Part of the donation is Terri’s ticket and the booklet from that very gig! The Beatles played in Ireland one one occcasion, twice in The …
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The Rory Gallagher International Festival is back for a very special year, what with it being Rory’s 70th Birthday this year. It’s taking place from the 31st May to the 3rd June and this year it has a cracking line up for fans of the blues and rock n roll legend.
Record Store Day Releases 2018 Our Picks. We’re big fans of vinyl here at the Museum, not that we really need to tell you, you can see that from our vinyl collection below, which is actually the largest on display record collection in Ireland. You can also see us wax lyrical about how we think …
NEW DONATION: Limited Edition 12” of U2’s first single; 3. Just in time for St Patrick’s Weekend we’re adding a new donation to the Irish Rock N Roll Museum into our U2 Room. The new addition is a particularly unique copy of U2’s first single “3”. How Andrew Got His Copy “Back in 1979, I …
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Win a Paddy’s Weekend Soundcheck with U2 Tribute Band Zooropa Are you planning on visiting the Museum over the week leading up to St Patrick’s Day? There’s plenty of Irish Music History to be learnt and lot’s of craic to be had over the weekend of everything Irish! U2 Cover Band Zooropa will be taking …
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Photographer raffling his unique Glen Hansard Art Piece For Saint Vincent Depaul We’re quite big fans of Glen Hansard here at The Irish Rock Museum. First of all there are the Frames, a solid Irish band that we rave about to everyone. Then there’s Once, one of our favourite movies, well, our own Sun Studios …
For Temple Bar TradFest 2018, we’re converting our usual rock ‘n’ roll tour into a Traditionally Irish Music themed tour. We’ll be talking about the Traditional music each of our rock stars drew their inspiration from, we have some traditional memorabilia from some of the most renowned traditional musicians.