Ireland

Traditional Irish pub with regular live trad. Thursday and weekend sessions throughout the season.

A pub in Ennis where music sessions take place.

Described locally as the ‘Matt Molloy’s of Leitrim’, the bar hosts regular sessions on weekends, with spontaneous sets breaking out whenever the right musicians walk through the door.

An Chultúrlann spans three floors, with space for artistic and theatrical expression, a café, a tourist information office, community radio, and the North’s largest dedicated Irish language and media book and gift shop. Located in Belfast’s Gaeltacht Quarter, it hosts live traditional and contemporary music sessions and poetry readings. Suitable for beginners and advanced. Core musicians are Dusty Doris (fiddle) and Maria Rafferty (flute), with visits from various guests and local musicians. ...

Tuesday session in the back room. Crowd-friendly, decent ventilation.

Set in the hills above Lough Allen, Davitt’s hosts sessions with a crowd that takes the music seriously. The venue is accessible by road from Carrick.

De Barra’s, on the main high street through Clonakilty (Co Cork), two or three hundred yards east of the big spired Catholic Church, hosts a folk club on Monday evenings from 10 to midnight.

A Clonakilty institution since 1975, the club meets on Friday and Saturday nights. Noel Redding played here; the sign is still on the wall. One of the best rooms in Munster.