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September 5th-11th, 2026: The best music, art, theatre and more coming your way this week
Event guide: The Last Days of Dalymount, The Waterboys and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week aheadticketmaster.ie Ahead of its redevelopment, Dalymount Park, the revered home of Bohemian FC since 1901, hosts four days of music events that mesh with the Phibsborough venue’s openness to human connection.
Each day features a highlight: a DJ set from themembers Tom Coll, Conor Curley and Carlos O’Connell ; DJ sets from Annie Mac, Mango and Sally Cinnamon ; performances from John Francis Flynn, Bricknasty, Brian Brannigan, Paul Page, Gemma Dunleavy and Róisín El Cherif ; and Johnny Logan and the Eugene McCarthy Big Band . A special-guest music act for the Saturday will be announced closer to the day.
’ Fisherman’s Blues sessions, which they recorded in Connemara in the mid-1980s, has inspired Mike Scott to revisit and reassemble the music from what he describes as a transcendent time. Special guest Steve Earle will be called on to add an extra Americana oomph to proceedings and to perform some of his own songs. The eight-piece band includes the in-full-flight fiddle player Steve Wickham.
Sunday, September 6th, Ulster Hall, Belfast, 7pm, £48.40/£45.10; Monday, September 7th, 3Olympia Theatre, 7pm, €52.15; Tuesday, September 8th, Cork Opera House, 7pm, €50.65/€47.65 ; Thursday, September 10th, St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, 7pm, €50.65/€47.65 , ticketmaster.ieWith her Irish family background, it’s no surprise that the London-born singer Freya Ridings would want to perform beyond the usual stopping-off points. Perhaps best known for rocket-fuelled ballads , she’ll here be focusing on Mother of Pearl, her highly praised recent album.
Thursday, September 10th, and Friday, September 11th, 3Arena, 6pm, €150/€130.50/€120.50, ticketmaster.ie Can you be both a slick cruise-ship cabaret act and a record-breaking pop group? Apparently so. With 11 number-one albums, 16 number-one singles and 34 top-50 singles in Ireland and Britain, Westlife march on with their 25th-anniversary world tour, which includes a record-breaking 13 nights at 3Arena in Dublin and seven shows at the O2 Arena in Belfast.
Also, same venue, September 12th, 15th-16th, 18th-20th, 22nd-26th; O2 Arena, Belfast, October 27th-31st and November 5th-6th. A long road to Ireland: ‘The Irish are very secretive. They don’t tell you stuff’paviliontheatre.ie After a three-year gap, Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival returns for its third edition, the mood board of which, says its organiser, Foggy Notions, “draws on psychic happenstance, gloom-folk, the authentic voice and the elemental energy of Dún Laoghaire itself”.
The line-up is a superb blend of established folk voices and younger performers . A particular highlight is Bright Phoebus Revisited , which sees Lal and Mike Waterson’s cult folk album from 1972 reinterpreted by Lankum’s Daragh Lynch, Matt Deighton, Marry Waterson and her cousin Eliza Carthy.
, which for more than 30 years has set the creative agenda for new theatrical work in Ireland. With 70 productions, this year’s event has plenty of highlights, running the gamut of stage, comedy, visual art, installation, circus, music, dance, spoken word and cabaret.
We’re intrigued by the sound of Thérèse , September 5th-12th, Project Arts Centre; Gaelmaxxing , September 7th-12th, Bewley’s Cafe Theatre; Mam and Love and Woo , September 8th-13th, Smock Alley; and The Best Girl in the World , September 15th-19th, Bewley’s Cafe Theatre. Supported by Screen Ireland/Fís Éireann, what was once National Cinema Day is now National Cinema Weekend.
The decision to extend the event is down to the huge uptake on the initiative in the past few years. With cinemas in every county in the Republic participating, audiences will have a choice to catch recent releases , Irish titles and re-releases .
Whatever the collective noun is for bishops – a bench, a bevy or a college, perhaps – there’s no doubt that we can apply it to the first live collaboration between the comedians Des Bishop and John Bishop, who bring their weekly Bishop Exchange podcast to Ireland. Topics covered in previous episodes include ancestry, Des’s experience on dating TV shows, the Fifa World Cup and the tonal differences between the Liverpudlian pronunciation of chicken versus the New Yorker pronunciation of coffee.
Drawing from Slip Tank, Errors and Retrofits, three collections he has made since 2021, the sculptor John Rainey works in cast porcelain, metal and marble. This solo exhibition explores the distinctions between objects of illusion and reality, with figures that appear both recognisable and unusual, equally decorative and unnerving. The exhibition was part of this year’s Galway International Arts Festival.
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