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Two foot-stompin’ bands will headline at Monroe's Live this weekend with the finest of folk-rock and traditional Irish music from The Kilkennys and The Amazing Apples.

Following in the footsteps of folk legends such as The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers, The Kilkennys are coming to Monroe’s Live on Friday, August 23rd for a late night foot-stomping set.

In the wake of releasing their first single of the classic song ‘Oró Sé do Bheatha ‘Bhaile’, Mullingar band Some One’s Sons are on the rise, charting a new course through traditional Irish folk music. Now, they are on tour, bringing their fresh twist on Irish anthems to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, May 27 at 8pm.

Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward.

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and one of Ireland’s most enduring and popular artists, makes a long awaited return to Athlone when he appears in concert at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday, April 15 2023.

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and one of Ireland’s most enduring and popular artists, makes a long awaited return to Athlone when he appears in concert at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday, April 15 2023.

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and one of Ireland’s most enduring and popular artists, makes a long awaited return to Athlone when he appears in concert at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday, April 15 2023.

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and one of Ireland’s most enduring and popular artists, makes a long awaited return to Athlone when he appears in concert at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday, April 15 2023.

This 1948 photograph was taken from the old RIC barracks which was opposite the Banba Hotel . The bit of a wall you can see in the immediate foreground was part of ‘The Lazy Wall’. There was a concrete seat running along the other side of this wall and it was there people known as the ‘Fámairí’ used to congregate, people mostly from farming families. When they had the harvest in, they would come to Salthill on holiday and often meet with the same people as last year. They would sit here and gossip, smoke their dúidíns and sometimes paddle in the sea beside them.

"ISN’T THERE hope for the country with The Mary Wallopers in it." So said Tommy Tiernan about the raucous Irish folk band who are playing the Róisín Dubh later this year.