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 part of a long term plan of raising awareness and celebrating Irish musical heritage with Irish Rock ‘N’ Roll Museum. The Museum is delighted to add this to the Museum offerings! The post A Donation from the Rory Gallagher Family first appeared on Irish Rock n' Roll Museum ..read more

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 seen before photos of Philip. This portrait is to mark what would have been his 70th birthday. The exhibition opens on Wednesday 14th of August at 6pm in the Rock and Roll Museum Experience. All welcome to the Rock Museum Launch. Book Your Guided Tour Now ..read more

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.   Phil Lynott in the museum Phil Lynott is an iconic figure in Irish rock and music in general. As such he holds a very special place in the heart of the museum. Our dedicated Thin Lizzy exhibit features a range of interesting Phil Lynott memorabilia from his school report to his iconic mirror bass, kindly donated by the lovely Philomena Lynott. The ex ..read more

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 Adelphi Cinema in Dublin on November 7th 1963. Newsletter Email Address : The post New Donation | Terrie Colman-Black Donation to the Museum first appeared on Irish Rock n' Roll Museum Experience. The post New Donation | Terrie Colman-Black Donation to the Mu ..read more

Rock Spots to visit when at the Rory Gallagher Festival     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. They’re rounding the troops up with Band of Friends (Gerry Mc Evoy, Ted McKenna and MarcelScherpenzeel) headlining. Another legendary musician is playing the festival this year too. That legendary drummer is Thin Lizzy founding member Brian Downey and his band ..read more

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 vinyl just sounds better here. Don’t get us wrong, we still listen to Spotify and stream online but there’s something about sinking into the couch and listening to your favourite album that is epitomised by the crackle of our favourite record on a  player. A post shared by Irish Rock Museum (@i ..read more

Irish Rock N Roll Museum Fans Favourite Lyric Did you know that on this day in 2006 VH1 declared U2’s lyric “One life, with each other, sisters, brothers” the UK’s favourite Lyric above The Smiths, Bob Marley, Nirvana, and Coldplay. For an Irish band to top their charts that is pretty impressive. Now we’re clearly the Irish Rock ‘N’ Roll Museum, but now that we’re thinking of it, 12 years on do you think there are any other song lyrics that may have been released that would top it? Vote Yes or No and maybe leave a comment or two of suggestions for what you would vote the Irish Rock N Roll ..read more

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 was one of those many Dublin teenagers that used to go see U2 and others at the Dandelion Market for just 50p on a Saturday afternoon. When U2 announced that they were releasing their first piece of vinyl I joined the queue outside Advance records, just beside Dandelion and got a copy of the 12inch limited ..read more

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 to the Button Factory stage Friday the 16th March. And to celebrate all things Irish we’re doing a special little giveaway for our visitors. If you take our tour, on Thursday 15th or Friday 16th then you’re automatically entered into a competition to win tickets and the chance to rock ..read more

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 appears in the Movie and it’s an Oscar Winner so of course we’re very proud of that little movie. And now we have another Glen Hansard story for our little Rock ‘n’ Roll Museum courtesy of photographer Bob Dixon. Bob, a very talented photographer whose work you can see here. He has worke ..read more