About Doolin

Doolin has been described as a national shrine to Irish traditional music and a paradise for geologists, botanists, ornithologists, speleologists (cavers) and walkers.

Music is intrinsic to the place and its people. The pubs are literally world-famous, and feature traditional music sessions nightly, all year round. The Russell brothers, Micho, Pakie and Gussie, played a major role in putting Doolin on the music map. By the 1960s, their names and that of Gussie O’Connor‘s pub were synonymous with Irish music and song in Doolin. There is a famous (true!) story recorded in TIME magazine about Micho receiving a postcard from a German fan in the 1980s addressed only to “Micho, Ireland” and it was safely delivered to him.