Ballybunion's Herstory - Local Women's Stories Evening

What to Expect

Ballybunion’s Herstory is a community storytelling evening organised by Ballybunion Tidy Towns at the Olde Attic Bar & Guesthouse on Main Street. The format is deliberately informal: the venue opens at 6:00pm and attendees can arrive any time up to 8:00pm, settling in to hear recollections of local women’s lives in Ballybunion told by the women themselves or by those who remember them. Rather than a formal lecture, the evening is built around personal memory and local knowledge, exploring who these women were, what they achieved in the town, and what legacies they left behind for the community.

As a Tidy Towns initiative, the event sits alongside the group’s broader work preserving and documenting local heritage rather than being a one-off social night, and it reflects the kind of grassroots, community-led history project that rarely makes it into official archives. It is likely to appeal particularly to Ballybunion residents with family connections going back generations, as well as anyone with a general interest in local social history, and the pub setting keeps the tone conversational rather than academic.

The Olde Attic Bar & Guesthouse regularly hosts community events of this kind alongside its usual pub trade, and pairing a local history evening with a pub setting rather than a library or museum tends to draw a more mixed, cross-generational crowd, from older residents who remember the women being discussed first-hand to younger locals hearing the stories for the first time.

Good to Know

• Date: Tuesday 18 August 2026, doors open 6:00pm, event runs to around 8:00pm.
• Venue: Olde Attic Bar & Guesthouse, Main Street, Ballybunion.
• Attendees can arrive any time within the two-hour window.
• Organised by Ballybunion Tidy Towns; ticket price is not listed publicly, so check the Eventbrite page before attending.
• Focuses on oral history and personal recollections of local women’s lives in Ballybunion.

Getting There

The Olde Attic Bar is on Main Street in Ballybunion town centre, within walking distance of the seafront and main car parks.