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music · Saturday 19 September 2026 · 19:30 
Rónán à - Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly
At The Spirit Store · Georges Quay, Dundalk, Co. Louth, A91 NR79
At The Spirit Store · Georges Quay, Dundalk, Co. Louth, A91 NR79
Rónán Ó Snodaigh is one of the founding members of Kíla, the Dublin group that has spent four decades weaving Irish language, world percussion and raw invention into something that defies easy category. He is also a bodhrán player of rare authority, a poet and a solo recording artist in his own right. When he steps into a room like the Spirit Store with Myles O’Reilly - composer, filmmaker and longtime collaborator - the result is not a straightforward concert. It is closer to a gathering: intimate, attentive and emotionally direct, built around rhythm, language and sound rather than spectacle. An evening well suited to anyone who wants live music that asks something of you.
Ó Snodaigh’s voice moves between chant, song and spoken incantation, shaped throughout by the Irish language. He draws on percussion ranging from bodhrán to djembe, and on three published collections of poetry alongside seven solo albums. O’Reilly brings a different texture - spacious, atmospheric layers built from his background in ambient composition and his decade-long practice of documenting Irish traditional and folk musicians on film. The two have collaborated closely since 2021, co-producing the albums Tá Go Maith and The Beautiful Road, so this is not a one-off pairing but a working musical relationship with its own sound. At the Spirit Store, a room of around 200, the quayside setting and the scale of the space keep everything close enough that the quiet moments land.
Dundalk sits on the main Dublin to Belfast corridor, roughly an hour north of Dublin by road on the M1. By rail it is around an hour from Dublin Connolly on the Enterprise or Northern Commuter services, with Dundalk Clarke station a short walk or taxi from Georges Quay. The venue is on the quayside at the eastern edge of the town centre - parking is available on and around the quay, though a Saturday evening in September will see the town busy so arriving a little early is sensible.
The quays and the old town centre reward an hour before the doors open, and there is no shortage of places for food within a short walk of the Spirit Store. There is more to see in Dundalk and across Co. Louth.
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