Old-fashioned, down-home atmosphere permeates Oliver St. John Gogarty’s in Temple Bar, Dublin’s trendy night life area, where serious fans as well as masters of traditional Irish music gather to hear tunes. (JEFFREY AARONSON / Network Aspen for The Times)
Mike King and fiddle at Magnetic Music in tiny downtown Doolin. (JEFFREY AARONSON / Network Aspen for The Times)
O’Donoghue’s is another stalwart on the traditional music pub scene in Dublin. (JEFFREY AARONSON / Network Aspen for The Times)
The Oliver St. John Gogarty pub in Dublin is named for a modern poet-patriot-politician, just the patron for this venue of traditional, once-subversive Irish music. (JEFFREY AARONSON / Network Aspen for The Times)
Tommy O’Brien takes his ease in Doolin, which became the hub of Irish music, one fellow says, because the local players didn’t travel. (JEFFREY AARONSON / Network Aspen for The Times)
Musicians keep things informal at Gus O’Connor’s pub in the west coast village of Doolin. (JEFFREY AARONSON / Network Aspen for The Times)
A cyclist stops for directions in County Clare, where the coastal village of Doolin is also the country’s traditional music capital. (JEFFREY AARONSON / Network Aspen for The Times)
