Temple Bar’s pub sessions are great fun, but a session squeezed between the taps is a different thing from a staged show. At Celtic Nights you get a table for the evening, a proper 3-course dinner, and a two-hour production with World Championship dancers and All-Ireland winning musicians: the brush dance, sean-nós, and a céilí you’re invited into.
It’s the difference between overhearing the music and being sat in front of it.
Walk out of Temple Bar Square towards the Liffey, cross the Ha’penny Bridge or O’Connell Bridge, and the Arlington Hotel is on Bachelors Walk on the north quays (D01 E8P4). Door to door it’s under five minutes from most of Temple Bar.
Afterwards you’re perfectly placed: back across the river for a nightcap, or a short stroll to O’Connell Street for buses and the Luas.
7 nights a week, all year. Dinner sittings at 6.30pm, 7.00pm, 7.30pm or 8.00pm; show 8pm to 10pm; same table all evening.
Adults from €49, children 3 to 12 €26, under 3s free; the ticket includes the 3-course meal.
Book online, by phone on +353 1 804 9100, or at the hotel’s ticket desk, open 7 days. If there’s availability you can buy on the night, but the show is popular; booking ahead is the safe move.
About a five-minute walk: cross the Ha’penny Bridge or O’Connell Bridge to Bachelors Walk on the north quays.
A staged show: a two-hour production with professional championship dancers and live musicians, plus your 3-course dinner beforehand at the same table.
The ticket includes dinner, and there’s currently no show-only option, so come hungry; the food is part of the night.
10pm, which leaves plenty of Dublin evening ahead of you.
