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Traditional Pub Of The Year - Georgina Campbell's ireland-guide.com - 2024

One of twenty pubs recommended by Lonely Planet to visit in Ireland.

We host Sligo Whiskey Society monthly 🥃 Pub Of The Year - All Ireland Winner - 2023

Recommended as one of twenty pubs in Ireland to visit by Lonely Planet Guides. There has been a pub here since 1780, opening onto Holborn Street. The Markievicz Road end was originally living quarters. Thomas Connolly's pub was first licensed in 1861. There's a great account of Connolly's in the book The Irish Pub, by James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury. Connolly's storied past includes at least one visit from Charles Stewart Parnell during the pub's early days, plus Thomas Connolly himself becoming Mayor of Sligo in 1890 (the same year he acquired the premises). The pub was established during a time of plentiful maritime trade; deliveries of rope, linen and tea came into Sligo on ships from all over Europe. There was once a grocer’s shop at one end of the pub – now gone – popular for making sugar, selling tea and bottling whiskey. We're very proud of our history and excited about what next. These days, our pub is best known for its warm welcome, its famous pint of stout, a wide range of premium Irish gins and whiskeys and great Irish craft beer. We bring you some of the best in live music with regular guest performances at weekends and a regular local line-up. Wednesday
The O'Dowd Trio 9.30pm

Thursday
Eoin Troy & Seamie Mcgowan 9:30pm

Friday Evening
Swing Jazz with the Old Market Street Swing Band 5:30pm

Friday night
Traditional session 10pm

Sunday
traditional session 9.30pm

Come join us!

02/11/2026

Exploring the best of Bushmills Irish Wh***ey with our friends from Sligo Wh***ey Society 🥃❤️

01/11/2026

Few tunes of a Sunday,
Catch Gerry Grennan & Brendan Emmett from 9.30pm 👌

01/11/2026

If there was ever a sign…

Guinness delivering the message right outside our front door 😆

31/10/2026

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Thomas Connolly's is a well known pub located in Sligo Town, Ireland.

Today, Thomas Connolly's is celebrated for its warm atmosphere, offering a famous pint of stout, an extensive selection of over 160 premium wh***eys, a variety of quality gins, and a robust offering of craft b**rs. The pub regularly hosts live traditional Irish music sessions, providing a vibrant cultural experience for both locals and visitors.

In recognition of its enduring charm and commitment to tradition, Thomas Connolly's was named the Traditional Pub of the Year 2024 by Georgina Campbell's Ireland Guide.

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30/10/2026

🎷 We’re only warming up on a Friday evening after the Bank Holiday weekend!

A bit of swing jazz with the Old Market Street Swing Band setting the tone.

And the music keeps going… our weekly traditional session gets underway from 10pm.

Mighty stuff, folks! 👌🍻

23/10/2026

Cheers to the Bank Holiday weekend

Friday nights are made for good tunes and a well-poured pint. 🍻🎻

Join Darren Roche, Philip Doddy & Pádraic Collins for a traditional session at Thomas Connolly’s.

See you at the bar!

21/10/2026

Great to welcome the team from Di**le Distillery, alongside Elliot Hughes (centre) — Publican and owner of Di**le Distillery & the Porterhouse Brewing Company — to Thomas Connolly’s earlier this week. 🥃🍻

Always a pleasure to welcome fellow publicans and friends of the trade through our doors!

Di**le Distillery JCD Sales Consultancy Porterhouse Brew Co.

16/10/2026

🍂 There’s a great feel to an autumn evening.

A few Friday night tunes with Padraic Collins, Philip Doddy & Liam Stapleton

Pull up a stool and settle in. 🎶

14/10/2026

A wonderful piece of Thomas Connolly’s history!

We recently received a lovely message from Louise Connolly in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, sharing a little piece of her family’s connection with our pub here in Sligo.

Her husband, Thomas Patrick Connolly, was born in Toronto in 1940, and over the years they have brought both of their children to visit Thomas Connolly’s — with the first family visit dating all the way back to 1977! 📸🇨🇦🇮🇪

What a fantastic thought that generations of a family have walked through our doors, creating memories here over almost five decades.

Stories like this are a wonderful reminder that a pub is about so much more than pints — it’s about people, family, connections and memories that last a lifetime.

A huge thank you to Louise for sharing their story with us. We’d love to see those photographs from 1977! ❤️

Thomas Connolly’s, Sligo — a place for stories, since 1780. 🍻

Address

Markievicz Road
Sligo
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Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 11:30pm
Tuesday	11am - 11:30pm
Wednesday	11am - 11:30pm
Thursday	11am - 11:30pm
Friday	11am - 12:30am
Saturday	11am - 12:30am
Sunday	12:30pm - 11pm

Website

http://www.thomasconnollysligo.com/

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