Phil Grimes Pub

14/03/2026

SECOND SPEAKEASY EVENT

Drumroll, please! SpeakEasy brings you our next event on Friday 27 March in Phil Grimes Pub at 8pm. We turn to the world of prose with our featured guest, novelist Nuala O'Connor, and we're bringing back singer-songwriter EJ Mae Music, who performed at one of our earliest SpeakEasys in 2022.

Hope to see lots of you there. Details in the poster below, designed by Suirdzign.

13/03/2026

06/03/2026

Ireland v Wales on the big screen Tonight!

11/02/2026

The Irish Sea awaits, tomorrow I sail for my tour of Ireland. Word has it that Carrick is sold out and Belfast, Waterford, Cork are not far behind!

Looking forward to being with you all, you can find me at all these shows over the next few weeks…

Fri 6 Portrush, Portrush Town Hall
Sat 7 Derry, St. Augustine's Church
Sun 8 Belfast, Black Box
Wed 11 Galway, Roisin Dubh
Thu 12 Carrick-on-Suir, Brewery Lane Theatre
Fri 13 Dublin, BelloBar
Sat 14 Dublin, BelloBar
Sun 15 Waterford, Phil Grimes
Wed 18 Cork, Coughlans
Thu 19 Clonakilty, De Barra's

Tickets via johnbramwell.com

JB xx

Thanks to all my hosts — Music Capital | Black Box | Róisín Dubh | Brewery Lane Theatre | Foggy Notions | Bello bar | Phil Grimes Pub | Kilkenny Roots Festival | Coughlan's Live | DeBarra's Folk Club

xx

11/02/2026

Here's some info on Dean Browne, our featured poet for Friday 20 Feb, supplied by the man himself.

Dean Browne received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2020 and his pamphlet, Kitchens at Night, was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition; it was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. Recent poems have appeared in London Magazine and New York Review of Books. His first collection After Party is published by Picador.

07/02/2026

SPEAKEASY IS BACK

Our first SpeakEasy of 2026 is on Friday 20 February at 8pm in Phil Grimes Pub. Our guest poet is Dean Browne from Cork and our guest musician is jazz pianist and composer Phill Collins Jazz. Much thanks to the Granville Hotel, who provide the accommodation for our guests poets like Dean.

Look forward to seeing you all in two weeks' time.