Top rated Live music bars in Dublin, Ireland to elevate your visit (Updated December, 2023)

Top rated Live music bars in Dublin

Experience the best that Dublin has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 17 places from Live music bar category.

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Merchant's Arch

Irish pub

Warmly decorated space in an 1821 building with traditional Irish fare, pints of beer & live music.

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4.50 (3.9K reviews) (~0.41 km from centre)

Fibber Magees

Live music bar

Classic pub with a predilection for hard guitar music with brick walls, pool tables and beer garden.

$$ $$

4.50 (3.4K reviews) (~0.4 km from centre)

Mary's Bar & Hardware

Pub

👍👍 This place keeps getting better. They have added more games and more stouts to their bar. Serves beamish now too making it a pub serving 3 stouts (Guinness, Murphy's, Beamish) now. Awesome for stout lovers. Good games n change or ambience as well. Love it.

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4.50 (1.5K reviews) (~0.72 km from centre)

O'Neills Victorian Pub & Townhouse

Hotel

Classic pub with carved wooden partitions & guestrooms with en suite bathrooms, plus free Wi-Fi.

4.50 (1K reviews) (~0.73 km from centre)

Bad Bobs Temple Bar

Live music bar

Full of vintage ephemera, this large, lively bar, restaurant and nightclub includes a roof terrace.

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4.40 (7.1K reviews) (~0.59 km from centre)

The Hairy Lemon

Pub

Unconventional pub where "The Commitments" was filmed with years worth of memorabilia on the walls.

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4.40 (5.9K reviews) (~0.93 km from centre)

Foggy Dew

Bar

Victorian pub with etched glass, basic furniture, Sunday folk sessions and late Saturday opening.

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4.40 (2.4K reviews) (~0.58 km from centre)

O'Donoghue's Bar

Irish pub

👍👍 Dropped in last Saturday to watch the Liverpool game while my better half went shopping. A lot of people were ordering food which looked great and was really well presented. The atmosphere was nice and the staff friendly and to top it off a pint of Guinness was only €6, just of Grafton Street!! Exce...

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4.40 (1.7K reviews) (~0.66 km from centre)

Sin é Dublin

Live music bar

👍👍 Lovely atmosphere. They have one of my favourite IPA. Ambush.

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4.40 (1.5K reviews) (~0.7 km from centre)

The Norseman

Live music bar

Traditional Irish pub serving a light international menu retaining original 120 year old partitions.

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4.30 (2.7K reviews) (~0.53 km from centre)

Madigan's O'Connell Street

Irish pub

Buzzy venue with regular traditional music performances, classic pub food and TV sports.

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4.30 (2K reviews) (~0.23 km from centre)

The Music Café Dublin

Cafe

👍👍 What a gem!!!! Cute little cafe with great tea selection, coffee wine and light food… really cozy and they have a pretty amazing setup with a band playing in the loads. When I was there, the band was just saying it! The views are not too shabby either… all in all a great find

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4.30 (997 reviews) (~0.65 km from centre)

Castle Hotel

Hotel

Traditional lodging in a Georgian townhouse with a restaurant & bar in the 19th-century wine vaults.

4.20 (2.2K reviews) (~0.63 km from centre)

Wigwam

Cocktail bar

Hip live music venue for DJs, house and techno acts, with a cool cafe/bar turning out cocktails.

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4.20 (1.9K reviews) (~0.2 km from centre)

4 Dame Lane

Live music bar

Brick walled bar with high beamed ceilings creating large music venue with memorabilia-covered bar.

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4.20 (928 reviews) (~0.63 km from centre)

The Workman's Club

Live music bar

Colourful bar and stage for live music that is a passionate haven for art and art lovers.

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4.10 (2.9K reviews) (~0.59 km from centre)

The Grand Social

Live music venue

Music venue featuring a ballroom, plus a rooftop beer garden with a retractable roof & cocktail bar.

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4.10 (2.4K reviews) (~0.34 km from centre)

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Top rated Live music bars in Dublin, Ireland