Mary Coughlan

Coughlan's, Douglas St.

Sun 08 Dec 2024
3:30pm
€27.50



Mary Coughlan is one of Ireland’s greatest-ever jazz and blues artists and is often spoken about in the same breath as singers like Peggy Lee and Billie Holliday.

A prolific artist by anyone’s standards, Coughlan is celebrating 40 years in music this year with a nationwide tour (details below) and new music to be released throughout 2024 – the first of which is ‘More Like Brigid’, an homage to the original Goddess of Imbolc herself, Brigid of Kildare.

Brigid was a pagan and a healer before she was canonized by the Catholic Church. As displayed in the writings of Cogitosus, a monk of Kildare who wrote the oldest extant vita of Saint Brigid, Vita Sanctae Brigidae, around 650 BC, “Bridid’s power expanded beyond the physical realm into the spiritual one, demonstrated by her ability to perform miracles.” There are over thirty miracles mentioned in the scripture, but a few particularly stand out, not least her ability to turn water into ale and the instance in which she “performed an abortion for

Show more..

SOLD OUT


Venue Info


Coughlan's

7 Douglas St.
+353 (021) 4961751

www.coughlans.ie

    



More at Coughlan's

Loading....

Thu 21 Nov

Quiet Lights: Mohammad Syfkhan

Coughlan's

Fri 22 Nov

Quiet Lights: Lemoncello

Coughlan's

Fri 22 Nov

Quiet Lights : Ana Palindrome

Coughlan's

Sat 23 Nov

Comedy Cavern: Kiri Pritchard-McLean

Coughlan's

Sat 23 Nov

Comedy Cavern: Kiri Pritchard-McLean

Coughlan's

Sat 23 Nov

Woah! Mama!

Coughlan's

Sun 24 Nov

Quiet Lights: Fionn Regan

Coughlan's

Sun 24 Nov

Quiet Lights : The Kates

Coughlan's

Tue 26 Nov

Comedy Cavern: Showcase

Coughlan's

Fri 29 Nov

Gurriers with guests I Dreamed I Dream

Coughlan's

Sat 30 Nov

Hot Blooded Animals

Coughlan's

Sun 1 Dec

Comedy Cavern: Sarah Keyworth : Sarah Keyworth: My Eyes Are Up Here

Coughlan's

Tue 3 Dec

Comedy Cavern: Open Mic

Coughlan's

Thu 5 Dec

Tiz McNamara

Coughlan's

Sat 7 Dec

The Tan Jackets

Coughlan's

Tue 10 Dec

Comedy Cavern: Ross O'Donoghue & guests

Coughlan's

Sat 14 Dec

Andy Irvine

Coughlan's

Sat 14 Dec

Son Of Crazy Chester

Coughlan's

Sun 15 Dec

Maria Doyle Kennedy

Coughlan's

Tue 17 Dec

Comedy Cavern: Test Tube Babies Christmas Special

Coughlan's