The Crane Bar
Corner pub with a Victorian front and nightly traditional music sessions in a small upstairs room.
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This guide to the Crane Bar on Sea Road in Galway starts with a pub whose dates refuse to agree, then climbs the photo-lined stairs to the small upstairs room where sessions begin each evening. It follows the writer Cormac McConnell, who called the Crane his old local, back for one late-February night of reels. Along the way you'll hear about singers on request, storytellers in the crowd, and nights spent on soft drinks. Best heard from a spot against the upstairs wall.
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