Bob Dylan to tour Ireland this November

RTÉ News​

10-07-2025

Singer Bob Dylan is to return to Ireland for dates in Belfast, Killarney and Dublin this November as part of his Rough And Rowdy Ways world tour, which has been running since November 2021.
The 84-year-old will also perform shows across the UK and the gigs will be phone-free, with concert goers asked to put their phones in a Yondr pouch, which closes automatically when in the venue and unlocks in the venue's concourse.
The new dates come amid a surge in interest in the Hurricane singer's career, following the release of the biopic A Complete Unknown last year, which starred Timotheé Chalamet as Dylan and followed the story of his career beginnings and infamous decision to go electric in the mid-1960s.
The singer is one of the most acclaimed songwriters of all time, winning 10 Grammys and being nominated on 38 further occasions.
Dylan, who has often acknowledged his debt to Irish music including The Clancy Brothers and The Pogues, is a frequent visitor to Ireland, having first played Dublin's Adelphi cinema in 1966.
He returned in 1984 to headline Slane Castle and has since performed in the Point Theatre, Vicar Street, the Green Glens Arena in Millstreet, Live at the Marquee in Cork and in 2019, he played a show with Neil Young at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny.
Dylan began his career in 1962 with the single Mixed-Up Confusion, which failed to chart in the UK and US.
But he shot to stardom with a string of successful singles in 1965, including The Times They Are A-Changin', Subterranean Homesick Blues and Like A Rolling Stone.
He was the first songwriter to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, with the Swedish academy crediting him with "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
Dylan's songs have been covered by the likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, U2, The Rolling Stones and Adele.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale on Friday July 18 at 10am.
Bob Dylan's 2025 Ireland and UK tour in full
7 November - Brighton Centre, Brighton
9 November - Building Society Arena, Swansea
10 November - Building Society Arena, Swansea
11 November - Building Society Arena, Swansea
13 November - Building Society Arena, Coventry
14 November - First Direct Arena, Leeds
16 and 17 November - Armadillo, Glasgow
19 and 20 November - Waterfront, Belfast
November 23 and 24 - INEC, Killarney
25 November - 3Arena, Dublin
Source: Press Association