This was Ireland Week 2024 in Madrid, with the St. Patrick's Parade

Arrives to the Saint Patrick's Day and for the second consecutive year, Ireland Tourism, together with other institutions, has organized the Irish Week in Madrid.

Get ready to immerse yourself in Irish culture with programming that includes music, film, history, dance and literature.

What awaits you? Inside of the program for Ireland Week 2024 in Madrid you find from surprise concerts in the Metro de Madrid even Celtic rhythms in the Engine Ship.

What are the dates of Ireland Week 2024 in Madrid

The Dates of this celebration are from March 11 to 17, and starting Monday the 11th in the morning you can enjoy one of those surprise concerts somewhere in the Madrid Metro.

And in the afternoon, at 20 p.m., in the Engine Ship you can attend a concert by the prestigious Galician bagpiper Carlos Nunez whose music has many links with Ireland, and who has just released his new album Celtic Sea.

Irish music and dance schedules in Metro stations

But also, throughout the week irish music and dance They will take over line 5 of the Metro.

Central stations on this line will be the perfect setting to get into the Irish festive spirit, with the Celtic sounds and dances of a group of musicians and dancers from the University College Dublin Dance Society, who will perform in their entrance rooms.

Specifically, on Monday and Tuesday, from 18 to 20 p.m. at Opera; Wednesday and Thursday, from 18 to 20 p.m. in Callao; Friday at the same time in Gran Vía; and Saturday and Sunday, from 12 to 14 p.m. also on Gran Vía.

Cinema and literature at Ireland Week

But not only music is the protagonist of this Irish cultural week in Madrid.

History is intertwined with literature in activities such as the premiere of the medium-length film “Armada 1588 Shipwreck and Survivala”, dedicated to the shipwreck of three ships of the invincible army that happened off the Irish coast, an event after which the Captain Francisco de Cuéllar He managed to escape and then write an extensive story about his adventures.

On Thursday an evening at the bookstore takes center stage Desperate Literature dedicated to Irish literature, an event in which the Irish author Shane Tivenan settled in Spain will perform a reading that will be enlivened by the Irish music group Triantan.

And on Friday, get ready for an explosion of Irish folk-rock at the Monumental Theater. The show "Saint Patrick's Day at the Monumental” promises to immerse you in the rich culture of Ireland.

Organized by the RTVE Orchestra and Choir, in this musical show that begins at 22 p.m. also participate Celtic Moon Dance and the group Green Tones.

When and where is the 2024 St. Patrick's Parade in Madrid

Saturday begins with a picnic full of Irish music and Gaelic sports that is held in the morning in the Electrocor Football Club of Las Rozas, and ends with the expected St. Patrick's Parade in Madrid.

In this initiative of the Asturian musician Bras Rodrigo and the Corbera Bagpipe Band Foundation Ireland Tourism, which takes place in the afternoon in the center of the capital, is expected to draw more than 600 pipers with the purpose of turning the Madrid parade into one of the most important in the world.

I remind you that currently bagpiper parades for the festival of St. Patrick The most important are those in the cities of New York, London, and, of course, Dublin.

Here you can check the schedule and route of the St. Patrick's Parade in Madrid.

This celebration will be completed with the concert of Bras Rodrigo where he will release the first album of his trilogy St. Patrick, which will take place on Saturday at 19 p.m. at the Fitz Club room.

And finally, on Sunday the 17th the dance group Irish Treble invites you to a Celtic Journey in the Galileo Galilei Room, a show that culminates Irish music and dance.

And if you are outside of Madrid, don't worry! Tortosa, Barcelona, ​​Cabo Roig and Torrevieja also join the celebration with festivals, regattas and parades.

Schedules and tickets for Ireland Week in Madrid

Here you can check the complete program of Ireland Week 2024 in Madrid, with dates and times of the different activities, as well as access to ticket purchase.