Taylor Swift In Ireland Reeling in the Years

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To gain access to the exclusive speakeasy in Smithfield, you must ring the doorbell before owner Shay looks through a hatch and decides if you should be allowed in or not. We wonder what his reaction was to seeing Taylor and Travis standing outside the door! 

Shay told RTÉ News: 'They were lovely. We were delighted to have them.' Before he added: 'It was a late one.'

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Taylor Swift and Travis party late at Dublin's Hacienda Bar

Shay wrote on the Hacienda Bar's Facebook page:

'Great to welcome Taylor Swift with all her musicians and dancers to the Hacienda last night.

Hacienda is a favourite spot with singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who regularly pops into the bar when he is in town, with his last visit in November 2023 seeing him sporting a pair of matching sunglasses with the owner.

However, Shay explained that they didn't ask Taylor for the 'usual' photo for the wall so that she could enjoy her 'well-deserved time off.

Shay wrote on the Hacienda Bar's Facebook page: 'Great to welcome Taylor Swift with all her musicians and dancers to the Hacienda last night.

'Special to also welcome Superbowl champion Travis Kelce, the legendary Stevie Nicks and Paramore. It was such a warm and genuinely friendly night, we did not request our "usual" Hacienda photo so as to allow Taylor and friends the chance to properly relax and enjoy their well-deserved time off.'

 
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Taylor is in good company, with many other celebrity patrons of the bar including Olivia Rodrigo, Kings of Leon and Saoirse Ronan.

We only wish we got the invite... next time, Taylor!

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'It was a late one' Taylor Swift parties at iconic Dublin bar along with Travis Kelce and Stevie Nicks

 
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Taylor Swift must be taking pub recommendations from her pal Ed Sheeran because she ended up at his favourite Dublin bar after her three-night run at the Aviva Stadium.

She partied till late at the Hacienda Bar on Little Mary Street on Sunday night with her boyfriend Travis Kelce, Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks, her support act Paramore as well as all of her Eras Tour dancers and musicians. 

The owner of the Hacienda Bar Shay Duignan confirmed that the pop superstar stopped by the venue, saying that they gave them privacy and that it was 'warm and genuinely friendly night'.

Shay wrote on the Hacienda Bar's Facebook page:

'Great to welcome Taylor Swift with all her musicians and dancers to the Hacienda last night.

The Hacienda Bar. Pic: Hacienda Bar/Facebook
THE HACIENDA BAR. PIC: HACIENDA BAR/FACEBOOK

To gain access to the exclusive speakeasy in Smithfield, you must ring the doorbell before owner Shay looks through a hatch and decides if you should be allowed in or not. We wonder what his reaction was to seeing Taylor and Travis standing outside the door! 

Shay told RTÉ News: 'They were lovely. We were delighted to have them.' Before he added: 'It was a late one.'

Taylor Swift must be taking pub recommendations from her pal Ed Sheeran because she ended up at his favourite Dublin bar after her three-night run at the Aviva Stadium.

She partied till late at the Hacienda Bar on Little Mary Street on Sunday n

ight with her boyfriend Travis Kelce, Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks, her support act Paramore as well as all of her Eras Tour dancers and musicians.

Taylor Swift and Travis party late at Dublin's Hacienda Bar

Hacienda is a favourite spot with singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who regularly pops into the bar when he is in town, with his last visit in November 2023 seeing him sporting a pair of matching sunglasses with the owner.

The owner of the Hacienda Bar Shay Duignan confirmed that the pop superstar stopped by the venue, saying that they gave them privacy and that it was 'warm and genuinely friendly night'.

To gain access to the exclusive speakeasy in Smithfield, you must ring the doorbell before owner Shay looks through a hatch and decides if you should be allowed in or not. We wonder what his reaction was to seeing Taylor and Travis standing outside the door!

'Special to also welcome Superbowl champion Travis Kelce, the legendary Stevie Nicks and Paramore. It was such a warm and genuinely friendly night, we did not request our "usual" Hacienda photo so as to allow Taylor and friends the chance to properly relax and enjoy their well-deserved time off.'

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Taylor is in good company, with many other celebrity patrons of the bar including Olivia Rodrigo, Kings of Leon and Saoirse Ronan.

We only wish we got the invite... next time, Taylor!

The Hacienda Bar. Pic: Hacienda Bar/Facebook

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After wrapping up her “Eras Tour” performance at Dublin’s Avivia Stadium, the “All Too Well” singer, 34, and her boyfriend, 34, were spotted heading out to have a night at the Hacienda Bar with Stevie Nicks, who was in attendance at the show, and the members of Paramore, who have been opening the European tour leg.

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The Hacienda is a favourite spot with singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who regularly pops into the bar when he is in town, with his last visit in November 2023 seeing him sporting a pair of matching sunglasses with the owner.

However, Shay explained that they didn't ask Taylor for the 'usual' photo for the wall so that she could enjoy her 'well-deserved time off'.

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TAYLOR SWIFT AND THE IRELAND OF “REELING IN THE YEARS”

 

Watching your country from the comparative distance of holiday can be an instructive experience, because it’s only really the bigger political and cultural stories that grab your attention. Over the last week or so, then, these are the stories that penetrated my mojito-addled consciousness: The ongoing beatification of assault victim Natasha O’Brien and the transformation of her case from one of shoddy treatment at the hands of the justice system into another media-driven parable about how and why Irish society is producing violent men and why we need more hate laws; The availability of free contraception to women aged 32-35; The dramatic increase in abortions over the last year; Simon Harris’s declaration that he wants Ireland to be the best country on earth to raise children in; Taylor Swift’s apparent praise of Ireland at her sold-out three night concert series in Dublin.

Many of these stories, it strikes me, are inherently connected and say something about the state of Ireland in 2024. There is assuredly a connection, for example, between the dramatic rise in abortions, free contraception for adult women, and Simon Harris’s posturing as the friend to parents everywhere. Equally, there is clearly a connection between Natasha O’Brien’s case and the push for hate speech laws. And there’s a connection between all of those stories and the media’s eagerness to highlight that Taylor Swift – yes Taylor Swift – said nice things about an Irish crowd, a story which RTÉ in particular was eager to highlight.

We are, it is often said, a nation of storytellers, and, as a result, our national self-image derives largely from the stories we tell ourselves. Storytelling is of course a form of mythmaking: As stories age and are re-told, they lose the finer details until only the moral of the story is left. Thus we can be reasonably sure that a decade or more from now, if RTÉ’s “reeling in the years” is still going, the version of the Natasha O’Brien story we will hear will not be one of a criminal justice system that simply has no space in its prisons to accommodate violent criminals, and will instead be the story of the brave woman who stood up to challenge the gender-based patriarchal violence still embedded deeply in Irish society. The abortion figures will not be mentioned. The free contraception, if it gets a look in, will be cited as something that was broadly welcomed by feminist campaigners after years of struggle. Since Ireland will by then assuredly not be the greatest country in the world to raise a child, Simon Harris’s ambition will go into the memory hole from whence it came. Taylor Swift, meanwhile, will get top billing. The last week of June, 2024, will by and large be presented as a feel-good, you-go-girl highlight of the year. You can take that to the bank.

Reeling in the Years, as an exercise in both television and progressive storytelling and mythmaking, is a triumph: Cheap to produce, chock full of feel-good nostalgia, and reliably slanted to cast the past as a series of conflicts between uplifting progressive moments and sombre memories of catholic moral and sexual repression. The details of stories, weeks, and months are glossed over, and only the morals of the stories remain, cast reliably in the light most helpful to progressive politics in the modern day. The hypocrisy of Bishop Casey; the triumph of Mary Robinson’s victory; the bravery of this or that journalist; the sweaty middle aged man fingering his rosary as he denounces some mild-by-today’s-standards sexual deviancy to Gay Byrne on a 1980s television set.

 

Thus it is not hard to see what the highlights of last week will be, when they are presented to a generation yet to come, assuming RTÉ is still limping on.

And yet, watching it in real time, it all strikes me as something different: The last week was evidence of a society that is deeply culturally ill. There is no need to dwell on the ten thousand abortions, other than to say that each one of them in their own individually tragic way represents a woman who felt that she could not justify, financially or emotionally, having a child in this Ireland given the opportunities or lack thereof our society has provided.

The Natasha O’Brien story represents a society entirely unwilling to confront its problems and eager instead to re-cast those problems as triumphs: Yes, we failed to keep Ms. O’Brien safe or to adequately sentence her attacker, but boy, we sure rallied around her and gave her a round of applause in the Oireachtas, and a platform to speak at Gay Pride. A Late Late Show appearance in the Autumn, amid a tearful and energetically applauding audience and the slowly, sadly, nodding head of the host, is a racing certainty.

This is the treatment we give to those we fail – and it shall be the treatment of the next victim, and as it was the one before this: Vicky Phelan died, by the way, because despite all the outpouring of sympathy, the state had still failed her as it has Ms. O’Brien. In both cases, we appear content to settle for the notion that making the victim a celebrity spokesperson and proposing statues of them is an effective substitute for action. Isn’t she so brave, we marvel, while we await her replacement, living or dead as the case may be. When they are gone, we remember that they are brave because of who they fought, not why they fought or what they fought for.

In the meantime, this society of ours that can give women free abortions and free contraceptives, but not secure homes or safe streets, was praised by an American musician for – naturally – being gas craic altogether. Nothing must puncture the national self-image. The Taylor Swift version of Ireland is the one we want – and will want – to believe is real. The Natasha O’Brien version of Ireland is the one that actually is real. For many more women and indeed men than Natasha O’Brien, by the way.

The contrast between that national self-image and the national reality is growing increasingly stark, and sooner or later it will, I think, create a fissure that will bring social cohesion crashing down upon itself, just as it is presently doing in France and the United States. The image Ireland presents of itself to both the world and to its own citizens is ever-more-starkly at odds with the reality of life here for women like Natasha O’Brien and the ten thousand of her fellow Irishwomen who quietly asked doctors for drugs to end the life of their unborn child last year. A state-subsidised sex life and political promises of a land of milk and honey for child-rearing is starkly at odds with cities that are unclean and unsafe; a housing market that is broken beyond belief; and a cost of living that is spiraling out of reach for people on even average incomes.

All societies, of course, have their problems. What sets Ireland aside, looking at it as I have been this week from the outside, is our national determination to simply look the other way and tell ourselves entirely different stories when those problems present themselves to us. Cite the ten thousand abortions, for example, and you will be accused – even if you do not question the morality of abortion at all – of being an opponent of women’s rights. Instead, the correct position is simply to accept that ten thousand women made a particular choice and look no further at the reasons why so many of them felt compelled to make that particular choice, or to ask if the fact that so many of them did might raise a red flag about what’s happening in our culture. In the Natasha O’Brien case, everybody who knows anything about the justice system knows that the true problem is not that we lack laws banning violence, but that we lack prison spaces sufficient to match our population growth – but rather than confront that basic problem, we congratulate ourselves for our solidarity with the victim. Look over here, not over there.

This is the problem when, to coin a phrase, an entire country – or at least the dominant class within it – starts believing its own bullshit. When all of this is eventually on reeling in the years, this week will be a story of a Taylor-made week of triumph for Irish women. They donned their sparkly dresses, danced in the dark, and got free contraception while one of them bravely fought the patriarchy.

Thus shall be a week of progressive failure re-cast as a week of progressive triumph.

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The long-awaited Eras tour got under way in Dublin on Friday night

Taylor Swift fans are experiencing the sold-out Eras tour in Dublin this weekend.

The singer has brought her record-breaking tour to the Aviva Stadium in Ireland’s capital for three nights, beginning on Friday, with more than 150,000 Swifties in attendance.

Before Friday, it had been six years since Swift's last show in Dublin.

The 152-date Eras tour has become the most lucrative set of concerts in history.

And its arrival in Dublin is not the only big event in the Irish capital over the weekend - Pride, Latitude Festival, the GAA football All-Ireland quarter-finals and Shania Twain are attracting their own crowds to the city.

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About 50,000 fans filled the Aviva Stadium to see the US musician on Friday evening.

Swift kicked off her time on the Emerald Isle with high praise for Ireland and its culture.

"Dublin, we've arrived!" she said. "You guys are making me feel so good, it's gone straight to my head. I feel very, very powerful."

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 Swift is playing three sold-out shows in Dublin this weekend

The concert was filled with elaborate production, multiple costume changes and a setlist that spanned more than three hours and included dozens of songs, taking her fans on a chronological journey through her albums.

"Nobody does it like you. You know that right?" she said, going on to call Irish people "unmatched storytellers", with the "best accents".

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A young girl in the crowd receives the '22 hat' and a hug from the US mega-star

In a now viral segment, Swift's dancer took on the Irish language, hollering "póg mo thóin" (which means kiss my butt), during a rendition of We Are Never Getting Back Together.

Before the gig, Swift had received a bouquet of flowers from Irish rock band U2, alongside a welcome note.

It read: "Dear Taylor, Welcome back to our hometown…leave some of it standing?!!!!"