Doolin has been described as a national shrine to Irish traditional music and a paradise for geologists, botanists, ornithologists, speleologists (cavers) and walkers.
Music is intrinsic to the place and its people.
The pubs are literally world-famous, and feature traditional
music sessions nightly, all year round. The Russell brothers,
Micho, Pakie and Gussie, played a major role in putting Doolin
on the music map.
By the 1960s, their names and that of Gussie O'Connor's pub
were synonymous with Irish music and song in Doolin. There
is a famous (true!) story recorded in TIME magazine about
Micho receiving a postcard from a German fan in the 1980s
addressed only to "Micho, Ireland" and it was safely delivered
to him.
