Declan O'Rourke - OCEANIC at Westport Town Hall Theatre

What to Expect

Declan O’Rourke plays Westport Town Hall Theatre on Saturday 10 October 2026, with doors at 7:30pm and the show starting at 8pm. The night is built around OCEANIC, his eighth studio album, which he recorded in Sydney.

The venue describes the record as a mature album that feels expansive and dynamic, moving between groove-driven meditations and reflections of sweeping, cinematic scope. That range is what the Town Hall room tends to reward: it is a modest-sized theatre where a quiet passage carries and where the between-song talk is audible from the back rows, so a set that swings from slow-burn to full arrangement lands better here than it does in a bigger hall. Tickets for this date go through the Westport Town Hall Ticketsolve box office, and the theatre’s autumn programme puts this show in the middle of a busy run that also includes Ralph McTell later in the month and the Rolling Sun Book Festival the week before.

Good to Know

• Date: Saturday 10 October 2026
• Doors: 7:30 PM. Show starts 8:00 PM
• Venue: Westport Town Hall Theatre, Westport, Co. Mayo
• Price: Not listed on the venue programme at time of writing. Check the box office
• Booking: Westport Town Hall Ticketsolve box office, linked from the Destination Westport listing
• Album: OCEANIC, O’Rourke’s eighth studio album, recorded in Sydney
• Nearby dates: Rolling Sun Book Festival runs 15 to 18 October and Ralph McTell plays the same theatre on 21 October

Getting There

Westport Town Hall Theatre is in the centre of town, a short walk from the Octagon, so the practical approach is to park once and walk. Public car parks sit off James Street and near the Fairgreen, and on-street spaces go early on show nights. Westport is on the N5 from Castlebar and Dublin and the N59 from Leenane and Clifden. Westport railway station is the western end of the Dublin Heuston line and is roughly 15 minutes on foot from the theatre, with Bus Eireann links to Castlebar, Ballina, Galway and Achill. Ireland West Airport Knock is about an hour away by road.