26/10/1978 Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. U2 & The Hype Concerts 1978

This is a complete list of known U2 concerts that took place in Ireland in 1978. I have spent many hours trawling the Irish Newspaper Archive, The Dublin Library and talking to those that were there, too make this the most complete document of U2’s early career. This site would not be possible without them, the Dublin Library & the Irish Newspaper Archive.

26/10/1978 Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Attendance, unknown
Support, unknown
Admission, unknown

From “In Dublin”
Set; unknown

This is a lunch time concert, the first of two concerts U2 play today. The second is at Bagnall’s in Mullingar.

U2 had an edge over most of their rivals when it came to these city centre gigs as they did not have to transport their equipment across town. Dik Evans (the Edge’s older brother) had rooms at Trinity College, which U2 would use these for practice sessions and to store their equipment.