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Garth Brooks has announced 10 concerts across five Irish cities for 2027.

The country music superstar will perform two shows each in Belfast, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Cork next May and June.

The tour begins at Boucher Road Playing Fields in Belfast on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 May.

It moves to Pearse Stadium in Galway on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 May.

Brooks will then perform at UPMC Nowlan Park in Kilkenny on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 June.

Next are TUS Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 June.

The final two concerts take place at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 June.

Dublin is notably absent from the lineup.

Speaking about the tour, Brooks said: “This has been a dream of mine since the first time we played Ireland. Once you get a taste of how the Irish love music, you can't play there enough!”

Tickets for all 10 concerts go on sale on Thursday 12 November at 8am.

Brooks last performed in Ireland in September 2022, when he played five sold-out concerts at Dublin's Croke Park.

More than 400,000 tickets were sold for those shows.

The 2022 run marked his first Irish concerts in 25 years, having previously performed at Croke Park in 1997.

Those hugely anticipated shows came eight years after his planned five-night run at the Dublin stadium was cancelled in 2014.

Dublin City Council had granted licenses for just three of the five concerts, prompting Brooks to cancel the entire run.

Peter Aiken, of Aiken Promotions, appeared on Radio 1's Oliver Callan to explain why Dublin was skipped this time.

He said Brooks was aware of the ticket breakdown from the 2022 shows.

“For a normal big concert in Croke Park, you might be hitting 50% would be from Dublin, but for this [Garth's tour] it was just under 20%,” Aiken said.

“So he was aware of how popular it was and how many tickets we sold in Galway and Limerick and especially in Belfast, the whole of the North was there.”

Aiken clarified that this tour is just going outside Dublin this time.

“That was what he [Garth] wanted to do,” Aiken said.

“He seen the Ed Sheeran posters going through the whole of Ireland; he did something very similar, and he saw what Bruce did and he just said, 'I'd love to do that,' and that's how it all really came about.”

Aiken added: “And then he said to me, 'Let's do it', and honestly I thought, even when it was confirmed, I got an awful shock, I was like 'Jesus, we've got to get going here'.”

Brooks is on his Blame It All On My Roots arena tour, which began in the United States in August.

The tour marks a return to the indoor arenas where he performed during the height of his success in the 1990s.

Earlier this year, the 64-year-old headlined a sold-out concert at London’s Hyde Park on 27 June.

The singer also completed a two-year residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in March 2025, having performed 72 shows at the venue.

Brooks is also preparing to release a vinyl edition of his best-selling live album Double Live on Friday, 6 November.

Originally released in 1998, the album features recordings from his world tour between 1996 and 1998.

The 2027 Irish tour will use four GAA venues: Pearse Stadium in Galway, UPMC Nowlan Park in Kilkenny, TUS Gaelic Grounds in Limerick, and SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork.

Belfast's Boucher Road Playing Fields is the only non-GAA venue on the schedule.

These venues are smaller than Croke Park, which has a capacity of over 82,000.

Pearse Stadium holds about 26,000 people.

UPMC Nowlan Park holds about 27,000.

TUS Gaelic Grounds holds about 50,000.

SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh holds about 45,000.

Boucher Road Playing Fields has a temporary capacity set for concerts.

The choice of smaller venues reflects Brooks's strategy to reach fans outside the capital.

The 2022 ticket data showed that less than 20% of buyers came from Dublin, while significant numbers came from the regions where these new shows are scheduled.

Brooks's decision to skip Dublin surprised some industry observers, given his history with the city.

His 1997 Croke Park shows were landmark events in Irish concert history.

The 2014 cancellation was a major controversy, with Brooks refusing to play fewer than five shows after the council limited licenses.

His 2022 return was seen as a reconciliation with Irish fans.

Now, by focusing on regional cities, Brooks is following a trend set by other major touring acts.

Ed Sheeran played multiple smaller venues across Ireland in 2024.

Bruce Springsteen also toured regional Irish cities in recent years.

The 2027 tour gives fans in Northern Ireland and western and southern Ireland a chance to see Brooks without traveling to Dublin.

For fans in Belfast, it is the first time Brooks has scheduled a concert there.

For fans in Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Cork, it is also a first.