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Following the official opening on Friday 30th November 2001 by Minister Síle de Valera before a specially invited audience, over 60 great Clare performers - three generations of the best players of Clare music took to the glór stage, including Tony McMahon, Paddy Canny, James Cullinan, Tony Linnane, Noel Hill, Siobhan Peoples, Martin Hayes, Josephine Marsh, Maura O'Connell, the Tulla Ceili Band and the Kilfenora Ceili Band, to present a night of music such as has never been heard before. With Martin Hayes and the Sawdoctors performing over the next two nights, without doubt the opening weekend of glór was one of the best three nights of music ever staged in County Clare.

This November, glór celebrates a milestone 15 years in business and the venue is going from strength to strength. Since opening its doors in 2001, 139,267 people have booked in excess of 626,000 tickets for over 5119 ticketed performances, including Planxty, Tommy Tiernan, Katherine Lynch, BellX1, The RTÉ Concert Orchestra, The Gloaming, The Frames, Druid Theatre Company, Barry Norman, Rough Magic Theatre, Fishamble Theatre, The Ennis Book Club Festival, Pat Shortt, Duffy, David Gray, Tommy Fleming, Neil Delamere as well as for very many Clare arts performances.

glór Gallery has exhibited works by Mick O’Dea RHA, Lorraine Wall, Walter Verling RHA, Dympna Bonfield, Sean MacSweeney, John Shinnors, Barrie Cooke, Jean Regan, and Sam Walsh, along with collections form the Graphic Studio Gallery; IMMA; The National Gallery and from Children’s Books Ireland, to name but a few.

To kick off the celebrations, glór has programmed a jam-packed winter/spring season of events featuring lots of new acts amidst plenty of older favourites, and the venue has teamed up with a  major partner to offer one lucky winner a superb prize to celebrate our milestone birthday.