1. Kevin Shields (1963)

Irish Musician

Irish guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer who is a member of the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine.

2. Ronnie Drew (1934)

Irish Musician

Irish singer of the folk band The Dubliners for over 50 years. He is best known for the hit songs Seven Drunken Nights and The Irish Rover, both of which...

3. Liam Clancy (1935)

Irish Musician

Irish folk singing legend remembered for being at the center of the 60's folk movement. He is remembered for his vocals in Clancy Brothers songs like Port Lairge and The...

4. Paddy Moloney (1938)

Irish Musician

Irish musical composer and musician known primarily for co-founding the Chieftains. He produced and played in over 40 different albums during his music career. 

5. Noel Hogan (1971)

Irish Musician

Known best for his work with the Irish alternative rock band The Cranberries, this guitarist and songwriter also formed electronica groups called Mono Band and Arkitekt and founded the Gohan Records...

6. Finbar Furey (1946)

Irish Musician

Folk star best known as a member of the Irish band The Fureys. The Fureys are an all-brothers band best known for their 1981 global hit "When You Were Sweet...

7. Matt Molloy (1947)

Irish Musician

Acclaimed Irish flautist widely considered one of the most influential of all time. He has been a member of groups like The Bothy Band and Planxty.

8. Paddy Keenan (1950)

Irish Musician

Irish musician most famous as a member of the traditional Irish band The Bothy Band. He is known for playing a type of bagpipe known as the uilleann pipes.

9. Linda Nolan (1959)

Irish Musician

Member of Anglo-Irish girl group The Nolans along with her sisters; experienced their greatest success in the early 1980s. In 2014 she starred on the 13th season of Celebrity Big...

10. Johnnie Fingers (1956)

Irish Musician

Performed with the Irish New Wave band, The Boomtown Rats. He played everything from pop to jazz to rock.

11. Nadine Coyle (1985)

Irish Musician

Former singer for Girls Aloud, the group known for hits like "The Promise," and who earned a #20 ranking for her 2010 debut solo album Insatiable.

12. Rea Garvey (1973)

Irish Musician

Singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the frontman of the popular rock band Reamonn, who have released platinum-selling albums like 2003's "Beautiful Sky." He is also a respected solo artist,...

13. Dominic Scott (1979)

Irish Musician

Guitarist and former member of the ambient rock band, Keane.

14. Joe Doyle (musician) (1977)

Irish Musician

Joe Doyle is the bassist and backing singer for Irish rock band The Frames and the Swell Season. He has been a member of The Frames since 1996 appearing on...

15. David Geraghty (1975)

Irish Musician

David Geraghty is a Choice Music Prize-nominated musical artist. He is a solo artist producer and a member of Irish band Bell X1.

16. Alan Averill (1975)

Irish Musician

Alan Averill is an Irish musician most notable for his vocal duties for the folk/black metal band Primordial.

17. Graham Hopkins (1975)

Irish Musician

Graham Hopkins is an Irish drummer. He is the drummer in The Swell Season The Frames and former drummer for the hard rock/punk rock band Therapy?.

18. Sinéad O'Connor (1966)

Irish Musician

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra.

19. Ronan Guilfoyle (1958)

Irish Musician

Ronan Guilfoyle is one of Ireland's premier jazz musicians. He is the director of jazz at Newpark Music Centre in Dublin Ireland and has performed extensively around the world. He...

20. Gerry Leonard (Unknow)

Irish Musician

Gerry Leonard is an Irish lead guitarist and solo artist known for his harmonic and ambient guitar style and for his work with David Bowie. He has lived and worked...

21. Seán Cannon (1940)

Irish Musician

Seán Cannon is an Irish musician. Since 1982 he has been the lead singer and guitarist for The Dubliners and their follow-up-band The Dublin Legends.

22. Rick Laird (1941)

Irish Musician

Richard Quentin 'Rick' Laird is a jazz musician born on 5 February 1941. He is a bass player best known for his place in the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Laird was born...

23. Hugh Tinney (1944)

Irish Musician

Hugh Tinney is an Irish pianist born in 1958.

24. Jackie Daly (1945)

Irish Musician

Jackie Daly 1945) is an Irish button accordion and concertina player. He has been a member of a number of prominent Irish traditional-music bands including De Dannan Patrick Street Arcady...

25. Johnny Duhan (Unknow)

Irish Musician

Johnny Duhan started his career as a fifteen-year-old front man in the Limerick beat group Granny’s Intentions a band in Ireland. After rousing Dublin with their soul touch they moved...

26. Davy Carton (1959)

Irish Musician

Davy Carton is a singer songwriter and rhythm guitarist from Tuam County Galway in the Republic of Ireland. He is best known as a core member of the Saw Doctors...

27. John Wolf Brennan (1954)

Irish Musician

John Wolf Brennan is an Irish pianist organist melodica player and composer based out of Weggis Switzerland.

28. Paddy Glackin (Unknow)

Irish Musician

Paddy Glackin is an Irish fiddler from Clontarf Dublin. His father Tom Glackin was from Donegal and Paddy's fiddle style reflects his family's Donegal roots. Glackin is considered one of...

29. Davy Spillane (1959)

Irish Musician

Davy Spillane is an Irish musician songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle. At the age of 12 Spillane started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged...

30. David Virgin (1962)

Irish Musician

David Virgin is an Irish born musician song-writer poet author and music producer who emigrated to Australia with his family as a child. He found musical success initially during the...

31. Leo Moran (1964)

Irish Musician

Leo Moran is best known as lead guitarist and sometimes vocalist in the Irish folk rock band The Saw Doctors. Born in Tuam in Galway Moran studied French and Sociology...

32. Michael McGlynn (1964)

Irish Musician

Michael McGlynn is an Irish composer producer director and founder of Anúna.

33. Garth Knox (1956)

Irish Musician

Garth Knox is a violist specialized in contemporary classical music and new music.

34. Fred Finn (musician) (Unknow)

Irish Musician

was born in Killavil Co. Sligo in 1919. His father Mick a Fianna Fáil activist and former councillor was also a fiddle player and a contemporary of Michael Coleman. Fred...

35. Vinnie Kilduff (1960)

Irish Musician

Vinnie Kilduff is a Grammy award-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter primarily known for his work with U2 The Waterboys Clannad and Sinéad O’Connor. He plays tin whistle uilleann pipes guitar mandolin...

36. George Osborne (composer) (1806)

Irish Musician

George Alexander Osborne was an Irish composer and pianist. Osborne was born in Limerick. He left Ireland at the age of nineteen thereafter dividing his time between England and France....

37. Conor J Curran (1977)

Irish Musician

Conor J Curran is an electronic musician and sound artist based in London. He studied at Trinity College Dublin under electroacoustic composers Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle and has been...

38. Sean McGuire (1927)

Irish Musician

Sean McGuire was a former All Ireland Fiddle Champion. He was from Belfast.

39. Finghin Collins (1977)

Irish Musician

ghin Collins is an Irish pianist. He won first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey Switzerland in 1999 and has performed with many of the world's...

40. Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (1979)

Irish Musician

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh is a fiddler born in Dublin Ireland. He is known for developing a drone-based fiddle style heavily influenced by the uilleann pipes and the music of Sliabh...

41. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (1917)

Irish Musician

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is an Irish musician. As a pianist composer recording artist and academic he holds the Professorship of Music at the Irish World Music Academy of Music and...

42. Terry Woods (1947)

Irish Musician

Terence Terry Woods is an Irish folk musician noted for playing the mandolin and cittern but also plays acoustic and electric guitar mandola 5 string banjo and concertina. He is...

43. Marc Carroll (1972)

Irish Musician

Marc Carroll is an Irish musician songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has released 7 albums and 22 singles. He is currently signed to One Little Indian Records who released his latest...

44. Owen Fegan (1972)

Irish Musician

Owen Fegan is Creative Director at Grooveshark. Born in Cork Ireland he is a founding member of Irish rock band Rubyhorse formed in 1987 with schoolmates Dave Farrell Decky Lucey...

45. Joe McCarthy (Irish musician) (Unknow)

Irish Musician

Joe McCarthy is a well-known Irish musician who was for many years one of the best known faces of the showband group The Dixies. McCarthy was born Joseph Terence McCarthy...

46. Wallis Bird (1982)

Irish Musician

s Bird is an Irish musician. She released her third self-titled studio album in 2012.

47. Paul McLoone (1967)

Irish Musician

Paul McLoone is singer and radio presenter. He is currently the lead vocalist of Irish pop-punk band The Undertones having replaced Feargal Sharkey when the band reunited for a series...

48. Keith Duffy (bassist) (1966)

Irish Musician

Keith Duffy is an Irish bass guitarist best known for his long-standing support role in the folk-pop band The Corrs. He was born Keith Arnold Jacques Duffy on 2 June...

49. John Cutliffe (1962)

Irish Musician

John Cutliffe is an Irish musician from Buncrana County Donegal. John has played Irish traditional and bluegrass music in the many pubs that dot the Irish countryside and has played...