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This is a list of number-one songs as recorded by IRMA’s Top 50 Singles chart — a weekly national survey of popular songs in Ireland. It is compiled by the IRMA from single sales. The lists below show the songs that have topped the chart. Dates shown represent "week-ending" IRMA issue dates.
"Arthur McBride" – an anti-recruiting song from Donegal, probably originating during the 17th century. [1]"The Recruiting Sergeant" – song (to the tune of "The Peeler and the Goat") from the time of World War 1, popular among the Irish Volunteers of that period, written by Séamus O'Farrell in 1915, recorded by The Pogues.
Folk rock or Celtic rock bands launched in the 1980s included The Waterboys and The Proclaimers. Among the folk singers of the time were Dick Gaughan and Bill Drummond , and Ewan MacColl who died in 1989.
A List of the 30 Best Songs of the '70s. Kate Franke. ... make sure to check out our Spotify playlist. ... "Dancing Queen" debuted at the perfect time, as disco was all the rage in the latter half ...
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe (the modern Celtic nations). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary considerably to include everything from traditional music to a wide ...
Gaelic music (Irish: Ceol Gaelach, Scottish Gaelic: Ceòl Gàidhealach) is an umbrella term for any music written in the Gaelic languages of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. [1] To differentiate between the two, the Irish language is typically just referred to as "Irish", or sometimes as "Gaeilge" (pronounced "gehl-guh"); Scottish Gaelic is referred to as "Gàidhlig" (commonly pronounced as "GAH-lick").
Celtic Themes: The Very Best of Clannad is a greatest hits compilation album by Irish group Clannad. It was released to coincide with their reunion UK tour in early 2008. It was released to coincide with their reunion UK tour in early 2008.
1991: Bringing It All Back Home, by Gerry O'Connor. The Song of the Singing Horseman, by Jimmy MacCarthy; Essential Pogues, by The Pogues; 1992: 30 Years A-Greying, by The Dubliners; 1993: All in Good Time, by Patrick Street; 1994: Banba, by Clannad. Someone to Dance With, by Sonny Condell; A Stór Is A Stóirín, by Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin