Country of origin
Ireland music genres
Explore music genre guides with documented origins in Ireland.
5 genre guides
1800Drinking Songs
A social folk label rather than a narrowly bounded commercial genre, drinking songs live in the overlap between pub tradition, oral history, and recorded revival. The strongest documentation clusters around Irish and Celtic repertories.
1900Traditional Celtic
A broad editorial umbrella for older Irish and Scottish traditional music, with strong documentary support for the Irish side of the story and a widely used modern Celtic framing around it.
1962Celtic
Celtic is less a single, tightly bounded sound than a family of related traditional musics, rooted in Irish and Scottish practice and carried into a wider international field through revival, recording, and crossover work.
1962Celtic Folk
A broad folk umbrella for traditional music from the Celtic world, with a sound that moves easily between plaintive songs and brisk dance tunes.
1987Contemporary Celtic
A useful tag for late-20th-century and later Celtic-rooted recordings that lean modern without losing their traditional center of gravity.