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Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. In A History of Irish Music (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there were at least ten instruments in general use.
- Music of Ireland
Irish music is music that has been created in various genres...
- Category:Irish folk songs
This category relates to folk songs of Ireland .
- Irish Traditional Music Archive
Focusing on Irish traditional music, Irish dance and their...
- Music of Ireland
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Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland. The indigenous music of the island is termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th and into the 21st century, despite globalising cultural forces.
Drawing on the tradition of Dublin street song and popular poetry – unsentimental, wittily satiric, and macabre – they established such material as a valid constituent of Irish musical culture, amid the contemporary revival and commercialisation of Irish traditional and folk music.
After Gorman's death (1970), Barry pursued a chequered Irish-based career of busking, pub sessions, and sit-down concerts. She continued to record new albums into the mid 1970s, and is represented on numerous multi-artist compilation albums of Irish and folk music.
This category relates to folk songs of Ireland .
This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. Folk albums by Irish artists (41 C, 8 P)
Focusing on Irish traditional music, Irish dance and their history, the archive covers the performance traditions of the island of Ireland, within the Irish diaspora, and other performers of Irish traditional music globally.
