Irish Rock
Irish rock is rock music made by artists from Ireland, sometimes with touches of Irish traditional music.
It is grouped by country, not by one sound. The scene dates from the showbands and beat groups of the 1960s and has produced blues rock, hard rock, punk, post-punk and alternative bands. Some acts add fiddle, tin whistle or folk melodies, which links them to Celtic rock, but many do not.
Artists it is known for: U2, Thin Lizzy, The Cranberries, Rory Gallagher.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Ireland, 1960s onward
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 3,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have irish rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Irish Rock artists
The Cranberries
U2
Two Door Cinema Club
Snow Patrol
CMAT
Thin LizzyThe irish rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.