Irish Singer-Songwriter
Irish singer-songwriter is a label for solo artists from Ireland who write and perform their own songs, usually in a folk, pop or soul style.
It groups artists by where they are from. The songs tend to be built on acoustic guitar or piano with close attention to the words, and some draw on Irish folk music. Several started out on the streets and small stages of Dublin: Glen Hansard busked there from his teens, and Hozier played the city's open mic nights. The sound ranges from hushed acoustic ballads to full-band soul and rock.
Artists it is known for: Damien Rice, Glen Hansard, Lisa Hannigan, Hozier.
- Family
- Folk & Acoustic
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Ireland
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have irish singer-songwriter among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Irish Singer-Songwriter artists
HozierThe irish singer-songwriter 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.