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Andreas ViklundIrish Songs and Irish Music videos. All the Irish Lyrics and musical information you might be looking for. Thousands of Irish music videos for you to browse. Irish Music is a generic term for music that has been created and developed in a range of genres from the island of Ireland.
This indigenous music of Ireland is often classified as Irish songs or traditional irishmusic. It has stayed alive throughout the 20th century and also into the 21st century, in the face of musical changes. despite emigration and a connection to influenial music rooted in Britain and the US, Irish songs have retained a lot of its traditional aspects and has been responsible for influencing global music, eg country music in the states, which likewise has influenced progressive rock music. On many occasions it has been blended with rock, even punk and a number of musical genres. Many of the results have produced notable succes on the worldwide stage.
In recent years, Irish music and Irish Songs have been particularly successful on the international stage, the most successful genres have been rock, popular and traditional fusion, with performers such as Clannad, Celtic Thunder, Enya, Westlife, Thin Lizzy, The Pogues, Rory Gallagher, Bob Geldof, The Corrs, The Chieftains, The Irish Rovers, Riverdance, The Irish Tenors, Van Morrison, The Saw Doctors, Snow Patrol, The Cranberries, U2, The Undertones, Ash, The Script, Sinéad O'Connor, Damien Rice, Glen Hansard and Eleanor McEvoy attaining international success