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Chasstev365

(7,763 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:16 PM Mar 17

Shamrock and Roll: The Best Irish Pop/Rock Artists of All Time (Rightly updated)

1. Van Morrison
2. U2
3. Thin Lizzy
4. The Boomtown Rats
5. The Chieftans
6. The Cranberries
7. The Irish Rovers
8. Sinead O'Connor
9. The Pogues
10. Hozier

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Shamrock and Roll: The Best Irish Pop/Rock Artists of All Time (Rightly updated) (Original Post) Chasstev365 Mar 17 OP

What about The Pogues? Sanity Claws Mar 17 #1

Oh, good catch! Chasstev365 Mar 17 #3

You can edit your OP blm Mar 17 #5

Any list of Irish artists which ignores the Pogues is meaningless Wiz Imp Mar 17 #2

Forgot Chasstev365 Mar 17 #4

It's OK. At least you corrected it. Wiz Imp Mar 17 #6

I guess that this classification doesn't include Enya. markodochartaigh Mar 17 #7

It could; I'm open to all kinds of music ☘️ 🇨🇮 Chasstev365 Mar 17 #8

Oh no! Proof of age! I've never heard of Hozier... quaint Mar 17 #9

Fan of Horslips in the 1970s, PufPuf23 Mar 17 #10

Sanity Claws

(22,408 posts)

1. What about The Pogues?

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:34 PM

Mar 17

Chasstev365

(7,763 posts)

3. Oh, good catch!

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:41 PM

Mar 17

blm

(114,651 posts)

5. You can edit your OP

Reply to Chasstev365 (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:02 PM

Mar 17

☘️ 🤓 ☘️

Wiz Imp

(9,967 posts)

2. Any list of Irish artists which ignores the Pogues is meaningless

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:38 PM

Mar 17

Chasstev365

(7,763 posts)

4. Forgot

Reply to Wiz Imp (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:41 PM

Mar 17

Wiz Imp

(9,967 posts)

6. It's OK. At least you corrected it.

Reply to Chasstev365 (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 04:55 PM

Mar 17

Though they should be much higher than #9!

markodochartaigh

(5,543 posts)

7. I guess that this classification doesn't include Enya.

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:04 PM

Mar 17

n/t

Chasstev365

(7,763 posts)

8. It could; I'm open to all kinds of music ☘️ 🇨🇮

Reply to markodochartaigh (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:32 PM

Mar 17

quaint

(5,066 posts)

9. Oh no! Proof of age! I've never heard of Hozier...

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:57 PM

Mar 17

but since I like all the others--on my way to listen. TY.

PufPuf23

(9,834 posts)

10. Fan of Horslips in the 1970s,

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:24 PM

Mar 17

Saw them as an opening act at Winterland and bought several albums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horslips

Saw Van Morrison twice at Winterland,

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