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Chasstev365

(7,662 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:16 PM 8 hrs ago

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 8 hrs ago OP
What about The Pogues? Sanity Claws 8 hrs ago #1
Oh, good catch! Chasstev365 8 hrs ago #3
You can edit your OP blm 7 hrs ago #5
Any list of Irish artists which ignores the Pogues is meaningless Wiz Imp 8 hrs ago #2
Forgot Chasstev365 8 hrs ago #4
It's OK. At least you corrected it. Wiz Imp 4 hrs ago #6
I guess that this classification doesn't include Enya. markodochartaigh 3 hrs ago #7
It could; I'm open to all kinds of music ☘️ 🇨🇮 Chasstev365 3 hrs ago #8
Oh no! Proof of age! I've never heard of Hozier... quaint 2 hrs ago #9
Fan of Horslips in the 1970s, PufPuf23 2 hrs ago #10

quaint

(4,974 posts)
9. Oh no! Proof of age! I've never heard of Hozier...
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:57 PM
2 hrs ago

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

PufPuf23

(9,803 posts)
10. Fan of Horslips in the 1970s,
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:24 PM
2 hrs ago

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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