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This page is an index of the famous Irish music lyrics available on From-Ireland.net, an introduction to Irish music, and also includes links to biographies of some of Ireland’s most celebrated songwriters.

Connaught Music

• The Claddagh Ring (Galway)
• Galway Bay (Galway)
• The Galway Races (Galway)
• Nice Little Jane From Ballinasloe (Galway)
• The Oul’ Plaid Shawl (Galway)
• The Maid of Ballyhaunis (Mayo)
• Mailí San Seóirse by Donal O’Sullivan (Sligo)
• Molly St. George (Sligo)

Leinster Music

• The Airy Bachelor (Carlow)
• The Carlow Maid (Carlow)
• Follow Me Up to Carlow by Patrick Joseph McCall (Carlow)
• Down by the Liffeyside or Anna Liffey (Dublin)
• Erin Go Bragh (A Row in the Town) (Dublin)
• The Ferryman (Dublin)
• The Humours of Donnybrook Fair (Dublin)
• Molly Malone (Dublin)
• Petticoat Lane (Dublin)
• Rocky Road to Dublin (Dublin)
• Twenty Men From Dublin Town by Arthur Griffith (Dublin)
• Donnelly and Cooper (Kildare)
• The Kilkenny Boy (Kilkenny)
• Ninety Eight by Dr. John Thomas Campion (Kilkenny)
• The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis (Kilkenny)
• Sweet Kilkenny Town (Kilkenny)
• The Turfman From Ardee (Louth)
• Darling Old Stick (Meath)
• The Fox Hunt (Offaly)
• Pat of Mullingar (Westmeath)
• Boolavogue (Wexford)
• The Croppy Boy (Wexford)
• The Fishermen of Wexford (Wexford)
• The Star of Glengary (Wexford)
• Down by the Tanyard Side (Wickow)
• The Galtee Mountain Boy by Christy Moore (Wickow)
• Michael Dwyer (Version I) (Wickow)
• Michael Dwyer (Version II) (Wickow)

Munster Music

• The Vales of Traderee (Clare)
• The Trip to Gougane (Cork)
• Mary of Tralee (Kerry)
• The Rose of Tralee by William Mulchinock (Kerry)
• Oh, Limerick is Beautiful (Limerick)
• The Limerick Rake (Limerick)
• A Cup of Tea (Tipperary)
• Lanigan’s Ball (Tipperary)
• My Good Looking Man (Tipperary)
• Tim Finigan’s Wake (Tipperary)
• The Tipperary Christening (Tipperary)
• The Widow McCarthy by Samuel Lover (Tipperary)
• The Old Man of Kilcockan (Waterford)
• Seanduine Chill Chocáin (Waterford)

Ulster Music

• Carrickfergus (Antrim)
• Henry Joy McCracken (Version I) (Antrim)
• Henry Joy McCracken (Version II) (Antrim)
• I’ll Tell Me Ma or Belle of Belfast City (Antrim)
• The Bard of Armagh (Armagh)
• The Boys From the County Armagh (Armagh)
• The Cliffs of Dooneen (Cavan)
• Here’s a Health to Sweet Erin by D. Ryan (Cavan)
• Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds (Cavan)
• Dear Old Donegal by Steve Graham (Donegal)
• Inishowen by Charles Gavan Duffy (Donegal)
• On the Bromielaw Quay (Donegal)
• The Star of Donegal (Donegal)
• The Star of the County Down (Down)
• The Enniskillen Dragoons (Version I) by Tommy Makem (Fermanagh)
• The Enniskillen Dragoons (Version II) by Tommy Makem (Fermanagh)
• The Enniskillen Dragoons (Version III) by Tommy Makem (Fermanagh)
• Danny Boy or Londonderry Air (Derry (Londonderry))
• Kitty of Coleraine (Derry (Londonderry))
• The Sweet Girls of Derry by J. E. Carpenter (Derry (Londonderry))
• Paddy at the Theatre (Monaghan)
• Castle of Dromore or October Winds (Version I) (Tyrone)
• Castle of Dromore or October Winds (Version II) (Tyrone)

Emigration

• Bonny Irish Boy
• The Irish Emigrant by the Countess of Giford
• On the Bromielaw Quay
• Rocky Road to Dublin
• The Star of Donegal
• Teddy O’Neil (O’Neill)

Humour

• A Cup O’ Tay (A Cup Of Tea)
• The Fox Hunt
• Lanigan’s Ball
• My Good Looking Man
• Nell Flaherty’s Drake
• Pat of Mullingar
• Pat Pat and the Pig
• Tim Finigan’s Wake
• The Tipperary Christening
• The Widow McCarthy by Samuel Lover

Ireland

• The Colleen Bawn
• The Emerald Isle
• The Exile of Erin by Thomas Campbell

Love

• All Around My Hat
• Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
• The Blackbird and the Thrush
• The Claddagh Ring
• The Dawning of the Day
• The Demon Lover
• Down by the Liffeyside or Anna Liffey
• Henry Joy McCracken (Version I)
• Henry Joy McCracken (Version II)
• I Know My Love
• The Irish Sailor
• Kerry Dance
• Kitty Tyrell by Samuel Lover
• The Love Sick Maid
• The Low Backed Car
• The Man of the North Countrie
• Mailí San Seóirse by Donal O’Sullivan
• Mary Le More
• Molly St. George
• Moorlough Mary
• Nice Little Jane From Ballinasloe
• Norah Magee
• On Raglan Road or the Dawning of the Day
• The Oul’ Plaid Shawl
• She Moved Through the Fair
• The Spinning Wheel by John Francis Waller
• The Star of Glengary
• The Star of the County Down
• The Sweet Girls of Derry by J. E. Carpenter
• Sweet Kilkenny Town

Shillelagh

• The Land of the Shillalah
• The Sprig of Shillelagh

St. Patrick

• Beautiful Shamrock of Old Ireland
• The Dear Little Shamrock or the Green Little Shamrock of Ireland
• The Shamrock and Laurel
• Shamrock on Patrick’s Day
• The Shamrock Shore
• St. Patrick’s Day by J. F. Walker
• St. Patrick’s Martyrs
• St. Patrick Was a Gentleman

Thomas Osborne Davis

• The Banks of the Lee
• Clare’s Dragoons
• Cymris Rule and Cymris Rulers
• The Dungannon Convention, 1782
• The Geraldines
• Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O’Neill
• My Grave
• My Land
• A Nation Once Again
• Nationality
• Native Swords
• Oh! the Marriage
• Orange and Green Will Carry the Day
• The Penal Days
• A Rally for Ireland, May 1689
• The Rivers
• The Sack of Baltimore
• Song of the Volunteer’s of 1782
• Tone’s Grave