Music 100 Greatest Irish Songs

[Reditus]

As voted for by the public.

Position	Song	Artist
1	Zombie	The Cranberries
2	Nothing Compares 2 U	Sinéad O'Connor
3	A Rainy Night in Soho	The Pogues
4	Dreams	The Cranberries
5	Take Me To Church	Hozier
6	Crazy World	Aslan
7	Brewing Up a Storm	The Stunning
8	Killeagh	Kingfishr
9	Fairytale of New York	The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
10	With or Without You	U2
11	Grace	The Wolfe Tones
12	Chasing Cars	Snow Patrol
13	Rocky Took a Lover	Bell X1
14	Linger	The Cranberries
15	The Voyage	Christy Moore
16	N17	The Saw Doctors
17	Mandinka	Sinéad O'Connor
18	Summer in Dublin	Bagatelle
19	The Boys Are Back in Town	Thin Lizzy
20	Maniac 2000	Mark McCabe
21	One	U2
22	On Raglan Road	Luke Kelly
23	Dancing in the Moonlight	Thin Lizzy
24	The Blower’s Daughter	Damien Rice
25	Teenage Kicks	The Undertones
26	The Island	Paul Brady
27	The Streets of New York	The Wolfe Tones
28	After All	The Frank & Walters
29	Whiskey in the Jar	Thin Lizzy
30	Where the Streets Have No Name	U2
31	Revelate	The Frames
32	This Is	Aslan
33	Scorn Not His Simplicity	Luke Kelly
34	Ride On	Christy Moore
35	Galileo	Declan O'Rourke
36	Run	Snow Patrol
37	Orinoco Flow	Enya
38	July	Mundy
39	Joxer Goes To Stuttgart	Christy Moore
40	Flying Without Wings	Westlife
41	Parachute	Something Happens
42	I Useta Love Her	The Saw Doctors
43	Eve the Apple of My Eye	Bell X1
44	Haunted	Shane MacGowan / Sinéad O'Connor
45	Sunday Bloody Sunday	U2
46	Heroes Or Ghosts	The Coronas
47	Starburster	Fontaines DC
48	Bad	U2
49	Mary's Pub	Amble
50	Cannonball	Damien Rice
51	Old Town	Phil Lynott
52	Sarah	Thin Lizzy
53	Put 'Em Under Pressure	Republic Of Ireland Football Squad 1990
54	Too Sweet	Hozier
55	Heyday	Mic Christopher
56	When You're Looking Like That	Westlife
57	Where's Me Jumper	Sultans Of Ping FC
58	The Man Who Can't Be Moved	The Script
59	Diamonds and Roses	Knight
60	Celebrate	An Emotional Fish
61	World of Our Own	Westlife
62	Rock 'n' Roll Kids	Charlie McGettigan / Paul Harrington
63	Take My Hand	Picture This
64	Lonely Island	Amble
65	Hello Hello Hello Hello (Petrol)	Something Happens
66	Dearg Doom	Horslips
67	Favourite	Fontaines DC
68	Giants	Dermot Kennedy
69	Into the Mystic	Van Morrison
70	Beautiful Day	U2
71	All I Want	Kodaline
72	Saints and Sinners	Paddy Casey
73	I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For	U2
74	No Frontiers	Mary Black
75	Brown Eyed Girl	Van Morrison
76	I Don’t Like Mondays	The Boomtown Rats
77	Breathless	The Corrs
78	Power Over Me	Dermot Kennedy
79	I Love You	Fontaines DC
80	Take A Sexy Picture Of Me	CMAT
81	Runaway	The Corrs
82	Dirty Old Town	The Dubliners
83	Mary	The 4 Of Us
84	A Pair of Brown Eyes	The Pogues
85	High Hopes	Kodaline
86	Don’t Go	Hothouse Flowers
87	Riverdance	Bill Whelan
88	Schoolyard Days	Amble
89	Shining Light	Ash
90	Friends in Time	Golden Horde
91	Galway Girl (feat. Sharon Shannon)	Mundy
92	Star Star	The Frames
93	This Town	Niall Horan
94	San Diego Song	The Coronas
95	Slow Hands	Niall Horan
96	Oh Yeah	Ash
97	Euro-Country	CMAT
98	Days Like This	Van Morrison
99	Falling Slowly	Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
100	Flame	Bell X1

 

[neverdie]

Plenty of good stuff there but I think the top ten should be (with some key exceptions like Van Morrison if we're claiming him and others..) mostly the best folk songs and their best renditions. Grace enters at 11 I think. I'd have it in the top ten along with a few others of different performers... Dubliners under-represented and the Clancy Brothers don't even crack the top 100. Irish folk music isn't really my thing, but that seems criminal.

 

[horsechoker]

Didn't know Lonely Island were Irish

 

[Scanny]

If you’ve finished below 53 you’d be gutted.

 

[neverdie]

If you’ve finished below 53 you’d be gutted.

Horslips did for the original

 

[Salt Bailly]

Where's Galway Girl?

 

[Reditus]

Where's Galway Girl?

91st


Unless you are on about that shite Sheeran

 

[17Larsson]

Van needs to be higher.
It would be a great playlist anyway.

I know everyone has forgotten them now but JJ72 had some crackers, they should have a song or two in the top 100

 

[USREDEVIL]

I like Zombie but U2 has better songs cmon.

 

[sullydnl]

Immediate thought is that Thin Lizzy and The Undertones should be higher.

Also Ash to a lesser extent, and not sure I'd have Shining Light ahead of Oh Yeah or Girl From Mars.

 

[Woodzy]

I fecking hate Zombie. I would have preferred 100 Ronan Keating songs.

 

[The Cat]

How is Teenage Kicks not top 3?

At least they got the U2 top 2 in the right order.

 

[The Cat]

Also I don't know Fontains at all but they come on the pub playlist sometimes and I like the sound of them - best place to start?

 

[RedNome]

Also I don't know Fontains at all but they come on the pub playlist sometimes and I like the sound of them - best place to start?

Start at the beginning .

 

[Reditus]

It’s sad so many are gone now. All the top 3 or 5 out of top 6 (in terms of lead vocalists)

 

[Scanny]

Immediate thought is that Thin Lizzy and The Undertones should be higher.

Also Ash to a lesser extent, and not sure I'd have Shining Light ahead of Oh Yeah or Girl From Mars.

Totally agree.

 

[DOTA]

I don't dislike Zombie, it's a good tune, but there are plenty of Cranberries songs I'd have over it.

 

[Gee Male]

Stopped at 8.

 

[Grib]

Brutal list

 

[matherto]

Linger is perhaps my favourite song of all time so criminal it’s 16th and as much as I like Zombie and Dreams, they aren’t better.

But honestly Take Me To Church at number 5? Feck off.

And I honestly hate Fontaines DC. We have Radio X on in the office so I hear Favourite about three times a day and it’s a truly awful song.

 

[Oranges038]

Feels like a list that was made to squeeze that wank Killeagh song in the top ten.

No Richie Kavanagh, Dustin or Jumbo breakfast roll... shameful stuff, who ever made this list should be forced to stay within the borders of Longford forever.

 

[Scandi Red]

Ehm... Where is Rocky Road To Dublin? Isn't that one of the greatest songs ever, regardless of country?

 

[BD]

Killeagh? Get to feck

 

[Massive Spanner]

It’s obviously a shite list, it was voted by the listeners of a radio station that mostly plays modern crap, hence that Killeagh tripe being 7 or whatever.

Still, as shite as it is, look at all the great songs and bands in there, and not in there. Shows how much we punch above our weight as a nation, musically.

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

As much as they sounded like one, The Pogues weren't an Irish band.

 

[DOTA]

The Gaa The Ska and The Ra robbed.

 

[padr81]

Put em' under pressure above Brown Eyed Girl...

In fairness I've seen worse lists but Lizzy a bit low. Also a lack of Rory Gallagher.

 

[moses]

Galway Girl is Sharon Shannon featuring Mundy; they have it the wrong way around, the cheeky pricks.

 

[moses]

Get ta feck.

8

Killeagh

Kingfishr

 

[moses]

Put em' under pressure above Brown Eyed Girl...

In fairness I've seen worse lists but Lizzy a bit low. Also a lack of Rory Gallagher.

Some mad omissions and some stupid inclusions. That's the public for you. They elected FF.

 

[padr81]

Some mad omissions and some stupid inclusions. That's the public for you. They elected FF.

When you put it like that, makes perfect sense.

 

[HTG]

Of all the accomplishments and accolades Prince has, I still didn’t expect him to write the second best Irish song ever, despite not even being Irish. True legend.

 

[moses]

Of all the accomplishments and accolades Prince has, I still didn’t expect him to write the second best Irish song ever, despite not even being Irish. True legend.

Steve Earle wrote Galway Girl.

 

[Mr Pigeon]

91st


Unless you are on about that shite Sheeran

Yeah but he's culturally Irish.

Because he's ginger and everyone hates him................

 

[moses]

Yeah but he's culturally Irish.

Because he's ginger and everyone hates him................

Let's keep the bitterness to the Rugby thread pidge.

 

[Mr Pigeon]

Let's keep the bitterness to the Rugby thread pidge.

That match was rigged and you know it. Ireland cheated by playing well.

 

[moses]

That match was rigged and you know it. Ireland cheated by playing well.

And the bribes.

 

[Ali Dia]

Galway Girl is Sharon Shannon featuring Mundy; they have it the wrong way around, the cheeky pricks.

Galway girl was written by Steve Earle. He's great but he's American. Some of the biggest hits here that some people might think were Irish were written by others. Nothing compares 2 u Prince and Fisherman's blues recorded in Galway and massive but by Scottish band the waterboys.

No Rory Gallagher. Killeagh near the top? Shite list! At least the Saw Doctors got in, they work really hard and have some bangers even if they aren't the coolest band in the world. Good list for a person trying to learn a pub set of tunes to be fair but loads of crap on it

 

[caisenma]

Also I don't know Fontains at all but they come on the pub playlist sometimes and I like the sound of them - best place to start?

Can’t go wrong. As someone else said start at the beginning - or the end as Romance is a great album

 

[Salt Bailly]

91st


Unless you are on about that shite Sheeran

I was referring to the Ginger Prince, totally missed that other one being in there.