Punk rock acts playing traditional Irish songs

by Michael Kehoe · Published 10/12/2013 · Updated 07/01/2014

To start our rock section off we have created a huge 63 song playlist of the world’s best Celtic rock acts including the Pogues, the Dropkick Murphys and Fiddler’s Green blasting out some classic traditional Irish songs.

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Written by Michael Kehoe

Michael Kehoe is a writer for Irish Music Daily and Ireland Calling.
His favourite Irish Music bands are Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys.
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