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25th Jul 2015

JOE’s 15 best Irish songs of 2015 so far (January – July)

Add these to your playlist

Joe Harrington

Add these to your playlist.

It’s been an awesome year for Irish music so far with Hozier, Kodaline and Gavin James all making waves in the States and top quality new band after new band emerging from every part of the country.

There have been countless brilliant Irish songs released this year but we’ve decided to whittle it down, so here are 15 of our favourites.

All Tvvins – Thank You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=167&v=XGdWgcJxDCY

Niamh Crowther – Origins

Fight Like Apes – Pretty Keen on Centrefolds

The Strypes – Scumbag City

EMBRZ – Silent feat. Amy Rose

ASIWYFA – Redesigned a Million Times

Villagers  – Courage

OTHERKIN – Ay Ay

The Academic – Different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu8M3Cw6fuU

Young Wonder – Enchanted

David Keenan – El Paso

Jape – This Chemical Sea

VANN MUSIC – Boy

Hozier – Work Song

Ash – Machinery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCANGMyBrs

To save you the bother of playing all of those songs individually, we’ve created a very handy YouTube playlist with all 15 songs.

LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ with Aideen McQueen – Faith healers, Coolock craic and Gigging as Gaeilge