We’re doing our bit to promote Irish music and want you to be part of it.
Can you nominate 5 Irish Tunes to add to our Irish Music playlist and send us an intro to each song?
Any style, any genre, any year…this is where you get to choose 5 of your favourites.
Contact alanbyrne@dundalkfm.com
| (Sept 20) | Band | Tracks |
 Pat Byrne |
Una Healy | Until You |
| Emma Langford | Mariana | |
| Niamh Regan | Save The Day | |
John Englishby |
Thin Lizzy | Southbound |
| Rory Gallagher | Shadowplay | |
| Noel Sharkey | Sinead Lohan | To Ramona |
| The Cranberries | Dreams | |
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Microdisney | Town To Town |
| Lisa O’Neill | Come Sit Sing | |
| Sean Keane | From Galway To Graceland |
| Presenter | Caroline Byrne
(Oct 20) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Kodaline | Follow Your Fire |
| Mary Coughlan | Ancient Rain |
| Van Morrison | Coney Island |
| The Furey’s and Davy Arthur | Sweet Sixteen |
| Irish Women in Harmony | Dreams |
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Ciara Byrne
(Oct 20) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Third Smoke | Maya |
| Orwells 84 | She Is So Sweet |
| The Cranberries | Dreams |
| David Keenan | Subliminal Dublinia |
| The Villagers | Courage |
| Presenter | Eamon O Reilly
(Nov 20) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Joseph Locke | We’ll Make A Bonfire of Our troubles |
| Dubliners and The Pogues | The Irish Rover |
| Goats Don’t Shave | Las Vegas In The Hills Of Donegal |
| Moore’s Melodies | The Minstrel Boy |
| John McCormack | Three O Clock In The Morning |
| Tommy Makem | Killyburn Brae |
| Joseph Locke | Goodbye |
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Joey McGowan
(Nov 20) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Whipping Boy | Twinkle |
| Mick Christopher | Hey Day |
| Fontaines DC | Sha Sha Sha |
| New Secret Weapon | You’re Still Losing |
| Sultans of Ping | Where’s Me Jumper |
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Noel Sharkey
(Dec 20) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Louise Morrisey | Roses and violets |
| Frances Black | After the Ball |
| Sinead Lohan | To Ramona |
| Delores O Riordan | Dreams |
| Louise Morrisey | Carroll County Accident |
|
John Englishby
(Dec 20) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Thin Lizzy | Southbound |
| Dermot Kennedy | What Have I Done |
| Orwell’s 84 | On The Road |
| Rory Gallagher | Shadowplay |
| Tara Tine | 8 Long Years
|
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Alan Byrne
(Jan 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Andy White | Streets of Florence |
| Camille O Sullivan | Don’t Think Twice |
| Sinead O Connor | Queen of Denmark |
| Morrissey | Everyday is Like Sunday |
| Cathal Coughlan | Berties Brochures |
| Willie Nelson/Sinead O Connor | Don’t Give Up |
| Anthony Hegarty/Lou Reed | Candy Says |
| Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh | Fead an Iolair |
| Lisa O’Neill | Pothole In The Sky |
| Presenter | Tara Tine
(Feb 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Mick Hanly | Good Ship Delirious |
| Lisa O Neill | Rock The Machine |
| Clannad | Níl Sé Ina Lá |
| The Cranberries | Daffodil Lament |
| Sophie Coyle and Jinx Lennon | Jonah And The Whale |
| Presenter | Rory Moore
(Feb 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Caolfhoinn Rose | Flourish |
| Caolfhoinn Rose | Atmosphere |
| Dervish | Sean Bán |
| Seamie O Dowd | The Road To Sligo |
| Roisin Murphy | Something More |
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Tracey Hanby
(March 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Denise Chaila | Chaila |
| Ruth-Anne | Love Again |
| Róisín O | Hearts + Bones |
| Stephanie Rainey | No Cowboy |
| Rebekah Fitch | Loose Ends |
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Michael Dowdall
(March 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| John McDermott | Glencoe Massacre |
| John Faulkner and Delores Keane | Bonnie Light Horseman |
| Rita Connolly | Ripples in the Rockpool |
| Frank Harte | The Charladies Ball |
| Liam Clancy | And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda |
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Orla Crilly
(April 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Jape | Floating |
| Ham SandwicH | Ants |
| Power of Dreams | Jokes on Me |
| Alltvvins | Crash |
| Director | Reconnect |
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Brendan Coughlan
(April 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Clannad | Tráthnóna Beag Aréir |
| Aoife Ní Fhearraigh | Úrchnoc Chéin Mhic Cáinte |
| The Choral Scholars UCD. | Mo Ghoilla Mear |
| Rosanna Ní Dhonail | Cumhaidh an Fhile |
| Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin | Úrchill an Chreagáin |
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Carole Wardlaw
(May 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| The Dubliners | Dublin In The Rare Old Times |
| Mary Coughlan | Double Cross |
| Eleanor McEvoy | I Hear You Breathing In |
| Delores Keane | Caledonia |
| Zoe Conway and John McIntyre | Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa |
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Daniel Deery
(May 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Sean Keane | From Galway To Graceland |
| Microdisney | Town To Town |
| Colm Mac Con Iomaire | Farewell To The Sea |
| Paul Brady | Nothing But The Same Old Story |
| Lisa O’Neill | Come Sit Sing |
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Ciaran Callan
(July 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| The Blizzards | The First Girl To Leave Town |
| The Dubliners | Take Me Up To Monto |
| Enya | Caribbean Blue |
| Thin Lizzy | The Boys Are Back In Town |
| Niall Horan | Nice to Meet You |
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Andy McKenna
(July 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Jim McCann | Grace |
| Fureys and Davy Arthur | The Green Fields of France |
| Wolfe Tones | Street of New York |
| Aslan | Crazy World |
| U2 | Bad |
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Hugh McKitterick
(August 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Rod Stewart | Grace |
| Steve Earl/Sharon Shannon | Galway Girl |
| Celtic Thunder | Red Rose Café |
| The Dubliners | Whiskey In The Jar |
| Paddy Reilly | Dirty Old Town |
| Paddy Reilly and the Dubliners | Fields of Athenry |
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Margaret Hoey
(August 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| The Pale | Dog With No Tail |
| Horslips | The Rocks Remain |
| Rory Gallagher | The Shin Kicker |
| Brush Shields | Old Pal |
| Thin Lizzy | Emerald |
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Cathal McCooey (September 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Rory Gallagher | Tattoo Lady |
| The Waterboys | Medicine Bow |
| Aslan | Sands of Time |
| The Stunning | Half Past Two |
| U2 | A Sort of Homecoming |
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Mona Daly (September 21) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Finbarr Furey | Someday I’ll Get Over You |
| Boomtown Rats | I Don’t Like Mondays |
| Frank Patterson | Percy French Melody |
| Joe Dolan | Goodbye Venice |
| The Cranberries | Dreaming |
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Tom Gernon
(January 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Van Morrison | Spanish Rose |
| Thin Lizzy | Thing’s aren’t Working Out Down at the Farm |
| Mitch and the Additions | Hey Diana |
| Dave Maher and the Rockets | I Stayed at the Heartbreak Hotel |
| Finbar and Eddie Furey | Lonesome Boatman |
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Jason Kelly
(January 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Charlie Landsborough |
Shine Your Light |
| Joe Dolan | Sweet Little Rock n Roller |
| Derek Ryan | Pick a Bale of Cotton |
| Nathan Carter | The Leaving of Liverpool |
| Jimmy Buckley | Down in Louisiana |
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Charles Barker
(February 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Sandy Kelly with Johnny Cash | The Woodcarver |
| Tommy Fleming | Hard Times |
| Josef Locke | I`ll take you home again Kathleen |
| Johnny McEvoy | The Connemara Cradle Song |
| Liam Clancy | Waltzing Matilda |
| Cliona Hagan | Let him go, let him tarry |
| Daniel O`Donnell | On the Wings of a Dove |
| Marty Mone | Hit The Diff |
| Ciaran Rosney | Marie`s Wedding |
| Philomena Begley | Queen of the Silver Dollar |
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Kavneet Kainth (March 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Dermot Kennedy | Better Days |
| Lyra | New Day |
| Picture This | Take My Hand |
| The Cranberries | Dreams |
| Aimee | Just a Phase |
| Benjamyn | Sea of Uncertainty |
| Gavin James | Greatest Hits |
| Denise Chaila | CHAILA |
| Kodaline | Way Back Then |
| Bewitched | C’est la Vie |
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Dean Lawlor
(June 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| The Wolfe Tones | The Foggy Dew |
| Van Morrison | Brown Eyed Girl |
| The Commitments | Mustang Sally |
| The Undertones | Teenage Kicks |
| Thin Lizzy | Emerald |
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Pamela Carragher
(June 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| The Script | Paint the Town Green |
| Dermot Kennedy | Better Days |
| Picture This | Addicted to You |
| U2 | With or Without You |
| Niall Horan | This Town |
| Kodaline | Brother |
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John and Maura Hennessy
(July 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Cór Cúil Aodha | Mo Ghile Mear |
| Luke Kelly | Joe Hill |
| Irish Women in Harmony | Dreams |
| Moncrieff | Warm |
| Dermot Kennedy | Something to Someone |
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Eugene O Hanlon (July 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| The Stunning | Brewing Up A Storm |
| Something Happens | Parachute |
| An Emotional Fish | Celebrate |
| Power of Dreams | Never Been To Texas |
| That Petrol Emotion | Hey Venus |
| (August 2022 – Volunteer Information Night Recording) | ||
| Presenter | Band | Track |
| Dean Wright | Varlight | Stay |
| Barbara McClure | Thin Lizzy | Dancin’ in the Moonlight |
| Luka Stopic | The Pogues | Fairytale of New York |
| Mary Gantley | Bagatelle | Second Violin |
| Seoirse McCann | Jinx Lennon | A Nobody from Co Louth |
| Conor Clarke | Big Pig | Don’t Turn Around |
| Sean Callaghan | Hal Ketchum | Past the Point of Rescue |
| Bruno Vilares | The Dubliners | Dublin in the Rare Ol’ Times |
| Róisín Ward Morrow | Lá Lugh | Brigid’s Kiss |
| (September 2022 – Louth PPN Training | |||
| Presenter | Band | Track | Organisation |
| Geraldine Martin | The Corrs | Breathless | |
| Nicole Callan | Wolfe Tones | Grace | Drogheda Irish Wheelchair |
| Janey Quigley | Johnny Logan | Hold Me Now | Dundalk Irish Wheelchair |
| Declan Power | The Stunning | Brewing Up A Storm | Barbican Theatre, Drogheda |
| Michael Dowling | The Waterboys | Fisherman’s Blues | National Learning Network |
| Rachel Winters | Hermitage Green | Quicksand | Dundalk Youth Centre |
| Tai Davids | The Dubliners | Whiskey in the Jar | Dundalk Youth Centre |
| Joy Booth | Declan Rourke | The Stars over Kinvarra | Turas Counselling Service |
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Karl Collins (October 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| A House | I’ll Always Be Grateful |
| Cry Before Dawn | Gone Forever |
| Something Happens | The Beach |
| The Golden Horde | 100 Boys |
| Fatima Mansions | 1000% |
| The Pale | Dog With No Tale |
| The Stunning | Got To Get Away |
| An Emotional Fish | Celebrate |
| The Fat Lady Sings | Arc Light |
| The Blades | Don’t Break The Silence |
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Mary Rose Muckian (November 22) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Mary Black | Anachie Gordon |
| The Villagers | Nothing Arrived |
| Luke Kelly | Raglan Road |
| Horslips | Trouble with a Capital T |
| Moving Hearts | Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette |
| Presenter | David Larkin (October 23) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Finnian | I Don’t Want To Fall In Love |
| The Cooleys/Rowan Murphy | Love Will Tear Us Apart |
| It’s What They Want | Orwell’s 84 |
| The Two Five Ones | Slave To The Moon |
| Take My Hand | Glas Quartet |
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Ciara Byrne (Feb 24) |
| Band | Tracks |
| Greg Tisdale | It Don’t Make Sense To Me |
| Dug | Jubilee |
| Don’t Mind That | Meet Me In The Morning |
| Rachel Lavelle | Perpetual Party |
| Lemoncello | Harsh Truths |
| David OMFG | Early In The Afternoon |
| Fizzy Orange | Chelsea Bakery |
| Gurriers | Des Goblin |
| Presenter | Emilie Dowdall (Mar 24) |
| Band | Tracks |
| The Dubliners | The Fields of Athenry |
| Shamrock | I’ll Tell Me Ma |
| Sinead O Connor | Famine |
| U2 | Sunday Bloody Sunday |
| Enya | Only Time |
https://www.mixcloud.com/DundalkFMMixcloud/5-irish-tunes-emilie-dowdall/
| Presenter | Ryan Bradley (Mar 24) |
| Band | Tracks |
| The Wolfe Tones | Celtic Symphony |
| Hozier | Blood Upon The Snow |
| The Wolfe Tones | You’ll Never Beat The Irish |
| Luke Kelly | Raglan Road |
| The Wolfe Tones | The Foggy Dew |
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| Presenter | Dara and Aoife (July 24) |
| Band | Tracks |
| The Wolfe Tones | The Foggy Dew |
| The Dubliners | A Nation Once Again |
| Paddy Reilly | The Fields of Athenry |
| The Wolfe Tones | Streets of New York |
| The High Kings | The Rocky Road to Dublin |
https://www.mixcloud.com/DundalkFMMixcloud/5-irish-tunes-dara-and-aoife/