* Director ( band ), an Irish rock band from Malahide

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

Examples of theme pubs include sports bars, rock pubs, biker pubs, Goth pubs, strip pubs, gay bars, karaoke bars and Irish pubs ( see below ).

* August 20 – Philip Lynott, Irish rock musician ( d. 1986 )

** Van Morrison, Irish rock musician

** The Edge ( David Howell Evans ), Irish rock guitarist ( U2 )

** Larry Mullen, Jr., Irish rock drummer ( U2 )

* September 25 – The Irish rock band U2 is formed after drummer Larry Mullen Jr. posts a note seeking members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school.

** Adam Clayton, Irish rock bassist ( U2 )

* May 10 – Bono, Irish rock singer ( U2 )

* March 9 – The Irish rock band U2 releases their studio album The Joshua Tree.

Irish rock bands The Cranberries and The Pogues ( with Spider Stacy as whistler ) incorporate the tin whistle in some of their songs, as do such American Celtic punk bands as The Tossers, Dropkick Murphys, and Flogging Molly ( in which Bridget Regan plays the instrument ).

Andrea Corr of Irish folk rock band The Corrs also plays the tin whistle.

Chondrus crispus — commonly called Irish moss or carrageen moss ( Irish carraigín, " little rock ") — is a species of red algae which grows abundantly along the rocky parts of the Atlantic coast of Europe and North America.

* San Salvador ( Irish band ), an Irish rock band

Like Waylander, Keith Fay also credits the Irish rock band Horslips as a " huge influence on Cruachan ," further noting that " what they were doing in the 70s is the equivalent of what we do now.

The German band Subway to Sally was formed in 1992 as a folk rock band, singing in English and incorporating Irish and Scottish influences in their music.

Category: Irish alternative rock groups

Northern Irish progressive rock band Fruupp included a song called Gormenghast, inspired by the novels, on their fourth and final album Modern Masquerades, released in 1975.

Category: Irish rock guitarists

Category: Irish alternative rock groups

These included leading Northern Irish musician Van Morrison, British blues pioneer Alexis Korner as well as Ronnie Wood, Alex Harvey and Mick Jagger ; folk musicians Martin Carthy, John Renbourn and Ashley Hutchings ; rock musicians Roger Daltrey, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Robin Trower and David Gilmour ; and popular beat music successes Graham Nash and Allan Clarke of The Hollies.

One day he followed the Irish Jasper Greens, the town band, to a picnic and spent the entire day listening, while his family spent the day looking.

The band took its name from the Irish constitutional law guaranteeing freedom of the press.

However, in 1908 with the Scottish and Irish unions refusing to be involved, the Anglo-Welsh side only sported red jerseys with a thick white band on their jerseys on tour to Australia and New Zealand.

Bronski also remixed the track " Flowers in the Morning " by Northern Irish electronic band, Electrobronze in 2007, changing the style of the song from classical to Hi-NRG disco

" Boudica has also been the primary subject of songs by Irish singer / songwriter Enya, Dutch soprano Petra Berger, Scottish singer / songwriter Steve McDonald, English metal band Bal-Sagoth, Faith and the Muse and Dreams in the Witching House.

The incident has been commemorated by Irish band, U2, in their 1983 protest song " Sunday Bloody Sunday ".

The Wolfe Tones, an Irish rebel music band, wrote a song also called " Sunday Bloody Sunday " about the event.

The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.

In 1971, the Irish band Skara Brae recorded its first and only LP ( simply called Skara Brae ), all songs in Irish.

* Chimera ( band ), an Irish musical group

Irish band Clannad featured the harp heavily in their music during the 1970s and 1980s.

For example, Delhi 2 Dublin, a band based in Canada, is known for fusing Indian and Irish music, and Bhangraton is a fusion of Bhangra music with reggaeton, which itself is a fusion of hip hop, reggae, and traditional Latin American music.

* 1964 – Liam Ó Maonlaí, founding member of Irish band Hothouse Flowers

* Spin ( Scullion album ), the 1985 studio album by Irish band Scullion

* The Script, an Irish band

Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The Washington Post described MacGowan as " puffy and paunchy ," but said the singer " still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point.

Despite the political climate in which the band had lived, the vast majority ( though not all ) of the material the band released focused not upon the Northern Irish Troubles, but upon issues such as adolescence, teenage angst and heartbreak.

A version of this song can be found on the album " Turas " of the Irish / Scottish trad band Shantalla.

* 1961 – The Edge, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( U2 )

* 1961 – Larry Mullen, Irish drummer ( U2 )

The halftime show featured a three-song set from Irish rockers U2, who had just completed their successful Elevation Tour.

* The Edge ( born 1961 ), or simply Edge, Irish musician, member of U2

He displays ignorance over the issues that unfolded in Ireland, once chastising the Irish over the potato famine with the remark, " at the end of the day, they will pay the price for being a fussy eater ", and also completely misunderstanding the lyrics to Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2, believing the song to " really encapsulate the frustrations of a Sunday " ( both of these conversations happened in front of two Irish television producers in To Kill A Mocking Alan ).

*" Sunday Bloody Sunday " ( song ), a song by Irish rock band U2

In 2000, Bono, lead singer with Irish band U2, played a central role in campaigning for debt relief for African nations in the Jubilee 2000 campaign.

Winners of the award have included: musician Peter Gabriel ( 2008 ), Nelson Mandela ( 2006 ), the Irish rock band U2 ( 2005 ), Mary Robinson and Hilda Morales Trujillo ( a Guatemalan women's rights activist ) ( 2004 ) and the author and public intellectual Václav Havel ( 2003 ).

The record for the stadium, after being partially rebuilt, was set by Irish rock band U2, on 1 August 2009, with an attendance of 60, 099.

The Edge is the stage name of David Howell Evans, a member of the Irish rock band U2.

Irish rock band U2 performed at ANZ stadium on 13 and 14 December 2010 as part of their U2 360 tour.

The tour was headlined by a mixture of British and Irish artists – Sting, The Police, Peter Gabriel and U2 – with American and Canadian musicians Jackson Browne, Lou Reed, Joan Baez, The Neville Brothers and Bryan Adams.

However, the most successful genres have been rock, popular and traditional fusion, with performers such as U2, Enya, Westlife, Boyzone, Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher, Horslips, Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats, Clannad, Stiff Little Fingers, Altan, Frank Patterson, The Corrs, The Dubliners, The Chieftains, The Bothy Band, De Dannan, The Divine Comedy, Josef Locke, The Irish Tenors, Van Morrison, Therapy ?, The Saw Doctors, Planxty, The Wolfe Tones, Snow Patrol, The Cranberries, In Tua Nua, The Undertones, Ash, B * Witched, Nadine Coyle, The Hothouse Flowers, The Script, Two Door Cinema Club, Something Happens, The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, Dana, Mundy, Sinéad O ' Connor, Paul Brady, Christy Moore, Dónal Lunny, Val Doonican, Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ruby Murray, Peter Cunnah ( of D: Ream ), Daniel O ' Donnell, Bridie Gallagher, Brendan Bowyer, Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Mary Black, Sir James Galway, Johnny Logan, Bill Whelan ( of Riverdance fame ), Damien Rice, Phil Coulter, Glen Hansard, and Celtic Woman achieving success nationally and internationally.

The guitarist for the Irish band U2, The Edge, is also known for wearing a tuque while performing, or during interviews.

* Irish band U2 held their Zoo TV concert at the Sydney Football Stadium in 1993, as recorded on the concert film, Zoo TV: Live from Sydney.

Six years later, a special edition of the programme was devoted to the Irish rock band U2 and their charismatic front man Bono.