Chronological list of Irish classical composers
The following is a chronological list of classical music composers living and working in Ireland, or originating from Ireland.
Renaissance
Baroque
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Classical
- Charles Thomas Carter
- Charles Clagget
- Philip Cogan
- John Andrew Stevenson
- Michael Kelly
- Peter K. Moran
- Thomas Carter
- Thomas Augustine Geary
- Johann Bernhard Logier
- Thomas Simpson Cooke
Romantic
- John Field
- William Henry Kearns
- William Michael Rooke
- Joseph Augustine Wade
- Samuel Lover
- George Alexander Osborne
- Michael William Balfe
- Richard Michael Levey
- W. Vincent Wallace
- John William Glover
- Joseph Robinson
- Wellington Guernsey
- Robert Prescott Stewart
- Joseph O'Kelly
- Patrick Gilmore
Late Romantic
- Arthur O'Leary
- George William Torrance
- James Lynam Molloy
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- T. R. G. Jozé
- Michele Esposito
- Arthur Hervey
- Paul McSwiney
- Hope Temple
- Thomas O'Brien Butler
- Alicia Adelaide Needham
- Charles Wood
- Hamilton Harty
Early twentieth century
- Robert O'Dwyer
- Swan Hennessy
- Carl Hardebeck
- Mary Dickenson-Auner
- Herbert Hughes
- Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer
- John F. Larchet
- Ina Boyle
- Ernest John Moeran
- Arthur Duff
- Rhoda Coghill
- Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair
- Joan Trimble
Mid- to late twentieth century
- Howard Ferguson
- Michael Bowles
- Aloys Fleischmann
- Frederick May
- Walter Beckett
- Brian Boydell
- T.C. Kelly
- Havelock Nelson
- A. J. Potter
- Gerard Victory
- James Wilson
- Hormoz Farhat
- Seán Ó Riada
- John Kinsella
- Seóirse Bodley
Contemporary
- Frank Corcoran
- Jerome de Bromhead
- Jane O'Leary
- Philip Martin
- Shaun Davey
- Roger Doyle
- Kevin Volans
- Bill Whelan
- John Buckley
- Philip Hammond
- Gerald Barry
- Raymond Deane
- Eibhlís Farrell
- John Wolf Brennan
- Patrick Cassidy
- Rhona Clarke
- Ronan Guilfoyle
- Fergus Johnston
- Michael Alcorn
- Vincent Kennedy
- Michael McGlynn
- John McLachlan
- Ian Wilson
- Benjamin Dwyer
- Gráinne Mulvey
- Deirdre Gribbin
- Siobhán Cleary
- Donnacha Dennehy
- Jennifer Walshe
- Ed Bennett
- David Flynn
- Eoin O'Keeffe
- Ailbhe McDonagh
- Seán Clancy
- Seán Doherty