Chronological list of Irish classical composers

For an alphabetical listing, see 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

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* Cormac MacDermott (died 1618)
* Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin (c. 1580 – c. 1653)
* Nicholas Dáll Pierce (c.1561–1653)

## Baroque

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* Johann Sigismund Kusser (1660–1727)
* Thomas Roseingrave (c.1690–1766)
* Henry Madin (1698–1748) born in France to Irish parents

## Galant period

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* Kane O'Hara (c.1711–1782)
* Francis Ireland (1721–1784)
* Tommaso Giordani (c.1733–1806)
* Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington (1735–1781)
* Richard Woodward (c.1743–1777)

## Classical

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* Charles Thomas Carter (c.1735–1804)
* Charles Clagget (1740–c.1795)
* Philip Cogan (1750–1833)
* John Andrew Stevenson (1761–1833)
* Michael Kelly (1762–1826)
* Peter K. Moran (1767–1831)
* Thomas Carter (1769–1800)
* Thomas Augustine Geary (1775–1801)
* Johann Bernhard Logier (1777–1846)
* Thomas Simpson Cooke (1782–1848)

## Romantic

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* John Field (1782–1837)
* William Henry Kearns (1794–1846)
* William Michael Rooke (1794–1847)
* Joseph Augustine Wade (1796–1845)
* Samuel Lover (1797–1868)
* George Alexander Osborne (1806–1893)
* Michael William Balfe (1808–1870)
* Richard Michael Levey (1811–1899)
* W. Vincent Wallace (1812–1865)
* John William Glover (1815–1899)
* Joseph Robinson (1815–1898)
* Wellington Guernsey (1817–1885)
* Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894)
* Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885)
* Patrick Gilmore (1829–1892)

## Late Romantic

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* Arthur O'Leary (1834–1919)
* George William Torrance (1835–1907)
* James Lynam Molloy (1837–1909)
* Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
* T. R. G. Jozé (1853–1924)
* Michele Esposito (1855–1929)
* Arthur Hervey (1855–1922)
* Paul McSwiney (1856–1889)
* Hope Temple (1859–1938)
* Thomas O'Brien Butler (1861–1915)
* Alicia Adelaide Needham (1863–1945)
* Charles Wood (1866–1926)
* Hamilton Harty (1879–1941)

## Early twentieth century

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* Robert O'Dwyer (1862–1949)
* Swan Hennessy (1866–1929)
* Carl Hardebeck (1869–1945)
* Mary Dickenson-Auner (1880–1965)
* Herbert Hughes (1882–1937)
* Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882–1957)
* John F. Larchet (1884–1967)
* Ina Boyle (1889–1967)
* Ernest John Moeran (1894–1950)
* Arthur Duff (1899–1956)
* Rhoda Coghill (1903–2000)
* Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair (1906–1982)
* Joan Trimble (1915–2000)

## Mid- to late twentieth century

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* Howard Ferguson (1908–1999)
* Michael Bowles (1909–1998)
* Aloys Fleischmann (1910–1992)
* Frederick May (1911–1985)
* Walter Beckett (1914–1996)
* Brian Boydell (1917–2000)
* T.C. Kelly (1917–1985)
* Havelock Nelson (1917–1996)
* A. J. Potter (1918–1980)
* Gerard Victory (1921–1995)
* James Wilson (1922–2005)
* Hormoz Farhat (1929–2021)
* Seán Ó Riada (1931–1971)
* John Kinsella (1932–2021)
* Seóirse Bodley (1933–2023)

## Contemporary

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* Frank Corcoran (born 1944)
* Jerome de Bromhead (born 1945)
* Jane O'Leary (born 1946)
* Philip Martin (born 1947)
* Shaun Davey (born 1948)
* Roger Doyle (born 1949)
* Kevin Volans (born 1949)
* Bill Whelan (born 1950)
* John Buckley (born 1951)
* Philip Hammond (born 1951)
* Gerald Barry (born 1952)
* Raymond Deane (born 1953)
* Eibhlís Farrell (born 1953)
* John Wolf Brennan (born 1954)
* Patrick Cassidy (born 1956)
* Rhona Clarke (born 1958)
* Ronan Guilfoyle (born 1958)
* Fergus Johnston (born 1959)
* Michael Alcorn (born 1962)
* Vincent Kennedy (born 1962)
* Michael McGlynn (born 1964)
* John McLachlan (born 1964)
* Ian Wilson (born 1964)
* Benjamin Dwyer (born 1965)
* Gráinne Mulvey (born 1966)
* Deirdre Gribbin (born 1967)
* Siobhán Cleary (born 1970)
* Donnacha Dennehy (born 1970)
* Jennifer Walshe (born 1974)
* Ed Bennett (born 1975)
* David Flynn (born 1977)
* Eoin O'Keeffe (born 1979)
* Ailbhe McDonagh (born 1982)
* Seán Clancy (born 1984)
* Seán Doherty (born 1987)

*[c.]: circa