Chronological list of Irish classical composers

Renaissance

• Cormac Mac Dermott
• Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin
• Nicholas Dáll Pierce

  Baroque

• Johann Sigismund Kusser
• Thomas Roseingrave
• Henry Madin born in France to Irish parents

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• Kane O'Hara
• Tommaso Giordani
• Richard Woodward

  Classical

• Charles Thomas Carter
• Charles Clagget
• Philip Cogan
• John Andrew Stevenson
• Michael Kelly
• Peter K. Moran
• Thomas Carter
• Thomas Augustine Geary

  Romantic

• Thomas Simpson Cooke
• John Field
• William Henry Kearns
• William Michael Rooke
• 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
• Michele Esposito
• Arthur Hervey
• Paul McSwiney
• Victor Herbert
• 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
• Rhona Clarke
• Ronan Guilfoyle
• Fergus Johnston
• Michael Alcorn
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• 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
• Seán Clancy
• Seán Doherty