List of Irish classical composers
This is a list of composers from Ireland working in the classical tradition. It does not contain composers for pop, rock, trad, jazz, or film music. For Irish film music composers search for the 'Category:Irish film score composers' in the search box above.A – D
- Michael Alcorn, contemporary composer
- Michael William Balfe, romantic opera composer best known for ''The Bohemian Girl"
- Gerald Barry, contemporary composer
- Walter Beckett, 20th-century composer
- Ed Bennett, contemporary composer.
- Seóirse Bodley, contemporary composer
- Michael Bowles, 20th-century composer
- Brian Boydell, 20th-century composer
- Ina Boyle, female 20th-century composer
- John Buckley, contemporary composer
- John Wolf Brennan, Switzerland-based contemporary composer
- Thomas O'Brien Butler, Celticist composer
- Charles Thomas Carter, 18th-century composer
- Thomas Carter, 18th-century composer
- Charles Clagget, 18th-century composer
- Seán Clancy, contemporary composer
- Rhona Clarke, contemporary composer
- Ann Cleare, contemporary composer
- Siobhán Cleary, contemporary composer
- Philip Cogan, classical period composer
- Rhoda Coghill, 20th-century composer
- Houston Collisson, opera and ballad composer
- Thomas Simpson Cooke, early 19th-century composer
- Frank Corcoran, contemporary composer resident in Germany
- Shaun Davey, 20th-century romantic composer
- Jerome de Bromhead, contemporary composer
- Raymond Deane, contemporary composer
- Donnacha Dennehy, contemporary composer and founder of the Crash Ensemble
- Seán Doherty, contemporary composer
- Roger Doyle, contemporary composer known for electro-acoustic music
- Arthur Duff, 20th-century composer
- Benjamin Dwyer, contemporary composer
E – K
- Michele Esposito, Italo-Irish composer
- Hormoz Farhat, 20th-century composer
- Eibhlís Farrell, 20th-century composer
- Howard Ferguson, Northern Irish composer based in England
- John Field, romantic composer and pianist, notable for cultivating the nocturne
- Aloys Fleischmann, 20th-century composer
- W. H. Grattan Flood, composer and music historian
- David Flynn, contemporary composer
- Thomas Augustine Geary, 18th-century composer
- Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer and bandmaster
- John William Glover, 19th-century composer
- Deirdre Gribbin, contemporary composer
- Wellington Guernsey, ballad and piano composer
- Ronan Guilfoyle, contemporary composer and jazz bassist
- Carl Hardebeck, early 20th-century composer and arranger
- Hamilton Harty, late romantic composer and a leading conductor of his time
- Swan Hennessy, Irish-American, Paris-based composer
- Victor Herbert, Irish-American composer of musicals
- Arthur Hervey, late 19th-century composer and music critic
- Michael Holohan, contemporary composer and writer
- Ciaran Hope, contemporary composer
- Herbert Hughes, composer and skilful arranger of traditional music
- Fergus Johnston, contemporary composer
- William Henry Kearns, 19th-century composer
- :nl:Vincent Kennedy|Vincent Kennedy, contemporary Irish composer
- Michael Kelly, tenor and opera composer
- T.C. Kelly, neo-romantic 20th-century composer
- John Kinsella, contemporary composer
L – O
- John F. Larchet, late romantic composer and influential teacher
- Richard Michael Levey, 19th-century composer, violinist and conductor
- Samuel Lover, composer of operettas and songs
- Michael McGlynn, contemporary composer, founder of choral group Anúna
- John McLachlan, contemporary composer
- Paul McSwiney, 19th-century composer
- Philip Martin, contemporary composer and pianist
- Frederick May, 20th-century composer
- Ernest John Moeran, early 20th-century English composer with Irish connections
- James Lynam Molloy, composer of popular ballads
- Peter K. Moran, early 19th-century composer
- Gráinne Mulvey, contemporary composer
- Alicia Adelaide Needham, composer of popular ballads
- Havelock Nelson, 20th-century light music composer
- Ailís Ní Ríain, contemporary composer
- Robert O'Dwyer, early 20th-century composer
- Kane O'Hara, composer of burlettas
- Eoin O'Keeffe, contemporary composer
- Joseph O'Kelly, Franco-Irish romantic composer
- Arthur O'Leary, 19th-century composer
- Jane O'Leary, contemporary American-Irish composer
- Seán Ó Riada, 20th-century composer and arranger of traditional Irish music
- George Alexander Osborne, 19th-century piano composer
P – Z
- Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer, 20th-century composer
- Annie Patterson, early 20th-century composer and musicologist
- A. J. Potter, 20th-century composer
- Joseph Robinson, 19th-century composer, conductor, and teacher
- William Michael Rooke, 19th-century opera composer
- Thomas Roseingrave, baroque composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford, prominent late romantic composer
- John Andrew Stevenson, composer of operas and of the original accompaniments to Moore's Melodies
- Robert Prescott Stewart, 19th-century composer, organist and conductor
- Hope Temple, composer of popular ballads
- George William Torrance, 19th-century composer
- Joan Trimble, 20th-century composer
- Gerard Victory, 20th-century composer
- Kevin Volans, contemporary composer born in South Africa, now an Irish citizen
- W. Vincent Wallace, 19th-century composer of operas and piano music
- Jennifer Walshe, contemporary composer and vocal artist
- Bill Whelan, contemporary composer
- Ian Wilson, contemporary composer
- James Wilson, prolific Irish-based composer
- Charles Wood, late romantic composer, known for his church music
- Richard Woodward, baroque composer
