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Originally Posted by shermsshack
The Mahones
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
The Pogues
Blood Or Whiskey
The Bloody Irish Boys
Great Big Sea
The Tossers
Just to name a few  |
Also throw in Neck, Mutiny, The Porters, Shane MacGowan and the Popes (post-Pogues era), Sharky Doyles (the Chicago equivalent of the Dropkick Murphys), The Killigans.
Possibly the greatest Irish punk rock band of all time is Stiff Little Fingers. But other than the voice and the lyrical content, there's not much Irish about it. Just raw punk rock.
And a couple of good scottish/scottish influenced bands are Real McKenzies and Flatfoot 56.
You can find a decent list of Irish/Celtic bands on the Shite'n'Onions website.
http://www.shitenonions.com/links.html
And saying that bagpipes are somehow exclusively scottish is ignorant. Bagpipes have been used in Ireland for hundreds of years and they are considered a part of traditional irish music. Every bit as much as a fiddle or tin whistle or uilleann pipe. Scotland doesn't have a monopoly on bagpipes, you know.
And let's not even get into the topic of where the Scottish people originated from or the fact that Ireland used to be known as Scotia, the Latin word for Ireland. And the area that would become Scotland only became so because Scots (from Scotia) migrated there.