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

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

Baroque

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

Galant period

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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 (born 1933)

Contemporary

 * 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)