Irish folk music (1980–1989)

Deaths

 * Seamus Ennis (1912–1982)
 * Joe Heaney (1919–1984)
 * Luke Kelly (1940–1984)
 * Hugh Gillespie (1906–1986)
 * Ewan MacColl (1915–1989)
 * Margaret Barry (1917–c. 1989 or 1990)
 * Ciarán Bourke

Recordings

 * 1980 "Mist Covered Mountain" (De Dannan)
 * 1981 "Star Spangled Molly" (De Dannan)
 * 1981 "Plays with Himself" (Derek Bell)
 * 1982 "Musical Ireland" (Derek Bell)
 * 1984 "Red Roses for Me" (The Pogues)
 * 1985 "Rum, Sodomy and The Lash" (The Pogues)
 * 1985 "To Welcome Paddy Home" (The Boys of the Lough)
 * 1986 "The Celts" (Enya)
 * 1987 "Altan" (Altan)
 * 1988 "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" (The Pogues)