Irish Albums List 2012
Alale – Breakfast in Mayo (Own Label)
Altan – Gleann Nimhe – The poison Glen (Compass Records)
Aslan – Nudie Books and Frenchies (EMI)
Autumn Owls - Between Buildings, Toward The Sea (Epintonic.com)
Bantum - Legion (Self Released)
Bats – The Sleep of Reason (Richter Collective)
Breanndan Ó Beaglaoich - Fé Scáth/In The Shadow (Own Label)
Seamus Begley & Oisin Mac Diarmada – Together (Ceol Productions)
Wallis Bird – Wallis Bird (Rubyworks)
Bitter Roc – Cold City (Self Released)
Valentine Black – Desire Lines (Self Released)
Blackpenny – Blackpenny (IND)
Luka Bloom – This New Morning (Bigsky Records)
The Bonnevilles – Folk Art & The death of Electric Jesus (Twenty Stone Blatt)
Fintan Bray – Under The Great Shady Tree (Self Released)
Dan Brouder - The Lark's Air (Own Label)
John Carroll - Let Every Tounge (Self Released)
Cars Love Girls – Skip School (Vacation 58 Records)
Paddy Casey – The Secret Life Of (Rimecoat)
Paul Casey – Big World (IND)
The Cast of Cheers – Family (Schoolboy Error)
Ceol Sa Chistin – Music In The Kitchen (Own Label)
Cheap Freaks – Bury Them All (Big Neck Records)
Joe Chester – Hope against Hope (Self Released)
The Chieftains – Voice of Ages (Concord)
Christian Bookshop – Christian Bookshop (Owl & Hat)
Cormac O Caoimh – A New Season For Love (EMI)
Sinead O' Connor – How About I Be Me (And You be You) (One Little Indian)
Connor & The Crooks – Connor & The Crooks (Self Released)
Briana Corrigan – Redbird (Redbird and Anchor Records)
Mary Coughlan – The Whole Affair (Indi Entertainment)
Cocophone – Reservoir (Self Released)
Kevin Crawford - Carrying the Tune (Bally O Records)
The Cranberries – Roses (Downtown Records)
John Cronin & Daithi Kearney – Midleton Rare (Own Label)
Croupier – Croupier (Eleven Eleven)
Crow Black Chicken – Electric Soup (Self Released)
Adrian Crowley – I See Three Bird Flying (Chemikal Underground)
Darragh Cullen – Whispers and Silent Screams (Self Released)
Dark Room Notes – Dark Room Notes (BBE)
Deaf Joe – Burrowings (Delphi) Deetrich – Tug of War (Reekus)
Robert Delaney – Rising Tide (Self Released)
Delorentos – Little Sparks (Delo Records)
Damien Dempsey – Almighty Love (Sony)
Detboi – Darkside (Deep Thrills)
Dick Farrelly & Matt Walklate – Keep It Clean (Self Released)
Gerry Diver – Speech Project (One Fine Day Records)
Kevin Doherty – Seeing Things (Self Released)
Martin Donohoe – The Lady's Plaything (NYAH CD)
Peter Doran – Overheard The Stars (Self Released)
Maria Doyle Kennedy – Sing (Mermaid Records)
Drunken Boat – Tie The Knots (Saywhatyoumean Records)
Duke Special – Oh Pioneer (Adventures in Gramaphone)
Stevie Dunne – Banjo (Self Released)
Eazy Tyger – Earn Your Stripes (Self Released)
Farriers – Years Ago In Our Backyard (Self Released)
The Feekers – Tarbolten (Own Label)
Julie Feeney - Clocks (Mittens)
Mick Flannery – Red to Blue (EMI)
Fidil - The Old Wheel of Fortune (Own Label)
Filthy Angels – Lafa (Self Released)
Fling – Fling (Own Label)
Seamus Fogarty – God Damn You Mountain (Fence Records)
Brian Friel – Karrusel (Own Label)
The Frank And Walters – Greenwich Meantime (FIFA)
Frantic Jack – Last One To Leave (Live Loud Music)
Funeral Suits – Lily of The Valley (Model Citizen)
Bronagh Gallager – Bronagh Gallagher (Self Released)
The Gandhis – After Autumn (1969 Records)
Mark Geary – Songs About Love, Songs About Leaving (Sonablast!)
General Fiasco – Unfaithfully Yours (Dirty Hit)
Ghost Estates – Ghost Estates (Slap in The face)
Mary Gillespie - Over The Years (Own Label)
Ginnels – Crowns (Popical Island)
Goitse – Transformed (Own Label)
Grand Pocket Orchestra – Ronald and Sylma (Popical Island)
Grouse – Heads (Self Released)
HAL – The Time The Hour (Hal Music)
Half Shot – High Walls and Free Falls (Self Released)
Kieran Halpin - The Devil and his Dealing (SOS Records)
Mickey Harte – Forward To Reality (Swerve)
Glen Hansard – Rhythm & Repose (Plateau)
The Hard Ground – Broken Conversations (Self Released)
Heathers – Kingdom (Warner)
Grainne Holland - Teanga na nGael (Ghm2011)
Noel Holmes – Identify (Self Released)
The Holy Roman Army – One Army That Was You (Self Released)
House of Cosy Cushions – Haunt Me Sweetly (Outcast Cats)
Nina Hynes - Goldmine (Self Released)
Jedward – Young Love (Universal)
J Roots – Soapbox Fury (Loza Records)
Jogging – Take Courage (Out on A Limb)
Daniel Jones – Forever, In Disguise (Index Records)
Cathy Jordan – All The Way Home (Blix Street Records)
Katie Kim – Cover and Flood (Flaming June)
Kaplin – Devastating Ways (Self Released)
Bap Kennedy – The Sailer's Revenge (Proper)
Billy Kennedy – This Old Life (Self Released)
Nuala Kennedy – Noble Stranger (Compass Records)
Keywest – The Message (Alphastar)
The Kilfenora Ceili Band - Chapter Eight (Own Label)
Louise Killeen – Brilliant Tease (LK Music)
Knoxville Morning - Knoxville Morning (Self Released)
Kopek – White Collar Lies (Religion Music)
The Koubas – Things I Don't Like to Talk about (Formality Records)
Large Mound – Another Year of Rock (Self Released)
Last Days of 1984 - Wake up to the Waves (Osaka)
Lethal Dialect – LD50 Part 11 (Working Class Records)
Denis Liddy & Elvie Miller – Tradaree (Own Label)
The Lofires – The Lofires (Paraphernalia)
Logikparty – Oh Cult (White Plague Records)
The Lost Brothers – The Passing Of The Night (Lojinx)
The Man Whom – The Greatest Event (Self Released)
Master & Dog – Master & Dog (Self Released)
Doimnic MacGiolla Bhride – Smúidghealach (Own Label)
Adrian McAuliffe and Cathal Flood - Between The Strings (Own Label)
Eamon McCormack – Heal My Faith (True Talent)
Paul McGlinchey - The Boys of the Town (Own Label)
Charlie McGettigan - The Man from 20 (Own Label)
Derek McGinley & Tara Connaghan - The Far Side of the Glen (Own Label)
Eric McGrath – Little Ripples (White Cliff Records)
Pearse McLoughlin & Nocturnes – In Movement (Urchin)
Sarah McQuaid – The plum Tree and The Rose (Waterbug Records)
Katie Melua – Secret Symphony (Dramatico Records)
John Moloney – Grace (Own Label)
Van Morrison – Born To Sing: No Plan B (Blue Note)
Movement - Broken Down (Distort the Scene)
Mumblin' Deaf Ro – Dictionary Crimes (Popical Island)
Michelle Mulcahy - Suaimhneas Clo Iar Chonnachta (Own Label)
David Munnelly Band - Tight Squeeze (DMB)
Paddy Nash & The Happy Enchiladas – Times of Transition (Mad Molly Records)
Caitlin Nic Gabhann – Caitlin (Own Label)
No Monster Club – Dublin (CF Records)
The Night Ablaze – In My World (Self Released)
Ocho – Young Hunting (Self Released)
The Original Rudeboys – This Life (Gotta Run Records)
Orphan Code – I Am A Country (Continuous Ink)
Our Krypton Son – Our Krypton Son (Smalltown America)
Owensie – Citizens (Out On A Limb)
Pat O' Connor & Friends – Tales To Tell (Own Label)
Sean O' Driscoll – So There You Go (Own Label)
Seamus O' Muineachain – Seamus O' Muineachain (Psychonavigation)
C O' Neill & Co – Introducing (Self Released)
Camille O' Sullivan – Changeling (Little Cat Records)
Noreen O' Sullivan - The Quite House (Own Label)
The Pale – I Woke Up And I Was Gone (1969 Records)
Paranoid Visions – Escape From The Austerity Complex (Overground Records)
Colm Phelan – Full Circle (Own Label)
The Plea – Dreamers Stadium (Planet Function Records)
Protobaby – The Spark (Big Bang Productions)
The Quicksand Band – Approaching Rain (Independent)
The Radiators From Space – Sound City Beat (Chiswick Records)
Ram's Pocket Radio – Trajectories (Self Released)
Fionn Regan – The Bunkhouse Vol.1:Anchor Black Tattoo (Universal)
The Riptide Movement – Keep On Keepin' On (IND)
The Roaring Forties – There Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens (Skullmike Records)
Rogue Male – Nail It (Rm2kmusic)
Roisin O – Secret Life of Blue (Self Released)
Rory & The Island – Auntie Depression & Uncle Hope (Buddy Records)
Rural Savage – I Fell In The Bog And Saw God (Self Released)
Gavin Ryan –Time (GRM)
Joey Ryan - Morning Will Come Soon (Silverwood)
Maverick Sabre – Lonely Are The Brave (Mercury)
Saturday Captains – Saturday Captains (Self Released)
Fergal Scahill – Wayfaring (Own Label)
Screenreader – Disconnect the Dots (Self Released)
The Script - 3 (Sony)
Sea Pinks – Freak Waves (Self Released)
Seti The First – Melting Cavalry (Self Released)
Seven Summits – Fossils (Self Released)
Sfumato –These Things Between (Learn To Love Records)
Sharon Shannon – Flying Circus (Irish Music Licensing)
Laura Sheeran – What the World Knows (Flaming June)
The Shoos – Panic Slowly (Self Released)
Declan Sinnott – I Love The Noise It Makes (Warner)
Skelocrats -The Complete Skelocrats (Popical Island)
Solar Taxi – Broken Brother's Secret Bells (Self Released)
Mia Sparrow – Mee-Uh-Spar-O (Flaming June Records)
The Spook of The Thirteenth Lock – The Brutal Here and Now (Transduction Records)
Don Stiffe – Life's Journey (MSP)
Sunken Foal – Friday Syndrome Vol. 1 (Countersunk)
Therapy – A Brief Crack of Light (Blast Records)
This Club – Highlife (Warner)
Paul Tiernan – Painkillers (Right Stuff Records)
Dylan Tighe – Record (Self Released)
Time Is A Thief – We're Not Strangers (Self Released)
Emmet Tinley – Emmet Tinley (Mass Market Recordings)
Christine Tobin – Sailing to Byzantium (Babel Label)
Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon (Kitsune)
Toy Soldier – Calling Up The Dusk (Self Released)
Pierce Turner – Songs For A Very Small Orchestra (Self Released)
Valentino is Dead – Misadventures in Punk Rock (Ireland Records)
The Velourias – The Velourias (Self Released)
Kieran Wade – Out On The Back Roads (Own Label)
Wallpurgis Family – Dawn (Popical Island)
The Walls – Stop The Lights (Dirtbird Records)
We Banjo 3 – Roots of the Banjo Tree (Own Label)
Gavin Whelan – Homelands (Tallaght Records)
Windings – I Am Not The Crow (Out on A Limb)