Áine Mangaoang is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo.

John O'Flynn is Associate Professor of Music at Dublin City University.

Lonán Ó Briain is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham.

List of Illustrations; Series Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Popular Music in Ireland: Mapping the Field; Part I: Music Industries and Historiographies; 1. A History of Irish Record Labels from the 1920s to 2019; 2. Broadcasting Rock: The Fanning Sessions as a Gateway to New Music; 3. Don't Believe A Word?: Memoirs of Irish Rock Musicians; 4. Raging Mother Ireland: Faith, Fury and Feminism in the Body, Voice and Songs of Sinéad O'Connor; 5. "Missing from the Record": Zrazy and Women's Music in Ireland; 6. "Alternative Ulster": The First Wave of Punk in Northern Ireland (1976-1983); Part 2: Roots and Routes; 7. Irish Lady Sings the Blues: History, Identity and Ottilie Patterson; 8. The Politics of Sound: Modernity and Post-Colonial Identity in Irish-language Popular Song; 9. Communal Voices: The Songs of Tom a'tSeoighe and Ciarán Ó Fátharta; 10. Popular Music as a Weapon: Irish Rebel Songs and the Onset of the Northern Ireland Troubles; 11. "...Practically Rock Stars Now": Changing Relations Between Traditional and Popular Music in a Post-Revival Tradition; 12. "Other Voices" in Media Representations of Irish Popular Music; Part 3: Scenes and Networks; 13. Assembling the Underground: Scale, Value and Visibility in Dublin's DIY Music Scene; 14. Parochial Capital and the Cork Music Scene; 15. Death of a Local Scene? Music in Dublin in the Digital Age; 16. Fit for Consumption?: Fanzines and Fan Communication in Irish DIY Music Scenes; 17. Hip Hop Interpellation: Rethinking Autochthony and Appropriation in Irish Rap; Coda 18. Making Spaces, Saving Places: Modern Irish Popular Music and the Green Turn; Afterword 19. Songs of Love: A conversation with Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy); A Selected Bibliography on Irish Popular Music; Notes on Contributors; Index