Chronological list of Irish classical composers

For an alphabetical listing, see 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 – c. 1653)
• 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 (1933–2023)

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)