Streaming charts spiked, folk standards roared back, and a Belfast rap crew rhymed in Irish while lighting up debate—2025 turned the volume up on Ireland’s culture and refused to turn it down. We trace how confidence in the national sound grew bolder and broader, from political hip-hop to legacy pop sellouts, and why festival bookings for 2026 point to a sustained wave rather than a one-off moment. Along the way, we ask a bigger question: what happens when musical pride, historical memory, an...
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