This is Nialler9’s regularly updated guide to Irish album releases in 2026, featuring upcoming and recently released albums from Irish artists across indie, folk, electronic, rock and more. Updated weekly.
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Irish Album Release Dates 2026 – upcoming
April 10th
Stephen Star – Newt
Singer-songwriter on MirrorWorld with contributions from Nashpaints, Ellie O’Neill, Isaac Jones and more.
April 17th
Cable Boy – Forever
( indie rock / alternative)
April 24th
Glen Hansard – Don+t Settle – Transmissions East
(singer-songwriter)
Goodtime John – Good As Gold
(singer-songwriter, folk, indie)
crying loser – the ick
(alternative rock / post-punk)
May 1st
Kneecap – Fenian
(Irish rap)
Rua – Rí – Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life
(folk, Soft Boy records)
Rónán Ó Snodaigh & MylesO’Reilly – Mise Tusa
(trad, folk)
Blue Niall – Oisín Tape 2: CÚMHA
(rap / Irish / alt)
Video Blue – Eyes On Sticks
(indie / alt /songwriter)
$ONA BLU€– BLU€’s heartbreak
(alt R&B / pop)
May 8th
Insufficient Funs – Chunk
(jazz)
Lemoncello – Perfect Place
(folk / singer-songwriter)
May 22nd
One Leg One Eye – CRONE
(drone, black folk)
May 29th
Wynona Bleach – Animal Style
(alternative rock)
AE MAK – Folk Songs for Mama & Papa
(alt-pop)
June 1st
Dea Matrona – Hate That I Care
(classic rock / retro)
LOAH – Materia Medica
(alt pop / jazz / contemporary vocal)
September
Strange Boy – Say Nothing (rap / trad)
October
Clare Sands – They Tried to Bury Us (trad / folk)
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Irish Albums 2026 released
January 16th
John Blek – The Midnight Ache
January 30th
Ailbhe Reddy – Kiss Big
Ye Vagabonds – All Tied Together
Dani Larkin – Next Of Kin
PILGRIMS – Paul Noonan and Brian Crosby of BellX1 – Wintering
February 6th
A.S. Fanning – Take Me Back To Nowhere
Music City – Welcome To Music City
Ordnance Survey – Autotelic
February 13th
Cardinals – Masquerade
February 20th
Big Sleep – Holy Show
Ebauche – Nine Times
Thumper – Sleeping With The Light On
Consolers – Deep Breaths
February 27th
Rosie Carney – Doomsday… Don’t Leave Me Here
Ria Rua – S.C.A.P.E.G.O.A.T.
E the Artist – Six
March 1st
Autumn Owls – Here in the Bardos
March 6th
Seamus Fogarty – Ships
NIMF – Sirenscape
March 11th
Carrie Baxter – Seven
Eamon Harkin – The Place Where We Live
March 13th
Chalk – Crystalpunk
Foy Vance – The Wake
Basciville – Love In The Time Of The State
The Scratch – Pull Like A Dog
March 20th
Joshua Burnside – It’s Not Going to be Okay
Curtisy – Get A Life!
Ellie O’Neill – Time Of Fallow
March 23rd
Fixity – Assurance
March 27th
How I Became A Wave – How I Became A Wave
Pheono – Comfort In The Knowing
April 3rd
Laurie Shaw – Felted Fruit vi
Dermot Kennedy – The Weight Of The Woods
Irish Album Releases 2025
January 10th
Skinner – New Wave Vaudeville
January 31st
Tayne – LOVE
February 7th
Annika Kilkenny – Me In The Mud EP
Ginnels – The Picturesque
Adrian Crowley – Measure Of Joy
February 12th
Alannah Thornburgh – Shapeshifter
February 21st
The Murder Capital – Blindness
Slightly Dishevelled – Dirty Dishes and the West Wing
February 28th
Joshua Burnside – Teeth of Time
Maria Kelly – Waiting Room
March 14th
Meljoann – Status
March 28th
Somebody’s Child – When Youth Fades Away
T-Woc – Scenes, Journeys & Color
April 4th
Jinx Lennon – The Hate Agents Leer At The Last Isle Of Hope
April 11th
Paddy Hanna – Olyegate
Lullahush – Ithaca
April 24th
Caoimhín – Ríocht Na Sí’
May 9th
Varo – The World That I Knew
May 16th
M(h)aol – Something Soft
Rob de Boer – Man to You
Confirmation Getup – Style Time
May 23rd
Search Results – Go Mutant
Laura Duff – Sea Legs
May 30th
Curtisy – Beauty In The Beast
BABA – Truth
June 6th
Kean Kavanagh – The County Star
Junk Drawer – Days Of Heaven
June 13th
49th & Main – Happy Tears
A.Smyth – Hello Goliath
July 4th
Stoat – I contain multitudes
Laurie Shaw – Magnetosphere
July 11th
Olafur Arnalds and Talos – A Dawning
Poor Creature – All Smiles Tonight
July 12th
Branwen – Mirrormouth
July 25th
Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor – Into the Loam
White Sage – Queen Maeve’s Grave
August 1st
Caimin Gilmore – BlackGate
August 8th
For Those I Love – Carving The Stone
August 22nd
Rún – Rún
Tebi Rex – Fin
August 29th
CMAT – Euro-Country
September 5th
Junior Brother – The End
Ian Nyquist – Gilded
Graham Smyth – Music For Babies To Rave And Sleep To
The Redneck Manifesto – Grushy
Gareth Quinn Redmond, Méabh McKenna and RF Chaney – Throwing Shapes
Good Skin – Saturation
September 10th
Cian Sweeney – As If I Always Knew
September 19th
Scustin – Confessions Of A Pub Talker
pôt-pot – Warsaw 480km
DUG – Have At It!
NewDad – Altar
Unique Freaks (THEE U.F.O) – Enjoyment Planted
September 26th
The Expert – Vivid Visions
Sprints – All That Is Over
God Knows – A Future of the Past
Elaine Mai – For Us
Inni-K – Still A Day
Blimp – The World Is Yours
October 1st
Alex Gough – Painful
October 3rd
Kettama – Archangel
MOIO – Earthday
Houseplants – Live At Beekeeper’s
Laura Elizabeth Hughes – Knots & Echoes
October 10th
Maykay – Maykay
A Litany Of Failures – Volume V
hyperlynx – Rest Energy
October 14th
The New York Salsa Company – Our Landscape Is Now
October 17th
Winnie Ama – DEKA
Daire Patel – What Means The World To You?
October 24th
Just Mustard – We Were Just Here
Lōwli – Window In the Woods
Imaginational Anthem vol. XIV : Ireland – Tompkins Square label compilation
Rory Sweeney – Old Earth
J Smith – I Stood there Naked
Delac – Close To Midnight
October 30th
bog band – Mocashno Days
October 31st
Bricknasty – BLACKS LAW
November 7th
The Altered Hours – The Altered Hours
Gareth Quinn Redmond – Múscailte
Olan Monk – Songs for Nothing
Zoid – Industrial Wind Quartet
Anamoe Drive – thank god it’s friday
Seán Mac Erlaine & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh – Old Segotia
November 14th
Shampain – Millennium Madness
Huartan – Huartan
November 21st
David Keenan – Modern Mythologies
Ispíní na hÉireann – Poxtail Soup
Aux Phoenix – The And Is Now
November 25th
Curfew – Black Doll’s Eyes
November 28th
Aislinn Logan – Carry Me in From the Car
December 5th
Dove Ellis – Blizzard
December 12th
