The Top 50 Irish Acts of all time?

Here's one list to ponder, as per votes submitted by CLUAS readers...

Remember all those votes cast to find the 'Top 50 Irish Albums of All Time'? Well, we thought it would be interesting to tot up the number of votes received for each individual act, not just for each individual album. That way we could come with a list that we could call the 'Top 50 Irish Acts of All Time'. Or something. Anyway, the resulting list is below. We see the list purely as an accompaniment to the Top 50 Irish albums of all time and we certainly don't present it as definitive or anything so mighty. We just though it might prompt a discussion or two down the pub (or, who knows, even on the CLUAS discussion board).

• The votes totted up for arriving at the above top 50 were cast on CLUAS.com by visitors to the website between 4 April 2004 and 13 May 2004. Over 1300 eligible votes were cast by CLUAS readers in this period.
• The eligibility rules used for the purpose of this poll are viewable here.
• Check out the top five Irish album choices of various CLUAS.com writers