Only thing I can think of is some tune from Nine Wassies from Bainne half in English, half in Irish half in in english. Anyone remember them?

What about Des Bishop's Irish version of Jump Around ? I think it's pretty cool myself though I'm no Gaelgeoir......

Good call - but surely there are real pop and rock songs written in Irish out there? With a video if possible...

Anyway, here's that Des Bishop version of 'Jump Around' as gaeilge. The lyrics are here, if you're interested.

There's a show on TG4 I'm sure has pop bands who sing in Irish. Defintely saw the video for one group, but don't know their name. I'm sorry to say, they were SHITE, in any language.

a reworking for an album of songs song in the native tongue...think there has been a couple of these albums released, not a notion what they are called though

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Maith an fear, a Pheadar! Does anyone have any details of this album?

Also, any singer-songers or bands out there writing original rock or pop songs in Irish?

There's the "Ceol" albums Ceol 07 and 08, they were a charity job for Barnardos.....Ceol 08 can still be picked up handy enough about the place.
They include the likes of Bell XI, Delorentos, Mundy, The Guggenheim Grotto, Director doing versions of their songs as Gaeilge.
Pretty good for the most part

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BTW I'd still like to hear rock/pop songs that were originally written in Irish and not just translations... there MUST be some out there!

I was eh.... well... watching The Coronas play live last week (at a retirement party!), and they played some slow song in Irish. Their own I think. It was cheesy as.

Ooh thats the band I was talking about in an earlier post, The Dirty Hines.

mixtapepublicity This is the one I think. It's a gr8 song though. The Coronas - Tabhaise na laoch

wherenow - is that a great song?! Different horses for different courses.

Hey Aidan I'm new to this site but there is one pop sond in Irish it went well in the charts too. Its called mo Dhreoilin which translates as my wren as in bird. Can't think of who sung it but google it and I'm sure you'll find it, there was some rap song as well realesed bout ten yeras ago can't remember off hand what it was again but I'm sure it had something to do with school. It was a connemara guy who currently acts on Ros na Run if memory serves me correctly

Fuzzball, thanks for the suggestion. I found Mo Dhreolin (video below) but I'd class that as a trad song with beats pasted on.

All the suggestions so far have been very interesting; thanks to everyone for their ideas. Surely there must be a lot of other original songs in a pop/rock/indie/reggae/whatever style that were written with original Irish lyrics (not just English lyrics translated). Is there some young Gaelscoiler or Connemara band that sounds like Vampire Weekend or Lykke Li or Dead Kennedys or [other non-trad act]?

(I'm sure we could arrange a CLUAS feature starring an Irish-speaking/singing indie act...)

Anyway, 'Mo Dhreolin':

Check out a reggae called breag based in belfast. Not too gone on them but they would be big enough within the irish community