As 2016 draws to a close, it's time to look back on the year in music. It's been a truly fantastic year on the Irish scene, and Tom Dunne has drawn up a list of his favourite Irish albums of 2016. What do you think?
Way off the mark? Any glaring omissions? What were your favourite Irish albums of the year?
Get in contact. Email tom@newstalk.com, or text 53106 during the show at a cost of 30c to let us know what you think.
Tom Dunne's Irish Albums of 2016
Villagers - Where Have You Been all my Life?
Little Green Cars - Ephemera
Bell X1 - Arms
The Frank and Walters - Songs for the Walking Wounded
The Divine Comedy - Foreverland
Malojian - This is Nowhere
All Tvvins - IIVV
Lisa Hannigan - At Swim
Cian Nugent - Night Fiction
Mick Flannery - I Own You
We Cut Corners - The Cadences of Others
Booka Brass Band - Chilled Milk
James Vincent McMorrow - We Move
Cronin - The First Kiss of Love
Cathy Davey - New Forest
Wallis Bird - Home
Exmagician - Scan the Blue
Lisa O Neill - Pothole in the Sky
Bronagh Gallagher - Gather your Greatness
The Natural History Museum - Attenborough
Bleeding Heart Pigeons - Is
August Wells - Madness is the Mercy
Christy Moore - Lily
Luka Bloom - Frugalisto
Dermot Barrett - Dawns Era’s Tides
Rusangano family - Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
The Gloaming - The Gloaming 2
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