Irish folk music (1980–1989)
# Irish folk music (1980–1989)

## Births and deaths

### Deaths

* Seamus Ennis (1912–1982)
* Joe Heaney (1919–1984)
* Luke Kelly (1940–1984)
* Hugh Gillespie (1906–1986)
* Ewan MacColl (1915–1989)
* Margaret Barry (1917–c. 1989 or 1990)
* Ciarán Bourke

## Recordings

* 1980 "Mist Covered Mountain" (De Dannan)
* 1981 "Star Spangled Molly" (De Dannan)
* 1981 "Plays with Himself" (Derek Bell)
* 1982 "Musical Ireland" (Derek Bell)
* 1984 "Red Roses for Me" (The Pogues)
* 1985 "Rum, Sodomy and The Lash" (The Pogues)
* 1985 "To Welcome Paddy Home" (The Boys of the Lough)
* 1986 "The Celts" (Enya)
* 1987 "Altan" (Altan)
* 1988 "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" (The Pogues)
