AS YOU PROBABLY know, tomorrow is International Women’s Day. 

What better way to celebrate than by bopping to tunes made by some of Ireland’s most talented women? We decided to make a playlist with exactly 69 songs that runs at exactly 4 hours and 20 minutes long (this was not, by any means, an easy thing to do) to celebrate some of our favourite Irish women in music.

From huge names you definitely already know, like Sinéad O’Connor, Nadine Coyle and The Cranberries, to some up-and-coming acts that have been taking the music scene by storm in recent years, we’ve put together a showcase of all of our faves. Here’s the tracklisting (and here’s the Spotify playlist if you’re on an iPhone and can’t see it below):

1. Saharakungoh – Fehdah
2. You Know Me Better – Róisín Murphy
3. Go To Work – Nadine Coyle
4. Nobody Else – Sharda and Gemma Dunleavy
5. Nothing – Loah (Elaine Mai Remix)
6. I Need (Feat. Gemma Dunleavy) -Murlo
7. Insatiable – Nadine Coyle
8. What Do You Know – Soulé
9. Tell Me Lies – SIIGHTS
10. Over & Over – Erica Cody
11. Nothing Changes – Biig Piig, Kxrn
12. Too Sad to Sing – AE MAK
13. Passionfruit – Wyvern Lingo
14. Addiction – Swing Ting and Gemma Dunleavy
15. All Apologies – Sinéad O’Connor
16. Coming Back Around – Soulé and UNQ
17. Flirt – Biig Piig
18. Broke It With Me (Konmak x Marty Remix) – SIIGHTS
19. Plaything – Róisín Murphy
20. Good Intentions – Erica Cody
21. Where We Are – Ships
22. Bother – LAOISE
23. Love Tonight -Soulé, C Cane
24. Causing Trouble (Kormac Remix) – Saint Sister, Jafaris, Kormac
25. So Shy – Gadget and the Cloud
26. Mothers of the Disappeared – LYRA
27. Jasmine – Murlo and Gemma Dunleavy
28. All Will Be – Ships
29. Spree – Aislinn Logan
30. PEPSI – ELLLL
31. Papillon – Hvmmingbyrd
32. You Never Call (James Vincent McMorrow Remix) – Saint Sister
33. Wait On Me – Aislinn Logan
34. Again – LAOISE
35. Emerald – LYRA
36. I Can Feel It in My Bones – AE MAK
37. Rose Tint – Uwmami, Paye Fox
38. Run – Wyvern Lingo
39. Gay Girls – Pillow Queens
40. Heaven On Earth – whenyoung
41. Pigs – Just Mustard
42. Deaf – Just Mustard 
43. Wolfstooth – Bitch Falcon
44. Small Smile Grow – Girlfriend.
45. Spitkissing – Girlfriend. 
46. Favourite – Pillow Queens
47. Mandinka – Sinéad O’Connor
48. Zombie – The Cranberries
49. Prime Number – Bitch Falcon
50. Rats – Pillow Queens
51. Everybody Loves You – SOAK
52. Mellow//Dramatic – Uwmami
53. Tell Me (What I Mean) – Bad Sea
54. Solid Air – Bad Sea
55. Given Up – whenyoung 
56. Ode To My Family – The Cranberries
57. Knock Me Off My Feat – SOAK
58. Valentine Shmalentine – SOAK
59. Tie Me up with Jackets – Fight Like Apes
60. The John Wayne – Little Green Cars 
61. Downtown – Lilla Vargen
62. Fall – Lisa Hannigan
63. Ants – Ham Sandwich
64. How Bad Can A Good Girl Be – Imelda May
65. Orinoco Flow – Enya
66. What Can I Do – The Corrs
67. I Can’t Make You Love Me – Mary Coughlan
68. Nothing Compares 2 U -Sinéad O’Connor
69. Dreams – The Cranberries 

We really wanted to stick Samantha Mumba in there, but it was impossible to keep the 69/420 thing going on, unfortunately. Imagine the B-side to this playlist is her entire discography, if you will. 

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