Celtic punk

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Celtic Punk
Stylistic origins:	Punk Rock - Folk Rock - Traditional Celtic music
Cultural origins:	1980s London Punk rock scene
Typical instruments:	Vocals - Guitar - Bass - Drums - Bagpipes - Tin whistle - Fiddle -- Banjo - Mandolin - Accordion
Mainstream popularity:	Underground during most of its history. Recently becoming more visible to the mainstream due to bands like Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly <tr><th align="center" bgcolor="navy" colspan=2 valign="top">Subgenres</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan="2" valign="top">Gaelic Punk</td></tr><tr><th align="center" bgcolor="navy" colspan=2 valign="top">Fusion genres</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan="2" valign="top">Celtic Fusion - Celtic_rock - Folk_punk</td></tr><tr><th align="center" bgcolor="navy" colspan=2 valign="top">Regional scenes</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan="2" valign="top">London - Ireland - Scotland - Chicago - Boston - Los Angeles</td></tr><tr><th align="center" bgcolor="navy" colspan=2 valign="top">Other topics</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan="2" valign="top">Early bands: The Pogues - The Men They Couldn't Hang - Roaring Jack Influential bands: The Clash - The Dubliners - Christy Moore</td></tr>

Celtic punk, also known as "Paddybeat" and "Celtcore", is a genre of music typically associated with Irish punks or punks from the "Irish diaspora", though other "Celtic" nationalities, such as Scottish, Manx and Welsh, are also represented. The typical "Celtic" punk band includes a rock rhythm section accompanying more traditional instruments such as bagpipes, fiddle, tin whistle, accordion, mandolin, and banjo. Like Celtic rock, Celtic punk is a subgenre of Celtic fusion, which includes all amalgamations of celtic music with other genres. Celtic punk and Celtic rock are also part of the broader folk rock genre.

The origins of "Celtic" punk lie in both the British folk rock bands of the 1960s and 70s who first electrified the music of the British Isles and more directly in folk bands such as The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers. The Skids were possibly the first UK punk band to add a strong folk element, as they did on their 1981 album Joy. Around this same time in London, Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy began experimenting with a sound that would become The Pogues, whose early sets included a mixture of traditional folk songs and originals written in a traditional style - all performed with a Punk attitude and energy. Other early Celtic Punk bands included The Men They Couldn't Hang, Nyah Fearties, and Australia's Roaring Jack.

Later bands strike various balances between the punk and folk ends of the spectrum or between original and traditional songs. Many Celtic punk bands emerge from predominantly Irish communities in cities which are historically centers of mass Irish immigration, such as London, Boston, New York and Chicago. As a result, prevalent themes in Celtic punk songs include Ireland, Irish Republicanism, the Irish diaspora, drinking, and working class pride.

More recently, Celtic punk has been made popular by bands such as Flogging Molly, The Tossers, Black 47, The Mahones, The Skels, Neck, The Barleycorns and Amadan, as well as countless others. Recently, a popular Celtic punk formula has been to form a typical punk or Oi! band but with the addition of bagpipes, as with the Real McKenzies, early lineups of the Dropkick Murphys, and Flatfoot 56. Important media outlets of celtic punk include Paddy Rock Radio and the webzine Shite 'n' Onions, which releases compilation CDs.

The idea of Celtic punk has also evolved into Gaelic punk with mainly Scottish-based bands who actually sing in the Celtic language of Scots Gaelic. Foremost of these bands is Oi Polloi from Edinburgh/ Dùn Eideann and Mill a h-Uile Rud who hail from Seattle but sing entirely in Gaelic.

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