Irish-penned Christmas songs of the 21st century?!

Lamph · 09-12-2012 12:13AM #1

I doubt many sogs that fit into this category...
The only ones I know are the ones that won the Christmas FM song contest... there was the Funzo one ('This Christmas') in 2009,

...and there's this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrLacXG-IiQ

This was a school production that won the competition in 2010. I am totally enamoured with this song... and think it is an indictment of the Irish radio industry that this was not played to death on ALL stations when it was first released in 2010... It's such a cute little song! Should be global imo.

And the thing is... I would never have heard this, if it weren't for the Christmas FM contest. It makes me wonder... what other great songs by Irish musicians have been kept from us by the apathy of the fat greedy radio stations?

Is this song the best Irish Christmas song of the 21st century?!

reap-a-rat · 09-12-2012 12:59AM

Here's a top 10 to check out, with number one being my favourite Irish artist (favourite artist in general). Two of my favourites, actually

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO4MqPQnTLs

rest of list: http://2uibestow.blogspot.ie/2012/12/repost-top-10-original-irish-christmas.html

maccored · 09-12-2012 02:03AM

This was on an album and is Christmasy, but wasn't released as a single.

https://soundcloud.com/79cortinaz/snowsmoke-serenade

SubBusted · 11-12-2012 08:49PM

Didn't Enya release a Christmas/winter album a few years back?

refusetolose · 11-12-2012 08:52PM

refusetolose · 11-12-2012 08:55PM

madness98 · 13-12-2012 04:19PM

I don't know I think Justin Bieber - Mistletoe is a pretty good christmas song to have been written recently, its christmasy cheesey!

Stompbox · 13-12-2012 10:38PM

I'm in a band called Otherkin and we just released our self-penned Christmas song today, have a gander!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiG_n13FeJs

14-12-2012 02:24PM

reap-a-rat wrote: »

Here's a top 10 to check out, with number one being my favourite Irish artist (favourite artist in general). Two of my favourites, actually -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO4MqPQnTLs

rest of list: http://2uibestow.blogspot.ie/2012/12/repost-top-10-original-irish-christmas.html

I must have listened to this about a hundred times since you posted it, stunning.

Irish-penned Christmas songs of the 21st century?!

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