Celtic Punk
The Pogues' style of punked-up Irish music spawned and influenced a number of Celtic punk bands, including Nyah Fearties from Scotland, and Australia's Roaring Jack. It has been particularly popular in the USA and Canada, where there are large communities descended from Irish and Scottish immigrants. From the USA this includes the Irish bands Flogging Molly, The Tossers, Dropkick Murphys, Street Dogs, The Young Dubliners, Black 47, The Killdares, And Jackdaw and for Scottish bands such as Seven Nations. From Canada are The Real McKenzies, Flatfoot 56 from Chicago Illinois, and The Mahones, from Australia, Roaring Jack and Mutiny, from the UK Neck (featuring a former member of Shane MacGowan's post-Pogues band, The Popes), from the Czech Republic, Pipes And Pints and from Norway, Greenland Whalefishers. These groups were also influenced by American forms of music, and sometimes contained some members with no Celtic ancestry and commonly singing in English.
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