@article{intel:/content/journals/10.1386/punk.3.1.49_1, author = "Murphy, Michael Mary", title = "Punk and Post-Punk in the Republic of Ireland: Networks, migration and the social history of the Irish music industry", journal= "Punk & Post-Punk", year = "2014", volume = "3", number = "1", pages = "49-66", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1386/punk.3.1.49_1", url = "https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/punk.3.1.49_1", publisher = "Intellect", issn = "2044-3706", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Chiswick Records", keywords = "independent labels", keywords = "Boomtown Rats", keywords = "U2", keywords = "Radiators From Space", keywords = "music industry history", keywords = "Punk", keywords = "emigration", abstract = "Abstract Was the early punk movement a more geographically and ethnically diverse milieu that some accounts indicate? A number of key figures in the early punk movement were originally from Ireland including the founders of both Chiswick and Stiff Records. This invites the question: how did the Republic of Ireland’s music scene, which included ‘non-punk’ acts like Thin Lizzy, Horslips and Chris de Burgh interface with the punk and post-punk movement? This article aims to identify the under-acknowledged contributions of people working behind the scenes in the industry. Specifically it examines the links between individuals, bands and cities. How did these links help artists? I particularly wish to identify how some of the early bands of the punk and post-punk movement received assistance from established acts. The early business of punk indicates a two-way cultural process: Irish entrepreneurs in London helped to advance the punk movement, while Irish acts, including the Radiators from Space and the Boomtown Rats, benefitted from that punk movement.", }