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and music are as inseparable as fish and chips. Traditional music may form the well-known cultural backbone, but there is also an important, though often ignored, body of classical composition. Artistes such as Van Morrison, Thin Lizzy, U2, The Corrs and Sinead O'Connor have ensured Ireland's prominence in the world gazetteer of rock while also carving out a niche in the pop world through a succession of successful boy bands such as Boyzone and Westlife and their girl counterparts B*witched
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