Release Date Calendar
The following is a list of all the Irish albums released in 2011, and set for release later this year. If you have any to add to the list, please email swearimnotpaul@gmail.com with the album’s details as well as an album cover image.
| Date | Cover | Artist | Album | Record Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | ||||
| 1 January | Airwave Atlantic | Game Play | Self-Released | |
| 1 January | Cignol | v0id EP | Alphabet Set | |
| 1 January | Created by Comets | Leave it at the Door EP | Self-Released | |
| 1 January | Dr Lilt | Gun Shaped Eggs | Snowcake | |
| 2 January | Paperjays | Revolve EP | Self-Released | |
| 5 January | Ed Devane | Room Full of Empty People | Takeover | |
| 6 January | No Monster Club | Young Guts Champion EP | Masses//Masses | |
| 9 January | The Electric Foxx | The Electric Foxx EP | Self-Released | |
| 10 January | Astral Gardens | Brian Boru | Self-Released | |
| 10 January | Refraction | Refraction | Self-Released | |
| 10 January | We Are Losers | Live at Popicalia 5 | Self-Released | |
| 11 January | Awake Young Soldiers | When Leo Met Cherry EP | Self-Released | |
| 11 January | Gregan | Spirals EP | Self-Released | |
| 11 January | LotusEater | Guides | Self-Released | |
| 12 January | Hugh Doolan | OutTake In EP | Self-Released | |
| 15 January | The Boondalk Saints | The Boondalk Saints EP | Self-Released | |
| 15 January | Washington Green | Daedalus EP | Self-Released | |
| 17 January | The Fallen Drakes | Death of An Actress EP | Self-Released | |
| 17 January | Sunken Foal | Mother of God EP | Acroplane | |
| 19 January | Sexy Audible Chocolate | Interprime | Self-Released | |
| 20 January | Overhead, the Albatross | Lads with Sticks EP | Self-Released | |
| 21 January | A Shadow | Ebb and Flow EP | Second Square to None | |
| 21 January | The Battle for 2nd Place | First | Self-Released | |
| 27 January | Various | Quompilation #1 | Quarter Inch Collective | |
| 28 January | Carosel | Star EP | Vida | |
| 28 January | Matthew Doyle | I am a Vulture, I am the Scavenger of the Dersert | Self-Released | |
| 28 January | Napoleon | Tell Me Your Industry EP | We Collect | |
| 29 January | A Lazarus Soul | Through a Window in the Sunshine Room | Intent to Supply | |
| February | ||||
| 1 February | Arrow in the Sky | Winter's Requiem EP | Self-Released | |
| 1 February | Cube | Demo Vol. 1 EP | Self-Released | |
| 1 February | Howlett Ltd. | The Poison Control Centre | Self-Released | |
| 2 February | Hugh Doolan | 2-Thou-2 | Self-Released | |
| 2 February | mynameisjOhn | There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads | Self-Released | |
| 4 February | The Indecent Cigar Emporium | Straight to Video | Self-Released | |
| 4 February | MGB (Machine Gun Baby) | For The Ones We Knew EP | Self-Released | |
| 4 February | Owensie | Aliens | Out On A Limb | |
| 4 February | Weeping Ulcer | Dwelling in Filth | Self-Released | |
| 5 February | Padraig McCauley and the P Affection | Padraig McCauley and the P Affection | Self-Released | |
| 5 February | Ciaran Smyth | Like a Machine EP | Self-Released | |
| 12 February | Enda McNally | Hymn Sheet | Self-Released | |
| 14 February | Bone | The Teepee EP | Self-Released | |
| 18 February | Cellardoor | Set Fire to the Snow | Self-Released | |
| 18 February | Duncan Maitland | Lullabies for the 21st Century | Indigo-Octagon | |
| 19 February | Meltybrains? | Surprise? EP | Self-Released | |
| 19 February | Marc O'Reilly | My Friend Marx | Salt and Shake | |
| 21 February | Daithí | Embrace EP | Self-Released | |
| 21 February | Ginnels | Ginnels | Self-Released | |
| 21 February | RoySeven | You Say, We Say | Roadrunner | |
| 21 February | SertOne | The View From Above EP | Melted Music |
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| 25 February | The Former Soviet Republic | Is Made of This | Self-Released | |
| 25 February | Hands Up Who Wants to Die | Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo | Richter Collective | |
| 28 February | Catscars | Construction | White Plague | |
| March | ||||
| 3 March | Hugh Doolan | VoxBox | Self-Released | |
| 6 March | Longjaw | Like a Dog EP | Self-Released | |
| 6 March | Starters | Acoustic EP | Self-Released | |
| 6 March | Syd Lane | Hypatia | Self-Released | |
| 11 March | Deaf Joe | The Holy Water EP | Delphi | |
| 12 March | Pony Club | Pony Club: The Best of | Self-Released | |
| 12 March | Samuel Arnold | City Boy EP | Self-Released | |
| 14 March | Eoin O'Neill | After Continents EP | Self-Released | |
| 15 March | DJ Somatix | Nocturnal Shadows EP | Self-Released | |
| 15 March | Johnny Stewart Trio | Live EP | Self-Released | |
| 17 March | The Walls | Bird in a Cage EP | Self-Released | |
| 18 March | Carol Anne McGowan | Songs from the Cellar | Self-Released | |
| 18 March | Mola | One Year in the Asylum | Self-Released | |
| 19 March | Justin Grounds | The Moon Pulled Us Here EP | Self-Released | |
| 21 March | Jerome's Law | Knives at Concrete EP | Self-Released | |
| 21 March | Ronan Keating | When Ronan Met Burt | Polydor | |
| 25 March | Mary Byrne | Mine & Yours | Sony | |
| 25 March | Track Dogs | Track Dogs | Self-Released | |
| 25 March | Stephen Young & the Union | Wilderness Machine | Winnebago | |
| 26 March | The Trouble Is... | Human Condition EP | Self-Released | |
| 27 March | Declan DeBarra | Fragments, Footprints and the Forgotten | Blackstar | |
| 28 March | Avalanche Ammo | Animals EP | Self-Released | |
| 31 March | A Plastic Rose | The Promise Notes | Self-Released | |
| April | ||||
| 1 April | Bell x1 | Bloodless Coup | BellyUp | |
| 1 April | Norabelle | Wren | ||
| 1 April | Laura Sheeran | Lust of Pig & The Fresh Blood | Self-Released | |
| 1 April | Friend? | Friend? EP | Self-Released | |
| 3 April | Milestones | Blood EP | Self-Released | |
| 11 April | EleventyFour | The Joy Imperative EP | Self-Released | |
| 11 April | Sum Yung Wans | 4 in 1 EP | Self-Released | |
| 14 April | Barbarellas | Night Mode | Self-Released | |
| 15 April | Fred | Leaving My Empire | RCM | |
| 22 April | Hired Hands | My Heart Hung | Any Other City | |
| 22 April | Nick Carswell & the Elective Orchestra | The Word According to | Self-Released | |
| 24 April | Gretta Gunn | The Hunt | Self-Released | |
| 25 April | Boxcutter | The Dissolve | Planet Mu | |
| 26 April | Girls Names | Dead to Me | Tough Love | |
| 29 April | And So I Watch You From Afar | Gangs | Richter Collective | |
| May | ||||
| 1 May | Mob Fandango | Dig EP | Self-Released | |
| 3 May | Mark O'Connor | Espero | Self-Released | |
| 4 May | Noriana Kennedy | Ebb N Flow | Self-Released | |
| 7 May | The Hot Sprockets | Honey Skippin | Self-Released | |
| 13 May | The Minutes | Marcata | Self-Released | |
| 13 May | Mundy | Shuffle | ||
| 30 May | Sfumato | These Things Between | Self-Released | |
| TBC May | Alarmist | (Debut EP) | ||
| June | ||||
| 9 June | Rob Smith | Live in New York and Dublin EP | Self-Released | |
| 17 June | Sleeping Into Cinemas | 100,000 Times | Le Cheap Equipé | |
| 18 June | Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands | Golden Syrup | Osaka | |
| 20 June | Zombie Computer | Indian Summer | Psychonavigation | |
| 21 June | Japanese Popstars | Controlling Your Allegiance | Virgin | |
| July | ||||
| 7 July | The Popgun Plot | Nature's Golden Secret | ||
| Date TBC | ||||
| Spring | The Ambience Affair | (Debut Album) | ||
| Spring | Ross Breen | When I Met the Devil | Self-Released | |
| Spring | Mike Got Spiked | No Is Not An Answer | ||
| Spring | Saccade | Force of Habit | ||
| Spring | Squarehead | (Debut Album) | Richter Collective | |
| Summer | The Cast of Cheers | Rockets, Rockets, and Infinite Rockets | ||
| Summer | Tenaka | Drifting | ||
| Summer/Autumn | The Holy Roman Army | (Album #2) | ||
| Summer/Autumn | Lisa Hannigan | (Album #2) |




