Kingfishr Went Quadruple Platinum by Getting More Irish, Not Less

Kingfishr could have done the standard thing. Three University of Limerick engineering students start a band, get some buzz, then round off every edge to chase a global audience. Instead they went the other direction, and it’s paying off in a big way. Their single“Killeagh,”a tribute to a County Cork hurling club, topped the Irish singles chart three separate times in 2025 and is now quadruple platinum.

Their debut album Halcyon hit No. 1 in Ireland last August. The recording location says everything: a stone farmhouse in Tipperary owned by bandmate Eoghan“McGoo”McGrath’s grandparents. No glossy studio, no outside producers sanding down the sound. Just Eddie Keogh, McGrath, and guitarist Eoin“Fitz”Fitzgibbon in a room where the echo does half the work.

The trio just played their first American festival at Lollapalooza in Chicago, and they’re quick to point to the Dubliners, Luke Kelly, and Christy Moore as the reason their sound connects. As Keogh puts it, some of their most successful pieces of music have been the most Irish ones. Which brings us to the word“craic.”It’s Irish for fun, spelled C-R-A-I-C, and the band has had to clarify that more than once on this side of the Atlantic.

So what’s the most local, most specific thing about where you’re from that you’d put in a song?