Fintan Warfield is a musician, performer, and storyteller from Dublin, Ireland. A singer, guitarist, and violinist, his live performances reflect his deep passion for Irish history, spirituality, and Celtic mythology. By pairing traditional and folk songs with thoughtful commentary and storytelling, Fintan brings these songs to life, highlighting their enduring relevance in our world today.
In 2018, Fintan performed at Where We Live, presented by theatre-makers THISISPOPBABY and the St. Patrick's Festival. He made his Culture Night debut in 2023 with a performance on Dublin's historic Moore Street, and in 2024 he featured in the St. Patrick’s Festival Quarter at Mother’s Cultúr Club. He performed at TradFest in 2025, marking his third consecutive year at the festival in Temple Bar. Alongside these major cultural events, he has also lent his voice to several Easter Rising commemorations at Dublin’s General Post Office.
After a decade in public life, Fintan chose to step back from politics to pursue his lifelong passion for music, embracing a new creative chapter that now sees him performing regularly in Ireland and the United States.
Fintan served two terms as a Sinn Féin Senator (2016–2025), during which he became known as a strong advocate for the arts and culture sector and Ireland's LGBTQ+ community. Before his time in the Seanad, he made history as the youngest ever Mayor of South Dublin County Council (2014-2015), a role in which he prioritised tackling homelessness, addressing youth unemployment, and championing the referendum for civil marriage equality.
For five years, Fintan performed with Derek Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones, touring extensively across Ireland, Britain, Europe and the United States and performing at venues and festivals including the Glasgow Barrowlands, Balver Höhle Irish Folk & Celtic Music Festival in Germany, Milwaukee Irish Fest, Irish Fair of Minnesota, and Staten Ireland Fair to name a few, as well as regular performances in the Rí Rá Irish Pub in Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. During that time, the band played a short series of concerts in Hawaii and Maui and also performed in Irish Olympic House as part of Team Ireland celebrations at the 2012 London Olympics. It was these years of experience that led Fintan to releasing Step It Out Mary in 2020, a 10 track album recorded during his time with Derek Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones.
Upon hearing Fintan sing for the first time, Derek Warfield remarked, “I thought of his grandfather, John Warfield and how proud he would be of Fintan’s great talent and ability, and indeed how this young singer had inherited so much of his grandfather’s talent and love of music.” Fintan’s grandfather John, who played the mandolin, harboured a love of music throughout his life and was always so encouraging and supportive to Derek and The Wolfe Tones. It is in this same spirit of music and storytelling, of an evolving familial tradition, that Fintan plays and performs today.
Fintan has studied Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship in Trinity College Dublin and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
Fintan has numerous media appearances to his credit and has performed songs on Saturday with Claire Byrne on RTÉ Radio 1, The Saturday Connection with Charlie McGettigan on Shannonside Northern Sound, and The Irish Times Inside Politics podcast.
On 14 November 2023, Fintan released his first solo EP. It features traditional songs including the Rocky Road to Dublin, which Fintan first learned from his father; the Rising of the Moon, a favourite of Derek Warfield written by Leo Keegan Casey; and McKenna's Dream, heard first from Irish Traveller, singer and storyteller, Thomas McCarthy. The five-track, digital EP is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and other streaming platforms.