Fintan Warfield is a musician from Dublin, Ireland. A singer, guitar and violin player, he is first and foremost a performer of Irish songs and ballads, while his wider repertoire spans folk, country, and modern and contemporary pop. His live performances reflect his interest in Irish history and Celtic mythology.
Having served two terms as a Sinn Féin Senator in the Houses of the Oireachtas, and previously as a County Councillor and Mayor of South Dublin County Council, Fintan announced in December 2024 that he would not seek re-election to Seanad Éireann. He intends to fully pursue his passion for music. During his time in politics, Fintan frequently advocated on behalf of the arts and culture sector and served as a voluntary board member of Rua Red Arts Centre and Chairperson of the Civic Theatre, Tallaght.
Fintan is playing regularly in his home town of Dublin and performed a number of shows at Trad Fest 2025, marking his third consecutive year at the festival.
In 2024, Fintan performed at the St. Patrick's Festival Quarter, as part of Cultúr Club, presented by Mother and made his Culture Night debut in 2023, performing Dominic Behan songs on Dublin's historic Moore Street - home to traders since the 18th Century and the final headquarters of the Provisional Government in 1916. Fintan has also performed at a number of Easter Rising commemorations at the General Post Office, Dublin.
In 2018, Fintan performed at Where We Live, presented by renowned contemporary theatre-makers, THISISPOPBABY and St. Patrick's Festival.
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.
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.
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 / Atlantic Technological University.
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.