Besides excellent musicians, Dublin had excellent theaters that able composers kept busy with various dramatic works, especially the Crow Street Theatre and the Theatre Royal in Smock Alley.
The following composers were either natives of Ireland or else worked in Ireland: John Mahon, Daniel Roseingrave, Ralph Roseingrave, Thomas Roseingrave, Matthew Dubourg, Jérôme Paul Bonaventure Alday, Philip Cogan, Charles Claggett, Thomas Simpson Cooke, Thomas Augustine Geary, Tommaso Giordani, Francis Hutcheson, Michael Kelly, Peter K. Moran, Kane O'Hara, Sir John Andrew Stevenson, and Richard Woodward the Younger.
The following composers were either native Scots or else worked in Scotland: John Abell, Lorenzo Bocchi, Niccolò Pasquali, Charles McLean, Robert Mackintosh, A. Munro, David Foulis, James Oswald, Francesco Barsanti, Niel Gow, Nathaniel Gow, and Thomas Erskine, Earl of Kellie.