I don't think there's a lot of "theory" behind Irish guitar, guitar wasn't even a part of traditional Irish music until recently. but check out "Irish Traditional Guitar Accompaniment" by Gavin Ralston, and "Celtic Back-up for all Instrumentalists" by Chris Smith. The later one has a lot of what you might be looking for - chord progressions, modes, differences between the various types of tunes, and so on. There's another one that I used to have that was a sort of step by step method for learning to accompany irish music, but I'm forgetting the name of it. It used DADEAD tuning for everything. Maybe I'll find it.
Of course, if you're interested in fingerstyle instead of accompaniment/flatpicking, there's tons of material around learning tunes. Check out books and DVDs by Tony McManus, Pat Kirtley, Al Petteway, Steve Baughman, and many more.
Oh, one more: "Traditional Irish Guitar" by Paul de Grae. Mostly tunes, but some background info and suggestions, especially in the beginning.
Last edited by Doug Young; 06-15-2018 at 10:33 PM.
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