Irish Heartbeat is an album by Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and The Chieftains released in 1988 (see 1988 in music.)
The album consists mainly of traditional Irish songs, and re-workings of the Morrison compositions ˝Celtic Ray˝ (which first appeared on 1982’s Beautiful Vision) and ˝Irish Heartbeat˝ (which first appeared on 1983’s Inarticulate Speech of the Heart.)