Fairy Dance: Kokia Meets Ireland (stylised as Fairy Dance ～KOKIA meets Ireland～) is Kokia's seventh studio album, released in September 2008. It is the third of four albums released in 2008 to celebrate her 10th anniversary as a singer. One song from the album, "Song of Pocchong (Shizuku no Uta)," features on Kokia's 2009 greatest hits collection Coquillage: The Best Collection II.

Kokia first travelled to Ireland alone in 2000. She travelled to Ireland again in October 2006 to find inspiration for her music, and to scout for places and people to record with.

Kokia returned to Ireland again in February 2008, and recorded the album in a week with Sean Whelan and Puck Fair and local musicians.

Of the songs included in the album, five are covers and three are original Kokia songs.

Of the covers, three are traditional Celtic songs ("Black Is the Color," "Siúil A Rúin" and "Taimse im' Chodladh"). "Taimse im' Chodladh" and the chorus of "Siúil A Rúin" are sung in Irish. Two songs are Japanese kayōkyoku standards: "Soshū Yakyoku" (from the 1940 film Shina no Yoru) and "Kanashikute Yarikirenai" (originally by The Folk Crusaders in (1968)).

Of the three original compositions, two were composed specifically for the album ("Lydia (Fairy Dance)" and "Sono Mama de Ii (Be As You Are)"). "Song of Pocchong (Shizuku no Uta)" (ｓｏｎｇ　ｏｆ　ｐｏｃｃｈｏｎｇ～雫の歌, Song of a Drop of Water^?) is a rearranged version of the same song from Kokia's previous album, The Voice. It is slightly longer, and the kanji in the song's title is different (歌 for uta (song), instead of 唄).

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