Art Quote by Sinead O'Connor

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of…

— Sinead O'Connor

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

— Bernadette Devlin

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who…

— Chris O'Dowd

To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music in a…

— Andrea Corr

People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a…

— Dolores O'Riordan

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for…

— Nora Roberts

I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish…

— Roisin Murphy

People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume…

— Mary Gauthier

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

— Fiona Shaw

“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and…

— Colum McCann

Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a…

— Jessie Buckley

“For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.”

— Jennifer Armstrong