Industry Quote by Van Morrison

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

— Caroline Corr

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they…

— Sinead O'Connor

We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

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

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland…

— Roddy Doyle

If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is…

— John Kinsella

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

— Dido Armstrong

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the…

— Imelda May

I felt a connection to the traditional music in all the pubs in Dublin that we stopped into.

— Noah Reid

On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland…

— Craig Ferguson

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

— Fiona Shaw

I think Irish people pride themselves on being at the forefront of technological industries, things like the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, all those hi-tech…

— Ardal O'Hanlon