Source: Waterford News & Star Seán-nós singer Nóirín Ní Riain is truly an enigma. A lady with a deep faith, she has just released a new album Celtic Joy, a Celebration of Christmas which also features her two sons, Eoin & Mícheal Ó Suilleabháin. The beautiful album, which features songs like The Coventry Carol, Ave [...]
Source: The Limerick Leader. OVER 225,000 viewers tuned in to the recent TV documentary on singer Nóirín Ní Riain. And although she doesn’t even have a telly of her own in her house, Nóirín was more than chuffed. “We were competing with ‘Desperate Housewives’ that night and RTE had expected about half that figure. But [...]
Nóirín Ní Riain and sons sing the ‘hear and now’ Even the most rabid atheists among my fellow music critics enjoy Gregorian chant and gospel singing. No matter how much they scoffed at the enormous popularity (more than five million copies sold worldwide) of “Chant,” a 1994 CD by the Benedictine Monks of the Abbey [...]
Source: Irish Independent A lack of belief needn’t prevent you enjoying and even being moves by religious music, says John Masterson Being a life-long atheist, I regularly face the off fact that it is usually deeply religious people who say the most interesting things. And, oddly, it is usually deeply religious people who are most [...]
Source: WORD Magazine. For more than a quarter of a century, Nórín Ní Riain has made an important contribution to modern performance of Irish traditional music. A native of Limerick, she has made three recordings with the Monks of Glenstal Abbey in which she accompanied the Gregorian Chant with a traditional instrument as well as [...]
Source: The Limerick Leader. AT JUST 26-years-of-age Eoin Ó Súilleabhain, musician and director of the Sionna Festival, has already led a most interesting life. AINE FITZGERALD meets the singer who does not watch tv, but who can count actor Russell Crowe amongst his mates. Eoin moves in direction of the river dance and the music. [...]
Source: The Irish Independent When the aid workers in Bosnia and Croatia in 1994 asked the refugees if they needed clothes or food, the reply was startling. `No, we want music.’ Nóirín Ní Riain’s was the voice which lifted those saddened spirits. If not a household name in Ireland, she is a household goddess in [...]
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