Press Clippings

December 16th 2008 – 

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…

February 08th 2008 – 

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…

February 06th 2008 – 

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…

December 09th 2007 – 

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…

May 03rd 2007 – 

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…

October 20th 2006 – 

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…

January 03rd 2000 – 

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…