Early Popular Performers in Ireland
Musicians of the famous music started appearing as early as the late 1940s; Delia Murphy promoted Irish folk songs that she recorded for H...
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Musicians
of the famous music started appearing as early as the late 1940s; Delia Murphy promoted
Irish folk songs that she recorded for HMV in the year 1949; Margaret Barry is
also ascribed with bringing the traditional songs to the fore; Donegal’s Bridie
Gallagher shot to popularity in the year 1956 and is considered Ireland’s first
international pop star, Belfast-born singer Ruby Murray achieved unique chart
success in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s; The Bachelors were an all-male
vocal orchestra from Dublin who had hits in the United Kingdom, United States,
Europe, Russia and Australia; Mary O’Hara was a soprano and harpist who was
successful on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s and early 1960s;
Waterford crooner Val Doonican had a cord of United Kingdom hits and presented
his own television show in the BBC from 1965 to 1986.
