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Talented Irish People Who Deserve More Respect

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  • #32
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Bundee Aki...


  • #33
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Gay Byrne. He's kind of annoying and sanctimonious now but he was a really good, intuitive interviewer in his heyday. Not afraid to jump off-script, good instincts. I love watching old interviews of his on Youtube.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    There are many talented people in Ireland who have been performing, writing, creating for years.. and who remain 'undiscovered'.. I know a good few of them.

    Very true. Two weeks ago a neighbour's 14-year-old child was flown over to Carnegie Hall in New York to play a concert as he is, by all accounts, an incredibly gifted cellist. He was listed as an "International Shining Star" and played with 8 other teenagers invited from around the world. 14 years of age and playing in Carnegie Hall!

    Not a word in the media about it so I surmise there are similar feats going unacknowledgrd in other parts of Ireland.


  • #35
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    It would be nice if he updated his material, I'm 45 even his 'new stuff' is old.

    Ever heard the phrase “Don’t fix what isn’t broken”. He lives in Florida 6 months a year, comes home, promotes his show on the LLS and sells out countrywide. Why change a winning formula??


  • #36
    yabadabado
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    Oops! wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6MM35YgiqOrOjPKN1HOiA

    he's rubbish .


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  • #37
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    washman3 wrote: »
    Bundee Aki...

    “Gets popcorn”.....


  • #38
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    I was going to say Graham Norton but I think his talents are well recognised. Never hear a bad word said about him.


  • #39
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    No!

    This bloke:


    He is woeful.


  • #40
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,994 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Gay Byrne's finest moment was when he left P Flynn off on his stream of conciousness and aided him with the slightest of promptings.
    Easy on the pedal.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In terms of musical talent in the Irish tradition, Martin Hayes from Clare is still extraordinary, over 20 after I first heard him. He isn't just technically fantastic; he feels his music. This is the first tune I ever heard of his. I still remember exactly where I was when I heard it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnKgA8uvRt4


    And Iarla Ó Lionáird from Cúil Aodha, still the most refreshing and creative sound where trad and world music meet.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJt18WYjI7U


    And then there's these UCD students - if this doesn't rouse you, nothing will:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxjvNUNXhkU


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  • #42
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,994 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Can we make Chris Hadfield an honorary citizen and put him in here?

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/astronaut-chris-hadfield-returns-to-ireland-813473.html


  • #43
    miss flutter ups
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭miss flutter ups


    Sinead O'Connor, She's had her problems but what a voice !


  • #44
    Los Lobos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Los Lobos


    Aidan Walsh, the Master of the Universe, an absolute legend of the 90's

    Community games what a tune


  • #45
    Hammer89
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    miss flutter ups wrote: »
    Sinead O'Connor, She's had her problems but what a voice !

    What a face too. I know that doesn't really add anything to her talent, but I stumbled across old pictures of her recently and couldn't believe how beautiful she was, especially without hair.


  • #46
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,537 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Stephen Farrelly and Rebecca Quin.

    They entertain millions of viewers in the states weekly and yet are probably only known to a tiny percentage of the Irish population.


  • #47
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Bono.


    *runs away*

    :D


  • #48
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    Graham Linehan, writer of three TV shows that are in my top ten comedies


  • #49
    harry Bailey esq
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    El presidente Michael D. A cool cat if there ever was one.


  • #50
    AnneFrank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭AnneFrank


    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    El presidente Michael D. A cool cat if there ever was one.

    He belongs at the end of a rainbow with a pot of gold


  • #51
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    My mother loved Brendan Grace. When I was about eight or nine I went with her to see one of his shows. He was doing a routine in which he's a drunk trying and failing to light a cigarette. Some weirdo came out of the audience, got on stage and 'helpfully' lit his cigarette for him even though Brendan Grace kept gesturing at him to sit back down. He seemed to genuinely believe that Brendan Grace was having trouble lighting his cigarette and didn't think it was part of a comedy act. I always wondered about this man and what was going on in his head.


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  • #52
    Cianos
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    And Iarla Ó Lionáird from Cúil Aodha, still the most refreshing and creative sound where trad and world music meet.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJt18WYjI7U


    That scene he appeared in in Brooklyn was brilliant

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnsqpmav5HE


  • #53
    thelawman
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    Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly, one of the greatest lyricist the country has ever produced.



  • #54
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    My mother loved Brendan Grace. When I was about eight or nine I went with her to see one of his shows. He was doing a routine in which he's a drunk trying and failing to light a cigarette. Some weirdo came out of the audience, got on stage and 'helpfully' lit his cigarette for him even though Brendan Grace kept gesturing at him to sit back down. He seemed to genuinely believe that Brendan Grace was having trouble lighting his cigarette and didn't think it was part of a comedy act. I always wondered about this man and what was going on in his head.

    Alcohol?


  • #55
    donegaLroad
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Very true. Two weeks ago a neighbour's 14-year-old child was flown over to Carnegie Hall in New York to play a concert as he is, by all accounts, an incredibly gifted cellist. He was listed as an "International Shining Star" and played with 8 other teenagers invited from around the world. 14 years of age and playing in Carnegie Hall!

    Not a word in the media about it so I surmise there are similar feats going unacknowledgrd in other parts of Ireland.

    yes, a friend of mine won the Ireland Young Musician of the Year award some years ago, I think there was 2 paragraphs about it in the local weekly paper.
    He is a full time musician based in London now.

    In the same town, the local drama circle won first place at the national drama awards (forget the name), and they likewise got a paragraph in the same paper.

    I have played music with a lot of really good singers over the years, some are the best you will ever hear, they just didn't have the resources or the breaks that the other singers were lucky enough to get.


  • #56
    keith_sixteen
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    Whoever was behind the secret rte producer twitter account.


  • #57
    Birneybau
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    Jinx Lennon is a cracker!

    Obvs nsfw:



  • #58
    WesternZulu
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    My Bloody Valentine

    There seems to be a show on every week on RTE about how great Joe Dolan and the likes were and nothing on genuinely good Irish acts that are very well renowned internationally.


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
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    rossie1977 wrote: »
    Stephen Farrelly and Rebecca Quin.

    They entertain millions of viewers in the states weekly and yet are probably only known to a tiny percentage of the Irish population.

    Fergal Devitt too


  • #60
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Katie Taylor.


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  • #61
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Conor Cruise O'Brien

    Obviouslynot beloved by nationalists or republicans but a supremely talented and erudite writer. Try his "Writers and Politics" from 1965, sublime.

    Named by the late great Christopher Hitchens as one of hi favorite writers.


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