1579: Ríoghnach Connolly on The Breath: Armagh Roots, Modern Folk
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/29
How does Ríoghnach Connolly fuse Irish folk lineage with contemporary production?
2016: “Oh the theme of family is massive for me.”
2016: “You’ve made me sing softer. And you’ve made me sing with less ornamentation. And you’ve made me concentrate on the words, and the diction.”
2018: “Rolling the dice, letting go of something and not knowing how or where it’s going to land.”
2018: “I hate all these terminologies. Shouldn’t it be okay to be difficult to categorise?”
2018: “We write a lot of our songs on stage during improvised gigs.”
2018: “All you could hear were the big breaths taken between the phrases… and it sounded hilarious.”
2018: “Sitting on my granny Sadie’s knee, being sung to in a rocking chair.”
2018: “I wouldn’t want to be in a hospital but around a fire.”
2020: “I’m a bit of a nuisance when it comes to categorisation because I have five touring bands at the minute…”
2020: “I come from this place of romantic republicanism that wasn’t sectarian but was all about the music and the poetry.”
2020: “You’ve got this opportunity to be heard, and to have your thoughts documented so you shouldn’t underestimate the privilege of that.”
2020: “It’s natural for me that you keep that community close.”
2022: “A diatribe on the technology filling us with fear. It was so destructive in my life growing up in the north of Ireland.”
2023: “Stuart is the yin to my yang… I like mayhem. He doesn’t.”
2023: “It’s about washing off the sins of other people’s shit.”
2024: “You’ve gotta be genuine. And it was a very vulnerable record.”
2024: “Some of the record is excruciating even to listen to now.”
2024: “Grief is not linear. It pulls you back in.”
2024: “You have to put the audience first.”
2024: “We want people to create a safe base where everyone can feel what they need to.”
2024: “I like the idea that you could record as if you were singing into someone’s ear.”
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