“I’m delighted to contribute my voice alongside Macklemore, who I know wears his Irish roots on his sleeve loud and proud around the world. And yet I, like most Irish people have a deep love and understanding of how powerfully it enriches our culture and our sense of what it means to be Irish,” says Ronan. “I’m not a native speaker of Irish, nor did I grow up speaking it daily. The album also features songs by JP Cooper, John Gibbons with Soulé, Gavin James, Chasing Abbey and The Academic among others.Īctress Saoirse Ronan introduces the album in a spoken word track featuring multi-platinum US rapp artist Macklemore. Jointly supported by Conradh na Gaeilge, Raidió RíRá and RTÉ 2FM as part of Bliain na Gaeilge, CEOL2018 features original artists singing their most popular songs in Irish. Every primary and secondary school in the country should receive a compilation album in the post today featuring tracks as Gaeilge from major artists such as Wheatus, Picture This, Kodaline, The Coronas and The Cranberries.Ī total of 350,000 copies of Ceol 2018, curated by RTÉ’s Eoghan McDermott, are being delivered to all secondary school students while copies are also being sent to every primary school in the country.
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