{{Short description|Sean-nós singer and performer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Ann Mulqueen | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1940s | birth_place = Castleconnell | death_date = | death_place = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = Irish traditional music | notable_works =}}
'''Ann Mulqueen''' is an Irish sean-nós singer and performer, popular as a ballad singer in the 1960s.<ref name="TG4">{{cite web | title=Sé Mo Laoch - Ann Mulqueen - Player - Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile | website=TG4 | url=https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/play/?pid=6029806688001&title=Ann%20Mulqueen&series=S%C3%A9%20Mo%20Laoch&pcode=017612&genre=Ceol | access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref>
==Biography== Ann Mulqueen was born in Castleconnell, County Limerick in the 1940s. She said her grandmother Bridget Mulqueen of Clare taught her traditional songs. She won the All-Ireland ballad singing competition in 1959, '60 and '61. From the age of 15 Mulqueen was singing with bands including the Gallowglass Céilí Band, The Dubliners and Willie Clancy. She also sing with other traditional singers like Seán 'ac Dhonncha. Mulqueen performed regularly on tours of the US and the UK with Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.<ref name="Itma">{{cite web |url=https://www.itma.ie/goilin/singer/mulqueen_anne |title=Ann Mulqueen|website=www.itma.ie}}</ref><ref name="Vallely 1999">{{cite book | last=Vallely | first=F. | title=The Companion to Irish Traditional Music | publisher=Cork University Press | year=1999 | isbn=978-1-85918-148-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCoUAQAAIAAJ | access-date=2020-05-09 }}</ref><ref name="Keays 2017">{{cite web | last=Keays | first=Grainne | title=Castleconnell's Ann Mulqueen to feature on TG4 documentary | website=Limerick Leader | date=2017-03-24 | url=https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/what-s-on/241745/castleconnell-s-ann-to-feature-on-tg4-documentary.html | access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref><ref name="ODonovan 2003">{{cite book | last=O'Donovan | first=A. | title=365 Days Less 2 Days | publisher=Trafford Publishing | year=2003 | isbn=978-1-4120-1545-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQ5mEKQMOAwC&pg=PA64 | language=fr | access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref><ref name="OBrien 2012">{{cite book | last=O'Brien | first=P. | title=The Road from Castlebarnagh: Growing Up in Irish Music, A Memoir | publisher=Orpen Press | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-871305-92-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D3WBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 | access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref><ref name="Munster Express Online 2010">{{cite web | title=Tionól Ceoil na Rinne 2010 | website=Munster Express Online | date=2010-02-12 | url=http://www.munster-express.ie/entertainment/tionol-ceoil-na-rinne-2010/ | access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref>
She is married to Tomás Ó Ceilleachair with whom she had daughters Odí and Sorcha, and a son Ógie. They ran Tig an Cheoil in Ring, County Waterford. With her daughters she recorded an album in 2001.<ref name="Itma"/><ref name="Vallely 1999"/><ref name="Keays 2017"/><ref name="Kane 2019">{{cite web | last=Kane | first=Conor | title=New gallery to open as part of Waterford arts festival | website=RTE.ie | date=2019-10-01 | url=https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2019/1001/1079367-waterford-arts/ | access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref>
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