What the Critics Say "Only a poet could avoid gaucherie in describing, song by song, Mary O'Haras recital Naivete and worldly wisdom are magically welded into a style that can express all that is human and moving and totally unaffected by time." F.C. Campbell in the WASHINGTON EVENING STAR
"The rest of the evening was entertainment: this was beauty". Charles Acton, IRISH TIMES "Mary O'Hara . . . is steeped in traditional music. This she treats artistically to gain the perfection which the ethnic singer never seems to attain. " Liam Clancy
"Mary O'Hara . . . is simply without peer. She possesses one of the most lovely voices it's ever been my happy lot to listen to . . . gives deathless beauty of everything she sings." FOLK REVIEW (U.K.)
"Her accompaniments on the harp had the same skill and musical insight as her singing..." Christchurch Star, N.Z.
"Mary O'Hara's voice has a first day freshness in her singing. Joyce Grenfell in the OBSERVER REVIEW (U.K.)
"Mary O'Hara displays a unique sense of what folk-song is about — more I dare say than almost anyone in the current folk movement. She possesses one of the most haunting voices I've yet heard . . . always raising the simp list song to her own high standards." Folk Review, (England Nov 1975)
"... In her area of entertainment she is without peer and it can only be hoped that she can be brought to increasing audiences . . . She alone at this time can convey what is most exquisite and delicate in Irish culture." THE IRISH POST (U.K.)
"Exquisite purity and delicacy that almost defies description." Evening Star, Washington DC
Mary O'Hara reveals a world of beauty. " GRAMAPHONE (U.K.)
A programme "Ishould have been sorry to miss" Maurice Wiggan, Sunday Times, London
"The texture of her voice is compounded of the same gentle and elusive sweetness as the sound of her harp." Robert Shelton in the NEW YORK TIMES
"My songs are my biography. I sing songs only that I can identify with. That's why "God-Songs" mean so much to me." Mary O'Hara
"Mary O'Hara gives a sense of timelessness and agelessness and the original sense of what song is for. " Joyce Grenfell
"Attractive and charming, she has the rare ability to really transport her audience. Whether she sings about loneliness or love, God and or Fairies, her art is the kind that takes one into the world of pure poetry." The Word Magazine
She raised to a new high level the art of folksinging." Paul Hume in the WASHINGTON POST "Hers is the art that conceals art. " Evening Post, New Zealand WEXFORD FESTIVAL magic undimmed."
OF ARTS. " . . . Mary O'Hara s Irish Times, Dublin
"An aura of genius attends her, something indefinable which goes straight to the heart. . ." Evening Press, Dublin
"In her own particular field I know few to equal and none to excel Mary O'Hara. Charles Acton, Irish Times "Mary O'Hara has long been established as one of Irelands finest musicians. She is a singer and harpist of distinction and has elevated the best of the greatest Irish tradition to a level of consumate artistry in her performances." Gerrard Victory, Director of Music, RTE — Irish Television "There is magic and balm for the spirit in her serene art and in the old and simple things, some of them once sad, but now distilled into poetry, of which she sings. It would be good for the noisy distracted and confused world to pause more often and listen to such songs as Mary sings."
The Southland Times, N.Z.