Rosie McCarthy

Rosie McCarthy is a young singer and actor from Macroom West Cork. She has performed at the Triskel Arts Centre Cork, the Misleor festival in Galway, the Drimoleague Singing Festival and Traveller Pride Awards at The Complex, Dublin.  Rosie sings in Irish and English and sings mainly unaccompanied in a traditional style.  she supported Irla O Lionaird at the Cork Folk Festival in 2025 and also supported Lisa O’ Neill at De Barra’s.  She also recorded the soundtrack to the play  by Oein de Bharduin ‘Why the Moon Travels’ and featured in the Pat Collins documentary on RTE One television – Songlines.
Rosie also acts and has featured as an extra in Carmel Winters’ film ‘Float Like a Butterfly’ and an episode of ‘Young Offenders’ and on the set of the Graham Norton series ‘Holding’. She was also part of the award-winning film ‘Wheel of Dreams’ alongside filmmaker Toma McCullim and a group of other Traveller girls from West Cork.  Photo by Stephen Long.