Byrne became one of the few female voices in the
Irish folk revival of the 1960s and 70s. "Anne Byrne's voice floats clearly, lyrically, over the skilled guitar playing of Paddy Roche and MIck Crotty," wrote an American reviewer in 1972, when her album
I Chose the Green was re-released in the United States by
Capitol Records, as part of their "International Series". After winning prizes for singing at the 1967 Father Mathew
Feis (
Feis an t-Athair Maitiú) in Dublin, she performed on several TV programmes in Eire. Byrne toured both North America and Europe. She performed at the
Newport Folk Festival and at the 1970
Philadelphia Folk Festival. She performed in many of Ireland's most noted folk venues including The Abbey Tavern in
Howth, The Embankment in
Tallaght, the Stardust in
Artane, and the Coffee Kitchen and O'Donoghue's in
Dublin. She performed with, amongst others,
the Dubliners and
The Chieftains. She recorded four albums. She retired from singing professionally in 1980. Byrne married fellow musician Patrick Roche in 1966, and had three children, Patrick, Jason, and Oisin. She died in 2020, in her seventies. ==Albums==