Dolores O'Riordan

Dolores O'Riordan is one of those rare voices that stops you cold the first time you hear it — that keening, trembling wail she brought to The Cranberries had no real precedent in rock, and it never got old. She grew up in County Limerick, Ireland, and you could honestly hear the landscape in her singing: something ancient and wide-open underneath every melody. "Zombie" alone should have cemented her legacy, a thunderous anti-war anthem that somehow hit even harder as a quiet acoustic piece, but she and the band had so much more beyond it — "Linger," "Dreams," "Ode to My Family." She was a songwriter and guitarist in her own right, not just a front person, and that craftsmanship showed. Losing her at 46 in January 2018 felt genuinely cruel. The world got too little of what she had left to give.

Name (English)

Dolores O'Riordan

Name (Japanese)

ドロレス・オリオーダン

Reading

どろれす・おりおーだん

Born

September 6, 1971 – January 15, 2018

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

Origin

Ballybricken North, County Limerick, Ireland

Occupation

singer-songwriter / guitarist / singer

• Official sitehttps://doloresoriordan.com
• Xhttps://x.com/DolORiordan
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores%20O'Riordan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q541599

Tags

• County Limerick
• singer-songwriter
• guitarist
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.