Jaysus!

The first half of the post was goin' alright Stiofain, but then you had to insult half the world's population with that misogynistic second paragraph. To dismiss female singers as focussing only on the technical is absurd. I take it you haven't heard Norma Waterson, Kate Rusby, Margaret Barry, Sandy Denny, The Johnstons' girls, Triona Ni Domhnaill, Cathy Jordan (a name I left off my original list), Dolores Keane, etc, etc, etc.

Check out Dervish's versions of "Lone Shanakyle" or "For Ireland I Won't Tell Her Name" or "An Spailpin Fanach" and then come back here and say hand on heart that Cathy Jordan's focussing on the technical aspects of singing. (Admittedly her singing is superb technically ... but she goes way beyond the purely technical.)

Or listen to Triona Ni Domnnaill sing "Pretty Peg" or "Derry Gaol".

Or Dolores Keane sing "Galway Bay".

Or Kate Rusby sing "Who Will Sing Me Lullabies?".