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Agnes Clune Quinlan was an Irish composer, lecturer and pianist who wrote Gaelic-influenced music for piano and voice and recorded commercially as a pianist. She studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where her teachers included Henry Davenport, Frederick Eyres, and Arthur O’Leary. She was awarded medals by the Royal Academy of Music and by the Society of Arts, both in London.
Quinlan traveled to New York in 1895 and in 1900 was living at the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus in Delaware, Pennsylvania. In addition to composing, she was listed as a speaker with The Lecture Guild in New York City. Quinlan taught at Sharon Hill Academy, the Ogontz School, the Ursuline Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, and at the Catholic Suminer School in Cliff Haven, New York. Her compositions were published by Theodore Presser Company and Oliver Ditson.