ITMA take us behind the scenes of Lisa O’Neill’s research into Arthur Griffith, as she prepares for Treaty: Songs at the NCH in December – a Concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Listen to the new single from Lisa O’Neill & Colm Mac Con Iomaire performing Peggy Gordon. Lisa O’Neill delivers the lyrics – about the despair of unrequited love – with poise and poignancy. Colm Mac Con Iomaire’s solo fiddle is elegant in its gentle understatement.
Serious have announced that they are joining with the National Concert Hall in Dublin to present Lisa O’Neill in a Livestream Session this Friday 12th June at 8pm.
All three songs have that timeless quality. Listened to out of context it would be difficult to tell the ancient from the modern. This is an important feature of O’Neill’s gifts as a singer and musician.
Today, Lisa O’Neill follows her acclaimed album Heard a Long Gone Song with a new EP – ‘The Wren, The Wren’ released on Rough Trade’s traditional music imprint River Lea.
Ye Vagabonds were the big winners RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards scooping three awards. Winners also included the incredible Lisa O’Neill, Saint Sister, Zoë Conway, Iarla Ó’Lionáird as well as Moya Brennan receiving a lifetime achievement award and Margaret Barry inducted into the Hall of Fame.
River Lea is a record label run by Geoff Travis & Jeannette Lee of Rough Trade along with music journalist Tim Chipping. We chat with Tim about how the label came to be which features Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds and Brìghde Chaimbeul, all of whom have picked up BBC Folk Award nominations this year.
David Weir chats to Lisa O’Neill backstage at Cambridge Folk Festival about Music Awards (she’s been nominated for four BBC Folk Awards), Nick Cave, Margaret Barry, songwriting and the distractions of technology and dreaming.
Celebrating contemporary female talent, this year’s Liverpool Irish Festival will be running a special event called Visible Women featuring Lisa O’Neill, Maz O’Connor and Laura Duff.
The acclaimed singer and flautist Rioghnach Connolly is to appear in She Moved Through The Fair: The Legend Of Margaret Barry at Kings Place, London on Saturday, March 16.
Watch Come On Up To The House (The Movie) featuring Glen Hansard (The Frames), Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Bitch Falcon, a number of the Begley family and more.
Having shared our Top 100 Albums of 2018, it’s time for a few select Top 10 albums of the year from some of our Feature writers. Neil McFadyen shares his Top 10 albums that have made the strongest impact on him in the last year.
