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The O’Malleys headlined the Milk Market gig last night ably supported by John Steel, who showcased songs from his two albums. No doubt about it but after 40 years of playing the O’Malleys have added an extra layer of sophistication with the addition of guitarist Mike Moriarty, his playing on the classic All Right Now […]
Sweet and sardonic in equal measures, Emma Langford is a songwriters’ songwriter. The Limerick woman almost lost her voice to nodules as a child; a voice now hailed as an inimitable, national treasure. She creates work that fuses trad, folk, and jazz; her writing and performance are a celebration of this nation’s tradition of storytelling. […]
The annual summer visit to Limerick this year was marked by the turn of the key in the door of the house that is now the family home without my mother. I wrote about that feeling of absence many years ago, in a poem called Emptynest, on the death of my father, when we children […]
