Featuring Claire Hastings on vocals, Unfulfilled is the third single release from Gráinne forthcoming second album Newcomer. Music composed and arranged by Gráinne with words by Irish poet Patrick MacGill, accompanied beautifully by strings, French horn, piano and guitar. Living in the heart of Glasgow’s trad music scene, Gráinne is a vital part of that […]
Newcomer by Grainne Brady
Composed and arranged by Gráinne Brady, with words by Patrick MacGill. Following up on her debut solo album The Road Across the Hills, Gráinne’s second solo album Newcomer is also inspired by the work of Irish writer Patrick MacGill – namely his second novel ‘The Rat-Pit’. The story follows a young Donegal woman, Norah Ryan […]
The Lion of Donegal by Alex MacDonald
James Duffy from Donegal was my distant relation by marriage. He won the Victoria Cross (the highest British military award for bravery) during World War I. His life in returning to a changed Ireland after the war was not easy. Alex MacDonald comes originally from the Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland, but has spent most […]
