Cavan’s finest folk singer-songwriter Lisa O’ Neill releases a new six-track EP.
The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right is named after the previously released title track, and also features O’Neill’s cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘All The Tired Horses’, the Pete Doherty-featuring ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)’
‘The Bleak Midwinter’ is the new song on the collection, but it is of course an old song – an old English poem, along with ‘Mother Jones’ and ‘Autumn 1915’.
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‘Mother Jones’ is about the Irish activist who emigrated to America and became a union organiser, Mary G. Harris Jones, who in 1902 was called ‘the most dangerous woman in America’ – following her organising of miners against mine owners leading directly to the introduction of America’s first child labor laws.
The EP is completed with a moving reading of the James Stevens poem ‘Autumn 1915’.
12” vinyl edition out Feb 20th, 2026
Forthcoming Tour Dates:
Nov 20 – Belltable, Limerick
Nov 21 – Belltable, Limerick
Nov 22 – Quiet Lights Festival at St Lukes, Cork
Nov 23 – The Attic Hotel, Doolin, Clare
Nov 24 – Spindizzy, Dublin – Instore
Nov 28 – Jerome Hynes NOH, Wexford
Dec 21 – Vicar Street, Dublin – w/ Junior Brother
EP Tracklisting:
1. The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right
2. Mother Jones
3. All The Tired Horses
4. Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in The Digital Age)
5. The Bleak Midwinter
6. Autumn 1915
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