2025

The song Easter was written in mid-2024, and we first rehearsed it by the beach in Wye River, on the southern coast of Australia, where we spent the weekend together playing new songs and hanging out at the Wye River pub. Easter is a narrative song that tells the story of the Easter Uprising in Dublin in 1916. The lyrics encompasses the memories of those actually involved. The background is that Ireland was tired of British rule, brutal oppression and broken promises of home-rule, and while England were engaged with the First World War, Ireland took its chance at becoming sovereign. The uprising was defeated after a week with the leaders being executed and many others imprisoned, but these brave Irish women and men pathed the way for the republic of Ireland a number of years later. This song continues to tell their stories, and pays respect to their bravery that has impacted the generations after them. May they never be forgotten.

NEW SINGLE: MADIGAN’S WAKE – Easter Uprising (2025)