Patrick Joseph Murrihy is an Irish singer-songwriter from
Mullagh,
County Clare
County Clare () is a Counties of Ireland, county in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster in the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern part of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council ...
,
Ireland
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. When not working on his own farm in Clare (where he breeds
Wagyu
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cattle) he tours Ireland with his own band.
[Farmer's Journal]
As a youngster Murrihy learned songs from singers in his family, including his mother and two of his uncles. He started playing music professionally with Michael Sexton Snr (the céilí-band leader from Mullagh), Jimmy Warde and David Culligan. He played for a time with the
Kilfenora Céilí Band, with whom he made two albums, and then teamed up with accordionist Seamus Shannon for twelve years.
[ They specialized in Irish traditional and country songs and dance music. Before forming his own band he played in a band called The Bannermen.
He previously recorded with Harmac Records, which was sold to Ceol Records, Murrihy's current record label. He records in Martin O'Malley's Studios in ]Miltown Malbay
Milltown Malbay (), also Miltown Malbay, is a town in the west of County Clare, Ireland, near Spanish Point. The population was 921 at the 2022 census.
Name
There is a townland on the southern edge of the town called Poulawillin or Pollawilli ...
.[
One of Murrihy's most popular songs is "Pat Murphy's Meadow", which was originally a poem, written in the late 1930s by J.M. Devine. Murrihy recorded it in 1988, when it entered the Irish charts.]
Songs
Songs composed and recorded by P. J. Murrihy include the following:
* "The Music And County Clare"
Discography (albums)
* ''Pat Murphy's Meadow''
* ''Bygone Days''
* ''The Music Man from Clare''
* ''My Father's House''
* ''The Land of the Gael''
* ''Absent Friends''.
* ''Life in the Auld Dog Yet''.
* ''The Land of the Gael''.
* ''I Won't Up the Ante!''
* ''Changing Times''
* ''Keep Me in Mind''
* ''The Wonder of the West''
* ''Childhood Memories''
With Seamus Shannon:
* ''My Native Sod''
* ''From Roscommon to Clare''
References
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Irish male singers
Musicians from County Clare
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
1980s in Irish music