Easter-egg" during first 20 seconds of "Lifetime"', Máire explains during public IRC chat with fans, 2003 a b Rowley, Eddie (21 December 2022). "Clannad singer Moya Brennan says the band were 'laughed at' when they started off". Sunday World . Retrieved 28 June 2023. In September 2013, Clannad released Nádúr, their first studio album since 1998. [60] It was the band's final album before the death of Padraig Duggan in 2016. They began an international tour in October 2013 which started in Australia and New Zealand and continued through 2014. In 2016, Moya Brennan announced she had been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive lung disease that required her to rephrase the vocals to some songs. [58] In A Lifetime was released as the third single from Macalla on 13 January 1986. It charted in several territories, including United States, Ireland, UK, Italy and Brazil.

A very fine way to say goodbye: still in love with the music, and intent on getting to the heart of every song. Siobhán Long The chorus, “ Fol lol the doh, fol the day, fol the doh fol the day,” comes from ancient Irish “mouth-music”. It was common in the reels and jigs world, but Ciarán thought it would be good to slow it down. Some people thought I was singing, “On the dole, all day.” Yorkshire TV sent over an engineer, Richard Dodd, who’d worked on 10cc’s I’m Not in Love and introduced us to the idea of layering the vocals. Ciarán and I sang looking right at each other. We could feel the emotion of the song. I think we used the second take, and layered it on top of that.Mayfield, Geoff (9 August 1997). "Between the Bullets". Billboard. Vol.109, no.32. p.76 . Retrieved 30 July 2021. Moya Brennan. "Biography". Moyabrennan.com. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015 . Retrieved 22 March 2012.

Moya Brennan of Clannad performing during the band's farwell concert at Dublin's 3Arena on Saturday night. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times. Honigmann, David (6 March 2020). "Clannad: In a Lifetime — reflecting on a 50-year career". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 . Retrieved 19 August 2021. Myles, Eric (16 April 1983). "Last Chance to Catch Clannad". Belfast Telegraph. p.11 . Retrieved 1 July 2023– via British Newspaper Archives.Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit CHU - COA". Sisältää hitin. 13 August 2015 . Retrieved 17 October 2022. In 1973, Clannad came in first place in the annual folk festival in Letterkenny, County Donegal, and were offered a deal with Philips Records, which they negotiated themselves. [31] [30] Having secured a label, the group prepared material for a debut album. They recorded at Eamonn Andrews Studios in Dublin, choosing Gaelic and English songs and a cover of " Morning Dew" by Bonnie Dobson. Released in 1973, Clannad was met with initial resistance from the label because of the use of Gaelic, and the group soon found themselves more popular outside Ireland, particularly in Germany. [31] Later in 1973, Clannad competed for Ireland in the heat stages of the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "An Pháirc". So, not a song about a poor girl, but a song of hope and how you can rise up no matter how far down you started.