![]() In them, I find solidarity with the ghosts of people I have never met and yet share fragments of feelings with. “All my life as a singer, I have been drawn to old songs. ![]() ![]() Next week, at 2pm Friday 15th April, RTE Radio 1 will broadcast ‘The Unquiet – Songs for my Mother’ – a fascinating radio documentary produced by Elizabeth Laragy, following Pauline Scanlon over three years as she makes her album ‘The Unquiet’. The Unquiet reimagines what it is to be an Irish woman in the context of music and song. The role of women in the arts is central to Pauline’s creative path and something she is very vocal about. Pauline is a founding member of the Irish organisation FairPlé, which aims to achieve gender balance in the production, performance, promotion, and development of Irish traditional and folk music. She said: “ I sing this song to honour the women and children who endured church and state systems of incarceration and separation in laundries, the mother and baby homes, county homes, residential institutions under systems of oppression, concealment, shame, abuse, and unspeakable cruelty.” On International Women’s Day, we shared her video for her album single Felton Lonnin, a Northumbrian Ballad about a missing child. Last Friday saw the release of Irish singer Pauline Scanlon‘s new album ‘The Unquiet’.
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