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Crazy Dreams: Irish music’s ‘elder statesman’ looks back on a long and fulfilling career
In an extensively detailed memoir, singer Paul Brady reveals his relationship with folk music and the processes that go into his songwriting, including The Island, a song written during the Troubles
Paul Brady is often asked about the role that Irish folk music played in his upbringing. The truth, he reveals in his autobiography, Crazy Dreams, is that it didn’t have much of an impact at all. “When I look back now, I go . . . where was it hiding?”
Brady was educated at a religiously integrated school in Strabane, Co Tyrone. This was, according to him, “not the place to hear” Irish folk for ...
