The Wicklow way

Last week was a red-letter week for Wicklow musician and songwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne. No sooner had his second album, Wasteland, Baby!, gone straight in at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart (in achieving this, he joins a list of Irish acts that includes Sinead O’Connor, U2 and Niall Horan), than it was announced he is one of the marquee headlining acts at this year’s Electric Picnic.

The timing of Wasteland, Baby!’s ...