The Cavan singer will perform at the Town Hall Theatre after touring Britain and the US as a special guest of The Pogues.
Earlier this year, O’Neill released a single featuring vocals from The Libertines’ Pete Doherty – ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age )’ – a song she felt compelled to write in response to the growing issue of homelessness in Dublin.
This is not the first time O’Neill has written about social injustices on the cusp of a change. Songs like ‘Rock the Machine’ about unemployment in Dublin’s dock lands, ‘When Cash Was King’ about the move to a cashless society, and ‘Violet Gibson’ about the Irish woman who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in 1926.
O’Neill is currently writing new material for her next album.
It has been a remarkable few years for Cavan songwriter. Her acclaimed last album All of This Is Chance ranked highly on many critics 2023’s Albums of The Year Lists.
Amongst the wealth of praise, Gideon Coe at BBC 6 Music picked it as his Album Of The Year. It was No 3 in Mojo Magazine’s Folk Albums Of The Year, and Bob Boilen at NPR deemed it his No 3 Album of The Year. Lisa made a memorable appearance on Later with Jools Holland.
A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill is a five-time BBC Folk Award nominee and her album Heard a Long Gone Song was named The Guardian’s 2019 Folk Album of the Year.
She had two songs feature in TV sensation Peaky Blinders: ‘Blackbird’ her own composition, and an adaptation of Bob Dylan’s ‘All the Tired Horses’ which sound-tracked the final scene of the epic series.
