About Joe Heaney
Joe Heany was an Irish singer, born in 1919 in Áird Thoir, Cana in the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking community). After a difficult life travelling back and forth Ireland and UK, he emigrated to Manhatten after getting in contact with singers such as Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, and with them he prerecordet "The Road from Connemara". In America, he worked as a gatekeeper, until being introduced to the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut by Mick Moloney.
Top Tracks
The Rocks Of Bawn
Suantraí
The Valley of Knockanure
The West of Ireland
Oro, Se do Bheatha 'Bhaile!
The Wife Of The Bold Tenant Farmer
The Glen of Aherlow
Bean An Leanna (The Woman With The Beer)
Song of the Drowning
Caoineadh Na Tri Mhuire (The Lament of the Three Marys)
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