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| Date: | 29 Oct - 30 Oct 2025 |
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| Time: | 7.30pm |
| Location: | Downstairs at the MAC |
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Following her recent sold out ‘Symphony for the Moons’ shows at Dublin’s National Concert Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra and London’s Barbican with the Britten Sinfonia, Lisa O’Neill performs two very special shows at the MAC.
It’s been a remarkable few years for the Cavan songwriter. Her last album All of This Is Chance ranked highly on many 2023 Albums of The Year lists. Amongst the wealth of praise, BBC 6 Music’s Gideon Coe picked it as his Album Of The Year, Bob Boilen at NPR deemed it his No.3 Album of The Year and it was Mojo’s No.3 Folk Album.
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 The Guardian’s 2019 Folk Album of the Year.
Lisa has recently released a single which features vocals from Libertines, Peter Doherty - Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age) - a song she felt compelled to write in response to the growing homelessness crisis in Dublin.
Programmed as part of Belfast International Arts Festival 2025.
The MAC is a charity dedicated to creativity, culture, and connection - every £1 we make goes directly into supporting our transformative arts and community programmes. Therefore a booking fee of £1 per ticket* will apply to all bookings made through our website and over the phone.
*There is no booking fee charge for bookings made in person, free events, school groups, community groups, personal assistant tickets, children’s tickets and 16=24 member tickets.
“Giving voice to the disenfranchised is something she does so well, with a particular affinity for women – “Woman is powerful when not restricted”- she says…. And she is emblematic of this, with a free singularity that can fold in difficult subjects, such as homelessness…”.
"The Cavan songwriter has grown in stature in recent years as a valued chronicler of the disenfranchised. Songs of social, political and cultural issues preoccupy her as she proves as adept a storyteller as the playwrights long associated with this room.”
