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From ELEANOR MCEVOY// Track: ‘SHIBBOLETH’ (3.02)

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Taken from the new album: I’d rather go blonde (out now)

“This absolutely stunning album, has been a real find – one of the most compelling female singer-songwriters I’ve heard in a long time.” – MAVERICK*****

“…A sonic Gem.”- THE EVENING HERALD

” ..ambitious surging crescendos of tracks that straddles the boundaries of trad/folk “- The Irish Times

When Eleanor began write her new album, I’d Rather Go Blonde, Ireland was in the grips of severe winter weather and a devastating economic crisis. The 6th song on the album, Shibboleth, is especially relevant in light of the news of the bailout of the Irish government this week.

Eleanor described Shibboleth recently: “What I did with that was a trick on what the old traditional Irish songs used to do where you weren’t allowed to talk about the conflict, or England, so they used to talk about Ireland as woman. I’m doing the same in Shibboleth. I’m singing as if it’s a person: ‘Mo ghra, mo chraoi, mo cuisle/How hard it is to see/ A mhuirin, they have brought you to your knees.’ But I’m actually singing about Ireland”.

A rather beguiling song, only too fitting for the time that is in it. With the current state of Ireland’s economic unsettlement, ‘Shibboleth’ attempts to transpire across the routes which took the small country from boom to bust.

Captured in her unique panache and evocative song writing elegance, on ‘Shibboleth’, Eleanor “combines anger and empathy in a stunning poetic bravura performance”. (THE EVENING HERALD)

McEvoy Concludes: “I wrote the track this year in loving sadness of what they’ve done to my beautiful country…….It seems to have grown in relevancy in the intervening months”.

Lyrics below:

‘Shibboleth’

-(E. McEvoy)

Your beauty in the spotlight

It was something to behold

A final hope of something good

A pool of solid gold

Mo ghra, mo chroi, mo chuisle

How hard it is to see

A mhuirnin, they have brought you to your knees

You Riverdanced around the world

A shining shibboleth

You dared to take the breath away

Of everyone you met

Mo ghra, mo chroi, mo chuisle

How hard it is to see

A mhuirnin, they have brought you to your knees

The rains that you’re so famous for

I’ve only realised

Are just the tears you fail to keep

Cascading from your eyes

Mo ghra, mo chroi, mo chuisle

How hard it is to see

A mhuirnin, they have brought you to your knees

Mo ghra, mo chroi, mo chuisle

How hard it is to see

A mhuirnin, they have brought you to your knees

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