• Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Kate O'Callaghan

  • News
  • Live
  • Music
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Lyrics
  • Press
  • Shop
  • Contact

The Girl With The Beret – New Album

26th September 2016 By Kate O'Callaghan

tgwtb-21x21-title catherine-byrne-in-uniform-2

I’m delighted to announce the release of my New Album, called The Girl With The Beret.

It is available now for pre-order on Bandcamp and will be officially released on Monday 3rd October, 2016.

 ’The Girl with The Beret’ is a 1916 Concept Mini-Album, inspired by my great-grandaunt Katie, otherwise known as Catherine Rooney (née Byrne).
According to her witness statement, recorded with the Bureau of Military History (Ireland), she was the first woman to enter the GPO in Dublin on the day of the Rising on Easter Monday 1916. Having followed her brothers down O’Connell St., she kicked in a side window of the GPO and climbed in. She tended to the wounded, earning herself the title of ‘The Petticoat Heroine’ in the press in later years. 

Katie also delivered several dispatches during the week, including one important note written by Joseph Plunkett and given to her by Pádraig Pearse. She concealed the note in her hair and brought it to the Four Courts. Katie describes running under fire and narrowly escaping death, when a bullet passed by her head leaving two holes in her beret. She also describes her family’s involvement in the War of Independence, in the years following the Rising. Their house, at 17 Nth Richmond St., was used as a secret HQ for a special squad called the ‘Guards of the Active Service Unit’. Firearms and ammunition were temporarily hidden in various secret places in the house, including the first Thompson gun smuggled into Ireland. Her Mother, Mrs Catherine Byrne (née Dowling), provided a safe house during this time, feeding and tending to the many men who were involved and needing a place to hide. 

 

Comprised of a series of songs and spoken word tracks, which flow seamlessly from one into the other, The Girl With The Beret weaves the story of a young woman caught up in the 1916 Rising in Dublin.

A fusion of alternative folk, popular ballad and classical strings. It gives a unique insight into the perspective of an ordinary girl living at that time and what it meant, as a female, to be involved in the Rebellion.

Featured musicians:

Kate O’Callaghan, Seamus Devenny, Tim Jarvis, Declan McClafferty and Martin Smyth (from alt. rock band In Their Thousands), Stephen McDaid, Billy Robinson, Paul Devenny and Kevin Murphy.

Recorded and Mixed by Orri McBrearty at Attica Audio, Donegal.

Mastered by Richard Dowling at WavMastering, Limerick.

 

 

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: 1916, 1916 Ballad, Alt. Folk, Attica Audio Recording, Catherine Byrne, Catherine Rooney, Concept Album, Donegal, Folk, In Their Thousands, Irish Rebellion, Kate O'Callaghan, new Album, Rising, Singer/songwriter, The Girl with the Beret, Wav Mastering

New Double Single Release – FEEL & YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE

17th October 2015 By Kate O'Callaghan

I’m delighted to announce my Double Single Release of ‘FEEL’ & ‘YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE’ with new label Andromeda Artisans.  Available now on iTUNES and all major digital streaming sites. Enjoy Xx

AA_Black_Spot_Port

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Alternative, Alternative Folk, Andromeda Artisans, Blues, Campervan, Candi Staton, Donegal, Earagail Arts Festival, Feel, Folk, In Their Thousands, Jazz, Kate O'Callaghan, Singer Songwriter, Swing, The Henry Girls, Vantastival, VW T4, Young Hearts Run Free

Confirmed for Swell Festival 2015

17th May 2015 By Kate O'Callaghan

Delighted to be playing again at this awesome music and arts festival on Arranmore Island July 10th – 12th – The Mighty Swell Festival. Get your tickets now.

Swell 2015

 

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Alt. Folk, Andromeda Artisans, Arranmore Island, Donegal Singer/songwriter, Folk, In Their Thousands, John Muldowney, Kate O'Callaghan, Music and Arts Festival, Our Native State, Seamus Devenny, Swell Donegal, Swell Festival, The Wood Burning Savages

The Lark & The Robin – New Venue for 2015

4th March 2015 By Kate O'Callaghan

We had our first installment of The Lark & The Robin in the beautiful surroundings of St. Buadan’s Church, Culdaff, Inishowen on the 26th February. With special guests Declan McClafferty (from In Their Thousands), Sarah Cullen (w/Ruairi Friel) and Best Boy Grip. A truly spectacular gig in the most intimate of settings. Please visit The Lark & The Robin’s Facebook page for more information on this monthly event.

Lark and Robin A3 Wee Church

 

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Best Boy Grip, Church of Ireland Culdaff, Culdaff, Declan MClafferty, Donegal, Eoin O'Callaghan, In Their Thousands, Inishowen, John McGrory, Kate O'Callaghan, Lark and Robin, Monthly Acoustic Club, Neil McGrory, Original Irish Music, Ruairi Friel, Sarah Cullen, Seamus Devenny, Singer Songwriter, St. Buadan's Church, The Lark & The Robin, The Lark and The Robin

New album!

Small Behaviours by Kate O'Callaghan cover artwork

Live

No shows announced at the moment.



Copyright © 2023 Kate O'Callaghan · Website by Made in Trenbania