Lisa O’Neill “The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right” 12″ EP

This EP is comprised of a group of six tracks, they include Lisas haunting rendition of Bob DylansAll The Tired Horsesrecorded tosoundtrack the closing scene of the final episode ofPeaky Blinders, plusHomeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age) featuringPeter Doherty,which wasreleasedas a stand-alone singlein Januaryofthis year.It wasnot the first time ONeill has written about social injustices on the cusp of a change.Songs likeRock the Machineabout unemployment in the Dublin dock lands,WhenCash Was Kingabout the move to a cashless society andViolet Gibsonabout the Irish woman who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in 1926. This new song was written in response to the growing issue of homelessness in Dublin and Ireland.

Another song on the EP, The Wind Doesnt Blow This Far Right, a moving and powerful song for our times, Lisa describes thus, I began writing this song in November 2017 and I finished it in January 2025. My song is a reaction to the unsettled times that we live in., The videowas directed by Ellius Grace and featured musicians Kate Tempest, Kevin Rowland, Spider Stacey of The Pogues and Iona Zajac plus renowned Nigerian/Irish poet Feli Speaks, actresses Olwen Four and Hazel Doupe and actors John McArdle and Jack Walsh amongst many others.

Added to these are anew song and recent live favouriteMother JonesabouttheIrishactivist who emigrated to America and became a union organiser,Mary G. Harris Jones, who in 1902 was called the most dangerous woman in America – following her organising of miners against mine owners leading directly to the introduction of Americas first child labor laws. The EP is completed with a moving reading of the James Stevens poem Autumn 1915.

A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, ONeill is a five-time BBC Folk Award nominee and her previous album Heard a Long Gone Song was named The Guardians 2019 Folk Album of the Year. She had two songs feature in Peaky Blinders Blackbird, her own composition, and an adaptation of Bob Dylans All the Tired Horses soundtracked the final scene of the epic TV drama.

street date 2/13/2026