Lisa O’Neill has shared new single ‘The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right’ ahead of the release of her new EP on November 7th.

“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,” explains the Cavan artist of the track which comes with a star-studded video directed by Ellius Grace featuring musicians Kae Tempest, Kevin Rowland, Spider Stacey of The Pogues and Iona Zajac plus renowned Nigerian/Irish poet Feli Speaks, actresses Olwen Fouéré and Hazel Doupe and actors John McArdle and Jack Walsh amongst many others.

The EP also includes ‘Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)’ featuring Peter Doherty her version of Bob Dylan’s ‘All The Tired Horses’ which soundtracked the closing scene of the final episode of Peaky Blinders, new songs include ‘Mother Jones’ about the Irish activist 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 America’s first child labor laws. The EP is completed with a version of the seasonally topical ‘The Bleak Midwinter’ and a reading of the James Stevens poem ‘Autumn 1915’.

Lisa O’Neill will play an extensive tour of Ireland commencing in The MAC, Belfast on October 29th. Full details below.

Forthcoming Tour Dates:

Oct 29 – The MAC, Belfast
Oct 30 – The MAC, Belfast
Nov 2 – Town Hall Theatre, Galway
Nov 6 – DeBarras, Clonakilty – with John Splillane as his special guest
Nov 7 – De’Barras, Clonakilty
Nov 8 – De’Barras, Clonakilty (Matinee Show)
Nov 13 – The Dock Arts Centre, Leitrim
Nov 14 – The Dock Arts Centre, Leitrim
Nov 15 – Set Theatre, Kilkenny
Nov 16 – Set Theatre, Kilkenny
Nov 20 – Belltable, Limerick
Nov 21 – Belltable, Limerick
Nov 22 – Quiet Lights Festival at St Lukes, Cork
Nov 23 – The Attic Hotel, Doolin, Clare
Nov 28 – Jerome Hynes NOH, Wexford
Dec 21 – Vicar Street, Dublin – w/ Junior Brother