Lisa O'Neill (born in Ballyhaise, County Cavan, in 1982) is an Irish singer-songwriter.


O'Neill started writing songs and music at an early age. She moved to Dublin, aged 18, to study music on a full-time basis. Early on she was welcomed into the folk and traditional scene in pubs and venues around the city where her singular voice, witty lyrics 
and observations on modern Irish life gained her popularity and set her apart as a unique talent.

Her independently released debut album, "Has an Album", was released in August 2009 and sold out throughout Ireland displaying her popularity not just in Dublin but nationwide.

Her second album, "Same Cloth Or Not", was released on Song Seeds Records in October 2013. The album was recorded in a beautiful rented cottage in Wicklow in the winter months with David Kitt producing and Karl Oldum engineering and includes her band Stina Sandstrom (vocals) and Mossy Nolan (bouzouki) and some wonderful interventions from London-based string duo Geese (Emma Smith & Vincent Sipprell).

Following the release of "Same Cloth Or Not", O'Neill toured with Glen Hansard in Ireland and then to the UK with Scottish folk singer James Yorkston. Subsequently, she has toured North America, Canada, Europe Scotland & the UK, opening for David Gray, Mick Flannery, Angel Olsen as well as Glen Hansard and Sixto Rodriquez along the way.

In 2016 she released "Pothole in the Sky".

As with her 2013 album "Same Cloth Or Not", her 2018 album, "Heard a Long Gone Song", was nominated for the Choice Music Prize.
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