User:Declan Mclaughlin

Irish, singer, songwriter Declan McLaughlin has long been known to Irish America. Between 1998 and 2002, he toured throughout the states as front man for the Whole Tribe Sings, performing in places as far apart as the Kennedy Center in D.C. to a Thanksgiving show at a homeless shelter in Hardford. His music gives a distinct voice to the lives we watched on the news, throughout the long conflict in the north of Ireland. Growing up on the frontline in Derry has shaped his music, however, not in the style of the staged rebel songs that we usually associate will the Irish conflict. This is the real story- the struggle of life, dancing in bars, drugs, sex and music, all set in to the backdrop of the war that surrounded him. His song Running up Hill as been described by journalist and civil rights activist Emmon Mc Cann as the one of the finest songs of struggle every written.