‘I lost the baby, it was around the time of Ann Lovett… and I couldn’t tell my parents’ – Eleanor McEvoy on the pain of loss and of making her own family

The musician swapped the devout faith of her father for a more liberal life

Eleanor McEvoy talks about love, life, loss and hope

‘Dying is part of life,” Eleanor McEvoy says. The singer-songwriter who rose to fame when she wrote A Woman’s Heart is here to talk about performing at Our Lady’s hospice in Harold’s Cross on December 7.

I mention that my father spent his last days there. She says she is “never at ease” talking about her own late parents because her relationship with them was “tricky” – as she goes on to explain.