'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"

""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."

Eleanor McEvoy swapped her father's devout faith for a more liberal life. She wrote 'A Woman's Heart' and rose to fame through that song. She is scheduled to perform at Our Lady's hospice in Harold's Cross on December 7. She expresses that dying is part of life. Her father spent his last days at that hospice. She feels never at ease talking about her late parents because the relationship with them was tricky. Her personal history of faith, family tension, and public musical success shapes a perspective that connects performance, mortality, and private memory.

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