Padraig Lalor's debut album marks Titanic centenary
Ammanford singer-songwriter Padraig Lalor's debut album has been timed to coincide with the centenary of the Titanic disaster. Called Ismay's Dream, the album focusses on different characters in Lalor's home city of Belfast. Lalor takes a keen interest in the history of Belfast. He provides vocals on all but one track and is accompanied by various combinations of acoustic and bass guitar, piano, drums, percussion, violins, viola, whistles and accordion. The songs on the album focus on different characters who were associated with the Titanic in various ways - those who built her, those who sailed on her, and those left behind. The songs are all original, but they have a quintessentially Irish feel to them. Padraig was born in Belfast. He lived his formative years in the 1970s against the backdrop of the troubles in Northern Ireland. He worked as a freelance journalist in the 1980s; becoming Northern Irish correspondent for the Irish Post, before gaining a...