There’s a fierce tenderness in Unbroken Line, the second album by Dublin-based artist Ciara Sidine. While her first record, Shadow Road Shining, showcased an exceptionally gifted folk singer-songwriter, her second offering sees the artist mining her compassionate nature for creative inspiration.

It’s the more political songs on Unbroken Line – like ‘Finest Flower’, dedicated to the survivors of Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries – that Sidine feels drawn to discuss.

“There was a documentary called Sex In A Cold Climate,” she recalls, “about the survivors of Mother and Baby Homes. The women’s experiences were all individual, but there was this overall narrative, and that was the feeling that they had never let go of their babies. They were taken from them against their will, but they had never let go.