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12 Mar 25

Release date of Jimmy Crowley's upcoming album Life confirmed

Release date of Jimmy Crowley's upcoming album <i>Life</i> confirmed

Jimmy Crowley - Credit: Colm Keating

Irish folk musician and scholar Jimmy Crowley has confirmed the release date of his fifteenth album, Life.

Irish folk musician Jimmy Crowley has announced that his new album, Life, will be released on April 4.

Life is Crowley's fifteenth record, a retelling of his life and journey, informed largely by the experience of his marriage breaking up and his move to Florida in 2006.

To celebrate the album's launch, the musician will also be performing in Cork's City Library on April 14 and Dublin's Liberty Hall on April 16.

Crowley, from Douglas, Cork, began his musical career in the 1960s with the formation of Stoker’s Lodge with Mick Murphy, Christy Twomey and Johnny 'Fang' Murphy, joined shortly after by Eoin Ó Riabhaigh.

Stoker’s Lodge popularised many traditional Cork ballads, like ‘Salonika’ and ‘The Boys of Fairhill’ before disbanding in the mid-1980s.

From the 1990s, the Crowley began performing as a solo act, continuing to collect and perform traditional Irish music. With an MA in Irish, Crowley has researched the history of Irish music, specifically songs from Cork, in his book Songs From The Beautiful City: Cork Urban Ballads.

Most recently, Crowley worked with Eve Telford to produce the album Hello! Child Ballads Learned From Irish Travellers. The record is a collection of ballads Crowley had learned from Irish Travellers decades earlier in London.

See Life's full tracklist below;