So, not a song about a poor girl, but a song of hope and how you can rise up no matter how far down you started. It is one of Clannad’s most successful songs and – if you count it among them – Bono’s most successful solo effort.

Clannad Finds Road to U.S. Exposure: Pop music: The use of 'Harry's Game' in TV car commercials has given the Irish folk-pop group another shot at the American market". Los Angeles Times. 2 June 1993 . Retrieved 19 August 2021. Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 9 December 1991". Bubbling Down Under . Retrieved 11 December 2022. Moya Brennan of Clannad performing during the band's farwell concert at Dublin's 3Arena on Saturday night. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times. Home– Real Good Music". Rgmbooking.com. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014 . Retrieved 7 May 2012. This was a performance marked by poise and precision. Moya Brennan took quiet, unassuming possession of centre stage from the get go, with a delicate reading of Buachaill ón Éirne, from their 1985 album, Macalla. Her voice, deliciously wraithlike and woven like a skein through the lyrics, carries traces of a lifetime of performance, but its essence is still what it was when she first took to the stage at Letterkenny Folk Festival as a teenager.

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How Clannad changed the world's view of Celtic music". Thetonedeaf.thebrag.com. 17 June 2021 . Retrieved 19 August 2021. Gaeltacht group release single". Irish Independent. 19 October 1974. p.7 . Retrieved 30 June 2023– via British Newspaper Archives. Colin Irwin. CD sleeve notes - Clannad Beginnings: the Best of the Early Years - Demon Music Group 2008. present: hiatus, five-piece reunion, Nádúr, and final tour [ edit ] Clannad returned as a five piece in January 2007

New Clannad album > Clannad & Moya Brennan News". 28 February 2009. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. An unquenchable generosity of spirit suffused this performance, Moya’s harp bringing delicious detail, especially to Carolan’s Eleanor Plunkett. Ciarán’s double bass was a revelation, adding depth and form wherever needed, and Pól’s flute was a further reminder of how the roots of the tradition soared skywards in the band’s countless inventive arrangements of old songs, and in their own compositions too. Moya Brennan playing the harp during Clannad's farwell concert at Dublin's 3Arena on Saturday night. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times. Popular Irish folk". Belfast Telegraph. 21 March 1977. p.3 . Retrieved 30 June 2023– via British Newspaper Archives.a b For all peaks except noted below: "irishcharts.com - Discography Clannad". irish-charts.com . Retrieved 17 October 2022.