Fiach Moriarty has announced a gig in The Liberties Arthur’s Blues & Jazz Club on December 11, in support of his most recent record Liberties.

He will welcome special guests Alan Doherty, John Cummins, Fin Divilly and Andy Earley.

Liberties is a concept album about Fiach’s great-granduncle Jack Kavanagh from Francis Street in Dublin’s Liberties. It features collaborations with Damien Dempsey on the track ‘I’m For Gallipoli’ and Jenna Nicholls on ‘Long Lost Penpal’.

 

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Speaking of the record, Fiach explains, `’Like many men from the Liberties area of Dublin, Jack joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and fought in World War I.

“While there are specifics about Jack in the album, I see him as a Liberties everyman, representing the men of that area at that time that followed the same path to fight in an Imperial War during a time of great economic hardship. Jack Kavanagh was a bit of an enigma in our family.”

Fiach continues. “My grandmother often told me about him but my mother and her siblings had never heard of him. During Covid I signed up to Ancestry.com and discovered all about Jack through his army records.

“I pieced this together with stories my grandmother had told me about him. I wrote the album chronologically as I wanted to try to accurately track his life from the Liberties to Gallipoli. I included as much information about Dublin at that time to paint a picture of what it was like for a young man in Dublin in those turbulent times.”

On top of his solo career, Fiach writes and plays guitar with the trad-fusion group ALDOC and most recently joined the seminal Irish band Horslips as guitarist and lead singer.

Tickets for Fiach Moriarty’s December 11 gig sell for €15.00 are available here.