Tulua (Ireland)

Tulua is a young traditional Irish band from the southeast of Ireland, made up of Cian O’Grady (guitar), Diarmaid Murphy (flute and mandolin), Kayleigh Moran (fiddle and voice), and Ella McGrory (piano and fiddle). Since forming in 2019, they have released an EP, Rising (2021), and a debut album, No Coming No Going (2023), and have performed in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, France, the USA, and Canada. They were official showcase artists at the 2025 Folk Alliance International Conference in Montreal and have performed extensively at the National Opera House of Ireland.

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“Passage West” is a song by Cork songwriter John Spillane that weaves together a love story and the history of Irish emigration. Passage West is a town on the River Lee in County Cork from which many Irish emigrants departed during the Famine years, bound for America. The song holds both personal tenderness and historical grief in the same breath: “I met my love in Passage West / The sun was sinking down to rest / The ghostly forms of the hungry years / In sad procession did appear / But hope and sorrow made their way / For their passage west

to Americay.”

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