Monday 16th March 2026
Location: Billy Byrne’s Terrace
Irish bilingual singer-songwriter Padraig Jack was born and raised in the Aran islands Gaeltacht which influences his Celtic, Folk, Contemporary music and a place that has produced well known Irish writers Liam O’Flaithearta, Máirtín Ó’Direáin and Breandán Ó’hEithir, Padraig is proudly bilingual both as a conversationalist and a songwriter and writes and sings meaningful songs on guitar and piano in Irish Gaelic and English. With influences from Enya, Emmyou Harris and The Eagles to Van Morrison, Sinead O’Connor and Richard Thompson, Padraig appreciates strong songwriting with a distinct point of view.

His RTE Folk Awards nominated hit single about the islands, ‘Making Sand’, helped establish Padraig as one of Ireland’s finest contemporary songwriters with plaudits from Hot Press magazine and Mike Scott (The Waterboys), on it’s release, ‘Making Sand’ spent four weeks at Number 1 on the RTE Radio 1 Airplay Chart.

On the release of his second album ‘These Shores’ Padraig spent 2025 making his debut at Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Celtic Connections in Glasgow, Folk Alliance in Montreal and the St Patrick’s Day Festival in Dublin as well as playing Dublin and Kilkenny TradFest. Padraig’s show consists of authentic Irish and English language original songs about life in the west of Ireland and his other observations.
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