N. B. Some reviewers were unaware that my second album, Roithleán, was released in October 2016, and mistakenly stated that it was released in 2017. There wasn't a lot of publicity around the album at the time it was being made, so some people didn't realise it existed until several months or even a year later.
The first launch of Roithleán was in the Cobblestone pub on the 8th of October 2016. The second launch was in the Crane bar in Galway on the 15th of October, a week later. After that there were two more launches in 2016 - one in Hoban's bar in Westport, and one in Holmes' bar in Doohoma, Co. Mayo.
The launch in Holmes' was a double album launch with the fiddle player Aidan Connolly, who had finished making his debut album, Be Off. Neither of us feature on each other's albums, but often played tunes together informally, and there were also a few duets on that night which didn't feature on the recordings.
The final launch of Roithleán was in February 2017, at Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh, Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, Co. Kerry. It's possible that more people found out about it then, as a large number of people attended the festival, and the festival itself is well known.
Roithleán review, spellbindingmusic.com
Roithleán review, Irish Times
Debut CD, I bhfíor-dheiriú oidhche, The Journal of Music
Úna Monaghan's album, Aonaracht -
review from KLOF magazine, 2023
Raelach Records review, KLOF magazine, 2020
Patrick Freyne article about Féile Róise Rua, 2022
University of Cambridge concert, 2013
Baoite review, The Irish Times, 2019
Baoite review, The Irish Times, 2019
Tunes in the Church CD, 2011
Tunes in the Church CD, 2011
Dance: "The Wake", Dublin Dance Festival, 2012
Dance: "The Wake", Dublin Dance Festival, 2012