In a Lifetime

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The Brennans are Ireland's most successful music family; in 2005, the combined record sales of Clannad and Enya exceeded 70 million. [73] Leo Brennan (born Leopold Henry Brennan-Hardin) [74] and Máire "Baba" Duggan are the parents of the Brennan siblings Máire (Moya), Ciarán, Pól, Deirdre, Leon, [75] Eithne (Enya), Olive, Bartley, and Brídín. Brennan was a musician who played in an Irish showband, the Slieve Foy, and Duggan was an amateur musician who taught music at Gweedore Community School and lead the local choir, Cór Mhuire Doire Beaga. The family lived in Dore, a parish in Gweedore, County Donegal. Clannad Bursary of E30K Announced to Support Gaeltacht Artists". The Journal of Music.com . Retrieved 13 November 2023. 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. In A Lifetime was released as the third single from Macalla on 13 January 1986. It charted in several territories, including United States, Ireland, UK, Italy and Brazil.

Two minutes of haunting vocal magic—the sort of thing Clannad have been doing for years—and all of a sudden everybody wants to know who they are." a b "australian-charts.com - Discography Clannad". australian-charts.com . Retrieved 17 October 2022.Landmarks and The Ultimate Collection: "Irish Album Charts 1997 and 1998". UKMIX Forums . Retrieved 17 October 2022. a b c d Bacon, Tony (June 1985). "That Clannad Moment". One Two Testing (Jun 1985): 54–55 . Retrieved 29 June 2023– via Muzines.

The song was also included on the US version of their 1990 studio album Anam, on a bonus CD of their 1996 studio album Lore, and can be found on every collection and live album released since the song’s creation (including Moya Brennan’s solo 2008 live album Heart Strings). In 1974, the band followed their debut album with Clannad 2, released by Gael Linn Records and produced by Dónal Lunny, the founder of Planxty and The Bothy Band. Like their first album, Clannad 2 featured a mixture of English and Gaelic songs, with Lunny and members of the Bothy Band on additional instruments. It also featured the band's first use of a synthesizer. [28] [30] Spooling photographs of concert programmes, press interviews and festival posters during the interval chronicled Clannad’s musical life with a heady mix of nostalgia and tenderness. The second half of the performance swung from a mesmerising Dulamán to In a lifetime (Aisling Jarvis taking on the vocals originally sung by Bono with a quiet, unshowy confidence), Níl sé ina lá and so much more.In September 2013, Clannad released Nádúr, their first studio album since 1998. [60] It was the band's final album before the death of Padraig Duggan in 2016. They began an international tour in October 2013 which started in Australia and New Zealand and continued through 2014. In 2016, Moya Brennan announced she had been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive lung disease that required her to rephrase the vocals to some songs. [58] a b Daly, John (9 July 2005). "Love and the Music". Irish Independent. pp.22, 24–25 . Retrieved 15 July 2023. a b For all peaks except noted below: "irishcharts.com - Discography Clannad". irish-charts.com . Retrieved 17 October 2022.