In October 2010, T with the Maggies released the song Domhnach na Fola ( Irish for Bloody Sunday ), written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on their debut album.

During that same year, Enya was also a member of Ragairne, the band of Altan front-woman Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh.

* 1962 – Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Irish singer and fiddler ( Altan, T with the Maggies, and String Sisters )

Many artists have recorded the song, including Andreas Scholl, Bradley Kincaid, Joan Baez, Shirley Collins, Doris Day, The Everly Brothers, Roger Quilter, Texas Gladden, Nic Jones, John Travolta, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton ( with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh ), Maxine Sullivan, Pete Seeger, Tom Rush, Angelo Branduardi ( Italian version titled ' Piano Piano " in 1983's album Cercando l ' oro and another Italian version titled " Barbriallen " in 2011's album Così è se mi pare ), John Jacob Niles, Merle Travis, Bob Dylan, Martin Carthy, Colin Meloy, Michael Hurley, Art Garfunkel, Simon & Garfunkel, Burl Ives, The Grateful Dead, Dando Shaft, Eddy Arnold, Moses " Clear Rock " Platt, Sonne Hagal, Frank Turner, The New Christy Minstrels, Blackmore's Night and Jim Moray.

* Imeall ( Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh ) ( 2009 )

They were formed in County Donegal in 1985 by lead vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and her since-deceased husband Frankie Kennedy.

There he met native Irish-speaker and musician Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, the daughter of famed musician Proinsias Ó Maonaigh from Gaoth Dobhair ( Gweedore ).

Ní Mhaonaigh learned the Donegal-style of fiddle-playing from her father, however, Donegal music was little known outside of the county at the time.

Inspired by the success of their debut effort, Ní Mhaonaigh and Kennedy began to work on a new group of ballads and jigs from the north.

The band line-up at the time was Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh ( vocals, fiddle ), Ciarán Tourish ( fiddle ), Mark Kelly ( guitar ), Ciarán Curran ( bouzouki ), Dáithí Sproule ( guitar ) and Dermot Byrne ( accordion ).

The band's singer and fiddle player Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh released her début album Imeall at Scoil Gheimridh Frankie Kennedy in County Donegal, Ireland on 28 December 2008 and worldwide in 2009.

On 27 April 2009, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh announced that the band would be going into the studio at the beginning of May 2009 to record a new Altan album with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

In July 2009, Ní Mhaonaigh announced that Altan would also release their first DVD as the video recording of a concert on 14 August 2009 in the National Concert Hall ( NCH ), Dublin, Ireland ( again with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra ).

** Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, fiddle player and singer.

* Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh – Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh () ( born 26 July 1959 ) is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish traditional band Altan, which she co-founded with her late husband Frankie Kennedy in 1985.

Ní Mhaonaigh grew up in Gweedore ( known in Irish as Gaoth Dobhair ), County Donegal, on the northwest coast of Ireland.

Ní Mhaonaigh has two siblings.

Her brother Gearóid played guitar for Ragairne ( a short-lived band formed by Ní Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy, of which singer Enya was a member ), appeared on the album Ceol Aduaidh, and organises the Frankie Kennedy Winter School.

Forsaking their jobs as teachers, Ní Mhaonaigh and Kennedy formed the band Altan during the late 1980s.

As well as her work with Altan, Ní Mhaonaigh over the years has presented traditional music programmes on radio and television, including the radio show, The Long Note and the television series, The Pure Drop.

Ní Mhaonaigh is also a member of the fiddle ensemble, String Sisters.

The title is Irish for ' Edge ' or ' Threshold ' and features traditional / folk songs as well as new compositions by Ní Mhaonaigh.

Recordings include Scantily Plaid on their album, " Just Checking In ", Édain on " JOYceFUL ", Éilís Kennedy on " One Sweet Kiss ", Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on Donal Lunny's Coolfin, Allison Barber on " Traveling Home ", Órla Fallon from Celtic Woman on the album of the same name, Lisa Kelly ( who was also with Celtic Woman ) on " Lisa ", Ciúnas on " Celtic Tiger ", Aoife Ní Fhearraigh on " If I Told You ", Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill & Iarla Ó Lionáird on " Sult ", Anúna on " Invocation " with Lucy Champion, Connie Dover on " The Wishing Well ", Akelarre Agrocelta on " La Amenaza Celta ", Nora Butler on " Geantraí " and Siobhan Owen on " Purely Celtic ".

Ní Mhaonaigh débuted songs from the album on 28 December at the 2008 Frankie Kennedy Winter School in an intimate concert with Lunny and also released a small number of albums.

Yeats's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan and Lady Gregory's Spreading the News were featured on the opening night.

This record featured a then un-known musician from Gweedore, Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, now known as Enya.

In September 2010, Anúna recorded an arrangement by Michael McGlynn of " Away in a Manger " with ex-Celtic Woman soloist Órla Fallon for her Christmas PBS special, which also featured David Archuleta and another ex-Anúna and Celtic Woman soloist Méav Ní Mhaolchatha.

No fewer than four of the soloists who have been featured on Celtic Woman since 2005 ( Órla Fallon, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Lynn Hilary and Deirdre Shannon ) have been members of Anúna.

According to Irish legend, as a young girl Ní Mháille wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father, and on being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname " Gráinne Mhaol " (; from maol bald or having cropped hair ).

Because Galway imposed taxes on the ships that traded their goods there, the O ' Flahertys, led by Ní Mháille, decided to extract a similar tax from ships traveling in waters off their lands.

By the early 1560s, Ní Mháille had left O ' Flaherty territory and returned to her father's holdings on Clare Island.

Ní Mháille attacked other ships at least as far away as Waterford on the south central coast of Ireland, as well as closer to her home port in northwestern Ireland.

Although Philip Sidney would have been a very young man at the time, Ní Mháille evidently made an impression on him since he mentioned her in favorable terms to his father.

Ní Mháille was wealthy on land as well as by sea.

Lord Howth gave Ní Mháille a ring as pledge on the agreement.

When the guilty members of the MacMahon clan landed on the holy island of Caher for a pilgrimage, Ní Mháille captured their boats.

Gráinne Ní Mháille had several castles in the West of Ireland and it was on the foundations of one of these that Westport House, was actually built.

There is a Bronze statue of Gráinne Ní Mháille by the artist Michael Cooper-the Marquess of Sligo's brother-in-law-situated on the grounds of Westport House.

Westport House also contains a comprehensive exhibition on the life of Gráinne Ní Mháille compiled by author Anne Chambers, the World's leading authority on Granuaile.

Romance author Bertrice Small portrays Ní Mháille in several of her books, particularly in Skye O ' Malley, where she is a kinswoman to the main character, who is based largely on her.

The Wild Irish focuses mainly on Ní Mháille's life, but is highly fictional — the main part of the story is Ní Mháille telling her life story to Elizabeth I on the night of their meeting.

In June 2007 the Knock School of Irish Dancing did a dance drama based on Ní Mháille's story.

Executive members included Máire Ní Chinnéide, Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh ( who wrote pamphlets on behalf of the League ), Bean an Doc Uí Choisdealbha, Máire Ní hAodáin, Máire de Buitléir, Nellie O ' Brien, Eibhlín Ní Dhonnabháin and Eibhlín Nic Néill.