Maxine Linehan: Cork-born singer creates a Christmas album in Vermont

Raised in Crosshaven, the US-based singer says she wanted her songs to reflect the fact that many people have mixed emotions about Christmas, not least  as it always reminds her of her late parents back home

As an emigrant, Maxine Linehan knows the pain of being abroad when her parents were diagnosed with serious illnesses. 

Her home is in the snowy winter wonderland of southern Vermont, but singer Maxine Linehan always keeps a place in her heart for Cork.

Linehan, now celebrating two decades of living Stateside, was raised in Crosshaven and retains close connections to her home town, despite having built her Broadway musical career in New York. It was a late blossoming for the red-haired chanteuse, who had pursued a career in law up until the age of thirty, she explains.