Brídín: 'My normal is so much different to everyone else's'

Off the back of her appearance on the Tommy Tiernan Show and her debut EP, the artist otherwise known as Brídín talks about life, music, and death

DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS: Reared in the twin family businesses of funerals and traditional music, Bríd McGowan traverses two distinct worlds on a daily basis.  

“I find it bizarre how afraid some people are of the concept of death. You know, they just want to push it under the rug. But the one certainty we have in life, is that we will be dying.”

Discussing mortality with anyone is generally a risky business, because the very thought of leaving this mortal coil naturally evokes very different thoughts and emotions in every individual. For some, it’s nearly a taboo subject, a bridge to be crossed gently when one comes to it.