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THE ARTS: The world of traditional music lost a singular voice when Mícheál Ó Domhnaill died in 2006. Now a fitting memorial to his remarkable talent comes in the shape of an album compiled by his sisters

‘WHEN I SING, I still hear you in my head and miss you in my heart,” writes Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill of her brother, the late Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, in the sleeve notes of a new album, Keep ’er Lit: The Songs and Music of Mícheál Ó Domhnaill. It’s a memorial to a musician whose sudden death in 2006 left the traditional music community bereft.