Bridie Gallagher (7 September 1924 – 9 January 2012) was an Irish singer, affectionately known as "The Girl from Donegal". She was recognised as "Ireland's first truly international pop star". Gallagher started her singing in the Creeslough Hall with a local Ceili Band started by Bill Gallagher. The Creeslough Hall was owned by Jim Mc Caffrey; Gallagher would make many more visits to the Creeslough Hall in her home town throughout her long and successfull career. Later Gallagher would still sta...
Bridie Gallagher (7 September 1924 – 9 January 2012) was an Irish singer, affectionately known as "The Girl from Donegal". She was recognised as "Ireland's first truly international pop star".
Gallagher started her singing in the Creeslough Hall with a local Ceili Band started by Bill Gallagher. The Creeslough Hall was owned by Jim Mc Caffrey; Gallagher would make many more visits to the Creeslough Hall in her home town throughout her long and successfull career. Later Gallagher would still stay in contact with her many visits to Gracies (John McCafferty) Lagoon Termon,
Gallagher's tallent was soon spotted and she went to Belfast which was to become her base, therein she married George Livingstone and had two boys, one son died in a motor accident, the other later went on to tour with her.
Gallagher holds the record for the largest number of people in attendance in the Albert Hall London, a record that was never equalled as it went on to be come an all seater venue. Bridie become world famous and travelled all over the world, USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and was known as "The Girl from Donegal". Bridie sang a lot of ballads or as they later became known as Country and Irish. One of her best known songs was "The Boys From The County Armagh" and that was long before big Joe Kernan,Francie Bellew and the boys came along.
Gallagher had her own Radio Show on RTE. as well as many apperances on Television RTE, BBC. UTV. and cost to coast in the USA. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
