{"id":536333,"date":"2026-04-17T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536333\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:32:09","slug":"moya-brennan-funeral-of-irish-singer-and-musician-takes-place-in-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536333\/","title":{"rendered":"Moya Brennan: Funeral of Irish singer and musician takes place in Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Celtic folk singer, songwriter and harpist from the Irish-speaking Donegal Gaeltacht area of Gweedore recorded about 25 albums and sold millions of records worldwide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She rose to prominence as part of her family&#8217;s band, which formed in 1970 and later included Moya&#8217;s younger sister, Enya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of tributes have been paid to Brennan, who was regarded by many as the First Lady of Celtic Music, with Irish President Catherine Connolly saying her music would be enjoyed for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a presentation of symbols from her life in the church, including a harp, a bodhr\u00e1n [a traditional Irish drum], a prayer book, a family photograph and a Donegal GAA jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Connolly said Moya Brennan had left an exceptional legacy of music that will be enjoyed for generations to come, while Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin said she was an iconic Irish voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is survived by her husband, Tim Jarvis, and their daughter, Aisling, and son, Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtic folk singer, songwriter and harpist from the Irish-speaking Donegal Gaeltacht area of Gweedore recorded about 25&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}