Following five BBC Folk Awards nominations and a Folk Album of the Year accolade in The Guardian in 2019 for her album ‘Heard a Long Gone Song’ on Rough Trade’s River Lea imprint, ‘The Wren’ EP in 2019 and an adaptation of Bob Dylan’s ‘All the Tired Horses’ for the final scene of epic TV drama Peaky Blinders. O’Neill, one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today, returned in 2023 with her latest album, and her first for the Rough Trade label, the beautiful, resonant ‘All Of This Is Chance’.
A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill starts this extraordinary collection here on earth, on Irish soil, hands in the land. The album features orchestral masterpieces such as the ambitious and cinematic ‘Old Note,’ the title track ‘All Of This Is Chance’, inspired by the great Monaghan writer Patrick Kavanagh's prescient meditation on The Great Hunger as well as stirring meditations on nature, birds, berries, bees, and blood that ring out over a clacking banjo, dusting and devastating all those in its wake.
In late 2025 Lisa released a new EP 'The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right', featuring the title track of the same name, 'Mother Jones' and a version of the classic 'In The Bleak Midwinter'.
