Zrazy, Ireland’s award-winning lesbian music duo, are back with a brand new single titled ‘Come On Ireland (Giving Us The Right To Dream)’ just in time to coincide with the Women’s World Cup.
The band, which consists of Maria Walsh and Carole Nelson has been around since the 90s and previously went to No.1 in Ireland with another World Cup song, the hugely successful ‘Watch Your House (Ooh Ah, Paul McGrath)’, which featured a spoken word contribution from Paul McGrath.
“I had been following the Irish women’s team for a long time,” Maria Walsh said about the inspiration for the new song, “it was really inspiring to see them battle their way through to the World Cup finals in Australia. It was a truly extraordinary moment when Amber Barrett scored that winning goal against Scotland.
I couldn’t resist the feeling that we should do something special to celebrate that – and ‘Come On Ireland (Giving Us The Right To Dream)’ is the result. Hopefully, it’ll give Irish fans something unique and memorable to sing on the terraces during the remainder of the build-up, and at the World Cup finals in Australia,” she added.
The song celebrates all Irish sportswomen, with Katie Taylor, Sonia O’Sullivan, Kellie Harrington, “Leona the golfer” and Rhasidat Adeleke also being name-checked among those successfully going toe-to-toe with the best on the planet.
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“I really wanted the song to properly celebrate the extraordinary Irish women, who have represented us so powerfully on the world stage,” Walsh remarked.
“For so long Irish women were sidelined, but the success of our female heroes in sport has demonstrated just how profoundly wrong all of that was. And the Irish women’s football team are the latest – and potentially most far-reaching – expression of the reality that Irish women are entitled to equal respect and equal treatment in every aspect of Irish life, without exception.”
To support the Irish women’s team in the World Cup and Zrazy make sure to check out the new single on Bandcamp, iTunes or Spotify.
And to find out more about Zrazy and what they were up to in the 90s, check out the GCN archive where you can find out about awards they were nominated, travel tips by Maria Walsh, and much more.
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