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WHEN PJ Murrihy goes to bed at night he dreams of the land, his life touring Ireland and the world and
Such dreams and visions are now making up a large part of the west Clare man’s ninth album as he wrote or co-wrote eight of the tracks.
As well as playing throughout Ire-
people he meets along the way.
The man from Mullagh then uses these dreams to write songs that have proven firm favourites among Irish country fans around the world.
land PJ also plays with a tour com- pany in Spain and Portugal and on Caribbean cruises.
While on one of those cruises with his friend Johnny Carroll he wrote “Johnny Carroll, The Man from Cas- tlerea”’.
“One night we were on the cruise and he told us “I am going to bed ear- ly because when you are doing this for 50 years like me you will have to go to bed too.” I was thinking about it that night and I had a song for him in the morning,” PJ told