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Gráinne Clarke (b. 1951) or Gráinne Ní Chlérigh is a singer of Irish traditional and sean-nós
songs who hails originally from Crossmaglen in South Armagh. Clarke was a local singer who came to prominence
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for a brief period at the turn of the 1970s, winning first place in Oireachtas Uladh in Gweedore Co Donegal and in 1980 she made an album for the magazine Crossmaglen Review. Many credit Clarke's music as helping to popularize Úirchill a’
Chreagáin throughout Ireland, a song incidentally once known as the National Anthem of South
Armag. Today she resides in County Louth in a the townland of Grange.
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