Brianna McGeehan Finds Home in Cliffs of Donegal

Brianna McGeehan’s new single Cliffs of Donegal feels like standing on the edge of the Atlantic, wild, reflective, and quietly overwhelming. Out now, the song is a tribute to her late aunt, an artist and poet, written in response to her poem Pictured Rocks.

McGeehan calls it “a celebration of life and death,” and that duality runs through every note. Her voice carries both ache and acceptance, balanced by a warm, fiddle-led arrangement that sounds straight out of a windswept pub in Donegal.

Following her acclaimed singles Mother Maiden and Home, McGeehan once again shows why she’s been praised as “a writer of rare emotional clarity.” Rooted in her Irish-American heritage and a lifetime of travel and storytelling, Cliffs of Donegal captures grief in its most human form, honest, tender, and unafraid.

It’s the kind of song that stays with you, like the tide, pulling you back, gently, again and again.