Clannad consists of Ciaran Brennan, Máire Brennan, Noel Duggan, Pat Duggan, Paul Brennan.
Clannad is an Irish musical group. Their music has been variously described as being folk music, new age, and Celtic. Clannad are Máire Ní Bhraonáin, Ciarán Brennan, Pól Brennan, Noel Duggan and Pádraig Duggan. Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (Enya Brennan), Máire's sister, used to be a member of the group in the early Eighties. The band won a Grammy Award in 1999 for Best New Age Album.
If you stand on the shoreline of Gweedore, Co.Donegal, way up at the top of Ireland, and you gaze, you'll witness the sweep of the Atlantic Ocean - for thousands of miles, all the way to America. Behind you a series of spectacular mountains, glens and bogs have combined with the bracing weather to keep this part of the world relatively secluded. Some beautiful strains of culture have evolved here. In the traditional singing and musicianship from the Gaelic-speaking heartland of Donegal you'll find awe and grace, history and spaciousness. The very same qualities that you'll discover in the music of Clannad.
Clannad, whose name is taken from an Clann as Dobhar meaning the family from Dore, was formed by the Brennan family in 1970. Máire, Ciarán and Pól Brennan joined uncles Noel and Pádraig Duggan and began performing in their father Leo's tavern. Máire's sister, Enya, joined the band in 1979 and left three years later to pursue a successful solo career. Máire has also enjoyed a simultaneous career as a solo singer, starting with her 1992 album entitled Máire, and recently altered the spelling of her name to Moya Brennan.
"Harry's Game", the group's theme song for a television thriller, prominently featured in the film Patriot Games, was also used in a commercial for Volkswagen in 1992, and won Clannad newfound popularity in the United States. Another hit was the 1985 song "In a Lifetime" with Bono of U2. Their song, "I Will Find You", is part of the soundtrack for the 1992 film The Last of the Mohicans.
