may the road rise
May The Road Rise is a poetic memoir and soul-led album about Irish heritage, ancestral wisdom, creative courage and finding your voice in the middle of life. Through story and song, Sara turns family history, solo travel and personal reinvention into a deeply human journey of identity, belonging and becoming unignorable.
One road lead to a life-changing journey
The Journey Behind it All
I’ve always taken my cues from the people I love, and so many of them are in my own family, especially my Irish-born grandmother, Hanora O'Súilleabháin.
What started as a quiet solo trip to record a few songs gently turned into something much bigger: MAY THE ROAD RISE, a project across book and music that gave me the chance to share her story, and ours.
Shaped by time spent moving through London and West Cork, it brings together songs and storytelling in a way that feels personal, close, and meant to be experienced side by side, with you too.
MY NEW NOVELLA
MAY THE ROAD RISE is a reflective novella that moves across three interwoven story-strands; the artist’s process of entirely self-producing both book and album, the undeniable drive and strength drawn from the examples of generations past, and solo travel from the heart of London to the wild hills of West Cork, shaping the meaning in family relationships and the authors’ own perspective on life and her future direction.
MY NEW ALBUM
There’s a version of this record that never gets made, where life interrupts, questions remain unanswered, and the music stays unrecorded, no quiet nerves inside Abbey Road, no late search for the right sound, no moment where it all lands, but this is not that version, this is the one where the album came to life, where songs like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Muddy Water sit alongside originals, not to solve anything, but to hold a feeling, to mark a moment, and to invite you to listen a little more closely.
may the road rise
Next Gig:
secret garden
Secret Garden offers participants hands-on programs in horticulture, cooking, animal care, and workshop skills, in a calm, nature-based environment on the WSU Hawkesbury Campus in Richmond. Happy to bring bringing tunes to this event!
Free entry, but RSVP essential.
DATE — 3rd June 2026
TIME — 11am - 12:30pm
VENUE — WSU Hawkesbury Campus, Richmond
IN CONVERSATION
For a deeper insight into the journey behind the work, you can listen to Sara in conversation with Tina on Ireland Calling Radio (Sydney).
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