Brendan Graham

Born in 1945 in County Tipperary; Brendan Graham is an Irish songwriter and novelist. An industrial engineer by profession, he only became a full-time songwriter in 1993; he wrote the Irish Eurovision winners “Rock ’n’ Roll Kids” (1994, sung by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan) and “The Voice” (1996, Eimear Quinn). HarperCollins published his novels “The Whitest Flower” (1998), “The Element of Fire” (2001) and “The Brightest Day, The Darkest Night” (2005); he chaired the Irish music rights organisation IMRO for nine years, and in 2025 “The Arrow of Time” appeared as his first album as a performer. On the gala recording Doc Heilein and Friends Gala 2021 – Joyful (2022) Matthias Heilein sings “You Raise Me Up”, for which he wrote the lyrics to music by Rolf Lovland and which was first recorded by Secret Garden with Brian Kennedy.