The Grehan Sisters were an Irish folk music act of the mid to late 1960s who achieved popularity in Britain after moving to Manchester, England in 1967 from their native Boyle in County Roscommon, via a spell performing in Dublin.

We often travelled up from Kildare to hear these women sing, for they melted our hearts with the wildness of their playing and the raw gusto of their three voices, and we fell in love with them... We met up with the Grehan Sisters again in London when we were all trying to break into the circuit.

They gave me support slots and contacts and both the band and their manager Mike Thornley were generous with transport, floor space, mighty dinners and much appreciated friendship.

In the U.K. they released an LP On the Galtymore Mountains (1967) featuring a mix of traditional music and Irish rebel songs, at which time Marie was 23 years old, Francie 22 and Helen 18.

[6] From the 1970s onwards the sisters ceased touring as an act and eventually all three returned to Ireland to live; Helen took part in several RTÉ productions and radio broadcasts in the 1980s.