20 Greenlea Road

Lyrics like these are in abundance throughout ’20 Greenlea Road’, the new album from Les Keye. This collection of 8 songs (due for release on September 28th 2023) is one man’s reflection of what it means to grow up Jewish and Irish in Ireland. 20 Greenlea Road is an album which examines Les’ family history- half Catholic, descended from the great harpist O’Carolyn, and hailing from Kilmainhamwood, while his father’s side were Jewish emigrees fleeing persecution from Russia and Poland at the end of the 19th century, and arriving in Dublin (via London) during WW2. The title comes from the street his grandparents lived in, in Terenure, Dublin