Andrea Corr returns to Sister Clare Crockett Retreat and performs beautiful rendition of Amazing Grace

Andrea Corr returned to the Sister Clare Crockett Retreat for the second year running this week and sang a beautiful version of Amazing Grace.
By Kevin Mullan
Published 19th Apr 2024, 16:29 BST
Updated 19th Apr 2024, 16:43 BST
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The singer-songwriter attended the Long Tower on Wednesday.

During a celebratory Mass in memory of Sister Clare, Ms. Corr performed ‘Amazing Grace’, the famous hymn written by John Newton which was inspired by a near death experience when the clergyman’s ship had to shelter from a violent storm in Lough Swilly in the 1700s.

Last year Ms. Corr was one of the invited speakers at the retreat in memory of the inspirational young Derry nun who was tragically killed in an earthquake in Ecuador aged just 33 in 2016.

Andrea Corr pictured at the Sister Clare Crockett Retreat in 2023.Andrea Corr pictured at the Sister Clare Crockett Retreat in 2023.
Andrea Corr pictured at the Sister Clare Crockett Retreat in 2023.
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Speaking then she said she first head of Sister Clare when she visited ‘Lough Derg and met a wonderful woman there who is now a dear friend to me, Myra’.

She spoke of how watching the ‘All or Nothing’ book based on Sister Clare’s life had ‘stopped her in her tracks’.

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