Background
Mary Dillon was born in Dungiven, where she still lives with her two children, a son and a daughter.
Mary Dillon was born in Dungiven, where she still lives with her two children, a son and a daughter.
She launched her solo career in 2010 with the release of an European Parliament entitled Army Dreamers. She is the sister of singer Cara Dillon. She has never pursued singing as a full-time career and currently works as an English teacher at Street Cecilia"s College in Derry.
In the 1990s, she recorded three albums with the Irish traditional band Déanta.
In 2010, she released a digital-only European Parliament containing covers of Army Dreamers by Kate Bush, Undone in Sorrow by Ola Belle Reed and Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen. In 2012, she joined fellow Irish folk singers Niamh Parsons and Tíona McSherry to form an a cappella group called Sí Van.