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

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