Singer and activist Gemma Dunleavy is a proud daughter of Dublin’s north inner city — Sheriff Street — and Is someone whose work has become synonymous with community pride, social justice, and cultural resistance. Gemma says, “Community to me means soil — the soil my roots are planted in.”
For Gemma, community isn’t just a place — it’s an identity, a lifeline, and a legacy built by generations of women who “kept the place warm with their hands” when support from outside never came.