Seamus Heaney, the Derry poet, holder of the Nobel Laureate for Literature, and Liam O 'Flynn, the internationally acclaimed uilleann piper have collaborated to produce an album of poetry and music, with Heaney (a great reader) reciting his own lines and O Flynn playing the uilleann pipes.
Not just a number of poems and tunes thrown together, the two artists laboured hard to achieve a coherent piece of work, and they succeeded. It's a graceful, skilful performance that deserves to be listened to again and again.
1. The Given Note / Port na bPúcaí
2. Digging
3. Bogland
4. Árdaí Chuain
5. At the Wellhead
6. The Otter
7. The Rolling Wave / The Hag's Money
8. The Yellow Bittern (An Bonnán Buí)
9. The Yellow Bittern / The Broken Pledge
10. The Glamoured (Gile na Gile)
11. Aisling Gheal
12. The Tollund Man
13. Midterm Break
14. Sliabh Gallon's Brae
15. Clearances 3
16. Clearances 5
17. Cronán na Máthar
18. Two Lorries
19. The Humours of Castlebernard / The Bank of Turf
20. A Call
21. Seeing Things - Section 3
22. Fáinne Geal an Lae
23. St. Kevin and the Blackbird
24. Open the Door for Three
25. The Annals Say
26. Postscript
27. Garret Barry's Reel / Seán Reid's Favourite
Seamus Heaney (RIP 2013): poetry reading
Liam O'Flynn: uilleann pipes, whistle
Rod McVey: harmonium
Stephen Cooney: guitar
Music producer: Liam O'Flynn,
Poetry producer: Seamus Heaney
Recorded at The Old Mill Nass, Co Kildare & Westland and Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin |
