Songs of the Scribe
Songs of the Scribe is the seventh studio album from Irish singer Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin, who is also Traditional Singer in Residence at the Seamus Heaney Centre For Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast. Released on 3 December 2011, the album features old and newly written translations by Ní Uallacháin, Ciaran Carson and Seamus Heaney and harp accompaniment by Helen Davies. Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark, Songs of the Scribe was inspired by the manuscripts held in the library of St. Gallen. Pádraigín visited the library to research the manuscripts, carried to safety from Viking attack by St. Gall and others from Bangor, County Down to Europe over a number of centuries.
Songs of the Scribe
Songs of the Scribe is the seventh studio album from Irish singer Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin, who is also Traditional Singer in Residence at the Seamus Heaney Centre For Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast. Released on 3 December 2011, the album features old and newly written translations by Ní Uallacháin, Ciaran Carson and Seamus Heaney and harp accompaniment by Helen Davies. Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark, Songs of the Scribe was inspired by the manuscripts held in the library of St. Gallen. Pádraigín visited the library to research the manuscripts, carried to safety from Viking attack by St. Gall and others from Bangor, County Down to Europe over a number of centuries.
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Incantation of Amergin
Líadan's Lament
My Hand is Cramped with Penwork
My Mind's Desire
The Blackbird of Belfast Lough
The Hermit's Wish
The Land of Stars
The Scribe in the Woods
The Wind Is Wild Tonight
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(11th-century scribe; Ní Uallacháin)
(9th-century scribe; Carson)
(9th-century scribe; Carson; Heaney)
(9th-century scribe; Heaney)
(9th-century scribe; Ní Uallacháin)
(Amergin, 11th-century mystical poet; Ní Uallacháin)
(Colmcille; 12th-century scribe; Heaney)
Often attributed to Manchán mac Silláin; 6th/7th century
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