I took the freedom to transform these old lyrics of the sweet Irish tune into a totally different melody 
In the end It turned out to be a sort of hybrid mixed with Irish and Norwegian folk fusion
Raise your glasses friends🍺

Over in Killarney

More Whale song, this time leading into one of my favorite slow airs: Amhran na Leabhar.

This is from a concert in the Public theatre of Trinity College Dublin on 23rd July 2024.

Two Whales Pass by a Ship at Sea was written in 2019 specifically for the newly restored organ of the Public Theatre. The music takes advantage of this
instrument’s unusual capability of assigning different stop combinations to the
bass and treble portions of one keyboard, and of creating unusual tone qualities by
causing pipes to be only partially supplied with wind. It seeks to put the mind of
the listener far out at sea in a vessel whose course coincides with that of two blue
whales.
Amhran na Leabhar is a strikingly unusual and poignant air written by the poet
and teacher Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin. It tells a sad tale. When relocating from
Derrynane to Portmagee in the early 1800s, Ó Súilleabháin travelled by land
whilst his collection of precious books was sent by boat. In a disastrous turn of
events, the boat carrying his invaluable possessions struck a rock and sank.
Amhran na Leabhar (‘song of the books’) is Ó Súilleabháin’s lament for his perished library. He was a famous man of knowledge, versed in the soon-to-be-
extinct Brehon law (Gaelic Ireland’s ancient legal code) that was still taught in hedge schools across the Ivearagh peninsula. In an age when books in and of themselves were of immense value, and Gaelic literature was increasingly discarded and ostracised, this ill-fated boat voyage must have been regretted
deeply by the song’s author.

Whale Song/ Amhran na Leabhar

Many thanks for listening to my songs. 
My influences comes from many places and I dont always know what comes next 
The album «ten waves» by Jimena Arroyo and me are now available on Spotify
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 thanks to all of you I`v been so lucky to create music together with!!

Organist/Pianist/Composer based in Kildare, Ireland. :)

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