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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This heavyweight vinyl record comes with a download card (with 7 extra tracks), a limited pressing (of 250 copies) and a print of a poem "I Sacsaibh na Séad" by Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin translated into Spanish.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Hy Brasil, Songs of the Irish in Latin America via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Gatefold cd with inlay card (lyrics book) and download card (with two extra tracks) included.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Hy Brasil, Songs of the Irish in Latin America via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • DVD

    The song "Marine Mambí" from "Hy Brasil" was the inspiration for this award winning feature length documentary which chronicles the life of Dynamite Johnny O' Brien.
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  • Full Digital Discography

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    Get all 13 Trouble or Fortune Records releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Waveleaplights, Bleak is the Pampa (single), The Pampa's My Home (single), Fire and Foam, "Macalla Chill Áirne" film soundtrack, Ordinary Surface (single), Hy Brasil (single), The Wine Dark Sea (single), and 5 more. , and , .

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about

This is an Irish translation I made (along with the late Sean Garvey) of a song I wrote called "Pa' Los Del San Patricio." In many ways that original song was the impetus for all these explorations of the Irish in Latin America. I wrote the song in English in an empty room in Glenbeigh, Ireland in 2001. I found myself singing that same song 10 years later in Irish, to an old Mexican lady in Vera Cruz. There is a transformative power in song. Songs travel, and men travel with them. Pa' Los del San Patricio led to me presenting a documentary Saol John Riley, concerning the leader of the San Patricios for TG4 the Irish Gaelic T.V. channel. This is how a began my journey as a filmmaker.

lyrics

Daichead a seacht i bhfad ró dhian, cailleadh anso iad ‘s i bhfad i gcéin,
Cailleadh iad i ngleanntá glasa na hÉireann, is crochadar ar cláracha Mheicsiceo.

Dhá scór fearaibh ag feitheamh le bás, sínte ar chroch ba thrua a gcás,
le teas millteanach an mhéan lae, thugadar leo go bhflaitheas dé.

Daichead a seacht i bhfad ró chrua, cos ar bholg gan stad, gan suan,
Ó Vera Cruz le brathach in airde, baileadar le crogadh le céile.

Naomh Pádraig ‘s a cros, ‘s iomaí fear a déag faoin breatach glas
Lámh ar lámh le chéile, gach beachaint á réabadh.

Os cionn scamaill gan céilúir n-éan General Lee lena airm féin
Cuireadh ruaig ar airm Valencia, ach d-éalaímar go caithair Mheicsiceo.

I ngort arbhar bhí na poncán clúdaithe, thit siad ar an dtalamh lenár gunaí morá
Lámh ar lámh le chéile gach beachaint á reabadh.

Luascadh an breatach bán trí uaire, fós gearr Riley é síos gan bac air,
Géill siad faraor in ísle brí, i lochán dá fhuil féinig.

An Cruit, Naomh Padraig, ‘s a cros “Éirinn go brách” ar bhreatach glas,
Go dilís le chéile ‘s gunaí a pléascadh, gach beachaint á reabadh.

Dhá scór fearaibh ag feitheamh le bás, sínte ar chroch ba thrua a gcás
Le teas millteanach an mhéan lae thugadar leo go bhflaitheas dé.

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from Hy Brasil, Songs of the Irish in Latin America, released December 10, 2019
Guitars and vox by Charlie.

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Trouble or Fortune Records Killarney, Ireland

Trouble or Fortune is where myself, Charlie O' Brien's, music and film projects are found.

Besides my own work and collaborations, Japanese alt. folk artist, Mari Mochizuki, is the first formal addition to label.

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