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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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    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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    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 song was written by Gerald Griffin in 1830, where he titled it O'Brazil. Gerald is most famously known for a novel he wrote called "The Collegians," which in turn inspired a play, "The Colleen Bawn," and in turn inspired the opera, "The Lily of Killarney." "The Land of the Blest" is dedicated to the people of Milltown. I came across that dedication (and a couple of verses I haven't seen anywhere else) in a beautiful biography of Gerald's written by his brother. I heard the song first from the singing of Joe Heaney.

lyrics

On the ocean that hollows the rocks where ye dwell,
A shadowy land has appeared, as they tell;

Some thought it a region of sunshine and rest,
And they called it Hy-Brasail, the land of the blest;

From year unto year, on the ocean’s blue rim,
This beautiful spectre shone lovely and dim;

Golden clouds curtained the deep where it lay,
And it looked like an Eden, away, far away!

A peasant who heard of this wonderful tale,
On a breeze of the Orient loosened his sail;

From Ara, the holy, he turned to the west,
For though Ara was holy, Hy-Brasail was blest.

He heard not the voices that called from the shore,
He heard not the rising wind’s menacing roar;

Home, kindred, and safety he left on that day,
And he sped to Hy-Brasail, away, far away!

Morn’ rose on the deep, and that shadowy isle
Though the faint rim of distance reflected its smile;

Noon burned on the wave, and that shadowy shore,
Seemed lovelier and distant, and faint as before;

Lone evening came down on the wanderer’s track,
To Ara again he looked timidly back;

Far on the verge of the ocean it lay,
And the land of the blest was away, far away!

Rash dreamer, return! on ye winds of the main,
Bear him back to Ara again.

Rash fool! for a vision of fanciful bliss,
To barter thy calm life of labour and peace.

The warning of reason was spoken in vain;
He never came back to Ara again!

Morn’ rose on the deep, amidst tempest and spray,
And he died on the ocean, away, far away!

credits

from Hy Brasil, Songs of the Irish in Latin America, released December 10, 2019
Piano, bass, guitars - Charlie. Pedal effects - Fergus O'Brien.

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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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