Music and Poetry

Maura Erskine: ‘Farewell to their land’

Maura has recently recorded two new pieces entitled ‘Requiem for Mabel’ and ‘The Peacock’s feather’.

Phil Coulter: The Flight of the Earls on the CD ‘Lake of Shadows’

Wolfe Tones: ‘Flight of the Earls’

Fir Na Keol
Its reed, set and match for the two Davids. Oboe player David Agnew has teamed up with uilleann piper David Downes to create a new work based on the Flight of the Earls writes John Brophy. See http://mag.irish-music.net/BckIssue/0011Nov/0011Nov.htm

Mary Ronayne-Keane: musical, The Flight of the Earls

‘Saint or Sinner’: which tells the story of the Flight of the Earls in music, song and drama. See http://www.ulsternet-ni.co.uk/cour2603/cpages/CENT.htm

Bardic poems on the BBC Plantation website.

See http://www2.thny.bbc.co.uk/history/war/plantation/bardic/index.shtml