The Parting Glass - Ceiliuradh at the Royal Albert Hall

and of course do you the audience who have come in such great numbers and before you bring the night to an end we're gonna remember the great poet Seamus Heaney we died all too soon laughter Fiona will read the pair the poem PostScript and then it's time for one last song the parting glass joining us singers on stage will be a very special group brought together by Gary Dunn at the London Irish Center [Music] now they've never sung together before but with these London Irish voices we celebrate the deep roots and get great contribution of the Irish community in Britain thank you so much good night just to say whenever Sheamus would start a pooja reading he often began with a phrase he had heard in his childhood which was whatever you say say nothing my voice has been doing that all evening but this point he wrote in a drive with the playwright Brian Friel they and their wives drove out west and I feel you can hear his voice telling us to do the same and some time make the time to drive out west into County Clare along the flag ashore in September or October when the wind and the light are working of each other so that the ocean on one side is wild with foam and glitter and inland among stones the surface of a slate gray lake is lit by the Earth's lightning of a flock of swans their feathers rough and ruffling white-on-white they're fully grown headstrong looking heads tucked or cresting or busy underwater useless to think you'll capture it or park you are neither here nor there a hurry through which known and strange things pass as big soft buffetings come at the car sideways and catch the heart of God and blow it open [Applause] [Music] I love all the money where I spent or he spent it in good company and all the harm I've done [Music] [Music] if I add the money the dare I spend your time to sit there is [Music] first [Music] the [Music] bigger [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause]

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Published: Fri Apr 11 2014

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