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Enda Reilly and Stephen James Smith - September 1913

from Urchin Sampler I by Urchin Collective

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September 1913 featuring words by W.B. Yeats, music from Enda from his collaborative project with Stephen James Smith.

September 1913 comes from the Album Arise and Go!, which is a groundbreaking collaborative project by poet Stephen James Smith and folk musician Enda Reilly, which explores Irishness through re-interpreting the poetry of Padraic MacPiaras, Patrick Kavanagh, W.B. Yeats and Luke Kelly who all had unique views of what it is to be Irish. Highly recommended by Hot Press as one of the folk albums of the year in 2011, two original works are also presented and the Cd also features guest musicians Colm Ó Snodaigh from Kíla who plays the flutes on September 1913 and Elder Roche.

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September 1913 by WB Yeats

WHAT need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone; 5
For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

Yet they were of a different kind
The names that stilled your childish play, 10
They have gone about the world like wind,
But little time had they to pray
For whom the hangman’s rope was spun,
And what, God help us, could they save:
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, 15
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

Was it for this the wild geese spread
The grey wing upon every tide;
For this that all that blood was shed,
For this Edward Fitzgerald died, 20
And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,
All that delirium of the brave;
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

Yet could we turn the years again, 25
And call those exiles as they were,
In all their loneliness and pain
You’d cry ‘Some woman’s yellow hair
Has maddened every mother’s son’:
They weighed so lightly what they gave, 30
But let them be, they’re dead and gone,
They’re with O’Leary in the grave.

credits

from Urchin Sampler I, released November 18, 2012
Colm O Snodaigh on delightful Flutes. Enda on guitar and Stephen and Enda on Vocals. WB Yeats on Qwerty.

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Urchin Collective Ireland

Urchin Collective is a movement of independent musicians based in Ireland operating in the genres of avant garde electronica, folk, Irish language, trad, alternative and indie.
Inspired by the work of other Irish and international collectives, in the next year we will release a sampler of our music and perform several curated events.
We have words. We have spirit. Come join us ... more

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