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The Road Across the Hills

from The Road Across the Hills by Gráinne Brady

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The Fair at Strabane/Beyond the Sea

Barely a teenager, Dermod (MacGill) set off from home to the hiring fair in Strabane, Tyrone. After working as a labourer in several farms across Ulster, he decided to travel to Scotland to seek his fortune. A group of workers from Glenmornan were going to harvest potatoes on a farm in Renfrewshire and he joined up with them in Derry to get the boat.

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‘Neath silver skies with silence shod,
Engirdled by the Milky Way,
And set with stars of brightest ray,
As fits the far-off paths of God,

I’ve slept with them; in lonely lands,
Ere came the city vomit thence
To take the house and claim the fence
Built with the toil of calloused,

I’ve wrought with them; where gin shops smell,
And stagnant models smut the town,
I’ve shared their plaints when out and down –
My brothers, don’t I know them well!

I’ve begged with them from door to door,
And thought unutterable things
Of lands where courtiers and where kings
Still grind the faces of the poor.

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from The Road Across the Hills, released February 22, 2019
Music composed by Gráinne Brady with 'A Navvy's Philosophy' by Patrick MacGill

Gráinne Brady – fiddle
Andrew Waite – piano accordion
Innes White – guitar
Steve Forman – percussion

Jack Houston – spoken word

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Irish musician and composer based in Glasgow.

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"...engaging from the outset" - Folk Radio UK

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