Amalgamare CD Glenstal Authors Adrian Empey

Adrian Empey

In both cases we are taken outside our own element in order to experience a miracle: 'a music you never would have thought to listen for' (Heaney in 'The Rain Stick')

Christy Cunniffe

In his poem "Lightenings (viii)'

There seems little time for an extra activity

Amalgamare CD Glenstal Authors Adrian EmpeyImprovisations from Glenstal Abbey with Cyprian Love OSB and Eoghan Neff. In his poem "Lightenings (viii)', Seamus Heaney tells of how The Annals of Clonmacnoise have the fantastic tale of monks at prayer when 'a ship appeared above them in the air'. The ship's anchor gets caught in the altar rails and a crewman 'shinned and grappled down the rope' to release it. "This man can't bear our life here and will drown" The Abbot said'. The man is helped,