Reflections across the bog [comp. Liz Carroll], air

In 2022, my great friend Marty Fahey (button accordion, piano) asked me to compose music for a project titled, “Who Do We Say We Are?” This was a wonderful chance to respond to painting and artwork from the O’Brien Collection in Chicago, in collaboration with the Centennial Exhibition at the Trinity Long Room Hub in Dublin, that specifically recalled an
exhibit of Irish art in Paris in 1922.

I wrote this melody for the artist Paul Henry’s 1919 painting of the same name; a spare tune for a misty, cloud-filled scene somewhere in the west of Ireland. The wonderful “The Seamus Egan Project,” with Jenna Moynihan on fiddle, recorded the tune for this project.