Description:

\’Against All Certainty\’ is the debut spoken word album from poet, and President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. The album featured music from celebrated musician, Myles O\’Reilly. This brand-new spoken word collection set to a stunning musical composition features 10 of the poets most well-known works. Michael D. Higgins has published four collections of poetry The Betrayal; The Season of Fire; An Arid Season; and New and Selected Poems. This album, recorded in Aras an Uachtarain, is his first recorded project in the spoken word. Listeners can expect to find themselves fully transposed into the incredibly interesting life and times of the poet before he became Irelands President, from childhood to adulthood. 1. The Truth of Poetry2. Brothers3. Katies Song4. Dark Memories5. My Mother Married my Father in Mount Melleray6. The Death of The Red Cow7. Against All Certainty8. The Betrayal9. The Death of Mary Doyle10. Stargazer