Having blogged lately about UCD Choral Scholars and their album of Irish and Scottish choral works, I have great pleasure to find they have a new album just out – Perpetual Twilight. And it begins with a song from the Donegal Gaeltacht, Dúlamán, about an edible seaweed. Not at all an obscure topic ; seaweed became a lifesaving resource during the Famine. I have read that Gaoith Dobhair was one of the only parts of rural Ireland to see a population increase during the Famine because of the accessibility of seaweed.
Séamus Sweeney 