Colum Cille's Farewell to Ireland Lyrics

Mick Lally, narrator, Helen Davies, metal-string harp and orchestra. Further in the series of verses ascribed to Colum Cille, on his departure form Ireland, specially transformed from the original by Mick Lally, and placed here to assist a sense of journeying from one Celtic region to the next. Colum Cille, who is also known as St. Columba, founded his famous monastery on the Island of Iona, off the West coast of Scotland