Vinyl Record
President Michael D. Higgins & Myles O'Reilly - Against All Certainty
President Michael D. Higgins & Myles O'Reilly - Against All Certainty on LP vinyl. A 2025 Spoken Word / Comedy record from Claddagh Records available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP · 2025 · Claddagh Records
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2025 LP on Claddagh Records, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Against All Certainty brings Michael D. Higgins' poetry into recorded form with atmospheric music by Irish musician and filmmaker Myles O'Reilly. The record is not a conventional singer-songwriter album; it works as a listening piece where voice, memory and ambient composition sit together. Higgins' delivery gives the poems a public, reflective gravity, while O'Reilly's soundscapes leave space around the language rather than crowding it. The LP gathers ten poems, moving through family memory, loss, betrayal, imaginative possibility and the title piece's sense of moral insistence. For a Kilmorna shelf, it has a very particular identity: Irish poetry on vinyl, connected to contemporary public life but shaped as a personal artistic statement.
This is a distinctive Irish spoken-word release because it places a serving President's poetry inside a fully produced album context. It also connects the literary tradition of poetry readings with the physical ritual of vinyl listening, where attention, silence and pacing matter.
A strong local-interest and Irish-culture piece: best filed with spoken word, poetry, Irish artists and ambient-adjacent records rather than standard pop or rock LPs. The format is LP, with ten tracks on the standard album sequence.
Measured spoken-word performance over gentle ambient textures, with the voice kept central and the music acting as atmosphere, breath and emotional shading.
Recommended for: listeners collecting Irish cultural and literary recordings; spoken-word and poetry-on-vinyl collectors; buyers interested in ambient-backed narration rather than conventional songs; Kilmorna visitors looking for a record with a strong Irish identity.
Is this a music album or spoken word? It is a spoken-word poetry album with musical composition by Myles O'Reilly. What format is this copy? This catalog copy is marked as LP. Who is it best suited for? Collectors interested in Irish poetry, spoken word, ambient listening pieces and culturally distinctive vinyl releases.