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Sleeve Notes
An Tine Bheo, means "the living fire" and is a hallowed phrase in the Irish revolutionary testament! It was a happy and evocative choice as the title of the film commissioned from Gael-Linn by the 1916 Commemoration Committee, which tells how the fires of Easter Week were kindled from old embers. The film weds tradition with actuality in image and word — and in Seán Ó Riada's music. This dual dimension is indeed characteristic of Ó Riada's work as a whole: it is sharply pointed here, both in his selection of themes and in the freshness and urgency of his treatment, which still preserve the time-lessness of the great central melody "Am Aonar Seal."