{"id":92518,"date":"2025-09-08T11:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=92518"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:04:59","slug":"against-all-certainty-the-much-anticipated-debut-album-from-irish-president-michael-d-higgins-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2025\/09\/against-all-certainty-the-much-anticipated-debut-album-from-irish-president-michael-d-higgins-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Against All Certainty’, The Much-Anticipated Debut Album From Irish President Michael D. Higgins Is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Available now on CD, Vinyl and CD+Book, ‘Against All Certainty’ is the incredibly moving and brilliant album of spoken word poetry by Michael D. Higgins, set to music from the celebrated ambient artist Myles O\u2019Reilly, is out now on Claddagh Records.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The album is available on a stunning blue-coloured Vinyl, on CD, and as a Hardback-CD Book which includes a foreword from Michael D. Higgins, poems and personal pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can order ‘Against All Certainty’ now from Claddagh Records here<\/a>. and in celebration of the release, you can download the album for just \u20ac6.99 on iTunes now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President has also personally signed a limited number of prints of his poem, \u2018Dark Memories\u2019 (track 4 on the album), and these are available when you buy the album on any format from Golden Discs<\/a>, while stocks last. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, if you order your copy from Golden Discs by September 11th, you are in with a chance to win an incredible one-of-a-kind\u00a0‘Against All Certainty’\u00a0disc with a hand-written tracklist, signed by the President himself. For your chance to win, enter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch the music video for ‘The Betrayal’ below, starring Eanna Hardwicke<\/a>, Ciaran Hinds and Ruth McGill, and directed by\u00a0Ellius Grace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n