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For Jerry's other CD's - click here
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New CD
Requiem for a Soldier
Proceeds to TLC 4CF Ireland
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In Nov/Dec 1997 I released three tracks on a single, in advance of an album I was recording at the time, to avail of the Christmas market. One of these tracks was a song titled A Silent Night Christmas 1915. The song had been acquired by my producer, P.J. Curtis, from its author Cormac MacConnell. The album is called The Dimming of the Day ( CMCD 001 ) and was released in the spring of ’98.
A Silent Night Christmas 1915 tells the story of the remarkable
fraternisation which took place at various places along the Western Front in 1914 and to a lesser degree in 1915. Similar events occurred on the Eastern Front on the banks of the river Angerap in East Prussia to name but one.
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These remarkable events are referred to in a book written by Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton, Christmas Truce, first published in 1984 by Pan ( isbn 0 330 39065 1 ). The book contains many photographs and quotations from that time about the truce in 1914. In Chapter 8 opposite page 167 there is a photograph of the front-line trench at Laventie taken in December 1915, where the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Scots Guards fraternised with some units
of the German army.
In 2005 a Scottish veteran of WW1 called Anthony Anderson passed away. Some of his family have been quoted in newspaper articles telling how Anthony used to tell them stories about the time he and his comrades fraternised with the enemy at Christmas. Anthony was not in the army in 1914.
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95th Anniversary
December 2009
2009 is the 95th anniversary of the Christmas Truce. To commemorate the occasion I recorded the songs as follows:
A Silent Night Christmas
1914
Requiem For A Soldier
John Condon
Christmas In The Trenches
The Clouds’ Veil
Silent Night/Oiche Chiuin
The album is being produced and engineered by Dave Keary of Red Door Productions in Limerick
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Royalties from the sale of this record will go to the following charities:
-The Péle Little Prince Hospital Research Centre
-TLC 4CF Ireland
(please allow 2 to 3 weeks
for delivery of this CD)
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 Jerry presenting a copy of Requiem For A Soldier to Pele in Ballymun on Nov 26th 2009. On Pele's right is Odran O'Dwyer, TLC4CF, and Don Mullan who co-produced
the album is on the podium. (click on picture to enlarge)
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In March this year I was introduced to Don Mullen,
humanitarian/photographer/ author, who in his work has rubbed
shoulders with people like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and
Pele. Among other projects, Don is working on helping to establish
medical links between the Pele Little Prince Hospital Research Centre in Brazil and other research centres around the world, including Our
Lady’s Childrens Hospital in Crumlin. When Don asked me if I could
support this hospital in any way I decided to donate the proceeds from
sales of the above recording to this Research Centre.
click here to read more about it.
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