Tir Na nÓg-Tir Na nÓg (1971)

In a mysterious and delicate way with their musical style in 1971 a duo called Tir Na nÓg appeared. Their sound was a wise mixture of oriental exoticism, subtle pop cadence, Hindu mysticism, with a great lyricism with classical reminiscences, they were one of the most important contributions in a year in which intimate music dominated much of the public's tastes, people like Carole King, James Taylor, CSN&Y, Cat Stevens and many others.
Tir Na nÓg was the colorist note, they did not achieve any # 1, they did not manage to sell a million dollars in records to get a gold record, they were not headlining at any festival and they did not even get on the charts ... however Any enthusiast, critics themselves, and even many famous contemporary artists cited Tir Na Nog as the best of that year.
Their first album, honorably titled as the group, was the key to everything. A single album raised them to the top of quality, of the most precious expression that music had ever given.
There were thirteen songs composed indistinctly by the two members of this duo, two young boys, simple, poets and good musicians. They were Sonny Condell on guitar, tabla, Moroccan drums and harp and Leo O'Kelly on guitar, bass and other instruments.
Later in 1972 "A Tear And A Smile" would be published, a new sample of mystical expressionism as well as the following "Strong In The Sun" (1973), all of them unanimously acclaimed by the critics of the time, even nominated for the best group of folk of those years, which however did not have the desired commercial impact, partly due to the large number of bands and artists of enormous quality who constantly published, something that obviously weighed down bands with less specific weight, and above all to little or no publicity shown by their record companies, more concerned with established artists.