libretto in the Irish language. Modern music Folk-rock group Loudest Whisper recorded an album The Children of Lir based on a stage presentation of the legend in 1973–74. Folk metal-band Cruachan published a song called "Children of Lir" on their album Folk-Lore in 2002. Pagan-metal group Primordial wrote a song called "Children of the Harvest" based on the legend. "Children of Lir" is a song depicting the legend sung by Sora in her album Heartwood. Mary McLaughlin has an album Daughter of Lír on which there are two songs dealing with this legend, "Fionnuala's Song" and "The Children of Lir". Sinead O'Connor's song "A Perfect Indian" from the album Universal Mother contains references to "Lir's children". Sculpture A statue of the Children of Lir, created by the sculptor Oisin Kelly and cast by Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry of Florence, Italy, is in the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square in Dublin, Ireland. It symbolises the rebirth of the Irish nation following 900 years of struggle for independence from England and, later, the United Kingdom, much as the swans were "reborn" following 900 years. Another statue depicting the legend is located in the central triangular green of the village of Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, some three-miles northeast of Lough Derravaragh. A plaque outlines the famous story in several languages. A sculpture of the Children of Lir is situated in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, close to the beach on the Sea of Moyle, where the children were cursed to spend 300 years. Stained Glass Wilhelmina Geddes (Irish Artist 1887-1955). Stained Glass staircase window of eight panels commissioned by Belfast City Council Libraries, Museums and Art Committee 2 September 1929, completed March 1930. Currently located in the Ulster Museum, Belfast, not on display. Literature Patrick Kennedy (folklorist) adapted the tale as The Four Swans in The Bardic Stories of Ireland (1871). P.W. Joyce (1827-1914) published the tale in his Old Celtic Romances, London: David Nutt, 1879 Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) published a translation in his Three Sorrows of Storytelling, London: Unwin Fisher, 1895 Thomas Wentworth Higginson adapted the legend as The Swan-Children of Lir, in Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (1898). The legend was published as The Doom of the Children of Lir in The true annals of fairy-land: the reign of King Herla (1900). Katharine Tynan, b. 1859 d. 1931, published the poem 'The Children of Lir' in 1907 as part of a