This is the debut album by Caitríona O'Leary and Dúlra. The songs are all on the theme of love and nature and all come from both living, traditional sources as well as 17th and 18th century sources. All in their original Irish, these songs reflect a deep affinity with the land and its creatures and the seasons: praising the characters of the different trees, reading omens in the behaviour of the elements, longing for the leafy summer, comparing the beloved to the birds, the flowers, the stars, and shunning solicitous invitations to the shady woods. The word dúil means a creature or living thing. It also means desire, longing, and hope.

1 Cearc agus Coileach   
The Hen and the Cock
2 Réalta na Maidne  
Morning Star [Play]
3 Cad é sin don té sin nach mbaineann sin dó?   
What's it to him whose business it isn't?
4 Fáinne Óir Gold Ring & Éirigh is cuir ort do chuid éadaigh   
Get up and get dressed
5 Ceann Dubh Dílis   
Dark-Haired Deary
6 Tiocfaidh an Samhradh   
Summer will come
7 An cuimhin leat an oíche úd?   
Do you remember that night?
8 Ansacht na n-Ansacht  
Love of Loves
9 Aige Bruach Dhúin Réimhe   
Beside Dunreavy
10 The Heather was blooming
11 Thugamar Féin an Samhradh Linn   
We brought the Summer along with us
12 Ar an chéad lá d'Earrach  
On the first day of Spring
13 Mad Moll & Suibhne 'sna Coillte  
Sweeney in the Woods
14 Dúlamán
15 Coinnleach Glás an Fhóghmhair   
The Green Autumn Stubble
16 An Londubh is an Chéirseach   
The Blackbird and the Thrush
17 Dornán Luachra Glas   
Bunch of Green Rushes
& An Bínsín Luachra  
The Little Bunch of Rushes

John Hadden , producer, recording engineer & tape editor
All tracks traditional, arranged by Caitríona O'Leary and Dúlra (© 1999)