Source: Come Fill Your Glass With Us album cover
Typefaces: Nobel, Clairvaux
Last year I bought this old Irish folk music record. I stashed it away and didn’t listen to it until last week. All the text from this fake book cover comes from the back of the record cover. This 1959 album is predominantly about drinking and partying. 1959 was also the year that Disney released the film, Darby O’Gill and the Little People. The images on my cover come from a promotion photo and the poster. It’s an amusing film with lots of dancing leprechauns, creepy banshees, and a young Sean Connery.
Last year I read St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography by Philip Freeman. Holy smokes, what a fascinating story. Patrick was a the son of a upper class Roman family living on the West coast of 4th century Britain. When he was 16 he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and sold into slavery. After several years herding sheep on the far side of Ireland God came to him in a dream and told him to make a break for it. He sneaked across the country, boarded a ship for Britain, and made his way back home. His parents were excited to see him, but Patrick felt God wanted him to go back to Ireland. He studied to become a priest, returned to Ireland, and started preaching. He was expected to be killed, but he actually made a lot of progress converting the pagan Irish. The church in Ireland was growing so much that his higher-ups in Rome wanted Patrick to quit, giving him the old “Nice work, but we’ll take it from here” bit. He told them to forget it and he continued living in Ireland for the rest of his days.
