BLACK ROSE

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Philip wanted me to try to create, quite literally, a ‘black rose’ for the cover of the album of the same title. It was really difficult as I wanted more than just a rose, I wanted something that reflected Philip’s love of the poem ‘Dark Rosaleen’ by James Clarence Mangan: ‘Oh, there was lightning in my blood, my Dark Rosaleen!’
This was a song about the yearning for liberty from English rule and Philip knew it by heart (well, almost) and I added the final touch just as I was about to finish.
By the way: Roísín Dubh translates as Dark Rose (aka Dark Rosaleen)’
Another poem was the inspiration for the blood coming from the rose; it was a famous religious poem by one of the leaders executed in 1916 after the Easter uprising titled’ I see his blood upon the rose’, by Joseph Mary Plunkett.
Philip was electrified when he saw the final result and he rang me: ‘Jaysus, Jim, you have me sussed! It’s just like I imagined it but better. Effin brilliant!

1 review for BLACK ROSE

  1. anthony & leyla (verified owner)

    The Little Black Rose Shall Be Red At Last

    Because we share our sorrows and our joys
    And all your dear and intimate thoughts are mine
    We shall not fear the trumpets and the noise
    Of battle, for we know our dreams divine,
    And when my heart is pillowed on your heart
    And ebb and flowing of their passionate flood
    Shall beat in concord love through every part
    Of brain and body—when at last the blood
    O’erleaps the final barrier to find
    Only one source wherein to spend its strength
    And we two lovers, long but one in mind
    And soul, are made one only flesh at length;
    Praise God if this my blood fulfils the doom
    When you, dark rose, shall redden into bloom.

    — Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916)

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