There are beautiful renderings of favourites such as Oiche Chiúin (Silent Night) and Oíche Bheannaithe (O Holy Night) but most tracks are drawn from that deep well of Irish poetry and music that performers neglect at their peril.

In the impeccably-researched and illustrated booklet, with original translations into English by Gabriel Rosenstock, we learn that Fáilte an Linbh Íosa was a favourite Christmas song of Peig Sayers, captured for posterity in a crackly field recording made on the Great Blasket in the last century, before being given a stunning new treatment on the album.

Other tracks, like Dia do bheatha, were preserved in various seventeeth-century manuscripts, before Angela’s researches in the Royal Irish Academy prompted her to breathe new life into them. Together with settings of Oíche Nollag, a poem written by the great Máire Mac an tSaoi (only very recently deceased) and Cuireadh do Mhuire by Mairtín Ó Díreáin, a voyage of discovery, or perhaps re-discovery, awaits the listener.