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Faith of Our Fathers (subtitled Classic Religious Anthems of Ireland)[2] is a compilation album of traditional Catholic/Christian English, Irish, and Latin hymns recorded by Irish artists in 1996.
| Faith of Our Fathers | |
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| Released | 21 October 1996[1] |
| Recorded | 1996 |
| Genre | Christian |
| Language | English, Latin, Irish |
| Label | Lunar (Ireland) |
| Producer | John Kearns, Bill Somerville-Large |
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The album topped the Irish Albums Chart for two months,[3] broke release records,[4] and was certified fifteen times-platinum.[5] The nineteenth-century hymn "Faith of Our Fathers" is the title track.
The album was the idea of a broker, John Kearns, working for Hibernian Insurance.[1][6] Funding included contributions from his coworkers.[7] Several labels turned Kearns down before Lunar records agreed to produce the album.[1]
The album was produced by Bill Somerville-Large and overseen by musical director John Tate.[6] Tenor Frank Patterson, soprano Regina Nathan, the Monks of Glenstal Abbey, youth choir RTÉ Cór na nÓg, and the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir made contributions to the album.[6][8] It was recorded over five sessions in venues that included the Aula Maxima at Maynooth College in County Kildare and Glenstal Abbey in County Limerick.[6]
With sales of over 150,000 copies,[1] the album was the biggest-selling release in Ireland in 1996,[2] and it became Ireland's biggest-selling album of all-time by 1998.[9] Sales in Ireland stand at 200,000 copies as of November 1997.[10] It launched the recording career of Monks of Glenstal Abbey.[2] Peter Lennon compared its popularity to that of Riverdance.[3] The success of the record led the album's promoters to arrange concert performances in the Dublin's Point Depot and New York City's Carnegie Hall.[7][11][12]
A Faith of Our Fathers II album was released in 1997,[13] which inspired the name of Dustin the Turkey's Christmas album Faith of Our Feathers.[14]
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