Creative musician Dana Lyn and Irish language poet Louis de Paor have been working together since they were invited to develop a project for the Irish Arts Center in New York as part of its Masters in Collaboration series. That initial collaboration led to the premiere performances of Lá dá raibh/One day at the IAC in Spring 2014, with original music and animations by Lyn composed in response to a long poem by de Paor. Their collaboration continued during a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York in 2017, at which they developed a song cycle based on the old Irish saga, Tóraíocht Dhiarmuid agus Ghráinne (The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne). The cycle was workshopped and performed at the BAC by de Paor and Lyn, joined by musicians Yoon Sun Choi, Mick McAuley, Michel Gentile, Vinnie Sperrazza, Alex Waterman, and Orlando Wells in April, 2017. Their most recent work, ‘Tearmann’ (Sanctuary,) which integrates a 1920 speech by Éamon de Valera and a poem by de Paor on the contemporary migration crisis with music by Lyn, was commissioned as part of Galway Public Libraries contribution to Ireland’s Decade of Commemoration. They are currently working on the final stages of Mise Gráinne, a chamber opera, which they are developing for both stage and screen.