Pearls is an album by Ronnie Drew

Ronnie Drew

Joseph Ronald "Ronnie" Drew was an Irish singer and folk musician who achieved international fame during a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners. He was born in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin...

 in collaboration with a group called Grand Canal

Grand Canal

Grand Canal can refer to multiple waterways:* Grand Canal in eastern China* Grand Canal in Venice, Italy* Grand Canal , between the river Shannon and Dublin in Ireland* Grand Canal d'Alsace in eastern France...

. It consists mainly of poetry recited by Drew over music performed by the group. Released in 2007, it also features previously released recordings from The Celtic Poets by Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...

's Invaders of the Heart.

Tracklist

1. Providence
2. Steel Boat Runners
3. Gone In The Wind
4. At The Tail End Of A Hurricane
5. About SuperHeroes
6. London Rain
7. Bagpipe Music
8. The Dunes
9. A Man I Knew
10. Clear Air Turbulence
11. Saturn

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5 and 10 by Grand Canal

Tracks 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 from The Celtic Poets by Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...

's Invaders of the Heart

In 2008, this album was given away free with the Sunday Independent

Sunday Independent

The Sunday Independent is a broadsheet Sunday newspaper published in Ireland by Independent News and Media plc. The newspaper is edited by Aengus Fanning, and is the biggest selling Irish Sunday newspaper by a large margin ; average circulation of 291,323 between June 2004 and January 2005,...

and featured an extra track called "Longing".