The Blood of Cu Chulainn (Boondock Saints Theme) | A Celtic Romance | Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna
"The Blood of Cu Chulainn," Music From Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna’s album A Celtic Romance: Legend of Liadain and Curithir (1998, re-released 2009). Subscribe to my channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribetoJD
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Artist: Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna
Title: The Blood of Cu Chulainn
Jeff and Mychael Danna’s A Celtic Romance is the imaginary soundtrack for the poignant 9th century Irish legend of Liadain and Curithir. It combines the moods of Celtic folk instrumentation with monastic choral chants and the majesty of symphonic orchestration. Once Mychael & Jeff Danna set their "Celtic legend" wheels in motion, there was no turning back. Their luminous 1996 Hearts O'Space debut, A Celtic Tale, set a lofty standard for popular Celtic music. Their new collaboration, A Celtic Romance, raises the bar even higher, merging the melancholy strains of traditional Celtic folk instrumentation with the choral magic of early music chants and the majesty of symphonic orchestration.
"The Blood of Cu Chulainn" was featured as the stirring theme from The Boondock Saints motion pictures.
Jeff Danna is an award-winning Canadian film composer. Born in Burlington, Ontario, to a musical family active in local theatre and church choir, Danna was a reluctant young piano student but found solace in an electric guitar left behind at his home by a friend. Unknowingly following in the path of three generations of Winnipeg mandolin players, progress came quickly. He began playing professionally at the age of 15 until a hand injury brought his performance career to a halt at 22.
He has composed or co-composed scores for a wide range of films and television, including The Boondock Saints (1999), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Silent Hill (2006), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), The Good Dinosaur (2015), Storks (2016), The Breadwinner (2017), The Addams Family (2019), Onward (2020), Guillermo del Toro’s Tales of Arcadia (2020), Nora Twomey’s My Father’s Dragon (2022), Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022), Julia (2022), Netflix's Churchill at War (2024), the streaming hit The Hunting Wives (2025), and Netflix series The Abandons (2025).
His older brother, composer Mychael Danna, is a frequent collaborator, and the two have received Emmy nominations for their work on Camelot (2011), Tyrant (2014-2016), and Alias Grace (2017). Additionally, Danna has been nominated for six Annie Awards, won five BMI Film & TV Awards, a Gemini Award, a Genie Award, three nominations and one Hollywood Music in Media Award, and 17 SOCAN Awards.