NEST

"NEST is an expression of how I feel about home as refuge, of which everyone is deserving, but it's also an expression of my deep sadness about the seizure of home, occupation of land, and the violence of colonisation. NEST is a Mass for the Tenant, not a Mass in the traditional sense, but I see the piece as a Mass for the tenants of the past and the present. NEST is also a critical response to the theme of home in Éamon de Valera's 1943 radio address, 'On Language and the Irish Nation'. With a libretto by Eimear Walshe, the line, "they come to make a ruin", repeats throughout the piece like a congregational response.