Camel’s twelfth studio album, released in 1996, unfolds the story of an Irish family during the Great Famine who are separated from their young ones as they depart from the Cóbh Harbour (referred to as the Harbour of Tears) towards the United States.
The idea of the album came about when the band founder, vocalist and guitarist Andrew Latimar learned about his grandmother’s family going through the same experience of painful separation during their lives.