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President Michael D Higgins is set to release an album later his year which was recorded in Áras an Uachtaráin.
The spoken word album which will feature 10 original poems by the Presidents will be called Against All Certainty.
President Higgins has already published four books of poetry so this will be his first recorded project.
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The team behind the project have said listeners can expect to "find themselves fully transposed into the incredibly interesting life and times of the poet before he became Ireland's President, from childhood to adulthood".
A series of videos will also be released alongside the album which is said to depict "the hardship of the President's early life".
The 10 poems will be set to music by Irish musician and folk artist Myles O'Reilly.
Against All Certainty will be released on September 5 by Claddagh Records.
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