It’s a picture of three violas da gamba, a harp, and an ‘early music’ flute in something like A or B flat. Not one of the incarnations of De Dannan featured these instruments. The art director on this must have devoted a three or four minutes to finding the right stock image.
Yer gettin’ mighty critical in yer old age. Welcome to my world. But it does seem a distant match. What bothered me is that they apparently covered the insipid “Hey Jude.” That song always made me wince.
No, what’s really weird is the song list:
Maggie, My Irish Molly-O, Kitty’s Wedding, and…Hey Jude?
(oops, Weeks beat me.)
It’s sort of like those budget label bluegrass anthologies that picture a tenor banjo on the cover. 
That is interesting. I’m having trouble identifying that rubbery-looking thing strapping the instruments together. I feel as though I should recognize it. Some kind of belt for a motor? Why would someone want do that? Is it even a good idea?
Perhaps he thought the music is a pile of old rubbish because the top viola’s bridge is laying on top of the strings as though it is broken and ‘chucked’ away with the old fan belt etc. Perhaps in his opinion, he thought it was a good representation of the varied and rubbish content of the CD.
Write them. Ask them the significance of this album art. They would love that someone who cares asked. Tell us what they said. If you’re chicken, let me know. I’ll do it for you.
De Dannans version of Hey Jude was ripped off from Nashville band “Area Code 615”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSwaS06JNY4
Now, there ye go.
Slan,
D.
D’oh! 
Wow. I’ve really had enough Beatles for the rest of my days for starters, much less inventive plagiarized covers.
how do ya feel about the Beach Boys?
That’s a picture of an old carving, wasn’t it on some old Irish money? I think it’s the carving that’s in St. Michan’s church in Dublin; I think it’s where Handel first played the Messiah.
Justine
It’s about my favorite rendition of Hey Jude. The band leader was kind of taken with the tune, if I recall correctly.
point to Justine!
That flute now looks an awful lot like my first flute, a Ralph Sweet one-key.
Now that I have my spectacles on, I see that you may be correct, Pammy. I’m sure they would really appreciate that we care, too. It will show our sensitive natures.
Mute, go ahead and fire off an email. Be sure to ask what that thing is with one hole.
It’s a flute with the headjoint rotated 90 degrees from the body.
What I want to know is how come there’s a baby’s head impaled on that harp.
And what’s with all the flattened baked beans cans, anyway?
That was the wind section.
brass I hope