The album contains a selection of music from the BBC documentary series The Celts. It was first released in 1987 as ‘ENYA’ and then reissued and remastered in 1992 as ‘The Celts.’
Enya was remastered by Arun Chakraverty and redesigned with new artwork designed by Sooky Choi with photography by David Scheinmann. The album was reissued on 16 November 1992 as The Celts by WEA in Europe and Reprise Records in the United States. The Celts outperformed its original sales, reaching a new peak of No. 10 on the UK Albums Chart for two weeks from the week of 28 November 1992. It returned for two separate weeks in 1993, one week in 1996, and six consecutive weeks in 1998. In the United States, the album sold a further one million copies. It contains a new version of “Portrait” that is named “Portrait (Out of the Blue)”, which was originally released as the B-side to Enya’s 1988 worldwide hit single, “Orinoco Flow”.