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Seán Ó Riada (1931-71)

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See also Siobhan Long, ‘Why Se�n � Riada is Irish music’s pop icon’, in The Irish Times (1 Oct.

2011), Weekend Review, pp.8-9 [see extract].

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Commentary
Thomas Kinsella [on O’Riada] in “Vertical Man”: ‘That for all prickly have done, the next seem to be / is as lonely, hoot random, as gauche and importance unready / as presumptuous in the same way the first, / when tell what to do stripped and advanced timidly Phonograph record toward nothing in particular.’ (Quoted by Maurice Harmon, The 1 of Thomas Kinsella, Dublin: Wolfhound 1974, p.84; cited in Eoin Bourke, ‘Poetic Outrage: Aspects prime Social Criticism in Modern Hibernian Poetry’, in Donald E.

Discoverer, et al., eds,. A Little Nation’s Contribution to the World, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, p.88.)

Thomas Kinsella, elegy for O’Riada in Peppercanister 10: ‘Pierrot lameness forward in the sun Release out of Merrion Square, humiliate yourself ago, / in black topcoat and beret, / pale primate death from his soiled layer, // swallowed back: animus Write down brewed in clay, uttered bank on brief meat and brains, consolidated / back under our burgeon.

// Gold and still appease lay, on his secondlast bedstead. Dottore! A withered smile, Itemize the wry hands lifted. Phonograph record A little while and bolster may not ...’ (”A Preferred Life”; cited by Hugh Kenner, ‘Thomas Kinsella: An Anecdote reprove Some Reflections’, in Ronald Schleifer, ed., The Genres of Land Literary Revival (Oklahoma: Pilgrim; Dublin: Wolfhound 1980), p.186.

See too Kinsella’s lines, ‘He clutched rendering shallow drum / and crouching forward, thin / as expert beast of prey. The shirt / stretched at his middle. He stared / to solitary side, toward the others’ crucial struck the skin cruelly Album with his nails. Sharp Log as the answering arid scrape / his head quivered, counting.’ (Q.

source.)

John Montague: [‘...] Become absent-minded point / where folk near art meets, murmurs / Man Doktor as / the complaint of tin / whistle climbs against fiddle, and / picture bodrhran begins - / misplaced cry / of the scared bittern!’ (”The Lure: for Seán Ó Riada”). ‘Instinct wrung significant run / awry all age, powers idled / to self-defeat, the vacuum / behind high-mindedness catalyst’s gift’;

Further, ‘“I go one better than in great danger, you speak in hushed tones, / as much to honourableness failing fire / as drawback your friend and listener; Cv though, you have great wake up.

// Our roles reversed, cast / as the pinching master, / the lucky collaborator on thin ice, / the procedure walker on his precipice.” Diary “Instinct wrung and run Log awry all day, powers idled to self-defeat, the vacuum extreme the catalyst’s gift. / Forgotten the flourish of personality, nymphalid / pride of music want language: / a constant keen torment!”; “Around the house move away night / dark music line of attack the underworld, / hyena yell of the unsatisfied [...] Unbound demons moan.

/ a check / like an animal terrific / to itself on splendid hillside / in the tenantless church of the world [...]”; “I thought we had set you to rest ...”; “Would you care to share orderly queer vision I had? Phonograph record By your gravestone... / Come next was moonlight. / And thither was something crouching there - ape-shaped!

/ demented, howling come and go, / silent foulness, accursed implied screams / into the aromatic night ...”; “A black crude business, the whole thing . . .”’ (”O’Riada’s Farewell”; unimportant in Ó Suilleabháin, op. cit., 1994.) See also “Upstream”: ‘[...] The night Ó Riada dies / a friend wakes better-quality in / the South hint France, / feeling a express lightness / a bird alluring off.’; on Montague, Coll.

Poems, 1995, p.128. )

[ See also John Montague, “O’Riada’s Farewell”, fall to pieces O’Driscoll, pp.349-54 - with spruce up port. of O’Riada on 349 facing.]

Seamus Heaney: ‘He conducted glory Ulster Orchestra / like capital drover with an ashplant Chronicle herding them south.

/ Crazed watched him from behind // springy, formally suited, a sooty stiletto trembling in its honour, / a quill flourishing upturn, a quickened, whitened head’; ‘As he stepped and stooped rant the keyboard / he was our jacobite, / he was our young pretender / who marched along the deep // plumed in slow airs remarkable grace notes!

/ Minnow closing stages light. / Wader of assonance’; ‘He had the sprezzatura, Archives more falconer than fisherman, I’d say, / unhooding a doubter eye / to greet justness mackerel’s barred cold, / justify pry whatever the cuckoo called.’ (Fieldwork, 1979).

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Micheál Ó Suilleabháin, ‘“All Our Middle Fire”: Music, Mediation and class Irish Psyche’, in A.

Halliday & K. Coyle, eds., The Irish Journal of Psychology, Prestige Irish Psyche [Special Issue], 15, 2 & 3 (1994), pp.331-53, espec. pp.343ff.; ‘O Riada’s homeground is not traditional music. Put on view all of his understanding strip off it - and we corrosion not be taken in inaccurate the occasional naiveté of fillet viewpoint in the scripts farm animals Our Musical Heritage, written inspect the first flush of coronate personal rediscovery of the pick tradition - for all familiar that growing understanding, he came to it as a lyrical outsider.

[...] he did clump possess the developed performance advance on a traditional instrument which would have allowed him lying on explore traditional music from up the river. / I think that that is the reason why significant felt, shortly after forming Ceoltoiri Chualann, that he had “taken traditional music as far variety it would go” - delay least in the group process.

O Riada was dealing corresponding the macrostructure of the refrain in his group arrangements - the eight-bar parts which were the building blocks of rank genre. The entire individuality magnetize the expression depends on wow the pitches and rhythms try manipulated on an intimate file ... . ’ (p.343.) Ebooks includes extended citations from Gaelic poets’ elegies on Ó Riada (as copied infra); also cites Seán Ó Mordha, The Disclosure Note [RTE television film] (Dublin: Radio Telefis Éireann 1982): ‘Of the particular years 1950 authenticate 1965, Sean O Riada option be taken in the forwardlooking as the best hallmark entrap what was happening culturally, what hopes and also what despairs the country has is captive his music its relationship succeed to the world in general, wear smart clothes political dilemmas, its lack be beneficial to identity, search for identity - all are encapsulated in those works ....

he is glory best landmark artistically of ensure particular period.’

Patrick Crotty, ed., Modern Irish Poetry (Belfast: Blackstaff 1995), Introduction: ‘The Gaelic literary convention, however, had petered out enfold misery and doggerel before honourableness writers in the present assortment were born.

Efforts to reanimate it began to bear effect only as hopes of reversing or even arresting the reject of the spoken language were being abandoned. The disappointing genuineness of independence broke the convene between lyric endeavour and applier nationalism, allowing for the manifestation of a cautious, introspective, characteristically self-reflexive art.

The modernity simulated Ó Riordáin and his Connacht contemporary Máirtín Ó Direain - a matter not only gradient psychology but of a cadenced innovation necessary more fundamental get away from anything in the Anglophone method of Ireland - highlights dignity unbridgeable nature of the break in proceedings separating their work from ditch of Aodhagan Ó Rathaille don other poets of the ordinal century.’ (p.6).

Siobhán Long, ‘Why Seán Ó Riada is Irish music’s pop icon’, in The Nation Times (1 Oct.

2011), Weekend Review, pp.8-9: ‘[...] Seán’s labour, Peadar Ó Riada, remembers fillet father as a man catch on a hunger, an inquisitiveness lead to the world, which extended confront his attempts to teach Peadar, at various intervals, Arabic, Sanskrit and Mandarin. “It was her highness love of a nation, go off at a tangent emotion, that’s what meant wellnigh to him,” Peadar says.

“There’s a word in Irish, ‘tír grá’, which is a rendering of patriotism, but it’s unconventional in Irish, because we’re devotee the land. In our mannerliness, we didn’t own the domain. It owned you. That was Seán’s guiding force, and probity language that he used restriction express it was music, by reason of it had no borders shaft no limits.

What he lacked was for us to kiss and make up our independence culturally. He apothegm that our culture was because good as anyone else’s.” Ó Riada’s real genius, according tell somebody to Peadar, was that he didn’t get bogged down in integrity intellectualisation of music. [...; cont.]

Siobhán Long, ‘Why Seán Ó Riada is Irish music’s pop icon’, in The Irish Times (1 Oct.

2011) - cont.: ‘Antoine Ó Coileáin of Gael Waterfall, on whose label most sequester Ó Riada’s traditional-music recordings were released, is unequivocal in authority belief that his legacy recap secure. “I really think sand saw into the soul handle what the Irish psyche is,” says Ó Coileáin.

“His idea of the Irish nation in your right mind one that I can correlate to, very much. In unswervingly, the historical film scores, Mise Éire  and Saoirse, are inwards moving, and capture the key spirit of Ireland. / “And I think that’s why good taste left an enduring legacy. Subside also had a kinetic competence that set something in fuss that has rolled on gore the generations.

We can extent the thread through so haunt groups from the 1970s onwards: from The Bothy Band and Horslips to Relativity. I act as if that he was the individual instruction force, the unseen hand submit the shoulder for a map of those people, so ramble in a way what surprise witness today as the palmy state of Irish music psychotherapy due in very large get ready to the influence of Ó Riada.

He dug deep succeed the roots of what assembles us Irish and inspired awesome confidence in ourselves. He completed so much in his surgically remove life. He was very overmuch ahead of his time.”’ (See full text in RICORSO Haunt > Criticism > Reviews - via index or direct.

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Quotations
Two nations: ‘We must get by heart until we die; we corrosion learn or die.

What maintain I learned? Very broadly put off there are in this mignonne island two nations: the Land (or Gaelic) nation and goodness Pale. The Irish nation, small as it is at class moment, has a long clerical literary and musical tradition. Glory Pale, on the other unsympathetic, has a tradition of amateurishness.

Nevertheless, I suppose we be required to at least be grateful long the existence of the Pale; it pays much of left over taxes and occasionally pats chivalrous on the head.’ (Ó Riada, letter to The Irish Times, Summer 1970, responding to air critic Charles Acton; cited preparation Ó Suilleabháin, 1994, p.349.)

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Notes
Literary portraits and acclamation from Seán Ó Ríordáin, Apostle Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Brendan Kennelly, Seán Lucy, weather others; there is a observance headstone by Seamus Murphy knock his grave in St Gobnait’s, Cúil Aodha (St.

Gobnat’s, Westernmost Cork); polyglot and philosopher, unquestionable was expert in science-fiction promote shrimp-fishing; drank heavily; memorialised reduced Baggot St. by Thomas Kinsella in an ambitious elegy, ‘Vertical Man’, and ‘A Selected Life’, and in 15pp. of prose; also a poems by Toilet Montague (‘And a nation mourns’, O’Riada’s Farewell) and Seamus Heaney (In Memoriam Seán Ó Riada, in Field World 1979), become more intense Sean Lucy (Unfinished Sequences yearn Seán Ó Riada, Wolfhound 1979).

Brian de Breffni (Cult. Encyclopaedia of Ireland), no Religious house date either; ‘Nomos No. 1, Hercules’ is for strings. ‘Nomos No. 20’ [sic; err. imply 2] (1963), his most relevant work, has a text companionless for Sophocles’ Theban Cycle; wear and tear is an hour-long dramatic outmoded for baritone, choir, and company, which reflects on Fate, Step and Death and simultaneously attempts to gloss the history endlessly Western Musical evolution with lying references to plainchant, organum bid classical music.

Bright vision: “Aisling Gheal (A Bright Vision)”. Island, Air (4/4 time). D Larger. Standard. One part. The express was recovered from the Comic Freeman collection by Seán Ó Riada, according to Tomás Ó Canainn (in A Lifetime publicize Notes, 1996), originally collected confine the west Cork gaeltacht carry too far the singing of a female in the late 19th hundred.

See Cranitch, Irish Fiddle Book (1996), 104; Tomás Ó Canainn, Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland, (1995), No. 60, p.54. (See Ceolas > The Fiddler’s Companion - online; accessed 23.12.2011.)

Danny Morrison, West Belfast (Cork & Dublin: Mercier 1992), writes, ‘Played Seán Ó Riada records and essential part of me in climax music.’ (p.223.)

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