Sean O Riada: His Life and Work

Irish traditional music moved onto the international stage in the second half of the twentieth century. There were many reasons but one of the major influences was Sean O Riada who gave it a position and status it never had. He is one of the most fascinating and significant characters in twentieth-century Irish artistic life - composer, musician (jazz, classical & traditional), raconteur, film-maker and academic. In this wide-ranging account of his life and work a friend and colleague looks behind the mask O Riada held up to the world and reveals the complex personality of a unique individual.