Seán Ó Sé recording a new album at Sulán Studios in Ballyvourney, Cork.
Seán Ó Sé from near Ballylickey in west Cork studied singing under John T. Horne at the Cork School of Music. His singing career took off in 1959 when he won the traditional singing competition at Feis na Mumhan, and in the 1960s he worked with composer Seán Ó Riada and the group Ceoltóirí Chualann.
The album which he is recording with producer Bríd Cranitch and Tadhg Kelleher will feature songs from the counties of Cork and Kerry. The brainchild of Con O'Connell from Cork Kerry tourism, it is aimed at people who have holidayed in the region.
Tá na h-amhráin scapaithe idir an dá chontae.
The only real issue encountered by the team was narrowing down a selection from the sheer wealth of songs available to them from Cork and Kerry.
The result is a balance of light and shade and includes 'The Black Ribbon Band', a version of the well-known ballad ‘The Black Velvet Band’ from Tralee, and 'An Ciarraíoch Mallaithe' (‘The Cursed Kerryman’) from the Dingle Peninsula which is a cautionary tale about seduction, deception and fraud,
Do phreab sí ina suí ag caoineadh a cuid airgid
Dá rá gur mheallas-sa a croí le m' chleasannaibh
Óró, fad a mhairfeadh sí beo.
This episode of ‘Súil Thart’ was broadcast on 18 April 1988. The reporter is Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
'Súil Thart' was a weekly Irish language magazine programme presented by RTÉ journalist Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
Bringing news, features, reports and interviews from all over Ireland to viewers, a knowledge of the Irish language or lack of one should not deter viewers, as Ní Dhomhnaill explains in an interview with the RTÉ Guide of 11 April 1986,
"If you can use the camera well to tell the story, it will smooth the path of comprehension even for those who do not understand Irish so well. Beautiful pictures tell the same story in all languages."
First broadcast on 15 February 1986, it ran until 1989.
