THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE
Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin is a traditional singer, author and songwriter. She has been appointed as the first traditional singer in Queens University, Belfast, based in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in the School of English. Her residency is co funded by Foras na Gaeilge.

Pádraigín's Staff Page in the Seamus Heaney Centre

Listen to Pádraigín in SHC Poetry Audio Library

 

RADIO/TELEVISON

OIRIALLA - ATLANTIS na hÉIREANN (Oriel - Ireland's Atlantis) - 18 March
TG4 hour long documentary on 'A Hidden Ulster' with various poets and singers including Padraigin, Paul Muldoon, Jarlath Burns, Armagh Rhymers, Vallelys of Armagh, Pol O Muiri and featuring Steve Cooney, Laoise Kelly, Odhran O Casaide, Macdara O hUallachain Graham, Grainne Baxter etc. It will be subtitled and is directed by Moira Sweeney

BBC TV NI 13 February 7.30 pm. 'A Hidden Ulster'
A Hidden Ulster featured in popular TV magazine programme INSIDE OUT

RTE RADIO 1 Saturday 11 February 7.02 i.n. Series
of 8 documentaries 'SONGS OF A HIDDEN ULSTER' based on Ní Uallacháin book 'A Hidden Ulster'
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/songsfromahiddenulster/

  

Monday 26 December '05: 'Singing the Great Book of Gaelic': concert with Pádraigín, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Louis de Paor, Maighread Stewart, Steve Cooney Allan McDonald, Odhrán Ó Casaide: to be broadcast on BBC Radio Northern Ireland

29 November R na G: 'REACAIREACHT SHEOSAIMH' in discussion with Seosamh Ó Cuaig Radio na Gaeltachta on new residency in Queens University

  

 

  

 


   
Professor John Thompson, Head of English, Queen's University, and Professor Ciaran Carson Director of The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry formally welcomed Pádraigín at a reception held in the Old Staff Room, Lanyon Bulding, 23 November, to announce Queen's first resident singer. The reception was also hosted by Foras na Gaeilge, represented by Deirdre Davitt.

See QUB Press Release
See Launch Photos
AN LEABHAR MÓR - The Great Book of Gaelic
Since taking up residency at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Padraigin has been collaborating with Iomairt Cholmcille and Ultach Trust in Belfast in its series of events based around the exhibition of An Leabhar Mór (The Great Book of Gaelic) which is currently exhibited in the Ulster Museum Belfast October-November 2005-10-18
www.leabharmor.net		  
New release: ÁILLEACHT/ BEAUTY. Gael Linn CEFCD 187
Release date: 21 October 2005
11 tracks of contemporary songs and music in Irish by Pádraigin Ní Uallacháin. Produced by Steve Cooney and Palle Mikkelborg. Other guest musicians include: Iarla Ó Lionáird, Laoise Kelly, Helen Davies, Ódhrán Ó Casaide, Brian Dunning and Mikkel Nordso. First contemporary album of songs in Irish by an Irish woman. 		 
  A HIDDEN ULSTER
– People Songs and Traditions of Oriel
(publication by Four Courts Press 2003) 2nd edition September 2005. See Press Reviews.
  A STÓR IS A STÓIRÍN –
(Gael Linn CEFCD 166 1994) Reissued again in new format December 2004. Double CD: 36 Songs for all Ages from the Irish tradition with CD booklet containing music notation, words, translations and notes. See Press Reviews
First traditional musician to receive a Major Arts Award 2004 from the Arts Council in Northern Ireland to record in sean–nós all 54 traditional songs published by her in A Hidden Ulster  

Faigheann Pádraigín tacaíocht ó Fhoras na Gaeilge.

Padraigin's residency in the Seamus Heaney Centre is funded by Foras na Gaeilge. Her most recent CD 'Áilleacht' released and published on the Gael Linn label, was initiated financially by Foras na Gaeilge