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Pádraigín
has recorded a new CD of her own music and contemporary songs
in Irish. Áilleacht / Beauty, CEFCD
187 Gael Linn, was released on 21 October 2005
See Press Release
www.qub.ac.uk/heaneycentre/news.htm |
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RESIDENCY
The role of the Traditional Singer in Residence
in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, School of English QUB,
2005-6, will be to provide a focus for a series of explorations
and lines of communication between Irish traditional singing
and wider cultural concerns on campus, in the Belfast community,
including links between Ireland and Scotland. Consequently,
Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin will be
featured in several of the events based around the An
Leabhar Mòr (The Great Book of Gaelic) exhibition
taking place in the Ulster Museum and BBC October to December
2005. |
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She will be conducting a series of events and presentations
for students and staff at Queen's University during the academic
year. Links will be formed with other departments including
the School of Music and the Department of Irish and Celtic Studies
at Queen’s. She will be available for presentations in
the wider community on an outreach basis. This residency is
funded by Foras na Gaeilge in association with the School of
English, Queen’s University Belfast |
“The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry is attached to the
School of English at Queen’s University, Belfast. Since
the 1960s poetry has been one of the activities the activity
for which the University is best known throughout the world.
Its alumni include Paul Muldoon, Frank Ormsby, Ciaran Carson,
Medbh McGuckian, and, most notably, the Nobel Laureate, Seamus
Heaney, for whom the Centre is named. The influence of traditional
song on the work of some of these poets—Heaney, Carson,
and Muldoon—has been noted. The Director of the Centre,
Ciaran Carson, has an abiding interest in traditional song and
music, and is the author of a widely acclaimed book on the subject,
Last Night’s Fun. Among the programme of events planned
for the Centre are presentations of traditional music and song,
and it is hoped that these will provide a creative stimulus
to participants in the M.A. in Creative Writing at the School
of English, which is housed in the Centre. The Centre thus provides
an ideal base for the presence of someone like Pádraigín
Ní Uallacháin, who, in addition to being a performer
and scholar, is also a writer of songs.”
Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry |
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RECORDING
During the SHC residency 2005-6, all 54 songs published in A
Hidden Ulster - People, songs and traditions of Oriel,
are being recorded in sean-nós
and prepared for publication by Gael Linn, Dublin. The preparation
for this recording was funded by a Major
Arts Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2003-4 |
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RESEARCH
The Gaelic Song Tradition of Bréifne is an ongoing research
project. It is expected that the research on the rich poetic
and music traditions of Breifne, which include the counties
that straddle the border of south west Ulster and north Connacht,
mainly Leitrim/Cavan/Sligo/Fermanagh, will be prepared for publication
during the current residency. The research for this project
was funded by The Glen’s Arts Centre, Manorhamilton, Co
Leitrim. See www.theglenscentre.com/padraigin |
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LECTURES/ILLUSTRATED
TALKS
Padraigin continues to be available for illustrated talks
on aspects of the southeast Ulster song tradition in Oriel
and on aspects of the Ulster song tradition with singer Len
Graham.
Recent Talks
- Queen’s University Belfast: Conference on Ireland
and Scotland
‘Connections between southeast
Ulster song tradition and Scotland’.
- University of Ulster
‘Literary songs of southeast
Ulster’
- University College Dublin
‘Songs of southeast Ulster’
- Princeton University:US
‘Songs of poets and people in
southeast Ulster’ (with Len Graham)
- St Marys’s University in Hallifax, Nova Scotia
'Aspects of the song tradition in Ulster'
(with Len Graham)
- University of Limerick:
Workshop and Interview by students
on role and repertoire
- An Cumann le Bealoideas Eireann/Irish Folklore Society,
Dublin
'The song tradition of Oriel –
its collectors and singers'
- Louth Archaeologoical and Historical Society
'The Southeast Ulster song tradition
and its carriers'
- Armagh Historical Society
'The Collectors of Traditional Song
in Oriel'
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