A Legacy of Notes from Séamus Creagh

Presented by Dr. Marie-Annick Desplanques

Abstract

One of the last things Seamus said to me before he passed away in 2009 was ‘I will have left a legacy’.  We are all here, participants in this legacy. I will present you with my own contribution to honouring his wish.  For this, I will use pictures, sound clips, newspapers and posters. As well as most important his own tune books to arrive at the online tutorial Geertien O’ Leary (who took up his teaching) and I have set up for his students.

About the Presenter

Originally from France, Marie-Annick Desplanques came to Folklore and Ethnology via a BA, MA and DEA in English Literature and Linguistics, from Univeriste de Haute Normandie.  She studied Folklore and received her PhD from Memorial University of Newfoundland for her research on French Newfoundland women communicative traditions. She was subsequently awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the Institute of Social and Economic Research in St John’s for a comparative study of Newfoundland and Irish contemporary women traditional musicians. She joined University College Cork in 1995 where she set up the Folklore and Ethnology Archive and was instrumental in establishing the Northside Folklore Project of which she was the Research Director until 2010. Marie-Annick married Séamus Creagh while they were both in Newfoundland and she has been actively involved in traditional music as a listener and occasional musician, concert organiser, and record producer.

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7:00PM - 8:00PM (doors at 6:30)

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