Looking for: Seán Corcoran interviews

Subject: Looking for: Seán Corcoran interviews
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 23 - 07:41 AM

Hello,

I'm looking for any interviews of the now deceased Irish singer and music collector, Seán Corcoran.

I would be interested in audio/video interviews and also any printed/online interviews.

I'm also interested in any articles/columns/opinion pieces which Seán may have contributed to magazines/journals/websites.

I have already checked with the Irish Traditional Music Archive and the National Folklore Collection UCD.
Seán did significant collecting work for both organisations at different junctures in his life.
Unfortunately though, neither organisation seems to have an interview with Seán himself.

I have read the columns which Seán contributed to the magazine 'Fortnight', and I'm aware he contributed articles to HotPress magazine but I have not seen any of those pieces as of yet.

I'd be most grateful for any links or leads that people are happy to share here.

Any material in which Seán Corcoran is speaking about his work as a collector or his own musical background would be most welcome.

Thanks,
Alan

Subject: RE: Looking for: Seán Corcoran interviews
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 23 - 07:48 AM

ps:
to provide the first answer to my own question...

As part of an Arts Council of Northern Ireland initiative back in the 1908s, Seán did some collecting work in Fermanagh which resulted in the publication of the album "Here is a Health: Songs, music and stories of an Ulster community"

The sleeve notes for this album can be viewed online on the Mustrad website:
https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/health.htm

Thanks,
Alan

Subject: RE: Looking for: Seán Corcoran interviews
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 May 23 - 11:02 AM

There are a few Mudcat threads about him. If you do a Google Advanced search you'll land on links to several of them. Whether they contribute to your search I can't say.

Here is his obituary and I see that I posted a link to an article after doing a similar WWW search. Felipa also posted a link to a Journal of Music article.

In the thread "Looking for songs from County Louth" he is mentioned several times.

And Corcoran himself posted here. Obit: Willie Beaton has a post. That is the only time I find Corcoran posting on Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Looking for: Seán Corcoran interviews
From: GUEST
Date: 25 May 23 - 06:40 AM

Thanks for the links you posted Stilly.

My search is aimed more towards items where Seán reflected on his own experiences and also where he expressed his opinions on traditional/folk music and its happenings.
This could be in the sleeve notes to albums, articles in journals, reviews in magazines, or other such sources.

I'm particularly interested to find out if anybody ever recorded an audio/video interview with Seán.
That would be greet to learn of, if such a thing existed.

Recordings/transcripts of lectures he presented would be of interest also.

The Irish Traditional Music Archive have an audio recording of a lecture Seán presented for the Folk Music Society of Ireland back in the 80s/early 90s.
I have yet to hear it.

I know Seán often presented lectures in Ireland, and perhaps abroad occasionally, so any recordings of such lectures would be great to learn of.

Thanks,
Alan

Subject: RE: Looking for: Seán Corcoran interviews
From: GUEST
Date: 25 May 23 - 06:49 AM

I'll update the thread as I find material relevant to my initial question...in case the material or overall subject matter is of interest to others.

Seán Corcoran presented a lecture in Na Píobairí Uilleann back in 2013, titled: "Putting The Blas On It - Thirty years recording tradition bearers in Ireland and England"

Here's the link to the lecture which can be view on the NPU website:
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?searchTerm=Song&pageIndex=6&pageSize=60&sPage=7&mediaId=25760

A.

Subject: RE: Looking for: Seán Corcoran interviews
From: GUEST,AW
Date: 26 May 23 - 03:05 PM

Additional resources related to my initial question:

Seán contributed a few articles to 'Ceol: A Journal of Irish Music'.
All editions of journal have been digitised by the Irish Traditional Music Archive and made freely available through their website.

Link:
https://www.itma.ie/features/discover/ceol-a-journal-of-irish-music

Seán also contribute some pieces to the Ceol Tíre, the newsletter of the Folk Music Society of Ireland.
These newsletters are also all digitised and freely available online.

Link:
https://folkmusicsocietyofireland.wordpress.com/test-ct-page-2/

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If anyone else knows of articles in journals written by Seán, or other publications he may have contributed to (printed/online), I would be interested to learn of.

Thanks.
Alan