Tributes paid to Seán Ó Sé — a Cork voice that sang for a nation

SEÁN Ó SÉ, who has died at the age of 89, is remembered as having “one of the most distinctive and cherished voices in Irish traditional song”, according to President Catherine Connolly. The president has led the tributes to the Cork singer, whose death has been widely mourned throughout the diaspora. Mr Ó Sé, who came to prominence in the 1960s with Seán Ó Riada’s group … [Read more...] about Tributes paid to Seán Ó Sé — a Cork voice that sang for a nation

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