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Presenters: Marty Fahey, Liz Carroll, and Seamus Egan Chair: Dr Aileen Dillane
The curation of Irish Art for the Irish Free State centenary exhibition, ‘Who Do We Say We Are? Irish Art 1922 | 2022’, involved the creation of an accompanying CD of music under the guidance of Marty Fahey. This seminar explores that project in a discussion with the curator and composers/arrangers/ performers Liz Carroll and Seamus Egan, by looking at how Irish art and Irish music mutually inspire, and how this particular musical collaboration continues to have important afterlives and creative resonances, including for us here in UL.
Marty Fahey is a composer, traditional musician, curator for The O’Brien Collection and editor for the art exhibit catalog, Who Do We Say We Are? Irish Art 1922/2022, whose collaborations with Liz Carroll extend back to the 1970s - Friend Indeed (1979), Ireland Crossroads of Art and Design: 1690-1840- The Music (2015) and The Dreamer (2021).
Liz Carroll is an Irish fiddler, composer, prolific recording artist, the first Irish-American musician to be nominated for a Grammy, and the first American-born composer honoured with the Cumadóir TG4 award for original tunes.
Seamus Egan is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who has inspired generations of musicians with his work with Solas, the pre-eminent Irish-American band of that generation, and more recently with The Seamus Egan project.