Joe Heaney - Wikipedia
Joe Heaney (AKA Joe Éinniú; Irish: Seosamh Ó hÉanaí) (1 October 1919 [1] – 1 May 1984) was an Irish traditional (sean nós) singer from Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. He spent most of his adult life abroad, living in England, Scotland and New York City, in the course of which he recorded hundreds of songs.
Cartlanna Sheosaimh Uí Éanaí – Singing, storytelling - Joe Heaney
Joe Heaney — in Irish, Seosamh Ó hÉanaí (modern, formal standard spelling) or Joe Éinniú (‘daily-use’ form; actually close to that which appears on his birth certificate) — was one of the twentieth century’s greatest exponents of the sean-nós singing tradition. To this day, his name is known and respected nationally and ...
Joe Heaney - National Endowment for the Arts
Heaney was a master of sean-nós or "old-style" singing. Sean-nós singing was developed during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Ireland when the British confiscated all Irish musical instruments in an attempt to destroy Irish cultural unity.
Joe Heaney-The Rocks of Bawn - YouTube
Dec 20, 2013 · Joe Heaney (Seosamh Ó hÉanaí) (1919-1984) aka Joe Einniu the premier sean nos singer from Áird Thoir, Carna, Connemara, Galway, Ireland. Joe sings, perhaps his most well known English...
The Ballad of Ireland’s Most Unloved Singer - Medium
Nov 15, 2017 · Why did Ireland’s famed sean-nós (“old-style”) singer Joe Heaney end up leaving his country behind? What fueled his resentment for his homeland?
Part of a Caoineadh in the Conamara Tradition - Joe Heaney
Joe was born in 1919, into a community where caointeoireacht was still a part of the social fabric. Furthermore, he often credited his maternal grandmother, Béib (Bairbre) Uí Mhaoilchiaráin for this particular aspect of his repertoire and she was born and reared in the ninteenth century, when the practice would have been that much stronger.
Joe Heaney: Background (1) – Cartlanna Sheosaimh Uí Éanaí
Joe Heaney could be prone to exaggeration and some — but by no means all — of the things he says here are less than the literal truth. These things do, however, give insight into what Joe believed to be true, and thus suggest the bedrock upon which many of …
(PDF) Joe Heaney and His Tradition - Academia.edu
Joe Heaney and His Tradition Virginia Blankenhorn This article is a substantially revised, updated and expanded version of an essay first published in 2010 on the website www.joeheaney.org, which was intended to provide a general overview of …
Joe Heaney - Toppermost
May 22, 2014 · Joe Heaney (otherwise known by his Gaelic name as Seosamh Ó hÉanaí or to those in his immediate locality as either Josie or Joe Éinniú) is widely recognised as the greatest male exponent of the art of sean-nós, or old style, singing to have come out of Ireland in the Twentieth Century.
UW Ethnomusicology Archives: Joe Heaney Collection
Joe Heaney (1919-1984) was an Irish traditional singer and story-teller from Carna, Ireland. Heaney was a leading and magisterial exponent of the sean-nos (‘old-style’ unaccompanied Irish-language) and had a repertory of several hundred songs that he …