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Joe Heaney (AKA Joe Éinniú; Irish: Seosamh Ó hÉanaí) (1 October 1919[1] – 1 May 1984) was an Irish traditional (sean nós) singer from 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.

Seosamh Ó hÉanaí
Background information
Birth nameSeosamh Ó hÉanaí
Born(1919-10-15)15 October 1919
Carna, Connemara, Ireland
Died1 May 1984(1984-05-01) (aged 64)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
GenresSean-nós
Occupation(s)Singer
Instrument(s)Vocals
LabelsTopic Records
Gael-Linn Records

Biography


Heaney was born in Carna, a village in Connemara, County Galway, along the west coast of Ireland. This is an Irish-speaking district. He said he started singing at the age of five, but his shyness kept him from singing in public until he was 20. He learned English at school in Carna. When he was 16 years old, he won a scholarship to attend school in Dublin. While there he won first and second prizes at a national singing competition. Most of his repertoire (estimated to exceed 500 songs) was learned while growing up in Carna.[2]

In 1949, he went to London where he worked on building sites and became involved in the folk-music scene. He recorded for the Topic and Gael-linn labels. He was married for six years until his wife died of tuberculosis.[2]

He was recorded by Pádraic Ó Raghallaigh for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, and by Peter Kennedy for the BBC in 1959. The BBC recordings were assembled on a BBC LP, not commercially issued, as BBC LP 22570.

He came to America in 1965 at the invitation of the Newport Folk Festival. After singing at Newport, he decided to move to America and settled in New York City.[2]

In 1981, Australian Folk Historian, Warren Fahey, brought Joe to Australia,[3] where he filled the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. The concert can be heard in full on Warren's Australian Folklore page here.

From 1982 until 1984, Heaney was an artist-in-residence at the University of Washington in Seattle, and previously had taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. The Joe Heaney Collection of the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives was established after Heaney's death in 1984.

The Féile Chomórtha Joe Éinniú (Joe Heaney Commemorative Festival) is held every year in Carna. An Irish-language biography of him has been written by Liam Mac Con Iomaire, and a biography that discusses his work in the larger context of Ireland and the United States was published in 2011 by Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire. It won the Alan P. Merriam Prize for best monograph in 2012 from the Society for Ethnomusicology.


Partial discography


In 2009 Wife of the Bold Tennant Farmer from Irish Traditional Songs in Gaelic & English was included in Topic Records 70-year anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten as track sixteen on the third CD.


Documentaries



Awards and honors


Heaney was a recipient of a 1982 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.[4] That year's fellowships were the first bestowed by the NEA.


See also



Further reading



References


  1. "Joe Heaney's Date of Birth | Cartlanna Sheosaimh Uí Éanaí". Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  2. "NEA National Heritage Fellowships: Joe Heaney". www.arts.gov. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  3. Fahey, Warren (2010). "Warren Fahey's Australian Folklore Unit". Warren Fahey's Australian Folklore Unit. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  4. "NEA National Heritage Fellowships 1982". www.arts.gov. National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2019.





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