moya brennan: thank you. hile the clancy brothers and tommy makem were bringing traditional irish song to america, possibly the most influential figure in the renaissance of traditional irish music back at home was a young melodious genius called sean o riada. o riada was a c uniquely found his voice in the music of theater and film. his works combine traditional irish tunes and sean-nós, a form of old-style songs with orchestrated arrangements. o riada told people that one should listen to sean-nós song either as a child would listen or as if they were songs from india. colin irwin: i mean, nobody had done what o riada had done before. you know, he was presenting it in a fairly high brow fashion. michael o sulleabhain: it was a time when people were creating utopias. because he had gone back to cooley, of course, in west cork, the wealth of the irish speaking region, and he had created a kind of utopia or camelot. jim sheridan: he tried to do what joyce did which was connect the irish tradition of music to a