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Man for Galway: The Best of Sean Tyrre...

2M streams

2,024,189

The Orchard

828K streams

827,956

Cry of a Dreamer

657K streams

656,962

Belladonna

519.9K streams

519,888

Rising Tide - EP

296.2K streams

296,227

Sean Tyrrell Live at Greenes

200.4K streams

200,417

Moonlight On Galway Bay

152K streams

151,961

Walker of the Snow

34.2K streams

34,186

Walker of the Snow

32.2K streams

32,191

Sean Tyrrell Live At Windmill Lane 199...

17.6K streams

17,562

Biography

b. Galway, Ireland. Sean Tyrrell sings and plays the guitar, mandocello and banjo, and first became known in Ireland as the composer of a musical interpretation of Brian Merriman’s satire on eighteenth-century sexuality, The Midnight Court. It revealed both Tyrrell’s affection for poetry and his ability to adapt such literary sources into a vibrant musical framework. His own material was drawn from the neglected traditions of writers and poets including Johnny Mulhern, David Callinan, John Boyle O’Reilly and Louis MacNiece. His debut album also included a piece from nineteenth-century Presbyterian John Frazier. The material was gathered over a 20-year period and performed intermittently during that time, animating material by Mulhern such as ‘Demolition Man’ or Callinan’s ‘House Of Delight’. A line from Boyle O’Reilly’s poem ‘Trilogy’ gave the album its title. Also included was ‘Blue Green Bangle’, featured on Sean Keane’s All Heart No Roses album. The dynamism of the collection owed much to the participation of established musicians such as Davey Spillane, Mairtin O’Connor and Greg Boland.