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The book and accompanying cd consists of song, music and lore of the acclaimed Conamara tradition bearer, Colm O Caodhain (1893 - 1975) from Glinsce, Carna, County Galway. During the golden era of collecting in the twentieth century, Colm's contribution to collectors in Ireland and abroad is exceptional.
Rionach ui Ogain is former Director of the National Folklore Collection, UCD. She has published widely in Irish and in English on traditional music and song and has also published a number of compact discs with accompanying booklets. She was editor of Bealoideas: The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society from 2009 - 2018. Her publications include The Otherworld: Music and Song from Irish Tradition with Tom Sherlock (2012) . She edited the diaries of Seamus Ennis published in 2007 'Mise an Fear Ceoil' Seamus Ennis - Dialann Taistil 1942-1946 (2007), which appeared in translation in 2009 entitled Going to the Well for Water: The Field Diaries of Seamus Ennis. A Festschrift in her honour entitled Life, Lore and Song was published in 2019 by Four Courts Press.