Ahern hails musical legacy of O'Riada collection

The great musical legacy of Sean O’Riada will live on for many generations to come, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today as he received the entire O’Riada collection on behalf of the nation.

The collection, which includes original scores, correspondence, possessions and 2,000 books, is to be housed in University College Cork’s Boole Library after the university was given more than half a million euro by the Government to purchase and preserve it.