Seán Ó Sé obituary: The Cork man who kept singing until the final verse, aged 89
Sean Ó Sé performing with friends during a special concert in Coughlan's pub in Cork city for a TG4 documentary in 2013. Picture: Richie Tyndall
Seán Ó Sé, the Cork singer who passed away on Tuesday, January 13, aged 89, once recalled: “I went to Coláiste Íosagáin between 1949 and 1953 and every Oíche Shamhna, local people would come in to entertain us.”
It was on one such Halloween occasion at the Baile Mhúirne boarding school that he first heard the song that would catapult him to fame with Seán Ó Riada’s Ceoltóirí Chualann in 1962 and become synonymous with Ó Sé’s rich tenor voice.
