Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: Wife and colleagues plan emotional tribute to late music figure 

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is fondly remembered for helping to spread a love and knowledge of music at UCC and UL. His family and friends hope to celebrate his life with two concerts

Helen Phelan and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin on their wedding day.  Picture: Maurice Gunning 

“For other people, a crossroads is something you walk through. You don’t stay there; you make a decision and you go north, south, east, or west,” says Professor Helen Phelan in relation to her late husband, pianist and composer Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.

Phelan says that Ó Súilleabháin, who passed away in 2018, said his destiny seemed to be to stay in the middle of the crossroads and hold that tension, to remain in the ‘Between Worlds’.