Book review: Ambitious but uncertain volume lacks insight into a significant talent

While 'A Life in Music' is a fine reference book, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s work deserves more than mere hagiography

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin was one of an influential number who brought Irish traditional music in from the cold. File picture: Sean Curtin/ Press 22

• Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music 
• Cork University Press, €59.00 
• Edited by Helen Phelan, Marie McCarthy and Nicholas Carolan