Irish Examiner View: Joe Burke's life was lived to the full 

Joe Burke 1939 — 2021

Galway accordionist Joe Burke, who has passed away.

Every art form, every cultural idiom has its own pantheon, a tier of practitioners that epitomises the soul, the craft, and value of whatever form they grace.

Irish music, and some of the energy and positive passion that celebrates what it is to be Irish, lost one of those figures this weekend when Galway accordionist Joe Burke died at the age of 82.