Irish Examiner view: A cultural loss

Death of Séamus Begley

Seamus Begley playing at The gathering in Killarney. Picture: Don MacMonagle

The passing of musician Séamus Begley is a bitter loss to his family and friends, but it is also a loss for Irish culture as a whole.

At a time when the inauthentic and the manufactured have far too much influence, Begley’s musicianship and singing harkened back to an older, more organic tradition.