Sean O'Riada

[Sean Mac Reamoinn on Sean O'Riada] 'What O Riada was doing was developing the inner logic of the music, and the only parallel I can make is that of jazz, where he was giving different instruments their head. They did their break, as it were, but he managed to weld them into a unity. And the sound that emerged, with tunes that many of us knew for a long time, was quite exciting.'