Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

I join the Tánaiste in sympathising with the O'Sullivan family, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin's extended family and all his friends and relations. I grew up with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in Clonmel in the 1950s and 1960s. I was classmate of his and we were very good friends. He was a giant in the whole area of music, in particular traditional music and classical music, and he blended all those genres together. He is now and has been world renowned in this area. His legacy will be that blending and fusion of the various musical strands but also the founding of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at Limerick University. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

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