Mícheál Ó hEidhin

Mícheál Ó hEidhin, Irish musician and teacher, and schools inspector of music, Primarfy/Postprimary born 1938.

A native of Derroe-Rossaveel, County Galway, Mícheál Ó hEidhin was born into a musical family. Graduating in science, he studied music at University College Cork under Aloys Fleischmann, choral development with Pilib Ó Laoghaire, worked as a music inspector in Galway VEC, and initated Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann's teaching diploma in 1980.

He was music director for RTE promgrammes Bring down the Lamp and Comortas - Cabaret"In song and in seory", "Comórtas" and an adjudicator for Oireachtas and Slogadh competitions since 1969. He was instrumental in setting up a grades syllabus in traditional music for Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 1998.

Publications

• Cas Amhran
• Amhran do Cholaisti
• Ceol don Chor
• " Déan Rince"

References

• Mícheál Ó hEidhin, Fintan Vallely, in The Encyclopaedia of Ireland, ed. Brian Lalor, Gill & Macmillan, Baile Átha Cliath, 2003.

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