The Ó Riada Projects

Music-related projects discovered during PhD research on the Seán Ó Riada Collection at the Boole Library, University College Cork, publications relating to Seán Ó Riada, and metadata from archives throughout Ireland.

Dataset originally created 16/03/2016 UPDATE: Packaged on 19/09/2024

I. About this Data Set

This data set is a result of close reading conducted by Patrick Egan (Pádraig Mac Aodhgáin) at the Boole Library, University College Cork, publications relating to Seán Ó Riada, and metadata from archives throughout Ireland. Research was conducted between 2014-2018. It contains a combination of metadata from searches of the Seán Ó Riada Collection finding aid (or "descriptive list") concerning musical scores or "score cards" that were created by 1960s Irish artist Seán Ó Riada, but also includes other keyword searches relating to Seán Ó Riada's artistic output in a broad sense (play scripts, film documents, scripts for radio, amongst others. The PhD project was published in 2020, entitled, “Exploring ethnography and digital visualisation: a study of musical practice through the contextualisation of music related projects from the Seán Ó Riada Collection” You are invited to use and re-use this data with appropriate attribution.

The Ó Riada Projects dataset consists of 456 rows.

II. What’s included? This data set includes:

The Ó Riada Projects Dataset – a .CSV containing                         
Type of Project     Project Date Start    Project Date Finish    Published?    Recording?    In Special Collection?    Title of Project    Description of Project    Source

This .xlsx file is the direct export of the Ó Riada Scores Google Spreadsheet

III. How Was It Created? These data were created by daily visits to the Seán Ó Riada Collection, archives in Ireland, and online databases over the course of four years, through close reading, description, and general collection of metadata.

IV. Data Set Field Descriptions

a) The Ó Riada Projects dataset field descriptions

Type of Project - the type of production, format, or activity    
Project Date Start - the earliest known date when work started on the project    
Project Date Finish  - the date when work was completed on the project   
Published? - if the project has been published, broadcast, or shared publicly    
Recording? - if there is a recording of the project    
In Special Collection?  - does the project exist in the Seán Ó Riada Collection
Title of Project - project title    
Description of Project - a brief description of the project    
Source - document or place, the source of information for details about the project

V. Rights statement The text in this data set was created by the researcher and can be used in many different ways under creative commons with attribution. All contributions to this PhD project are released into the public domain as they are created. Anyone is free to use and re-use this data set in any way they want, provided reference is given to the creator of this dataset.

VI. Creator and Contributor Information

Creator: Patrick Egan (Pádraig Mac Aodhgáin)

VII. Contact Information Please direct all questions and comments to Patrick Egan via his website at www.patrickegan.org. You can also get in touch with the Library via UCC website.