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Eamon Carr
Eamon Carr’s artistic career began when, inspired by the Liverpool Scene, he returned to Dublin, set up the Tara Telephone collective with Peter Fallon and, in 1969, began editing ...view moreEamon Carr’s artistic career began when, inspired by the Liverpool Scene, he returned to Dublin, set up the Tara Telephone collective with Peter Fallon and, in 1969, began editing and publishing Capella, the Book of Invasions broadsheet and Gallery Books. With Tara Telephone musician Declan Sinnott, he became a founding member of the pioneering folk-rock group Horslips, with which he co-wrote and recorded a series of ground-breaking albums. His published work includes The Origami Crow: Journey into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002 and a verse play Deirdre Unforgiven, A Journal of Sorrow (Doire Press). DUSK, a verse drama, was staged in Dublin at the GPO and the New Theatre in 2016 by Red Iron Productions. A journalist and art historian, as part of the Festival of Politics in November 2019,He presented Seeking Refuge, an exhibition of his photography documenting life in refugee camps on the Kosovo-Albania border in 1999.The short verse drama, CúChulainn Awakes, filmed remotely during lockdown in 2020, featured in the St Patrick’s Festival 2022 and other events. His poetry and lyrics have been recorded by a number of musicians including Henry McCullough (Poor Man’s Moon) and Eamonn Dowd (Songs from the Fever Ship).view less