app03 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:09:27 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Out On The Ocean - Episodes Tagged with “Joe Heaney” https://outontheocean.fireside.fm/tags/joe%20heaney Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +1000 Immersive conversations about how we're each of us navigating our way through life - written, presented and produced by Dominic Black. en-us episodic A podcast about living Dominic Black Immersive conversations about how we're each of us navigating our way through life - written, presented and produced by Dominic Black. no life stories, interviews, in-depth, Dominic Black outontheocean@proton.me Episode 11: Bright Star Of The West - Sean Williams and Joe Heaney https://outontheocean.fireside.fm/11 d1850066-58cd-4b93-9b94-5e1b07022f4c Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +1000 Dominic Black full Dominic Black Sean Williams and the Seattle years of Joe Heaney. 1:54:03 no <p>Just listen to this. </p> <p>Sean Williams shares her memories of learning from the legendary Joe Heaney. We talk music; ornamentation; Oirishness; messengers from the otherworld; liminality; being visited by Heaney in a dream and corrected on your writing, cleaning up his apartment on Phinney Ridge. We talk the sacred, alluring and dangerous; immigration and emigration; 'you lived away for so long,' thresholds, crossing over. Transgression, and where is home. </p> <p>What a dream, this conversation turned out to be. Straight after, I drove south to Portland, Oregon and watched a soccer game on a glorious summer's night while drinking an icy cold beer. The glory.</p> <p>Thanks Sean.</p> <p>Thanks also to Em Kildea, to Ciaran O'Grady and Aifric Boylan for the chance to share some extracts of this episode with attendees at the annual Comhaltas weekend in Queenscliff, Victoria. </p> <p>You can find a comprehensive list of Joe Heaney's songs here, at The Joe Heaney Archive:<br> <a href="https://www.joeheaney.org/en/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.joeheaney.org/en/</a></p> <p>And here's the Joe Heaney archive (some of it) in the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives in Seattle:<br> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/uwlibraries/sets/wauem1997016_heaney-interview" rel="nofollow noopener">https://soundcloud.com/uwlibraries/sets/wauem1997016_heaney-interview</a></p> <p>Thanks for listeneing, and see you soon I hope...</p> <p>Dominic</p> Joe Heaney, UW, University of Washington, Sean WIlliams, Evergreen State College, Sean Nos, traditional Irish singing, limiality, Just listen to this.

Sean Williams shares her memories of learning from the legendary Joe Heaney. We talk music; ornamentation; Oirishness; messengers from the otherworld; liminality; being visited by Heaney in a dream and corrected on your writing, cleaning up his apartment on Phinney Ridge. We talk the sacred, alluring and dangerous; immigration and emigration; 'you lived away for so long,' thresholds, crossing over. Transgression, and where is home.

What a dream, this conversation turned out to be. Straight after, I drove south to Portland, Oregon and watched a soccer game on a glorious summer's night while drinking an icy cold beer. The glory.

Thanks Sean.

Thanks also to Em Kildea, to Ciaran O'Grady and Aifric Boylan for the chance to share some extracts of this episode with attendees at the annual Comhaltas weekend in Queenscliff, Victoria.

You can find a comprehensive list of Joe Heaney's songs here, at The Joe Heaney Archive:
https://www.joeheaney.org/en/

And here's the Joe Heaney archive (some of it) in the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives in Seattle:
https://soundcloud.com/uwlibraries/sets/wauem1997016_heaney-interview

Thanks for listeneing, and see you soon I hope...

Dominic

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Sean Williams shares her memories of learning from the legendary Joe Heaney. We talk music; ornamentation; Oirishness; messengers from the otherworld; liminality; being visited by Heaney in a dream and corrected on your writing, cleaning up his apartment on Phinney Ridge. We talk the sacred, alluring and dangerous; immigration and emigration; 'you lived away for so long,' thresholds, crossing over. Transgression, and where is home.

What a dream, this conversation turned out to be. Straight after, I drove south to Portland, Oregon and watched a soccer game on a glorious summer's night while drinking an icy cold beer. The glory.

Thanks Sean.

Thanks also to Em Kildea, to Ciaran O'Grady and Aifric Boylan for the chance to share some extracts of this episode with attendees at the annual Comhaltas weekend in Queenscliff, Victoria.

You can find a comprehensive list of Joe Heaney's songs here, at The Joe Heaney Archive:
https://www.joeheaney.org/en/

And here's the Joe Heaney archive (some of it) in the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives in Seattle:
https://soundcloud.com/uwlibraries/sets/wauem1997016_heaney-interview

Thanks for listeneing, and see you soon I hope...

Dominic

]]> Episode 3: Aoife Dermody https://outontheocean.fireside.fm/3 bfb1d7ae-c2b5-46ad-851c-7865b3967837 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:15:00 +1100 Dominic Black full Dominic Black On the cusp of a move back to Ireland from Melbourne, Aoife Dermody and me talk songs, migration and a bit of Joe Heaney. 1:19:48 no <p>I'd heard of Aoife Dermody long before I met her, on the day before she was due to move back to Dublin after a spell in Melbourne. An activist, a singer, a teacher, a musician. On a sunny, chilly morning we met up in Preston, and ended up chatting about all manner of things - including Joe Fitzgerald and Joe Heaney, two true originals. In fact, this is the first of three episodes that sort of circle around Joe Heaney - his songs, and his life. So I hope you enjoy it. I left Aoife's house, dodging between the suticases in the hall, feeling like I'd been given a great parting gift from her. I hope you feel the same after listening. </p> <p>If you like the podcast so far, please subscribe, give it a five star review and share it with your pals. <br> Out on the Ocean is an independent production edited and mixed by me, Dominic Black. <br> Drop me a line any time at -<br> <a href="mailto:outontheocean@proton.me" rel="nofollow noopener">outontheocean@proton.me</a></p> <p>And I'll see you when I see you...thanks for listening, </p> <p>Dominic</p> Aoife Dermody, Bright Star of the West, Joe Heaney, Narrm I'd heard of Aoife Dermody long before I met her, on the day before she was due to move back to Dublin after a spell in Melbourne. An activist, a singer, a teacher, a musician. On a sunny, chilly morning we met up in Preston, and ended up chatting about all manner of things - including Joe Fitzgerald and Joe Heaney, two true originals. In fact, this is the first of three episodes that sort of circle around Joe Heaney - his songs, and his life. So I hope you enjoy it. I left Aoife's house, dodging between the suticases in the hall, feeling like I'd been given a great parting gift from her. I hope you feel the same after listening.

If you like the podcast so far, please subscribe, give it a five star review and share it with your pals.
Out on the Ocean is an independent production edited and mixed by me, Dominic Black.
Drop me a line any time at -
outontheocean@proton.me

And I'll see you when I see you...thanks for listening,

Dominic

]]> I'd heard of Aoife Dermody long before I met her, on the day before she was due to move back to Dublin after a spell in Melbourne. An activist, a singer, a teacher, a musician. On a sunny, chilly morning we met up in Preston, and ended up chatting about all manner of things - including Joe Fitzgerald and Joe Heaney, two true originals. In fact, this is the first of three episodes that sort of circle around Joe Heaney - his songs, and his life. So I hope you enjoy it. I left Aoife's house, dodging between the suticases in the hall, feeling like I'd been given a great parting gift from her. I hope you feel the same after listening.

If you like the podcast so far, please subscribe, give it a five star review and share it with your pals.
Out on the Ocean is an independent production edited and mixed by me, Dominic Black.
Drop me a line any time at -
outontheocean@proton.me

And I'll see you when I see you...thanks for listening,

Dominic

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