Sean Ó Riada memorial concerts Two memorial concerts in memory of Sean Ó Riada, the first staged on 16 January 1972, a live broadcast from the gaiety theatre Dublin. The Second memorial concert staged on 21st October 1981, in Cork. Seán Ó Riada (1 August 1931 - 3 October 1971), was a composer and bandleader, and perhaps the single most influential figure in the renaissance of Irish traditional music from the 1960s, through his participation in Ceoltóirí Chualann, his compositions, his writings a